Donald Trump calls on Republicans to vote to release Epstein files
Trump reverses course, says Republicans should vote to release Epstein files
Must’ve finished scrubbing his name from them.
Edit: Maybe it's a "I'd release them if I could, but the investigations prevent me" situation.
Someone just told him they finished destroying the evidence that implicates him.
I think it's more a case of him thinking that he'll just veto it anyway.
So what exactly is preventing them from releasing not just redacted but heavily edited "Epstein files" where they removed any hint of Trump and added a few additional democrat names for good measure? They've certainly had enough time to create something like that.
My biggest worry is what if they release doctored documents
To play the devil’s advocate, it’s certainly possible Trump publicly supports the House voting to release the original documents because he either 1) has ironclad assurance that it’ll die in the Senate, or 2) will just pocket veto the bill. There was substantial political downside to them opposing their release, and many many ways for them to kill this whole thing in the future.
Trump doesn’t want the files released, but their Legislative Affairs and Communications Director finally woke up to a strategy that wasn’t political suicide.
What do you mean "what if"? Of course thats what they're going to do.
The discharge petition itself contains the word "unclassified" which means all Bondi has to do is classify anything with Trump and friends names before the release.
Just like releasing his tax returns because "they were in an audit"
'DOJ still investigating the Dem names in the files..., sorry lol!'
Alright we are probably going to get two versions of the Epstein files the one edited by trump that will probably be released first and the real one that will be released later when Trump is dead or out of office in some way
I'm hoping the second one is released when the people named in the files released by the government go, "Oh no, we're not going down in this alone," and put out their emergency backups.
My own theory on the flip-flop back to his original stance:
I can't see any other reason for why he suddenly wants them to go public again. Trump only ever does things that serve his own self interests, so him blocking it for so long was beneficial to him in some way, and now continuing to block it doesn't benefit him.
Option 3 I think is most likely.
DOJ just started new investigations into Clinton, JP Morgan, and others at Trumps behest. Once vote happens to release files DOJ says "Oops no can do with an ongoing investigation." Repubs look like they care and nothong goes public.
Its an easy win win for them
Or someone finally explained that the discharge petition only allows for unclassified releases... Meaning Bondi can decide what should be released or not.
True, I did not think of that. Trump's new favorite tactic seems to be doing (or saying that he will do) the thing that everybody wants, but then complaining that his hands are tied by the courts or the law, even though neither of those things prevent him from breaking the law when it suits him. "Oops, sorry, we so badly wanted to release the full unredacted Epstein files but the law says we can't gosh golly darnit, what a bummer, you saw that I supported it, but it's these activist judges that are preventing the truth from getting out!"
Bondi is 100% running cover for him if they do get released.
Remind me what "the document" is, again? There have been thousands released this week.
You can also remind me when he survived any information already released in an actual court of law, since obviously anything else would be entirely irrelevant to anything.
Edit: Maybe it’s a “I’d release them if I could, but the investigations prevent me” situation.
That, or a "I know they don't have the votes in the Senate, so it's moot" situation.
The fix is in then.
I am surprised Epstein didn't have a dead man's switch on his files. I suppose the Mossad or Putin has a copy and is retaining it for continued leverage. I wonder if someone will expose the falsifications.
Mossad/Putin but not the fucking CIA? The guy lived in and operated out of the US. His shenanigans could hardly have been unknown to domestic intelligence agencies.
Both valid theories I'd say.
So, either he just realized how guilty he's been making himself look... or, he's playing 4D chess with us, and just broke out the "reverse psychology" card. (wink, wink...nudge, nudge)
Well, Megan Kelly just tried to sell that not all pedophilia is bad. So, it's probably a gas-lighting plan. It'll probably work too. His base are all gullible fools.
And pedophiles too. Don’t forget his entire base are pedophiles, even if only by proxy.
Whatever they'll release, it won't be the original files.
I've been saying this since the start. The Trump administration will never release anything damaging to Trump.
They'll just release some fairytale. They've had months to get it in order.