So now we get whatever Bondi decides we get.

[Miles Archer]

I'm sorry, I know it's super cool and all that 100% of the House and Senate voted for this except Clay Higgins, and I've also seen Bondi in action for the last 11 months.

We're going to get whatever she decides we're going to get.

And if Trump is 100% scrubbed from the files, he can say "SEE? I TOLD YOU I had nothing to hide."

Perhaps this should feel like a high-five moment to me. But I trust Bondi as far as I can throw her bottle blonde ass.

[RockRaven]

1. The story remains the cover-up. That much has not changed.

Congressional Repugs finally decided they don't want that smoke, and are letting Trump own it all.

[Miles Archer]

8. 100% correct, I am fully with you on that, and...

...if Bondi decides she's master of the universe and released scrubbed files, the world's going to cry "foul," and you will see leaks from other sources.

I am ALWAYS the FIRST ONE TO ADMIT IT when I'm wrong, and I don't think I am wrong on this.

I think Bondi's going to do a data dump that is 100% free of ANYTHING that even REMOTELY incriminates Trump.

[COL Mustard]

23. The Friday evening after Thanksgiving...

Would be the ideal time. No one is paying attention to news...Black Friday and Cyber Monday are coming!

[pat_k]

24. Yep. It's not a subpoena the DOJ can withhold docs from release by misapplying a rule or guideline. It is a LAW.

And failure to comply with this law is a CRIME.

A whole different ball of wax.

And I suspect the idiots don't yet appreciate the implications of the difference.

And of course, WAAAY too many people have seen what is in these files. They can try to classify the hell out of parts, but that will be challenged.

Nope. There is no putting this genie back in the bottle.

And whether it brings down the felon or not, it WILL be a scandal that sparks serious anger at people with vast wealth who believe they can get away with anything. And that anger won't just be directed at the people. It will be directed at the system that enabled them to accumulate obscene wealth. Wouldn't it be great if the Epstein scandal was one of the sparks that drives some serious reform?

[marble falls]

2. Miles. That information undidacted already exists. The Biden WH had it, for one. If it's been scrubbed it would be a ...

... loud admission of guilt.

[Ilikepurple]

5. Only to those who would believe a Biden era leaker.

It might be enough to put enough of his supporters over the edge, but I’m not so sure it would be taken as an admission of guilt as much as competing evidence.

[SamuelTheThird]

7. Why the fuck didn't Biden release it?

I think we can all figure out that answer...this isn't a one 'side' issue.

That said, whatever trump is guilty of, it goes beyond sex with underaged girls (not saying that isn't a huge crime itself). Epstein was adamant that trump was the worst person he knew. So, there are probably corpses in Trump's wake.

[marble falls]

13. Because it was part of an active criminal investigation of TACO. Releasing information during an investigation ...

... usually viewed as a bad thing.

Nixon almost caused a mistrial of Charlie Manson just by telling a press conference Manson was guilty.

[SamuelTheThird]

15. That would certainly make sense

But how do you know there was an active investigation of Epstein and Trump? I have not heard of that. What did I miss?

[Justice matters.]

27. Comey's daughter was leading the investigation in the SDNY.

She got Maxwell a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.

She was still investigating the pedophiles to whom Maxwell sent the victims to when piggy pedo the felon fired her a few weeks ago for revenge against her father.

[MichMan]

33. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 and sentenced in 2022

[Joinfortmill]

32. Thank you.

[Miles Archer]

9. I hear you.

All I can see is that scowling face. I don't trust her. Not one bit.

[COL Mustard]

29. I wonder what will be the misdirection.

I'm visiting family and Faux Snooze is on from morning till night. Their spin on this is amazing, and I'm sure their gnomes are up all night spinning new ways to mislead their viewers about it. Luckily it's on mute the whole time or I'd have to leave.

[Chasstev365]

3. Except for the 35 % brain dead MAGA, it simply will not be believable if they exonerate Trump.

Also, there are people outside of the administration who can prove it's bull shit.

I just wish there was a Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers leaker) who could preemptively leak the Epstein files complete with pictures and video.

To take Trump down, break Putin's (black mailing) hold on US foreign policy, save Ukrainians from a brutal war, and get justice for children who were as young as 13 at the time, going to jail might be worth it.

[Miles Archer]

11. I cannot for the life of me "do the math" on Trump and conclude that he didn't sample Epstein's "wares."

And if you read the accounts of their relationship, it was a competitive, infantile "frat bro" relationship. Worse than that, lower on the IQ scale, maybe "a couple of horny eight graders" is closer to it.

I DO BELIEVE Trump getting pissed off whenever he got "one upped" by Epstein.

But for Trump to witness what was going on and decide that his moral character was so sterling that he walked away in repulsion.

No way, Ray. No way.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. IOMD Redux

"It's on my desk."

[Deuxcents]

6. I think there is more than one copy out there .only one makes no sense for this issue.

[BlueKota]

12. If other people have copies of the originals

at least they can't be redacted without others calling them out on it.

[Deuxcents]

14. That's what I'm thinking and that will make a cover up even more interesting

[bluestarone]

10. So after she refuses to release them,

The house should vote for TSF to over ride her decision. HE says release them. HE has full power to do that. Also the senate should as well.

[BannonsLiver]

16. You can bet the corporate media will take whatever is released at face value.

While then portraying those who don’t buy into the lie nut bags. You can practically set your watch to this shit it’s so obvious what’s going to happen.

[viva la]

17. Is there any chance they can subpoena FBI agents?

Supposedly hundreds of them were taken away from real crime-fighting to redact all references to Trump.

[AverageOldGuy]

18. Agreed

I'm not celebrating a thing. Trump will skate on this one just as he has skated his entire life.

[Cirsium]

19. I'm still waiting for Fitzmas

Or was it Mueller time?

[Miles Archer]

20. I cited both of those, here, yesterday

We'll see what happens.

I also remember Bill Barr's 4-page "summary" of the Mueller report, which concluded that the ten instances of obstruction of justice documented in the report meant that there were no instances of obstruction of justice.

[Cirsium]

26. Worse

As bad as things were back then, I think they are much worse
now. I am not optimistic.

[Bev54]

21. It was always going to be. Did the fact the republicans all so eagerly voted for this not give a clue?

It certainly wasn't because they want the actual files released, it was because there was another wall behind them.

[Beartracks]

22. That's why i thought Trump suddenly "changed his tune": because the files got scrubbed...

... while waiting for Congress -- specifically while Johnson bought him time by keeping the House in recess and Grijalva unseated.

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[Raven123]

25. Bondi isn't gonna like it under that bus

[evilhime]

28. The cover up is always worse

I think he told them to vote for it because it was already scrubbed and shredded and sanitized and redacted… i would be surprised if there were millions of redactions in there, all republican names. I don’t care what side of the aisle you are on if you committed this crime of participation in child rape, abuse, sexual trafficking etc. you should be prosecuted to the fulllest extent of the law and deal with the consequences. The GQP preaches that the children are our future but do nothing to ensure they are educated, loved, cared for, protected. (Sorry for the rant)

[sagetea]

30. Same!

When have they ever done anything trustworthy?


sage

[blm]

31. Just like Bill Barr with the Mueller Report.