This repost got it slightly wrong. They systematically redacted “Don T”, which is even more telling than just “Don”, then went back and fixed most of the "don’t"s, but missed a couple like the one in the example.
In case you ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ realize it yet this is a big cover up.
Fixed it!
The irony with the “great typing!” comment at the top when all it was was the apostrophe that triggered the “auto-redact”. Don Jr. was also redacted as the sons were also throughout the files.
I’m not surprised a mis-type showed everyone the sloppy vetting process the DOJ employs. This right now is the biggest coverup in modern history?
It’s like releasing the Watergate tapes, but just running the ice machine in the background.
I knew it was too much to expect that old dumpy would be held accountable :/
I wonder if there’s a way to reverse engineer the words based on the size of these blackouts. If they didn’t add a random variation in size to the black box, then it probably just lines up with the selectable text component iself. Meaning this size could be used to narrow down within the width of the text within the font and how it’s rendered.
Edit: it seems the height for “don’t” (doesn’t have a decender) is the same the height as one with a decender. So provably only the width. The size of a space character is the same throughout a line, so after trying to imagine the “don’t” in that sentence, it seems it’d be right up against the left and right side of that box.
Perhaps a text transformer could be introduced to narrow it down further, or at least present things on statical likelihood
I’ve seen some people doing exactly that. Most of these are in 12pt Times New Roman, so you can literally just overlay a text box lined up with the surrounding text and try known names until everything matches.
On top of that, some of the redactions are done with software that performs the font smoothing / anti-aliasing after drawing the black boxes, which can cause some letters to leak out a little, which can also be matched to known names
To me, I think it looks too wide to say “don”. My guess is that it says a common typo of “don’t” like “don;t”, “don"t”, or maybe “don t”. Which is funny. “Don T” looks like it means “Donald Trump”, while “don t” is obviously a typo of “don’t”.
Don T
There were encoding errors everywhere. There’s probably an equal sign there.
