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    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*

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    Narrator: And yet in spite of it all, those file never were released so the far right pedo class could be protected

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      But Trump said he wanted them released! (Presumably because they’ve been scrubbed of everyone except Democrats) Why is he going against Dear Leader?

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      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.

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    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

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      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.

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            If only it were that easy. A conversation with one of them would go something more like this:

            “It’s not Trump.”

            “Okay, prove it!”

            “I don’t need to because THIS IS AMERICA, and it’s INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.”

            “Like the people arrested by ICE?”

            “THEY WERE CRIMINALS!”

            “Even the 93% without criminal records?”

            “THAT’S FAKE NEWS, LIBTARD”

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      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…

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        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)

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      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.

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        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.

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        Bold of you to assume there’s even one collective spine amongst the lot

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    He is not going to sign this, lol.

    If we know anything about Trump by this point, is that he’ll say things and do the opposite. He’s not signing this, guys.

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      After these votes the pressure is on him in a way he has yet experienced. I don’t know if I can think of another issue in which almost all Republican legislators opposed him.

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        Maybe but he will brand any Republican who is against him as, ironically, a traitor.

        Because that’s who he wants on his team, people loyal to him, regardless of affiliation. But Republicans are easier to dupe so they mostly fell in line.

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          They almost unanimously voted to release the files. Unanimous votes in the House are not frequent. On this issue at least, he doesn’t have any loyalists in Congress.

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        My guy, how blind are you? If the Republicans all voted to release it then they are in on the cover up. They were told to vote yes because they won’t release anything incriminating. There’s no fucking opposition.

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          Don’t be a dumbass and pay attention to the news. They flipped because they could no longer stop it with Grijalva finally seated. Trump begged Boebert to vote against and she didn’t. All part of the plan?

          There’s nothing Trump can do. His veto would be overridden. He either does nothing and in 10 days it goes through or he acts like he never cared in the first place, no matter how ridiculous that is.

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    If a criminal gets the evidence before anyone else gets the evidence, then no one is getting the actual evidence.

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    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.

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      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.