So this is the bill that until last week, the majority didn’t even want to vote on, until the new AZ rep won her special election and makes them? Then it turns out they (almost) all agreed with her anyway? Amazing how things work in Congress.
Once they knew they couldn’t delay it any longer, the flipped real quick. It either means they’re confident Trump’s name has been removed or they’re getting out ahead of the inevitable fallout so they can pretend like they cared the whole time.
Almost all, yes. I read there was one no, any idea who and why?
Clay Higgins (R-LA), but I hadn’t heard of him before today so can’t say much about him.
They’ll be doctored like hell, I’m sure of it.
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…
The list:
Don(REDACTED)
(REDACTED)ump
D(REDACTED)
Sleepy Joe
President Tr(REDACTED)
Bubba
Tru(REDACTED)
The Libs
(REDACTED)ald Trump
Crooked Hillary
Barack HUSSEIN Obama
(REDACTED)mp
Eric Trump
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.
It’s safe to assume anything redacted is Trump. They have the burden of proof to say it’s not.
“It’s not Trump.”
“Okay, prove it!”
“UM… oh look, a squirrel!”
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”
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.
Not surprising given his viscous performance 3 months ago trying to prevent a motion to release the files from even being brought forth in the House Oversight Committee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1snbEmwVK8
Actually only 1 no vote is quite surprising.
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.
He must have misread the legislation. Stupid mundane details.
Guaranteed this gets hung up in Senate, on Trump’s desk or because of the DOJ’s ‘investigation’ and they try to never release it.
I’d like to buy the “blocked by on-going investigation” square, please. It’s so obvious.
I think it’s more likely that they’ll just release all the files except for those which mention Trump and his allies, or edit out such references and pass it off as the genuine article.
Yeah, my guess is either they found a different way to never release anything, or they’ll pass some random junk as the files in question. That’s the reason Johnson suddenly changed his mind on allowing the House to do their job, and why Republicans voted yes on the bill.
I did hear an NPR interview with Ro Khanna (member of Congress representing California 17, discharge petition signatory) today, where whether he had concerns about the authenticity of the files to be released, and he did say that he did. When asked further how he could be sure that the files so released are complete and accurate, he said that it would be dumb to attempt a cover-up or incomplete release, because many of the victims’ lawyers have already seen the files and thus would know if the released files are incomplete, inaccurate, or inauthentic.
That being said, I do not expect Trump and his crack(pot) team of advisers to have the metal acuity to judge the probability of a successful cover-up correctly.
