The only no vote came from Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican who is a fervent supporter of Trump. He also chairs a subcommittee that initiated a subpoena on the Justice Department for the Epstein files.
Not surprising given his viscous performance 3 months ago trying to prevent a motion to release the files from even being brought forth in the House Oversight Committee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1snbEmwVK8
Actually only 1 no vote is quite surprising.
He also chairs a subcommittee
One of the big things we need fixed is that shit just being based on seniority.
When the person from the controlling party with the longest time on that specific committee is defacto chair, people will never relinquish a committee seat. They’ll hold one they don’t actually care about for decades blocking others because some day they might get chair and get bonus “donations” from whatever industry you’re supposed to reign in.
He must have misread the legislation. Stupid mundane details.
Rep. Clay Higgins
I guarantee you he’s Eskimo Brothers with Roy Moore
But Trump said he wanted them released! (Presumably because they’ve been scrubbed of everyone except Democrats) Why is he going against Dear Leader?
Ok that means Trump told the rest to vote for it. The files are altered or deleted. Let’s ask comey. I bet he knows.
They’ll be doctored like hell, I’m sure of it.
They release all the files, except those that concern “national security”.
Guess what people at the FBI did over the last months? Classify Epstein files…
Think sleazier: ADD the names of your enemies to the files before releasing them, then spindoctor the ever-loving shit out of the narrative (like usual)
I think the LA times wrote a piece about this in the past day or two, the doctoring was done when Trump took office and had the Justice Department redact all references to him “as a private citizen” which is some bullshit. But look at what’s already come through, thousands of pages with hundreds of references to Trump, unredacted and incriminating, I wonder if the idiots he hired to scour through the files actually did it, or just cashed their checks and ran like the rest of Elon’s DOGE bullshit.
The thing is, enough people have seen the files, including Biden era prosecutors, Trump 1 prosecutors, victims, former and current FBI, etc. who can testify to the fact that evidence has been altered.
Bold of you to assume there’s even one collective spine amongst the lot
Yeah I know, but the problem as we’ve seen is: Nobody holds the Trump administration to account. Congress might vote to release the files but I have zero faith in them to also hold him to account if he should be found in them.
But only after they’ve been scrubbed of any mention of “allies”.
The latest batch of released files has included some of the laziest and most haphazard redactions I’ve seen since Bush was on his way out in '08. These Congresscritters aren’t wasting staff time on cleaning up their info-dumps. It’s all just going out the door every Friday.
The good news is that this admin is really bad at redactions.
I highly recommend Heather Cox Richardson’s near-daily coverage of current politics, and The Files.
From a historian’s perspective, she seems to think that Trump’s sudden reversal after fighting tooth and nail to avoid this release is because he realizes he’s lost control of the House republicans on this issue as their voters are also frothing at the mouth to get these files released. And, that if he’s so afraid of what’s in the FBI’s complete set after the horror of what has already been released, what the hell is actually in there? She also seems to think that if the bill gets to his desk, he’ll all but have to release them, but personally I don’t see him ever caving to that. He could release them by executive order today if he actually wanted the files released.
Here’s my take: I find it pretty incredible that people don’t seem to understand the depths of Trumps depravity when he extorted our allies, sicked a hillbilly mob on the capital, used The Office of the President to hawk merch, and openly mocked American democracy, but grooming underage girls is where we all collectively draw the line. The mountains of evidence of his extreme criminality, his appointment of white and Christian nationalists, and his alliances with America’s sworn enemies melting down our government? Water off a duck’s back apparently.
I’m all for whatever it takes to dismantle the Trump regime, but I seriously doubt undoctored evidence ever sees the light of day. And if it does, he will be dead long before he ever sees justice for it. But, if it FINALLY sours voters enough to not vote for him in the next election, I’ll take it.
but grooming underage girls is where we all collectively draw the line.
No doubt all the other things you mentioned would make any rational, remotely ethical person turn against Trump. But this is worse than all of them. It’s almost impossible to defend or wish away. Virtually EVERYONE agrees these crimes are heinous and deserve thorough prosecution.
he will be dead long before he ever sees justice for it.
As much as I would like to see that, the ship sailed when we reelected him. If Harris had won, his other trials would’ve continued. He was obviously guilty in the documents case. Now he’ll probably die in office or shortly after leaving.
At this point, I’ll settle for him resigning (impossible, I know) or being impeached.
Narrator: And yet in spite of it all, those file never were released so the far right pedo class could be protected
The latest traunch of emails has already clipped the wings of Larry Summers, Michael Wolff, Peggy Siegal, and Kathryn Ruemmler. I don’t think its a coincidence that Prince Andrew was getting the heave-ho weeks in advance.
The Epstein Files are leaking like a sieve. By the time we get a full accounting, I’m curious to know what’ll even be left to reveal.
It became inevitable that the files would release
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Trump calls an emergency, no phones, meeting with Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Bondi is the one who will be releasing the files
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Trump does a 180° on trying to block the release
They for sure fucked with the files
Other news we’re following:
- Trump dismisses 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: The U.S. president gave a warm welcome to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmanof Saudi Arabia, his first visit since the Washington Post reporter was killed by Saudi agents. When the crown prince was asked about Khashoggi, Trump interjected, saying, “Things happen.”
Jesus fucking Chr- *deep breath*
My guess is that they decided that since it wasn’t going away they might as well get it fully into the news cycle now and the year until midterms will be enough time for it to fade away or be thoroughly MAGAtized so that it won’t be a voting issue.
The House AND the Senate passed it already? Damn wasn’t expecting that.
If a criminal gets the evidence before anyone else gets the evidence, then no one is getting the actual evidence.
No one’s seeing shit. The DOJ is scrubbing GOP names.
Those files are going to have more blackout on them then the Roswell documents.
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Next stop, senate, then Bubba blow job machine, then DOJ. First step completed wooo! /s this is going to be “it’s the small world” ride that doesn’t end.
