Lost Rape Docs Found

You have to know where to look.

Today threads are being pulled and in spite of the Trumpmob’s best efforts, the truth is proving too pesky.

Lucian K. Truscott IV, whom you should follow, puts it in perspective. Quoting him below:

“As you may have already read, Representative Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, learned of some missing victim interview files and visited the secure room in the DOJ where the unredacted Epstein files can be viewed by members of Congress. There he found FBI evidence logs for documents that were provided to attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell prior to her 2021 trial on charges of sex trafficking. The logs listed interviews with 325 witnesses involved in the Maxwell investigation and trial, but Garcia found that 90 of the interviews were missing.

The missing files are FBI “302” documents, which are produced each time an agent interviews a possible witness in an investigation. Maxwell’s lawyers apparently considered calling several dozen witnesses at her trial but ended up calling only a few of those in the logs of FBI “302” interviews.

There are references in the FBI interview logs to four interviews with a victim who called the FBI after Epstein was arrested in 2019. There are also references to three other “interview notes” with her, according to a report by CNN that was published yesterday. Only one of the four interviews with the victim is in the Epstein files. The other interviews with the witness, along with the “interview notes” are missing. A report on NPR, referenced by CNN, said that NPR had analyzed the serial numbers in the logs of FBI interviews and found 53 pages of “interview documents and notes missing from the public Epstein database.”

The woman who called the FBI in 2019 described meeting Epstein in 1983 in South Carolina when Epstein responded to an ad she had placed soliciting jobs as a babysitter. She was 13 years old at the time. In the interview found in the Epstein files, she described being raped by Epstein in South Carolina and then being flown to New York by Epstein, where she was abused and raped by several “prominent men.” She describes being forced by one man to perform fellatio on him, and when she hesitated, he hit her upside the head. She provided the FBI with a photograph of Epstein with Trump and asked if the photo could be “cropped” to hide the identities of other individuals – there was only one, Trump – because she was afraid of “retaliation.” The FBI interview notes that the photo was a “widely distributed” photo of Epstein and Trump.

NPR reports that the details in the FBI interview files “line up” with information in a victim lawsuit filed after the 2019 interview. The woman ended up withdrawing her lawsuit against the Epstein estate and was not part of the victim settlement by the estate, but she settled privately with the estate later.

There are other references in the FBI logs to another set of interviews with a second witness who described being taken by Epstein to Mar a Lago and being introduced to Trump. Epstein reportedly said, “This is a good one, huh?” to Trump as he introduced her. She was 13 years old at the time. The interviews, included in the “302’s” provided to Maxwell’s defense lawyers, detail abuse by both Epstein and Maxwell when the victim was 13.

NPR reports that this interview with the victim was deleted from the Epstein files after their initial release on January 30 and then returned to the files on February 19. Several interviews with other witnesses mention this 13-year-old victim. One “302” FBI interview with a mention of Trump by the victim was removed from the Epstein files database and then returned last week.

Elsewhere in the Epstein files is a note written way back in July when the FBI had moved 1,000 agents to Washington D.C. to scour the Epstein files. The FBI agent wrote that Trump’s name appeared in the files of FBI interviews for the Maxwell case in an interview with a victim who claimed that Trump had also abused her, but she “ultimately refused to cooperate” with the FBI investigation. This note appears to line up with the first 13-year-old victim, three of whose interviews are listed in the FBI logs but are missing from the Epstein files themselves. This was the victim who reached a settlement with the Epstein estate separate from the victims’ fund settlement. Many such settlements include non-disclosure agreements that may explain her later refusal to cooperate with the investigation after her initial interviews with the FBI in 2019.

And so the unraveling begins, and so the unraveling continues. There are FBI interviews with victims from the original federal investigation of Epstein that was begun in 2006 and ended when federal prosecutors signed a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein at the time of his conviction on state charges in 2008. There are interviews with victims, many interviews in fact, from the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021. There are more FBI interviews with victims who came forward after Epstein was arrested in 2019.

All these interviews exist on “302” interview forms that were logged at the time they were conducted. When Pam Bondi ordered a thousand FBI agents to Washington D.C. last year to go through the FBI files, the “302’s” are among the files they went through. Apparently what happened is that they were instructed to flag those that mentioned Donald Trump. Some of those “302’s” were deleted or otherwise not included in what we now know as the Epstein files, but the mentions of them in the FBI’s logging system were not deleted.

Now the DOJ is scrambling to re-insert some, but not all, of the “302” interviews back into the Epstein files, but they are still withholding the interviews with victims that mention Trump.

For the FBI agents that were tasked with going through the gigantic Epstein files, the whole thing became a confusing mess in which they couldn’t keep straight what they had deleted or why the deletions had occurred. They apparently missed references to Trump that were hidden in interviews with one victim who spoke of other victims who had been introduced to Trump by Epstein. It would be like going to a big party and then later trying to remember not only who was there, but who talked to who, and what they talked about.

This is the problem with coverups. It happened during Watergate, when employees of the White House and Nixon’s reelection committee were so numerous that they couldn’t all get together and strategize a way to keep their stories straight, so information began to leak out piecemeal. But when it was put together, the information began to point to specific crimes by specific individuals.

That’s what is happening now. Victims who did not know each other, were abused at different times by Epstein and Maxwell and “prominent men,” and they grew up and left their teenage years, so they were replaced by new teenage victims, who also didn’t know each other, who were abused and raped by Epstein and the same or different “prominent men.”

When the FBI got involved in 2006, and then again in 2019 with the Epstein investigation, and again in the investigation of Maxwell in 2021, it became almost impossible to keep straight which victim had been interviewed when and whom they had implicated. Rudimentary efforts were probably made to cross-reference the interviews during and between the various investigations – that is probably what the logs are – but there were so many underage victims over so much time involving so many alleged abusers that the whole thing became a wilderness of mirrors.

Donald Trump’s problem is that his reflection appears in too many mirrors. This is a very, very big development.”

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From our friend Laura Conwesser, to whom we are very grateful.

As many of you already know, the House of Representatives passed the latest version of the SAVE Act. It was designed to prevent young people, people of color, older people, low income people and women in general from casting their ballots in November 2026. Trump knows that the American people are fed up with his grifting, lies and chaos. If there are fair elections, the Democrats will take back control of the House and possibly the Senate. There could finally be some push back against his authoritarian regime. As our legislative body is constructed, the Senate needs 60 votes to pass most bills. There are 53 Republican Senators. That means that unless they change the rules by eliminating the filibuster (the 60 vote rule), seven Democrats would have to vote for this horrible anti-voter, anti-democratic (with a small “d”) bill. No Democrat with any brains and/or convictions would vote for it. However, Trump and some of his MAGA buddies are pushing for eliminating the filibuster to pass the bill. It is impossible to know whether that will happen. We need to be sure that our Senators all hear from us. They must vote “no”on this bill. Please call them every day and remind them. It really only takes two minutes. If you need any more information on the damage this legislation would do, I highly recommend reading what Sherrilyn Ifill has to say.

The other big issue is the 2026 budget. The Democrats succeeded in getting the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) separated from the other parts of government funding, so the government did not need to shut down entirely. However, DHS funding covers more than ICE. There is concern that, as some of the other DHS agencies lose their funding, people will become disgruntled with the shutdown and put pressure on the Democrats to back down. This cannot happen under any circumstances. We all watched as ICE agents shot people, kidnapped others (including children) and generally terrorized large swaths of the country. Please call your Senators and your House members and tell them to stand up for what is right: no more money for ICE! You can also send them all an email with Indivisible’s easy tool.

A connecting thread between these two issues is the threat of sending ICE agents to polling stations. Obviously, the intent is to frighten citizens of color enough so that they won’t vote. Elections are administered by the individual states. Please use this tool to contact your state Secretary of State and ask them to insure that there is NO ICE at the polls.

The other issue that is becoming more pressing every day is Trump’s itchy trigger finger regarding Iran. Do you want America to get involved in another war? Even Dan Caine, Trump’s hand picked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said that attacking Iran will not be quick and easy. It will cost many American lives, as well as the lives of innocent civilians in Iran, and it might go on for quite some time. It could also provoke Iran to attack Israel. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are planning to force a vote in the House on a War Powers Resolution to prevent Trump from attacking Iran. Please call your House member and tell them to co-sponsor this and give it their full support. The vote will likely happen this week. Your calls are very important.

There is a new tactic being called for in the boycott Hilton movement. We are being asked to make a refundable reservation at one of their hotels that are accommodating ICE agents and then cancel as late as possible without losing your money. I think this sounds like fun! Here are instructions and a list of hotels to target.

The other boycott call this week is to stop using X, formerly Twitter, and ask everyone we know to stop using it, too. Under Musk’s ownership, it is poisoning our politics and our society in general. Please email your elected officials and ask them to stop giving legitimacy to this toxic platform. Don’t take my word for it. Listen to John Oliver. Also, Apple and Google have Grok’s sexualized deepfake content on their platforms. You can send a message to them here and ask them to remove Grok.

Tonight, Tuesday, Trump will be giving his State of the Union address. Many of us have no need to hear his lying for two hours. You can enjoy an alternate to SOTU being led by MoveOn and Meidas. It could be a very enjoyable evening. https://mobilize.us/s/aqgiJ1

This Saturday, 2/28 from 1-3pm, there will be a sing along against ICE in Foley Square. It is being led by HandsOffNY and you can find more information here.

And let us not forget that No Kings 3 is coming up on March 28. We need to increase the numbers from the fantastic turnout at NK1 and NK2. Make sure you set aside the day and talk to everyone you know. If each of us can get just one person to come on 3/28 who was not there in October, we should be able make this the largest demonstration in American history. Let’s make them pay attention to us.