A bombshell report revealed Monday that under the first Trump administration, the FBI appeared to have issued a “stand down” order to New York Police Department investigators regarding their criminal probe into Jeffrey Epstein, an order that came just five days after the disgraced financier’s arrest in 2019.
The existence of the supposed directive was revealed by law professor and legal scholar Ryan Goodman, who found it buried within the Justice Department’s recent release of around 3.5 million files on Epstein.
“The directive applied to NYPD’s Special Victims Unit – the group specially trained and equipped to handle sex crimes and child abuse cases,” Goodman wrote in a report published Monday in Just Security, a non-partisan law and policy journal.
I can understand an administration wanting to handle Epstein carefully and at the administration level, just wish it wasn’t to help him.
What an odd thing to do
Its so surprising that then you get a democrat in power and he does fuck all to bring bullshit like this to light. I’m not a both sides suck kind of person but in this particular situation. Jesus, it was politically beneficial and the right thing to do, how can you fuck that up.
You’ve been downvoted but I’m with you on this.
There was so much more going on (such as insurrection, and the top secret documents) but it all stumbled along.
It doesn’t matter who died, or when, there were so many obvious crimes happening that there should’ve been numerous investigations happening almost immediately.“But, but, biden didn’t want it to look like a political witchhunt.”
Firstly, bullshit. He was just slow and couldn’t give a shit once he was in power.
Secondly, the fat orange child rapist could’ve stabbed a baby on live TV and then would still have yelled “fake news” and “political hit job” if he were to be arrested for it. It was fucking obvious.
Instead everyone waited and waited and then it was too late.Investigations of crimes of that magnitude shouldn’t stop just because one person died.
Furthermore if biden had have pushed for Donvict Drumpf’s arrest and imprisonment earlier the whole world would be a better place. And I’m not being dramatic, literally the whole world. Not figuratively, literally.Someone who is ineffective.
Someone who rapes children.
Both sides! Airtight?
That’s fake news. The fact is that Epstein was dead, and they prosecuted and sentenced Maxwell during the Biden term. They also investigated Epstein’s financial ties, uncovering $billions in wire transfers to Epstein from people like Les Wexner, during the Biden administration - look up Ron Wyden’s investigation, which was suddenly denied access to those records in January 2025.
The fact is that Epstein was dead, and they prosecuted and sentenced Maxwell during the Biden term.
but a long list of associates and accessories to the crimes were not charged. The rot is on both sides of the floor here.
One side is far more rotted than the other, as evidenced by Trump being mentioned in the Epstein files more than even Epstein.
Trump is now 100% the entirety of the Republican party. So that side of the rot has already eaten away anyything resembling reason and replaced it with the most horrendously inhuman decisions imaginable that have increased national misery for profit.
Democrats never wasted $200 Billion on a private army that can’t do their job without public executions happening weekly.
Don’t make such a stupid comparison when stupid is the reason it’s got this bad.
It’s kind of like a lot of workplaces. You might have a supervisor who’s a tyrant, and makes every second at work horrible, and then there’s the supervisor who respects and leads their team, and makes work feel worthwhile.
But despite their very different approaches, they still have the same objective of serving those above them. While we fight over which is the more effective supervisor, it never occurs to us to blame those at the top who are causing the conflict in the first place.
Yep they should have. At least they did some things, more than prior or subsequent administrations have.
Gotta day i fell for it I just want more people in jail
Is it fake news that any network of poor pedophiles would have been investigated, prosecuted, and imprisoned in much less than 4 years, not even including the time before Biden took office? Why the two separate standards?
I certainly didn’t say any of those things. Perhaps you could read what I already wrote, again.
You heavily implied they did everything they could and that is not accurate. If that’s not what you meant to imply then your response makes no sense in context.
BoTh SiDeS
Have you seen any of this evidence? It’s really interesting:
YouTube video of Katie Johnson’s testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRod
Full court docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/
PDF of the initial complaint (WARNING very graphic): https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/1/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/ TRIGGER WARNING - EXPLICIT DESCRIPTIONS (Tap to reveal)
Almost like they have class consciousness and we don’t.
It’s become very clear that states should never ever delegate to federal agencies.
Such an order sounds have never been respected.
Why is it that a real life SVU unit in New York existing makes me think Trump will confuse this for the television show Law and Order: SVU?
In the criminal justice system, some crimes are especially heinous. But not this guy, he’s very legal, very cool
Totally exonerated! Lots of people are saying it
yeah ok, but go back to the first complaints ignored by the FBI under Clinton in the 90s.
Yeah ok but LET’S LOOK AT ALL OF THEM. HOW ABOUT THAT?
Can the FBI order the NYPD to stand down? Do they have to follow the order?
Because if that’s true I’m going to have to go back and see if Biden’s DOJ actually DID witch hunt Trump. I was under the assumption that his felony convictions were brought by the state of New York, through a grand jury of actual people and the convictions were rendered by a jury of actual people and that it was ALL New York. No federal government involved. Can anyone comment on that?
Why would Biden go after Trump? I can’t think of any motivation.
I have no idea. It’s Trump what do you expect? He’s the most beloved person in the world who is simultaneously the most victimized.
Anyway, my question was more about CAN the federal government force this or is it more of a professional courtesy kind of a thing?
