Another possible explanation of why Trump is now supporting the release of the Epstein Files:

[Chasstev365]

AG Bondi (giving cover yet again) is going to state the DOJ is investigating Democrats, so the files can't be released. (DOJ policy, not law).

Trump will say, "I told them to go ahead and release it, so I am not covering anything up and support transparency.

BULL SHIT!

[JBTaurus83]

1. I believe this

Is the answer. That will not make it go away.

[chicoescuela]

2. Plausible

[berniesandersmittens]

3. They'll say he was an FBI informant

Working undercover to bring down his bestie.

[ananda]

54. And thus makes it classified.

Uh huh.

[Justice matters.]

62. And he didn't "bark" ...

Although ALL dogs behave a lot better than lil kingpin pedo the felon ever did.

[Callie1979]

70. Oh, thats already BEEN all over FB & Twitter. For quite some time. "He's trapped them!"

To a lot of these idiots, Trump could be swinging from a rope & they'd say "The Dems never saw THIS coming! He's got them right where he wants them!"

[Timewas]

4. Or

He got word that they were finally done editing them.

[mitch96]

40. Yup, they prolly doctored up thee "files" to take out rump of it. Someone Somewhere has an original copy..nt

[Safe as Milk]

46. IMO, there are copies of everything. MANY COPIES. Epstein's lawyers aren't stupid.

Remember that the files came from Epstein's estate. They have been releasing selected files for some time. The estate will provide a backdrop of accuracy that the DOJ can't delete. So if they alter or destroy evidence, the estate will counter that action. IOW, deleting or altering the files will end up being a bigger headache for Diddling Donny. Epstein's lawyers know that they're dealing with Donny, a career criminal and consummate liar. So they protected the estate by spreading copies of their files in many secure locations.

[Tribetime]

5. I believe you're exactly right and that is why the information is going to

Need to come out from the victims.And from the epstein estate , do not let up. We need to take back the congress and do investigations After that and hold them accountable

[lostincalifornia]

6. Maybe, but I think it is more likely that they have insuured that the Senate will never pass it because they won't have

enough votes to break a filibuster, and that will be the excuse the sociopath will use.

[Strelnikov_]

8. Yea. The orange one saw how things were going

in the house, so decided to support it so he did not appear to suffer a loss. All knowing that the Senate, as you address, and the Bondi lawfare gambit have him backstopped.

[lostincalifornia]

72. You are right.

[CanonRay]

7. Bingo.

I thought this as soon as I heard about the "investigation".

[FarPoint]

9. It is my understanding that others have digital copies..

Several off shore oligarchy types have copies of the full facts of the Epstein files.... I think the Congressional copies will get release but sense they will be leaving out lots of clients including tRumpy 's criminal connections...

Then, once Congress lets them loose...oh Lordy the off shore copies unchanged will be release...showing how there has been as cover up in the corrupt administration...

Buckle up...the truth shall be good for those who wait.

[FakeNoose]

20. Yes Alan Dershowitz says he's got the Epstein documents

Why doesn't he leak them anonymously? I'm ready for it!
Any leaker will do ... even Dershowitz.

[ashredux]

22. He was at the island....he got a massage....

He claims he kept his underwear on however….LOL.

He is guilty as hell!

[Wiz Imp]

23. Dershowitz is as big a liar as Epstein.

I don't believe for a second that he is telling the truth.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

56. Somehow...

I just don't trust Alan Dershowitz. 🤨🤨

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

60. Why not? Because he wants to keep breathing for a few more years...

... eom.

[The Butler]

37. I'm confused

Doesn't Trump's DOJ have the Files? They have had plenty of time to DOCTOR(revise) those files. Trump could say all other unoffical copies are: bogus, a hoax, or AI created. How many people have seen the files? Is there any chance the American public will ever see the REAL Epstein files?

[purr-rat beauty]

10. Quite possible, don't give em any ideas!

Also...we needto hear from speaker dickhead, i mean Johnson as to why he said trump was an informant

[YodaMom2]

44. Maybe Moses Mike misspoke and meant to say "rat", not informant.

Rumor has it that Epstein was pretty heated after tRump went behind his back and bought that FL mansion he’d told tRump he was planning to buy (and then turned around and sold it to a Russian oligarch for more than double what he paid - tens of MILLIONS more - and then said oligarch had it bulldozed to the ground to complete the money laundering cycle). After that, Epstein said some very critical things to and about Little Baby Thunderpants and his duplicity, and this hurt Baby’s fragile feefees. And if you hurt Baby’s feefees - even if he totally deserves the criticism - he goes nuclear.

In this case, nuclear means dropping a dime on Epstein about his trafficking operations. Epstein himself believed it was tRump who ratted him out.

[Safe as Milk]

47. Who benefited most from Epstein's death?

He couldn't leap from a 4th story window.

[NJCher]

49. didn't he say that a long time ago?

and then backed off on it very shortly afterward, when he saw the ridicule that it received?

[MorbidButterflyTat]

58. All the more reason to make him cough it up

Why did he say it in the first place?

Dirty creepy porn sharing with son creep!

[Hugin]

11. Trump always plays every number on the wheel.

Always. He can’t stand losing.

When the wheel stops he hollers and stamps his tiny porcine swollen hooves about how he won. Ignoring and stiffing all of the other bets he made on the spin. He’s successfully used this strategy to bankrupt casinos, cities, a superpower, and soon the world, if he’s allowed to.

Of course, this strategy only works if you are “the house”.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

59. "...tiny porcine swollen hooves..."

[RoeVWade]

12. Reason I don't believe this will happen, is Republicans won't be able to survive more sleight of hand tricks.

I think their limit is reached.

We'll see. Hopefully I won't have to eat crow.

[Mtnmama]

17. I hope you're right!

In this day of up is down, left is right, and fact is fiction, nothing is certain.

[Escape]

13. I would appreciate a clearer explanation..

of what the DOJ Epstein Files are, in comparison to the Epstein Estate files that have already been released.

Who researched, organized and produced the government files? Did it begin in past administrations? Or are we just going to see Trump's DOJ work?

Anybody know the details?

[drray23]

16. they are the product of many agencies

For example, transcripts of FBI interviews with those involved during the Epstein investigation and Maxwell investigation and trial. Copies of videos, pictures, etc.. that was discovered during these investigations, testimonies from victims, etc..

That is why I think it is unlikely Trump and his goons will be able to doctor it. Too many documents that can be cross-checked with other sources (victims that are still alive, former prosecutors and investigators, Epstein estate , etc..)

[allegorical oracle]

31. That's why I hope the case's prosecutor, Maureen Comey, has a security detail. She

knows the intricacies of this case better than anyone. If files disappeared, she might be useful in identifying that fact and which ones.

[Nasruddin]

34. They've had plenty of time

"I think it is unlikely Trump and his goons will be able to doctor it"
They've had months, and probably large teams working on this.
If they were competent they have this in the bag. You'd think the results really were painted by Leonardo.

I know that's a great big IF for this bunch.

[drray23]

36. Again, they do not control all the sources

For example, the Epstein Estate. Witnesses can also come forward and make statements.

[NJCher]

51. large team

doesn't matter if none of them can think their way out of a paper bag. We've seen over and over and over again how these people (republicans) fail to anticipate. Think things through. What could be the possible results of their actions?

Time after time they step on the rake handle and get smacked in the head.

[Escape]

63. Thanks!

[bluestarone]

14. This DOJ. is so far up tRUMPS ass that they will do anything he tells them to do.

By that i mean, IF he says the DOJ cannot release the files because of an ongoing investigation, i say BULLSHIT. He could ORDER them to release them NOW!

[surfered]

15. He knows he would lose the House vote.

Maybe he thinks he can pressure 41 Senators to vote against it in the Senate.

[RoeVWade]

18. Trump may have something up his sleeve, but it's pretty disgusting if he has people advising him on this

But that wouldn't surprise me. I don't really want to insult snakes, but a lot of slithering lowlifes in this administration.

[Turbineguy]

19. Suddenly, the DOJ becomes independent......

and doesn't release the files.

[Emile]

21. Exactly what's going to happen.

[Wiz Imp]

24. Trump is NOT "supporting" releasing the Epstein files.

If he supported releasing the files, he would just go ahead and release them. The discharge petition/legislation exists only because he refuses to release them on his own. He has full authority to telease them completely on his own at any time. He's telling people to vote for it because he knows it's going to pass and he can't stand to be on the losing side of something. If he really was ok with the files being released, he wouldn't have brought Lauren Boebert into THE SITUATION ROOM! to pressure her to remove her signature. Nor would he have rescinded his support for Marjorie Taylor Greene less 24 hours earlier because of her position on this.

[Rebl2]

25. My husband

mentioned to me this morning that other countries have those files and if the US doesn’t release them, the other countries will. Don’t know where he read or heard that though.

[Chasstev365]

30. Then why the hell didn't they release it BEFORE the 2024 Election?

[Rebl2]

52. Good question

Why hasn’t United Kingdom released them? They seem to know the Kings brother was involved and I bet they know a lot more about the people involved.

[patphil]

26. I think you're right. Sounds like something he'd do.

[Dave says]

27. Must be thoroughly scrubbed

Scrubbed of all things Tr@mp if T is saying release it.

[LilElf70]

28. My take on the bullshit

They've now had plenty of time to review the docs with a fine toothed comb.

Unless they were previously marked with an ID, so they can identify missing material, they would then have the freedom to cover it all up by destroying the good stuff.

I'm guessing that Trump was finally given the OK to proceed once the data was destroyed.

Makes perfect sense to me.

[Ocelot II]

29. It's a charade. He could have the files released right now by his own order.

He's buying time. The discharge petition just allows the House to vote on it, then send it to the Senate for a vote, and then to him, and then he can veto it for any reason he might blow out his ass at the time. Maybe the veto could be overridden, but while the process plays out he can buy time to throw out enough chaff or squid ink or wars in Venezuela or whatever to try to make the scandal fade away. I don't think the files will be destroyed because by there is already too much stuff in too many different places, stored on paper and electronically. If they do disappear that would be as big a scandal as the file contents themselves (see also Nixon's 18-1/2 Minutes).

[walkingman]

33. Exactly - he could release them today without any approval. I suspect he is not beyond

starting a war just to distract and change the conversation. The man is disgusting, everyone knows it, and the cult of men and women in America seem to lap it up....still.

[Wednesdays]

48. If it passes the House and the Senate, he'd just give it a "pocket veto."

That buys him even more time.

[CousinIT]

32. That or, he ordered the files redacted of his and all other GOP names..

....and left Dem names in there - one operative said they'd do that. Plus, they may even add Dem names where they weren't.

Would you put it past them? I wouldn't.

[republianmushroom]

35. Yup, watch it happen.

Like it tax investigation.

[Historic NY]

38. They will say that they can't release the files because they are now under review for the investigation of Democrats.

[spanone]

39. His magats are stupid enough to believe this bullshit.

[groundloop]

41. He got word that the scrubbing has been completed..... what's released will show NOTHING.

[Wednesdays]

50. Won't need to scrub anything that won't be released.

In spite of the House vote, we're still a LONG way from the files being released.

Still has to survive a Senate vote.
Still has to survive TSF's veto.
Still has to get 2/3 of the House to override.
Still has to get 2/3 of the Senate to override.
Even THEN, has to survive multiple lawsuits.

[azureblue]

42. He's figured out a way

to sandbag / corrupt the process..

[D_Master81]

43. This or...

I see so many people on here and Facebook saying that they’ve got Trump’s name redacted outta the files enough now so he’s in favor of it. But I’m inclined to think that’s not the case. I would imagine that there’s too many people that have seen the files that would know if they’ve been doctored. For me I think it’s the OP’s theory or that he’s been told by key Republicans that the votes are there to release them anyhow so he needs to look like he’s still in charge of the party.

[Roc2020]

45. maybe so

But if they release the files with heavy redaction....then Epstein and the files stay in the news...and hopefully the Dems will push to make Epstein stay in the news until the midterms. Find a way to get his name in the news the next 350 days or so.

[hkp11]

53. maybe another reason...

Kraskov will probably start a war with Venezuala before any release of files, so it will be pushed off and people will be talking about other things like a war...

[Justice matters.]

66. Again, lil kingpin pedo the felon promised "no. new. wars" to his gullible morons

same about releasing the pedo files full of his T name

same about ending the Ukraine vs Russia war in 24 hours

same about reducing the price of gross series on Day 1

he's not delivering any

mmm you may be right he will say "no boots on the ground"

only tom-a-hawks...

[C_U_L8R]

55. Trump has never done a decent thing in his life

I wouldn’t expect him to start. He must be working some angle to evade justice for his involvement at the center of a child sex ring.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

57. Yep...

... and the Senate has to approve what comes out of the House. So the chances of the DOJ version of the files being released are slim to none, at least for the foreseeable future. And isn't that what Der Dingleberry wants?

[choie]

61. Absolutely no doubt of this.

[IbogaProject]

64. Congress should call dibbs as the measure to release them predates this recent "investigation"

[AdamGG]

65. Are there external records of all the files that are involved?

Like have Democratic members of Congress been able to see everything that there is? My question is whether Kash Patel or another psychophant (spelling intentional) would have the ability to disappear some incriminating documents without there being a record of their doing that.

[iemanja]

67. Bondi has scrubbed the files.

Count on it.

[evilhime]

68. Or the party

for shredding and redacting is finished with their work

[AncientOfDays]

69. Immunology

He figures the "everybody does it" defense - which lessens the negatives against himself, and let's him claim any adverse action against him is a "witch hunt"

Then he orders Bondi to prosecute a few Dems, but deliberately botches the prosecution so they walk free or just a tap on the wrist - which he can then claim as precedence - no prosecution for him either.

[OhioTim]

71. Trump Saw He Was Going To See

possibly dozens of Republican defections and like any good dictator, couldn't have that sign of weakness occur. If they vote against him him now-what's next. So he changed his mind and will just have his justice department scrub or redact the bad parts.