Over the weekend, Epstein survivors demanded that additional documents be released, accusing the Trump administration of concealing more than 3 million files

A Republican senator has changed her mind about the Epstein files after reviewing unredacted documents associated with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis recently reviewed a handful of documents from the Epstein files without redactions, saying in an interview afterward that she now understands “what the big deal is."

Lummis, 71, told Capitol Hill reporter Pablo Manriquez on Monday, Feb. 9, that while she previously had said, “I don’t care” about Congress’ efforts to force the release of Epstein evidence, she now believes the issue was “worth investigating.”

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    She can see that its going to be impossible to completely ignore this and has to finally admit that its pretty damning.

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    I like the part where she says “Now that my eyes have been opened to how severely we’ve all been deceived I am starting a campaign with my fellow GOP senators to see this through and prosecute every last person involved in these barbaric and evil crimes.”

    Wait no… I’m being told she said none of that.

    Her actual final words on the subject were "And the members of Congress that have been pushing this were not wrong, so that’s really my only reaction."

    I hate these people with my whole being.

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      Seriously. Like I have never felt so much rage before! They’re shocked it exists, but despite being the very same people capable of changing fucking something, they are paralyzed by fucking facts!

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      It lingered there for only a moment and was quickly discarded.

      “And the members of Congress that have been pushing this were not wrong,” she added. "So that’s really my only reaction.

      Her final words on the matter. Don’t you all feel so reassured that we have TOP people on the case.

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      More like she had to admit a thing she was conveniently for her career ignoring. She is a nihlist, believing in nothing. There was no conscience at work here, no appeal to justice. Just a cold calculation of positions.

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    Alternate title:

    Ancient GOP Senator says there is enough visibility now for it to affect her career so she is considering acknowledging and maybe at a future date having something meaningful to say about it.

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    I feel like the words “I don’t care” should never escape a politician’s mouth. Their entire job is to care. Why are they representing us if they don’t?

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    See, that’s why they redact the shit, so they can skirt responsibility. It’s sad it took this long for people to open their eyes, but at least it seems to be starting to happen?

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      Heheh. Well, that’s what omnipresent global propaganda is for! Just keep them in the fox news buckets and they’ll never flinch.

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    Try to imagine the worst thing you can. It’s so much worse than that.

    Stuff that, once seen, can’t be un-seen.

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      I anticipate high levels of guro. Even Republicans may feel some hesitation around R-18G material.

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    You don’t care about illegal bombings of boats in the ocean, ICE’s cruel treatment of immigrants and the US citizens who care about them, nor massive sexual assault against underage girls until your face is smeared in it. What do you care about? The Republican party are monsters.

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    So there’s about 3 million files and Trump appears on more than 1/3 of them? They should probably be called the Trump/Epstein files

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      i thought it was 10 million total files. i have been paying as little attention as possible tho because i don’t want to get enraged or horribly depressed or something like that. i’ll accept your numbers over mine any day. is there a current authoritative set of statistics about the trump/epstein files?

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      He’s in more than a million files? I thought it was like 5000, and often multiple references on some of those files., totalling about 38k references? Which is way too many btw

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    Amazing how they all grow spines after announcing that they’re not running for reelection.

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      It’s almost like the only reason they vote like pieces of shit is because their party. They hold no values of their own while they’re in office, and don’t vote based on what their constituents want. It’s solely what the party tells them to do.

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    Lummis, 71, told Capitol Hill reporter Pablo Manriquez on Monday, Feb. 9, that while she previously had said, “I don’t care” about Congress’ efforts to force the release of Epstein evidence, she now believes the issue was “worth investigating.”

    The cynic in me thinks she ignored pages and pages of trump named referenced crimes and saw Clinton’s name at least once, so now she’s wants to make political hay only against Clinton.

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      God does it suck that what you’re saying makes so much sense.

      Worst fucking timeline ever

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          The church didn’t have complete informational awareness, computers in every hand that can be compromised, giving location, every word spoken, every interaction recorded and sifted by AI. Bots, drones, ai kill systems, it gets dark from here on out, that is why so many governments are reaching for absolute power right now, with the tech they can crush resistance if they get into a position to put it all into use.