In Undercover Video, Staffer Claims DOJ Will Hide Republican Names In Epstein Files
Source: Huff Post
Sep 4, 2025, 05:34 PM EDT
A staffer in the Justice Department said in a secretly recorded video that the department would redact any Republican names from its investigative files on the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. The administration has been funneling the Epstein files to Capitol Hill in a supposed show of transparency, but only liberals names will remain visible, the staffer said.
If theyre released in any way, its going to be very redacted. Theyll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal Democratic people in those files, Joseph Schnitt, acting deputy chief of the DOJs Office of Enforcement Operations, says in the video.
Schnitt apparently thought he was speaking to someone hed met through a dating app, but he was actually talking to an undercover operative for the right-wing entrepreneur James OKeefe.
The video is the most recent and possibly one of the most damaging instances of conservative backlash against the Trump administration over its refusal to make the Epstein files public. Earlier this year, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had Epsteins mythical client list on her desk, only to backtrack this summer and announce no new information would ever come out.
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The story is all the rage on Gateway Pundit.
By Cristina Laila Sep. 4, 2025 11:30 am 1224 Comments
The OKeefe Media Group on Thursday released an undercover video of a DOJ official admitting the government will redact every single Republican while leaving all the liberal Democrats on the Epstein client list.
Theyll [DOJ] redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people in those files, and have a very slanted version of it come out without really seeing any of their bad behavior, admitted Joseph Schnitt, DOJ Acting Deputy Chief at the Office of Enforcement Operations.
Theres thousands and thousands of page-open files, Schnitt said. If theyre released in any way, its going to be very redacted.
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Per the OKeefe Media Group:
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UNDERCOVER JOURNALISM NEWS
BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Admits Government Will Redact Every Republican While Leav{ing}All the Liberal, Democratic People on the Epstein Client List; Says Ghislaine Maxwell Was Moved to a Lower-Security Prison As A Benefit to Keep Her Mouth Shut
September 4, 2025
She [Maxwell] got transferred to a minimum security prison Its against BOP policy because shes a convicted sex offender.
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🚨MAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will redact every Republican from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats.
He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security to keep her mouth shut.
September 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
ð¨MAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will âredact every Republicanâ from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats.
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He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security âto keep her mouth shut.â
And good morning.
BumRushDaShow
(160,061 posts)A month ago, Bloomberg even reported this - The FBI Redacted Trumps Name in the Epstein Files
This whole thing is a QAnon production of their own making that has caused chaos in the GOP world!
TGIF and T- 2 hours and counting.
BoRaGard
(7,517 posts)G.O.P. is kissing off Christ, and appealing to Satan with all this evil deceitful shit.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,029 posts)And I am trying to figure out and maybe you can help me, why would OKeefe the horrific scumbag be making this up, what game is that? I cant figure it out.
Obviously we all know that there is no chance at all, zero chance of anything released by this DOJ now known as the Gestapo headquarters that will in anyway implicate the piece of shit or any of the other pieces of shit involved.
If there are enemies of the piece of shit implicated they will of course be mentioned, but there is no chance at all anything that comes out of the DOJ while it is a gestapo operation will implicate the piece of shit
I am sure we all agree on this, and of course they will use AI etc. to create an entire story and history and none of it will be true The people best at doing this are the same people who work for musk who fucked with the election 2024.
When Maxwell obviously lied about the piece of shit not being involved, millions of MAGA scum believed her and they dont need any other information, and any information otherwise will be discarded. Why is this important? Because the only possible way the piece of shit is leaving the White House ever, as if the Republican Party and peaches him they are never going to do that as long as their base supports the piece of shit
MuirHero
(47 posts)The victims of Epstein's and Maxwell's horrific crimes have their own list of many of the perpetrators and they will release those names if this sordid coverup continues. Fuck Trump and Fuck the GOP!
Haggard Celine
(17,454 posts)If he can pick off a couple of Democrats, they won't have the votes. It's easier for him to get to Democrats than the Republicans who are supporting the measure. I sure hope he is unsuccessful. I think it just might pass.
Angrybob2001
(53 posts)DId the maga crowd hurt him somehow so that he's now going after them now. I usually skip details any story i see with project veritas or o'keefe and forget about it so I'm wondering if i missed something.
yardwork
(68,018 posts)I think they're trying to toss him aside and move on to Vance.
jgmiller
(639 posts)Crazies might be the wrong word for all of them, it's the ones that might be crazy, might be just grifters, might not be crazy but are true Nazi's etc. They have gone so far down this path that if Trump goes they know they are in deep trouble so they will do whatever it takes to keep him around. The lives they've built for themselves are at stake if he goes down and a cornered animal is a very dangerous thing.
yardwork
(68,018 posts)Trump's job was to get elected using his carnival barker "charm." Now he can be tossed aside so that Vance can finish the work of dismantling our democracy and shoveling all our money to the billionaires.
However, Trump has a remarkable ability to hang in there. I'll bet there are a LOT of Republicans holding death watches in DC, including most of his staff. And not just the moderates in Congress. Nope.
jgmiller
(639 posts)The thing about Vance though is they somehow found a person who has less charisma than Pence did. He won't be able to manage MAGA and scare any of the GOP reps that are on the edge. Will he still cause a lot of damage, yes he will but far less than Trump.
I also think Trump will hang in there for at least another year health wise and maybe even longer.
BumRushDaShow
(160,061 posts)their loons latched onto the QAnon nonsense for their own motives - mainly to go after Bill & Hillary Clinton. The whole "pizzagate" / "sex-trafficking" idiocy was a part of that.
Pizzagate gunman in D.C. sentenced to four years in prison
Pizzagate, QAnon and the Epstein List: Why the Far Right Is Obsessed with Sex Trafficking
The problem for them is that most of their "attacks" on us are nothing more than "projections" of their own involvement and guilt, as a strategy to put our side on the defensive. However it inevitably comes back to haunt them when their crimes are revealed, which is what is happening (or about to happen) now.
The original demand for "releasing the files" was to uncover "all kinds of high level 'Democrats'" so they could use them for cannon fodder against the party and liberals. But apparently what they are finding is not only a pile of Republicans, but also a pile of very wealthy businessmen.
Having clung to their idiotic CT for a decade, it's hard to break free, and some may still think there is some "high level Democrat" being "protected" by what they consider their own "swamp", and that could lead to them believing they were "tricked" by their dear leader who we know is the REAL guilty one.
emulatorloo
(46,130 posts)It is ALWAYS projection w them. While it may be a cliche - Every MAGA/GOP accusation is an absolutely a confession.
Scrivener7
(57,137 posts)that all the Democratic satanists are in the Epstein files, so they want them released.
The venn diagram of the Q group and maga is almost a circle.
BoRaGard
(7,517 posts)Repubes lie and cheat just like their draft dodging Golf Cheat in Charge.
Irish_Dem
(74,728 posts)Chasstev365
(6,249 posts)Only the hardcore MAGA cultists will believe only Democrats and people on the Left were involved.
travelingthrulife
(3,241 posts)after the redactions are released. She will just turn her back on those victims she is championing.
Do not trust Republicans.
slightlv
(6,557 posts)They're hardwired by now to believe only the worst about dems, and only the purest, best about repugs. Yet, whenever you see a party affiliation behind a nabbed pedo, it's an R. And the worst offenders of children's rights (sexual and otherwise) are Xtians. SMDH. Hypocrisy!
Brainfodder
(7,781 posts)Oh yeah, news for the dense.
mwmisses4289
(2,202 posts)Why do you think bondi kept trying to not release the files?
And yes, it does appear the super wealthy donors to the gop are done with trump. They thought he would be easy to control, for a lot of reasons that turned out not to be the case.
70sEraVet
(4,879 posts)He didn't say anything that most of us already surmised -- and nothing that he couldn't have guessed at by just reading the news.
BUT ...... It IS extremely embarrassing for Bondi's DOJ, and an embarrassment for trump. Trump has Massie, a Republican House member, openly calling him out over his refusal to release all of the files, and now, an insider of the DOJ spilling the beans to impress a girl with a cellphone.
FakeNoose
(38,620 posts)What if Bill Barr, back when he was AG and had complete control of the narrative in 2019 and 2020, had made copies of the Epstein documents and other evidence? What if he kept that to himself when he left the DoJ? It's a possibility and I wouldn't be surprised if the materials are leaked some day. Maybe it will happen after Chump finally croaks, I don't know.
wiggs
(8,402 posts)videos. We've seen that before.
Otherwise, if true should be front page news on more than Huffpost
republianmushroom
(21,364 posts)
KS Toronado
(21,252 posts)



We need to remind Republicans where their party has gone.......they protect pedophiles!
And challenge them why they would vote for pedophiles when they would fire one who was a teacher
in their local schools.
slightlv
(6,557 posts)of the elephant, really gets to me. Elephants are such noble, feeling creatures. They've done nothing to be associated with the evil that is the GOP. We really should come up with something else to associate with the GOP. Maybe an Alligator? Since they seem to like to name concentration camps after them. And, while I have no doubt they have their redeeming values, I'm sorely pressed to name any right now. (gryn)
GenThePerservering
(3,061 posts)associated with this. They can do better.
Martin68
(26,458 posts)questionseverything
(11,208 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(169,744 posts)Martin68
(26,458 posts)division in the MAGAverse is a good thing.
riversedge
(77,746 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(169,744 posts)PuraVidaDreamin
(4,346 posts)keep this in the news
Does Joseph Schnitt, Acting Deputy Chief of Enforcement Operations, DOJ still have his job?
ificandream
(11,357 posts)Especially MTG. She'd love to snag Bill Clinton in this scandal. So would Comer. So would Fox and the rest of the right-wing scandal sheets.
I think the only way we'll get a true accounting is if and when the Epstein victims release their own list.