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   Trump's panicking DOJ is already screaming 'hoax' about Epstein files   
   exposed content.   
      
   Internet Sleuths Reveal Hack to Undo Epstein File Redactions   
      
   Trump's DOJ has botched the Epstein files release even more than previously   
   thought.   
      
      
      
   Published Dec. 23 2025 3:17PM EST   
      
      
   Amateur hackers are using Photoshop to undo redactions in files released by   
   the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case.   
      
   The latest 11,034-document dump under the Epstein Files Transparency Act on   
   Monday came heavily stocked with blacked-out names and phrases, much to the   
   chagrin of social media sleuths. But within hours, X users had already   
   uncovered the not-so-bulletproof method the DOJ used to redact the   
   information.   
      
   "So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you   
   can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another   
   document to read the redactions, " X user Liam Nissan shared in a post   
   viewed 6.8 million times as of publication.   
      
   Independent political commentator Ed Krassenstein even posted a how-to   
   video on X, demonstrating the process—and ridiculing Trump's DOJ at the   
   same time.   
      
   "Trump DOJ screwed up some of the redactions so bad that you can recover   
   them, " he said in the video. "And I did so simply by copying and pasting   
   the text. "   
      
   The redactions fueled speculation that the president, whom Epstein has   
   called his closest friend, is covering up his own name or shielding others   
   who appear in the documents.   
      
   "The Epstein files on the DOJ website allow you to highlight the redacted   
   text, copy it, and paste it into another document, which reveals what was   
   hidden, " one X user wrote. "You can also press Ctrl+F and search for   
   'Trump ' (with a space) to see his name appear more than 600 times. "   
   X   
   Social media was in a frenzy over the DOJ's sloppy censorship. X   
      
   It's not clear how many documents can be unmasked by the editing trick.   
   However, one newly naked document shed light on a civil case against Darren   
   K. Indyke and Richard D. Kahn, two executors of Epstein's estate. According   
   to The Guardian, a redacted portion reads: "Between September 2015 and June   
   2019, Indyke signed (FAC) for over $400,000 made payable to young female   
   models and actresses, including a former Russian model who received over   
   $380,000 through monthly payments of $8,333 made over a period of more than   
   three and a half years until the middle of 2019. "   
   Jeffrey Epstein's Right-Hand Mystery Men   
   The Lawyer and The Accountant   
   Kate Briquelet, William Bredderman, Tracy Connor   
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   Indyke has never faced criminal charges and was hired by the Parlatore Law   
   Group in 2022—prior to the DOJ settling the Epstein case—which represents   
   Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.   
      
   Another redacted passage alleges that the two men tried to conceal their   
   "criminal sex trafficking and abuse" through large sums of hush money to   
   victims and witnesses.   
      
   "Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-   
   witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings   
   involving Defendants' criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct, " the   
   document reads.   
   Jeffrey Epstein (left) and Donald Trump pose together at the Mar-a-Lago   
   estate, Palm Beach, Florida on February 22, 1997.   
   Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were friends for years, but the president   
   denies being aware of the disgraced financier's child sex crimes. Davidoff   
   Studios Photography/Davidoff Studios/Getty Images   
      
   The Photoshop loophole was discovered a month after the Epstein Files   
   Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed. Of the material made   
   public—in which Trump's name appears multiple times—hundreds of pages were   
   heavily redacted, which legal experts say "falls far short" of what is   
   legally required under the law.   
      
   In response, the panicked DOJ has issued a defensive statement alleging   
   that some of the documents "contain untrue and sensationalist" allegations   
   against the president.   
      
   Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing impeachment and contempt of Congress   
   calls over her handling of the Epstein files.   
      
   The department has said many of the redactions were made to protect   
   victims' privacy or to shield minors. Yet several Epstein survivors—whose   
   identities had previously been protected—have since discovered their names   
   were left unredacted in the released documents.   
      
   Trump has insisted that he and Epstein, who died by suicide in a Manhattan   
   holding cell in 2019, were never close friends, repeating several times   
   that he distanced himself from the late financier after he was put on the   
   sex offender list in 2008, shortly after he pleaded guilty to a charge of   
   solicitation of prostitution with a minor.   
      
   The Daily Beast has reached out to the Department of Justice for comment.   
      
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