# Epstein Files =\> Trump Impeachment & Conviction? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 10, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733 "2025-11-10T17:42:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/461 "2025-12-19T16:45:01Z")
This should, by all rights, cause a Constitutional crisis – the Executive is refusing to follow a Congressionally executed law (and one that was signed by the President, IIRC!). We’ll see what Congress does about it (this Congress? probably nothing…). ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/462 "2025-12-19T16:54:43Z")
No surprise there. 🥱 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/463 "2025-12-19T17:52:29Z")
I wonder who Trump is protecting? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/464 "2025-12-19T18:32:02Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > They’re already wiggling out of what they, by law, need to provide. > > [https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5656765-blanche-says-doj-wont-release-full-esptein-files-to-congress-by-friday-deadline/](https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5656765-blanche-says-doj-wont-release-full-esptein-files-to-congress-by-friday-deadline/) I’d need to search but I feel like Bondi or one of them stated, 6-8 months ago, that they were reviewing and redacting all the hundreds of thousands of documents and images for public release. That implies that, effectively, all this work is already done or that they were lying at the time. My expectation would be that they try to release things to feed a bit of Trump connection out in relatively equal batches, but where the connection between the men becomes slightly more questionable with each release. I.e. the formal gaslighting process. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/465 "2025-12-19T18:59:44Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I’d need to search but I feel like Bondi or one of them stated, 6-8 months ago, that they were reviewing and redacting all the hundreds of thousands of documents and images for public release. That implies that, effectively, all this work is already done or that they were lying at the time. If that’s true, that needs to be shoved in their faces by _someone_ in Congress who can plausibly accuse them of deliberately slowing this down for no valid reason. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/466 "2025-12-19T20:36:51Z")
Hypothetically if someone at DOJ got ahold of the files and released them without Bondi’s approval what would happen and what could they be charged with? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/467 "2025-12-19T21:06:36Z")
Hypothetically, if anyone or, preferably, multiple people, have access to these files, this would be the time for someone to leak them. Right now, before the end of the day. I’d like to think whatever is in those files will be such a big deal that looking for the person that leaked them, on the day they were due to be released anyways, would be overlooked. Especially if the person does it in an, at least somewhat, covert way. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/468 "2025-12-19T21:17:18Z")
The first batch is out. Let the digging begin. [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5657406-doj-jeffrey-epstein-files/](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5657406-doj-jeffrey-epstein-files/) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/469 "2025-12-19T21:53:06Z")
There’s no way that Blanche dude is releasing anything damaging to Trump. They’ll black out entire pages before doing that. Then bring Bill Barr back in to explain to the cultists that Trump is totally exonerated of any untoward accusations. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/470 "2025-12-20T00:05:07Z")
119 pages of grand jury testimony, fully redacted. I mean look at this pdf: [https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%204/EFTA00006209.pdf](https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%204/EFTA00006209.pdf) If this ain’t the biggest Fuck You to the victims… It’s like a joke to them. I mean I knew it was going to be like this, but now that it’s here for all to (not) see, fuck these monsters. Fuck them in their fucking souless eyes. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/471 "2025-12-20T00:09:30Z")
It’s all a democrat hoax and there is nothing to see in these files but we better redact the entire page… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/472 "2025-12-20T00:12:44Z")
What a scam. Not the whole thing, massively retracted, pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/473 "2025-12-20T00:26:21Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > If this ain’t the biggest Fuck You to the victims… It’s like a joke to them. They also have to report to Congress exactly what was redacted and why. I’m curious about the explanation for that one. I’m also seeing a full document of blacked-out pages as a fantastic campaign tool for Democrats in the midterms. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/474 "2025-12-20T00:50:21Z")
Has Bill Barr been pressed into service yet? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/475 "2025-12-20T00:52:18Z")
I never know what Barr’s relationship with Trump is at any given moment. Or really care anymore to be honest. At one time, their public fighting was pretty vicious, but last I heard he reluctantly endorsed him for POTUS. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/476 "2025-12-20T01:02:20Z")
No, I’m being sarcastic. This is where Barr comes around, calls a presser and explains how this demonstrates that Trump is in the clear. “I’ve read the whole thing and didn’t see Trump’s name once. Forget all about this.” ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/477 "2025-12-20T01:05:42Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > They’ll black out entire pages before doing that. Schumer: “A mountain of blacked out pages” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/478 "2025-12-20T01:09:33Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > No, I’m being sarcastic. Let’s also not forget that Epstein died under Barr’s watch (so to speak). > **['How in the hell': Ex-AG Bill Barr recounts Trump reaction when he told him...](https://www.foxnews.com/media/how-hell-ex-ag-bill-barr-recounts-trump-reaction-when-he-told-him-jeffrey-epstein-dead)** > > Ex-Attorney General Bill Barr discusses President Donald Trump's shocked reaction to Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide when he called to tell him the news in 2019. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/479 "2025-12-20T01:30:43Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Hypothetically if someone at DOJ got ahold of the files and released them without Bondi’s approval what would happen and what could they be charged with? Bunches of stuff, Prison up to 8 years +. Releasing Grand Jury stuff without authorization is a crime. > [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I mean I knew it was going to be like this, I said as much, several times. Nothing actually criminal in there anyway, but the most embarring stuff to this administration will be redacted. If you give the fox the keys to the henhouse, what do you expect? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/480 "2025-12-20T01:37:13Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > > > I’d need to search but I feel like Bondi or one of them stated, 6-8 months ago, that they were reviewing and redacting all the hundreds of thousands of documents and images for public release. That implies that, effectively, all this work is already done or that they were lying at the time. > > If that’s true, that needs to be shoved in their faces by _someone_ in Congress who can plausibly accuse them of deliberately slowing this down for no valid reason. > **[FBI’s weekend homework: Redact the Epstein Files | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/politics/fbi-redacting-epstein-files)** > > FBI agents are working around the clock – some in 12-hour overnight shifts – on a frenzied mission this week. A quick Google. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733.md?page=25)