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Nevilledog

(54,889 posts)
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 03:33 PM 20 hrs ago

DOJ Deleted Record Revealing That Maxwell Holds Potential Blackmail Over Trump

https://sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/doj-deleted-record-revealing-that

On Wednesday, I reported that the Justice Department had removed from its Epstein file database a key document about a woman who told the FBI that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child. By Thursday evening, it was once again live.

It’s unclear why the DOJ deleted the document in the first place. ((Here’s proof the document had been taken down.) It’s also unclear why they put it back up after my reporting, which included a screenshot of the relevant information and a link to an internet archive of the full record. The information in the document pertaining to the Trump accuser — whom the DOJ identifies as a victim of Jeffrey Epstein in the early-mid 1980s — doesn’t appear altered in any way. (Compare the record on the DOJ site today with the version they removed.)

However, the existence of this record — more specifically, the public’s knowledge of its existence — carries significant implications when it comes to the president and his DOJ’s posture against Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.

That’s because this document shows the FBI conducted not just one but four interviews with Trump’s accuser. And, as I reported Wednesday, while the government gave all four of those interviews to Maxwell’s legal team ahead of her trial, the government gave only one of those four interviews to us in the Epstein files.

In other words, this document shows that, in choosing to withhold three of the four interviews from the Epstein files, the DOJ has granted Maxwell potential blackmail on the sitting president of the United States. (That depends, of course, on what the victim said in those interviews, but it doesn’t look good for Trump. However, if the victim “exonerated” him, the public needs to know that as well, and you’d think he’d see common ground there.)

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DOJ Deleted Record Revealing That Maxwell Holds Potential Blackmail Over Trump (Original Post) Nevilledog 20 hrs ago OP
All unexplainable redactions are admissions of guilt.... Karadeniz 19 hrs ago #1
i like short words Tetrachloride 19 hrs ago #2
If he does know him, he'd try to deport him. paleotn 18 hrs ago #7
That was a given.................. turbinetree 19 hrs ago #3
Wonder if KKKristie Noem won't be sent to deal with this damn varmint. erronis 19 hrs ago #4
Krusty Knome is a damn varmint. paleotn 18 hrs ago #6
The "dead woman switch." We knew she had one. paleotn 18 hrs ago #5
Thanks minority voters who voted against your best interests to give them full repbulican control ffr 17 hrs ago #8

Tetrachloride

(9,512 posts)
2. i like short words
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 04:59 PM
19 hrs ago

yep

oh my

i know

i didn’t know

once in a while…
Jesus


a lot of Jesus really


I wonder if Trump knows Jesus

paleotn

(21,923 posts)
5. The "dead woman switch." We knew she had one.
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 05:28 PM
18 hrs ago

And it probably implicates a whole lot more people than Shitler. The only reason she's alive right now and Epstein isn't.

ffr

(23,341 posts)
8. Thanks minority voters who voted against your best interests to give them full repbulican control
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 06:32 PM
17 hrs ago

This is 100% on you! Cover-ups, murders, grand theft, grifting, pedophilia.

ALL
ON
YOU, you unserious voter!

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