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womanofthehills

(11,032 posts)
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 05:08 PM Oct 2025

Rep Eric Swalwell - "Trumps movement/support is fading"

“”It’s coming to an end guys. I’ve spoken to a lot of House Republicans this week and they’ve confided that Trump’s movement/support is fading. As one told me, “this Epstein bomb is about to drop and no want wants to defend a pedo-protector. It’s just a matter of time.”“


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Swalwell. - “One Republican just texted me that if there’s a discharge vote on Epstein they expect a “jail break” of over 100 members. Trump will go nuts!”

(Hope he’s right - do you think he is referring to the Massie/Khanna bill for full disclosure of Epstein documents?)

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Rep Eric Swalwell - "Trumps movement/support is fading" (Original Post) womanofthehills Oct 2025 OP
depends on whether these files contain anything real msongs Oct 2025 #1
Sounds like Swalwell thinks they are womanofthehills Oct 2025 #2
To my mind, the fact that there might be many redactions indicates that: Paper Roses Oct 2025 #6
Ted Cruz said out loud that he wants to protect pedos Clouds Passing Oct 2025 #3
"over 100 members . . . " HBguy Oct 2025 #4
I will believe this when I see it. Too many rich and powerful men are on the Epstein list and it all goes back Botany Oct 2025 #5

Paper Roses

(7,634 posts)
6. To my mind, the fact that there might be many redactions indicates that:
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 06:33 PM
Oct 2025

There must be a heck of a lot of incriminating information about many of those on the list who are guilty as heck and are running scared.

HBguy

(8 posts)
4. "over 100 members . . . "
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 06:25 PM
Oct 2025

If there are really "over 100" Republican members of Congress who will vote to release the Epstein files, why doesn't one become the 218th member to sign the discharge petition so as to ensure that that vote happens? This would render this whole business about Johnson's refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva moot.

Botany

(77,852 posts)
5. I will believe this when I see it. Too many rich and powerful men are on the Epstein list and it all goes back
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 06:31 PM
Oct 2025

to the largest criminal organization ever. Putin, Musk, and others are involved in this shit from rigging
elections, to packing the courts, to Christo Fascist racism, the fossil fuel industries, to the killing of millions
by getting rid of USAID and the denial of medical climate science, to the billions if not trillions to be made on the scam called Crypto, to the use of racism, sexism, and anti-intellectualism to get about 35% of the
USA to vote against their own best interests time after time to child sex trafficking .. both boys and girls … Trump’s beauty contests and model try outs, girls who got involved with Epstein that are now missing, Kompromat, extortion, bribes, black mail, money laundering, bank fraud, disinformation/misinformation (Russian & MSM*) and God only knows what else. Trump is just useful idiot in this “shit show.” You don’t think that Putin, Musk, and Trump don’t know about Grindr Mike Johnson?

* in 2024 all we heard about was the price of eggs but it wasn’t until after the election that we heard
the 150 million or more chickens that were gone from Avian Influenza just like in 2016 we heard non
stop about Hillary’s emails.

Sorry to Botany =

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