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Bluetus

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21. That isn't the biggest risk

Reply to YodaMom2 (Reply #14)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 04:35 PM

Nov 2025

The redactions will mostly be obvious that they involved Trump. And the redactions may look worse than the truth for Trump. The committee will be able to subpoena testimony from the lawyers who scrubbed this stuff.

The bigger issue is that Trump's Doj has probably already destroyed the most incriminating evidence. These people are completely lawless.

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