Trump has faced growing resentment over the decision of his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to withhold information
Mike Johnson, speaker of the House, called for the justice department to make public documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, breaking with Donald Trump over an issue that has roiled the president’s rightwing base.
It was a rare moment of friction between Trump and the speaker, a top ally on Capitol Hill, and came as the president faces growing backlash from conservatives who had expected him to make public everything known about Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while in federal custody as he faced sex-trafficking charges.
Earlier in the day, Republicans voted down an attempt by Democrats to insert language into legislation that would require files related to the Epstein case to be made public. But the minority party is determined to keep the issue alive, and Democrats on the House judiciary committee have demanded that its Republican chair, Trump ally Jim Jordan, hold a hearing with Bondi and her deputy as well as the leaders of the FBI to answer questions about Epstein.
Even if it does get released we won’t see the original list. I’m sure it will be heavily redacted. It’s not like there will be any actionable information. What do we expect to see, exactly; A list of names? It’s not like there will be an annotated list of crimes.
If there was an investigation there would be something of a kin.
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calls for release of files
votes against releasing files knowing base is stupid and will listen to him say the files should be released but not pay attention when he actually votes against it
Withholding the Epstein list, convenient gaps in the “Oh, we found it!” video. Looks like Trumps method of putting bleeding edge incompetent people in positions of power comes back to bite his sorry ass.
Bwahahahaha
Stole this from elsewhere on Lemmy, which was apparently snagged from reddit, and then downloaded to my phone & 2 laptops…
From reddit… https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/eBjDX0zt07
Here are the Epstein Files. For those of you who have seen this comment before, my apologies. I am trying to keep this information alive. Please feel free to share. Contact me if you want provenance.
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80
Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac
—————————other Epstein Information
https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson/_TrumpEpstein/_Calif/_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.
Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
Apparently this has been out since 2020 https://archive.org/details/jeffrey-epstein-39s-little-black-book-unredacted/page/n5/mode/1up
Absolute GOLD! Best post I’ve seen today.
Gamers and global south rise up
Mike’s Johnson is jealous of the kid play he missed out on.
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What I don’t understand is that out of all the fucked up shit Trump has done, this is the one thing that may end up being his downfall. I am beyond being befuddled and bewildered.
Well, it is fucking kids. That should at least count as something, but it’s still insane that anyone is surprised by it.
Republicans don’t give a shit about kids. That’s why it’s confusing.
…right after he and all the other chucklefucks voted to NOT release it.
Honestly, how the fuck does ANYONE take these fucksticks seriously?
Your average person isn’t paying attention to details like this. They don’t know, and frankly don’t care even if they did.
This is an extremely salacious story. Sure, a lot of people have no idea, but the Epstein story has always had more traction than average.
Don’t forget that QANON was the factor that shot HitlerPig’s campaign to the front of the pack, and the primary focus of QANON, at least at the beginning, was outrage over child sex trafficking by government officials. People who had never paid the slightest attention to politics were now “experts,” thanks to the QANON rabbit hole.
THOSE people put HitlerPig over the top, and he needs to keep them on board. Once they realize that HE is the one they are truly after, many of them will crash, and either vote Democrat, or more likely, abandon politics altogether, which is fine, too.
A committee voted, not every member.
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It’s like, why not just release some BS and call it a day
Ah i didn’t know about that one. Bastards.
It’s working, keep attacking these fuckers. I just left an angry voicemail to my GOP rep sounding like an angry conservative.
How much moonshine did you have to guzzle beforehand?
I never had a reason to buy johnny walker blue until just now
That seems a bit expensive for them.
(And actually I think that was Carter’s preferred drink.) plus it’s imported. Should probably be drinking a bourbon instead.
I have a particular country club fart sniffing donor type in mind.
It was about 17 tubes of vagisil.
As an actor, none!
Oddly I find tequila makes me sound more republican.
I’m drunk, and it’s all Mexico’s fault!
Just tip the still over and chug til it’s gone.
“Method reacting.”
So… a Tuesday?
And how much dip did you accidentally swallow while frothing with rage?
Good idea.
My rep is Scott Fucking Perry and this might actually work on him
He’s your rep. You don’t need to pretend, just say you expected Trump to follow through on his promises and you want Scott Fucking Perry to do his job and hold the president of the US accountable.
Perry famously will not meet with constituents who are no pre-vetted. He has sent me many, many “Fuck you I do what I want” letters in response to non-partisan messages I’ve sent him.
The only people he cares about are MAGA. The dude helped plan Jan 6.
And the worst part is that our Democratic challenger is a former Republican TV anchor.
Because that is literally the best this area can do.
Vote Blue No Matter Who™
Maybe Mike will fall outa window for this outrageous show of defiance against dear leader.
Polonium in the Cheetos
wow, didn’t think mike johnson would have da balls, despite his namesake 🤭
lol, but then today he votes against bringing it to a vote?
I think it didn’t make it out of committee (pls down vote if I’m wrong) so never reached the floor for a full vote.
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“procedural vote”, that’s the term I didn’t know
Let me guess: “but just the ones Pam Bondi finds credible”.
Shockingly you won’t find a single republican on Trump ally on the list because those aren’t credible…
There’s 0 chance Johnson is going against Trump, this is all theater so when Trump’s name magically isn’t connected to Epstein they can pretend like it’s a legitimate list.
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