Trump - I would love DOJ to release the Epstein files, but it can't

[Jersey Devil]

It is so apparent to me what Trump is trying to do. By ordering an investigation by DOJ of Clinton et al. he is causing an investigation to be opened and during investigations it has always been DOJ policy not to release information to the public for any reason. It doesn't matter who or what DOJ investigates or what they find or don't find as long as there is an "open investigation".

This way, even if Congress votes by a veto proof majority for DOJ to release the files there is a legal pretext for Trump to veto the bill and for DOJ to refuse to obey it. It also gives Congress some cover for refusing to vote to release the files. Obviously, this was the result of a desperation scrum by Trump's lawyers.

On edit: The question I have is why doesn't the press see this obvious tactic for what it is, a bullshit scheme?

[marble falls]

1. Well then Orange Einstein, write another letter allowing it!

[Jersey Devil]

4. Trouble with Trump's scheme to create an "open investigation"

is that back in June DOJ wrote a letter formally closing their investigation and saying there was no evidence of third parties being involved in the crimes of Epstein/Maxwell.

[marble falls]

6. The trouble is now that the worms are starting to fall out of the can, he'll never be able to repack them ...

... and more and more will fall out. I think this is even bigger than we think!

[Mr.WeRP]

2. The media is bought and paid for. You cannot trust them to work

As the 4th estate.

[Frasier Balzov]

3. So the drumbeat will be winding down?

The blue wave is still building.

Flipping Congress to Democratic Party control will become an inevitability.

I'm confident that this does not and should not depend on Trump's Epstein connection.

Trump will continue to piss off voters in all his reprehensibly Trumpian ways.

Let no Republican run unopposed.

[Jersey Devil]

5. I don't wanna work, just wanna bang on the drum all day

Keep hammering him, agree.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

7. If he wants the Epstein files released,

then why did he desperately try to dissuade Mace and Boebert from signing the discharge petition?

The man just can't help himself from lying.

[Norbert]

8. Remember, he said he was under audit from the IRS in 2015.

That is a very long audit.

[gab13by13]

9. He fucking campaigned on releasing the files, he promised to release them

Pam Bondi had a photo-op on the steps of Congress with fake big thick pages that she said was the Epstein files.

[underpants]

10. That's a very good point. 👍

[mwmisses4289]

11. Would she do it if somebody points out to her

that participating in cover up in any way shape or form is illegal?
In one of my posts before this dump of 20,000+ documents came out, I said I didn't think he'd become enough of a liability to the shadowy powers that are really running our government. Well, now he has. So how will this play out?

[Jersey Devil]

13. I don't think it will work because Bondi was supposedly ready to release the files early this year

while the "investigation" was pending. She formally closed the Epstein case in May or June, way after she said the files were on her desk and waiting to be reviewed and the WH and DOJ made their fake showing of the "files" in their nice white binders (which turned out to be info previously made public).

But apparently this is the best scheme Trump's brilliant legal talent has been able to come up with (so far).

[W_HAMILTON]

12. The past year has shown that almost all of American mainstream media is fascist friendly.

We can't look to them to get us out of the problem they helped create.

[yellow dahlia]

14. The issue came up on MSNBC/Nicolle just now.

She had Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord talking about it.

[Jersey Devil]

15. What did they say?

Damn, I'd like to have seen that.

[yellow dahlia]

16. Basically that it is a subverting of the DOJ.

Pam Bondi has appointed a prosecutor to look into the Dems who interacted w/ Epstein, as instructed by the grifter. I'm not sure which of them specifically - Clinton, Reid Hoffmann?

You will probably be able to find the segment online, on MSNBC or on YouTube.