We Don’t Need Schnitt or Project Veritas to Tell Us Trump and the DOJ Are up to Shady Shit
- john raymond
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
The revelation of a secretly recorded DOJ official talking about potential redactions in the Epstein files has generated a frenzy. Joseph Schnitt’s speculation—captured on tape during a honey-pot date arranged by O’Keefe Media Group—has been trumpeted as evidence that the Justice Department itself is engaged in manipulation.
Project Veritas’ successor has once again succeeded in what it does best: crafting a narrative through entrapment.
But let us be clear: we do not need Joseph Schnitt, or Project Veritas, or James O’Keefe’s latest operation, to tell us that Trump and his enablers are up to shady shit. We already know this.
The Redaction Game
Schnitt’s words were lurid: that Republicans and conservatives would be scrubbed from the Epstein files while Democrats would be left hanging. Perhaps he was parroting rumors, perhaps he was giving voice to what insiders believe to be inevitable, or perhaps his words were distorted by O’Keefe’s editing. The truth is almost beside the point.
The reality is that the redactions have always been about regime security. We know releasing the full Epstein files will collapse Trump’s power base, so of course the Trump-captured DOJ will suppress them.
That is not conjecture, it is the essence of how autocratic survival works.
O’Keefe’s Sordid Machinery
Project Veritas and now O’Keefe Media thrive on entrapment. They do not seek truth but clips—moments that can be spliced into weapons. Schnitt’s words gave them raw material, and they did what they always do: cut, edit, and amplify distrust.
In their hands, the DOJ is something—something I cannot even parse. The reality, the DOJ under Trump bends to protect Republicans. But the spin works because the audience no longer trusts institutions.
And that, of course, is the real objective: delegitimizing the very idea of neutral justice being possible at all.
The Shady Reality We Already Know
Even without Schnitt’s babbling or O’Keefe’s editing room, the facts are plain:
Trump’s DOJ has already declared that no “Epstein client list” exists, despite the thousands of pages of files already circulating.
Ghislaine Maxwell has been quietly cushioned with a softer prison assignment.
The administration’s statements on Epstein’s death remain contradicted by independent investigators and victim advocates.
The through-line is obvious: protect allies, conceal accountability, and gaslight the public.
The Sentiment That Matters
The important sentiment from Schnitt’s tape is not his specific claim about who will or won’t be redacted. It is the recognition that of course the system is being manipulated.
We do not need his bar-stool speculation or O’Keefe’s tawdry video stunts to see that Trump and his coterie are up to their necks in shady shit. That has been proven, again and again, in policy, in personnel, and in their endless distortions of the truth.
The Sordid Conclusion
The Epstein files controversy is less about what Schnitt said and more about what we already know: institutions are being bent in service of Trump’s survival. Whether O’Keefe spins the narrative or Schnitt speculates, the structural reality is unchanged.
Trump and his allies are corrupt. They will redact, conceal, and pervert justice to shield themselves. We don’t need Schnitt to tell us this. We don’t need Project Veritas to tell us this.
We can already see it in plain sight.
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