The whole Epsein files thing is a trap, and the Dems are walking right into it

[DUMember24]

This may turn out to be a huge one-sided embarrassment if files were bleached. No MAGA GOP is going to call for the release of something they know will implicate them they way Johnson is now doing today.

This has been one entire week of turning the news cycle away from the tariffs, and the Texas flood failures over what now seems to be a planted story. Gotta stop chasing decoys and distractors...

[SoFlaBro]

1. MAGA is a pile of fetid dog shit. Piss on those fucking turds.

[Javaman]

2. Johnson is pulling a rope a dooe

He knows the files will never be released, he’s just trying to keep the maga voters in his side

[Ocelot II]

3. Nonsense. Anyhow, we can pay attention to more than one thing at a time.

[newdeal2]

4. Trump said the files are probably all fake news by Obama and Biden

There’s no way to walk that back and release the files, even forged ones, and say they are legit now.

[Historic NY]

5. LOL if you don't think there is a copy

[LisaL]

6. Sure, sure.

[Jack Valentino]

7. I agree that our Democratic officeholders' main focus should be elsewhere---

mainly on Trump's tariffs raising prices instead of lowering them as he promised,
AND on the impacts of the Big Abominable Bill which Republicans passed,
which some are now trying to run away from....

MAGATS seem to be covering the Epstein issue well enough on their own

[comradebillyboy]

21. Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.

This Epstein thing really is a big deal and it's got MAGA tearing itself apart right now. Dems really don't need to get between the feuding factions.

[sheshe2]

8. I have also heard the files have been scrubbed.

Most likely, but they haven't 'scrubbed' Maxwell or the books/files/videos that she has stashed. They are her insurance policy that has kept her alive.

[SheltieLover]

11. Not to mention, other pedos likely warned him they will squeal & release videos

[sheshe2]

14. That too!

[Brainfodder]

9. A trap? I don't think so, too many people are privy to it and one was named Elon?

Cracks and leaks...
Next up, The Apprentice Files?

[Skittles]

10. WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHO IS IN IT

OUT THESE FUCKING PERVERTS ALONG WITH EVERYONE WHO IS COVERING FOR THEM

ENOUGH ALREADY

[AZJonnie]

16. You should care if Bondi is 'caretaker' e.g. the one applying the filter for what is actually released

That is the rub here. If this were a REAL DoJ, and Dems were in charge of the House, I'd agree with you.

But not like this. I agree with the OP in the sense that it could end up hurting us more than helping us

[Skittles]

17. there are people who KNOW what is in those files

if they could have scrubbed THEY WOULD HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT

[AZJonnie]

25. Yes, but anyone with that knowledge + any inclination to ever 'go public' and say 'those aren't the files'

have already probably quit or been fired from DoJ. So any such person will basically be ignored, called 'disgruntled', etc.

Basically, in some way, they will just say "these aren't everything, some things must be protected and/or are sealed by judges" (which I'm certain much of it is), and then it doesn't much matter what "the people who know" have to say about the omissions, cause they never said "it's everything". That avenue is easily defanged and the credulous M$M will help them do so.

Betting that there's *any* chance this DoJ is going to release anything about this case that hurts Trump, or MAGA, is NOT a safe bet. I'd rather it was let lie until we have a Dem POTUS, an honest AG, and control the house. I realize your point is predicated on 'everything being released' and if I thought that could possibly happen, I'd agree. It absolutely will NOT with Trump and Bondi. They are masters at lying, and getting away with it.

[AZJonnie]

34. Do you see what I wrote overnight, just above?

And now today, Maureen Comey is fired. Perhaps the most likely to call out a potential Bondi bluff, because she knows what's in the files and she's probably not a huge Trumper. Now she'll be "the disgruntled daughter of disgraced James Comey" if she calls out inaccuracies.

This is why I'm reticent to have *these* people 'release the files'.

[orangecrush]

12. Welcome to DU

Interesting hypothesis.

[OC375]

13. Long Knives

Perhaps a good way to create space between him and some useful idiots who have reached the end of their shelf life?

[Silent Type]

15. I'm surprised it's a concern to MAGA, never was before. Like Pee Tape, we'll never know for sure but

trump is likely guilty of just about anything one might imagine.

[FakeNoose]

20. They think Bill and Hillary are in the Epstein files

That's why they want it all released. Chump made a campaign promise that he would release Epstein's evidence once he's back in the White House. Isn't it weird that he never said such a thing before, and he was president for 4 years?

[Prairie Gates]

18. This is an extremely bad and unconvincing take

[kennyperkins]

19. disagree

The Dems need to keep pushing Esptein and asking for it to be released.

[regnaD kciN]

22. If these had been "sanitized" so only Dems were on the list...

…wouldn’t Trump have released it as promised?

[valleyrogue]

23. It is a distraction.

If Trump's antics during J6 weren't enough to keep him out of the White House, the Epstein deal certainly won't force him out.

It is a complete waste of time thinking this will sink him.

[Cosmocat]

31. THIS - how many this is going to take him downs

do we have to go through for people to get it.

And, the country is more gaslit now than ever.

They absolutely would release THEIR version if it came to that, which won't have who they don't want in it and will have who the want to have in it - see Mueller Report.

But, either way, it won't take him down.

They will continue to firehouse bullshit, ginned up issues, scream Biden, Clinton, Obama and far left and three months from now this will be a butterfly fart in the wind.

[uncle ray]

24. if calling attention to oneself as a pedo is owning libs,

then call me owned.

[JT45242]

26. Johnson is an endtimer who wants chaos and Armageddon

Never forget that Maggot Mike, like his mike predecessors Pence and Pompeo actually wants the world to end to start the rapture.

This misguided hypocritical zealot wants to bring on his whacked out view if the revelation. He somehow does not realize that he is on the wrong side of the parable about judgement day and feeding the poor, taking care of the widow and orphan, etc.

He doesn't care if it blows up the party ...because deep down he wants to blow up the world with a huge WW3 that starts in the middle east. Preferably stemming from Israel/Palestine.

[MaineBlueBear]

28. No we need to Benghazi this

Keep it in the news cycle like we couldn't do with J6

[JustAnotherGen]

29. They never have to be released

We just need to use it as a Cultural Hammer on our opponents - the maga Pub voters.

Who are the pedo lovers now?

[BlueTsunami2018]

30. I've been saying "snipe hunt" for a long time.

It certainly banished everything else from the news. The outrage over the BBB was high on all sides before they decided to use this distraction. Now it’s as if it never happened.

Political assassinations? Gone.
Tariffs? Gone.
Hideous court rulings? Gone.

There are flight logs and all that but there’s no defined list of people who had sex on the island. And even if there was, that’s never coming out.

Snipe hunt.

[Scrivener7]

32. There is, as you say, no list. But we know from a few sources there were cameras in all the rooms in

all the houses, and there was a monitoring room at least in the NYC townhouse, so presumably also in the other houses.

There is no list. But there are videos. The FBI took some away in their raid of the NYC house. Presumably they did the same in the other locations.

We will probably never see them. But they exist, and they were used against the people in them.

[Blue Full Moon]

33. Trump said Hillary and Obama wrote them.

Always projecting, means scrubbing or writing a fake.

[B.See]

35. I believe thinking it's a trap, can be a trap of its own making.

I mean, one has to acknowledge that this thing has Trump & Co. frazzled. To the point where he's calling his own voters STUPID, (not that he's EVER thought otherwise of them), and first there is a list, then there isn't a list, and then Pammie has his royal pumba's permission to release 'credible' info for the non-existing list (notice how he keeps setting up the word 'credible').

Sure they'll either scrub the list, claim it's a fabrication of Democrats... i.e. their usual bullshit spin.

Doesn't mean we should 'forget about it' or let THEM forget about it. On the contrary. Run their faces in it.

Think we can manage to keep up with all the rest.