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No. of Recommendations: 6
Of course not. The White House and GOP controlled Congress will make sure of that.
But the highly anticipated tranche of documents provided to Congress by the administration appears to mostly contain information that was already in the public domain, drawing complaints from Democrats and doing little to tamp down an effort in the GOP-controlled House to force the Trump administration to turn over more documents.
“The 33,000 pages of Epstein documents [the committee chairman] has decided to ‘release’ were already mostly public information,” Rep. Robert Garcia (California), the panel’s ranking Democrat, said in a statement. “To the American people — don’t let this fool you.”
Garcia said in a statement that 97 percent of the documents contained information the Justice Department and other law enforcement agencies had already disclosed.
But the more Trump dodges, the guiltier he looks.
No. of Recommendations: 2
The House of Representatives is weighing a bipartisan effort to force a vote on the full release of documents pertaining to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, but President Donald Trump is actively discouraging Republicans from backing it.
That’s according to a statement the White House released Tuesday evening, which was tweeted by NOTUS reporter Daniella Diaz.
A White House official says on Massie’s discharge petition: ‘Helping Thomas Massie and Liberal Democrats with their attention-seeking, while the DOJ is fully supporting a more comprehensive file release effort from the oversight committee, would be viewed as a very hostile act to the administration.’”
And why would that be?
while the DOJ is fully supporting a more comprehensive file release Bullshit.
No. of Recommendations: 1
pro tip: innocent people don’t work this hard to block the release of files that supposedly prove their innocence. there is no doubt that Donny’s name has to be all over that shit. Tiedrich
No. of Recommendations: 3
pro tip: innocent people don’t work this hard to block the release of files that supposedly prove their innocence. there is no doubt that Donny’s name has to be all over that shit.
I doubt it.
The GOP isn't blocking the release of the files because Trump's name is all over them. They're blocking the release of the files because there's nothing interesting in them.
That's a major, major problem for them - because a big core of MAGA was convinced to believe that the Elites are just a bunch of raging pedophiles that all use their power and connections to get away with harming children with no consequences. They voted for Trump because they believed he wasn't part of the in-crowd of Elites, and would blow the doors off all their wrongdoing.
If (when) all the files are released, there will be no wrongdoing in them - or rather, no wrongdoing except by people we already know about. There will be no "client list," no evidence that Epstein was procuring girls for anyone but himself. There will be nothing that would lead to an indictment, nothing that shows that the Elites were protecting their friends from anything.
And the MAGA base won't accept that.
The GOP knows this. Trump knows this. He knows that conspiracy nuts don't respond to evidence by giving up their conspiracy beliefs. They respond to it by adapting the conspiracy to include the new evidence. If the files are released and they don't include a "client list" and actionable evidence of child abuse by high-powered famous people, all his voters will simply conclude.....that Trump is in on the conspiracy. That he's ordered Bondi to keep the documents secret. It doesn't matter whether there's anything in the files that implicates him. His voters will (at a minimum) conclude that Trump is now trying to protect the Elites, and might conclude that he's trying to protect himself. And there's no way to disprove it.
All Trump wants is for this to get pushed past the midterms.
No. of Recommendations: 19
ges: A White House official says on Massie’s discharge petition: ‘Helping Thomas Massie and Liberal Democrats with their attention-seeking, while the DOJ is fully supporting a more comprehensive file release effort from the oversight committee, would be viewed as a very hostile act to the administration.’”
This could not be simpler: if the Epstein files exonerated Trumpedo, he would be selling leather-bound copies at his webstore.
Focus, folks.
It’s not the deployment of troops in American cities.
It’s not declaring himself judge, jury, and executioner and blowing up a Venezuelan drug boat.
It’s not moving the US Space Command HQ to 'bama.
The one big story to watch is members of Congress conspiring to bury Trump’s monstrous crimes against children that will be revealed with the release of all of the Epstein files.
This morning, an Epstein survivor said that Jeffrey Epstein’s biggest brag was that he was friends with Donald Trump. She said he had an 8x10 framed photo on his desk of himself and Trump.
Sorry, Trumpedo, this ain't going away.
No. of Recommendations: 1
The one big story to watch is members of Congress conspiring to bury Trump’s monstrous crimes against children that will be revealed with the release of all of the Epstein files.
It's about sex, which the USain media loves to natter about.
I'll throw this bit out.
Epstein "committed suicide", while Trump was in office.
Virginia Giuffre "committed suicide", while Trump was in office.
Any bets Maxwell "commits suicide", if she doesn't get the pardon she is campaigning for?
The FSB knows how to make "problem" people go away.
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 7
albab1: The GOP isn't blocking the release of the files because Trump's name is all over them. They're blocking the release of the files because there's nothing interesting in them.
Not necessarily.
Look, if there were pages proving Bill Clinton or Bill Gates or House or Senate democrats were having sex with teenage girls, House republicans would have released those pages in a heartbeat. So it's likely you're right that there's nothing there to satisfy the MAGAts. But... there certainly could be a ton of evidence establishing a decade-long best buddies friendship between Trumpedo and Epstein, and such a revelation would make it impossible for Trumpedo to continue to claim it was all a "democrat hoax."
In short, I suspect there's something in there that would prove enormously embarrassing to Trumpedo and peel away a large numbers of his supporters, well beyond their disappointment at there being "nothing interesting in them."
No. of Recommendations: 3
But... there certainly could be a ton of evidence establishing a decade-long best buddies friendship between Trumpedo and Epstein, and such a revelation would make it impossible for Trumpedo to continue to claim it was all a "democrat hoax."A "ton" of evidence? How likely is it that there could be a "ton" of evidence establishing a link materially beyond what's already been disclosed to the public? It's incredibly unlikely that there's anything that would be more damaging to Trump than the widely available photo of the four of them together:
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1192977790/photo/......let alone anything that would establish that they were "decade-long best buddies." Especially since that would be utterly inconsistent with the entirety of Donald Trump's public life - he's a man who
doesn't have any "best buddies friendships" with anyone.
And especially since nothing like that was revealed by the Biden administration....or by either the Biden or Harris campaigns. If Trump and Epstein actually
were close friends, it would be relatively simple for oppo research to uncover lots of stuff that wasn't in the Epstein files to indicate it.
In short, I suspect there's something in there that would prove enormously embarrassing to Trumpedo and peel away a large numbers of his supporters, well beyond their disappointment at there being "nothing interesting in them."I think that's very improbable. What could it possibly be? They weren't close friends - and anything that actually implicated Trump in any kind of criminal activity would have been acted on long ago.
No. of Recommendations: 2
There will be nothing that would lead to an indictment, nothing that shows that the Elites were protecting their friends from anything.
And the MAGA base won't accept that.
And refusing to release is better?? It's the less-bad option? He's either breaking his promise to protect elites, or he is covering up elites if he releases the data and maga doesn't see what they expect.
Lose-lose. Why is releasing the data worse? I get amusement either way from the ire against the Felon.
