[whattheheckheck]

You think the personal lawyers of Donald Trump Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche will follow the money unbiasedly? As well as children's book, The Plot Against the King, author Kash Patel and FBI director? As well as Russian asset herself, Tulsa Gabbard director of National Intelligence want to do anything against their power source?

[ttoinou]

Yet this was released under their term and not previous presidential terms

[bigyabai]

> previous presidential terms

Term, not plural. There was one (1) interceding administration following Epstein's death.

Trump promised that the Epstein files would be released if he was reelected, and then withheld files. Congress passed a bill remediating this, hence the newer tranche of files: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein_Files_Transparency_Act

[Grisu_FTP]

Im not too deep into USA politics and have very very bad memory so i dont remember how it went down. The Wikipedia article you linked says it was signed by trump.

>and then withheld files.

So did he sign that willingly in the end? Did he have to sign it? Did he cave because he said publicly he would?

[danans]

A super majority in Congress voted for the files to be the released, which is enough to override a veto, so he had to sign it to save face.

[Grisu_FTP]

thx for the info!!

[wtcactus]

The democrats had these files and all that information in their power for what? 5 years? And what did they do?

Stop making this a partisan issue. It’s not, and nobody that’s not completely biased beyond any rationality will ever see it as such.

[direwolf20]

Democrats do nothing because they are useless. Republicans do nothing because they are implicated.

[krapp]

Democrats are complicit as well. Don't let them off the hook by making the mistake of thinking they're simply weak.

Democrats engaged in the same cover-up and lies and sexual abuse as the Republicans wrt Epstein. Democrats supported ICE and the murder of immigrants and citizens. Democrats supported American imperialism, oligarchy and genocide.

The parties aren't the same. Would we have the same open chaos, violence and instability under a Harris regime? Probably not. Would they have released any of the Epstein files on their own? Also probably not. Voting for the lesser (or more restrained) evil is valid when no good option exists but make no mistake the Democrats are not really a principled opposition party. It's mostly kayfabe.

[wtcactus]

Oh yes, I'm absolutely sure the Democrats were just sitting on a treasure trove of - only - Republican Party members' pedophile crimes for 5 years, and they did nothing because they are useless and couldn't get bothered with doing some work on it.

Seems sensible...

[watwut]

Republicans are much more implicated then democrats. And republican part protects own pedophiles and criminals while democrats are like "sure, go after him" here.

So, yes that is exactly what happened.

[wtcactus]

Of course, that's just like I said: Democrats were sitting on all those juicy details about pedophile Republicans for 5 years and decided to do nothing, even with elections at the door. Sure Jan.

You people need help. Nobody can be sane and that biased.

[danans]

> Oh yes, I'm absolutely sure the Democrats were just sitting on a treasure trove of - only - Republican Party members' pedophile crimes for 5 years, and they did nothing because they are useless

No, they did it to protect wealthy and influential people, regardless of party.

It happens that such people are disproportionately Republican aligned, there are fewer places to hide this behavior in the Democratic tent - really just at the top - and the current POTUS seems to be very close to the center of it all.

Independently, we are learning that extremely wealthy and influential men often commit sex crimes through shared fixers like Epstein.

This is about huge wealth and power imbalances, no accountability for the wealthy and powerful, and the behavior they get away with as a result.

If there are any "good guys" here, it's Massie and Khanna for shaming Congress into forcing DOJ to release something, even while DOJ does everything it can to avoid/minimize it.