Trump’s DOJ gaff appears to have allowed Epstein files to be unredacted: “the most SHOCKING”
Brian and Ed Krassenstein have been posting the information that was hidden in plain sight.
An apparent procedural blunder by the Department of Justice under Donald Trump is being seized upon online after claims that portions of recently released Jeffrey Epstein court records can be “unredacted” with little more than a copy-and-paste.
The allegation gained traction on X when commentator Ed Krassenstein posted what he says are readable passages beneath blacked-out text in the DOJ release. According to Krassenstein, the redactions were applied in a way that still allows the underlying text to be revealed by highlighting and pasting it into another document. If accurate, it would represent a basic document-handling failure with potentially serious implications.
Below are the posts referenced, along with an explainer from Ed.
BREAKING: Some of the Trump DOJ's redactions on the Epstein files weren't redacted correctly and can be unredacted and seen!
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) December 22, 2025
I'll explain the process at the end of this thread.
Unredacted version of below redactions:
"80. Defendants Kahn and Indyke controlled and directed the… pic.twitter.com/SMKd16q8SY
This is unbelievable. I unredacted Trump’s Epstein file redactions. Look what he is trying to hide! pic.twitter.com/mjSktnZUDY
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) December 23, 2025
BREAKING: New Epstein Files Released.
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) December 23, 2025
Here is the most SHOCKING of what I have found so far:
1) A Victim, I assume since the name is redacted, claimed that a woman named Ghislaine "Lisa" Villeneuve told her that the party that Trump invited them to at Mar-a-Lago was "for… pic.twitter.com/r3SF9cf2Sg
YOU WON’T BELIEVE THIS.
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) December 22, 2025
I just discovered that the Trump DOJ redacted material showing the existence of other “participant-witnesses” in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation — along with records indicating that Epstein paid for those individuals’ attorneys.
The problem?… https://t.co/ptZMQ0KxLc
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