DOJ illegally redacted minor’s accusation that she was sexually abused by Trump

Pam Bondi is close to the top of the list of people in the Trump administration who need to go to prison, although it’s a long list, and growing all the time:

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 that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

The QAnon conspiracy theory is turning into the ultimate example of EAIAC.

Also too there’s apparently already a cottage industry among the anti-anti-Trumpers for producing apologias for middle-aged and elderly men having sex with 14-year-old girls. This is just going to be a particularly emetic subgenre of the whole “has the Epstein investigation/#Metoo/Feminism/Civil Rights/the French Revolution/the Council of Trent gone too far” narrative, so predictably beloved of not very crypto-reactionaries from Matt Taibbi to Konstantin Pobedonotsev.