• dhork@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Instructed by whom, exactly? The article doesn’t say. It just says “a source in the Republican establishment”. That could be anyone.

    My money is on Stephen Miller. It sounds like a thing he would say…

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      23 days ago

      Instructed by themselves and each other. They don’t need to be told to circle the wagons.

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        23 days ago

        The article was quite clear that they were told by a particular someone in the “Republican Establishment”, which right now is a subsidiary of Trump.

        No, they don’t need to be told to hold the partisan line, but I wouldn’t put it past Trump (or even Stephen Miller) to treat them like employees. Which must be a bit humiliating for a Member of Congress…

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    23 days ago

    Huh.

    Why not?

    I thought this was the most transparent administration in history? Why would something like the most notorious pedophile ring be off-limits?

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    22 days ago

    Honestly if they somehow conduct an entire inquiry without bringing that up it will be inconceivably suspicious in its absence. I feel like that would make the Republican members appear MORE guilty, not less. If you’re a Republican who had nothing whatsoever to do with Epstein, you’ve gotta consider that avoiding the single largest and most disturbing cover up in (potentially global) political history is essentially going to drag you right into it.