I think the reason I find this newsworthy is summed up entirely in this paragraph:
>Trump and a number of top Department of Justice officials this week tried to persuade a pair of normally close allies, Representatives Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace, to withdraw their names from a discharge petition that would force a vote on releasing a trove of Epstein material. Their efforts failed, and it will go to the House floor next week. The president in the past two days has made a round of calls to longtime allies to rage against the Epstein matter, blaming Democrats and the media, one of the people who received a call told me. (A White House official later confirmed that the president was “speaking to trusted friends”; both people spoke with me under the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.) In those calls, Trump mused about pressuring GOP senators to block the release of additional files when the matter could go to the upper chamber later this month.
Even at this juncture, with so much mounting pressure, he is still fighting furiously to keep the files from being released. It should be beyond obvious to anyone at this point that if there were exculpatory evidence in those files, they would have released it. That they have not even attempted to release a redacted version would seem to indicate that the scope and scale of his wrongdoing contained therein is not insignificant.
Cr4zySh0tgunGuy on
> Somehow, Epstein returned
CC78AMG on
I argue that a few weeks before the 2024 election would’ve been the worst time for Trump to have this get released. I wish it had happened then.
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Incredible how it’s obviously true that the president of the United States is a serial rapist who was best friends with the world’s most famous pedophile.
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I think the reason I find this newsworthy is summed up entirely in this paragraph:
>Trump and a number of top Department of Justice officials this week tried to persuade a pair of normally close allies, Representatives Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace, to withdraw their names from a discharge petition that would force a vote on releasing a trove of Epstein material. Their efforts failed, and it will go to the House floor next week. The president in the past two days has made a round of calls to longtime allies to rage against the Epstein matter, blaming Democrats and the media, one of the people who received a call told me. (A White House official later confirmed that the president was “speaking to trusted friends”; both people spoke with me under the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.) In those calls, Trump mused about pressuring GOP senators to block the release of additional files when the matter could go to the upper chamber later this month.
Even at this juncture, with so much mounting pressure, he is still fighting furiously to keep the files from being released. It should be beyond obvious to anyone at this point that if there were exculpatory evidence in those files, they would have released it. That they have not even attempted to release a redacted version would seem to indicate that the scope and scale of his wrongdoing contained therein is not insignificant.
> Somehow, Epstein returned
I argue that a few weeks before the 2024 election would’ve been the worst time for Trump to have this get released. I wish it had happened then.
Incredible how it’s obviously true that the president of the United States is a serial rapist who was best friends with the world’s most famous pedophile.