A bit of skepticism and mistrust of government is healthy for a democracy: but we now have an authoritarian government actively lying, burying factual history, and disappearing government data that we used to rely on.
When it comes to operational facts Trump is the least transparent since Nixon days, and he’s certainly added some pages to Tricky Dick’s political strategy playbook.
This is why it’s no surprise at all that instances of his name in the Epstein files would be redacted or removed.
From NPR:
The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.
Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.
NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR’s investigation found dozens of pages cataloged by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.
