Don't you think it's weird that the con is putting in more effort to stop the release of the Epstein files than he is

[Quiet Em]

in ending the shutdown?

[Sneederbunk]

1. Me (TSF) more important than hunger.

[Clouds Passing]

2. Nope, because he's a pimp.

[usonian]

3. It is likely when his role in the Trump/Epstein blackmail empire is revealed, he is finished, along with many others.

See
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220735608

Blackmail depends on secrecy. When that is gone, his blackmail empire falls apart.
• No more gigantic money flow from blackmail victims.
• No more control over blackmail victims (who may be kings, heads of state, S****** Court Justices, and countless benefactors and heads of giant businesses.
• And those people will also fall.

Done. All of it gone. Whatever he hasn't already stashed in Argentina or Saudi.

[11 Bravo]

4. Not in the least.

Trump can't run again, so he doesn't give a flying fuck about any harm the shutdown might cause to the GOP.
The Epstein files, on the other hand, could send his saggy, cellulite-ridden ass to prison.

[UTUSN]

5. He puts in more effort in: Ballroom, arch, outhouse, golf, tweeting, DJ-ing, yakking

than in anything public service.