It Was the Epstein Shutdown All Along

[riversedge]

It Was the Epstein Shutdown All Along

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/it-was-the-epstein-shutdown-all-along/




By Marc Elias November 12, 2025





There was always something inexplicably strange about the recent government shutdown. From the beginning, it was crystal clear what Democrats wanted: lower health care costs, affordability and for a lawless president to start obeying the law.

But what about the Republicans? ........................



For House Speaker Mike Johnson, the shutdown was the perfect scapegoat, and keeping it alive was the only way for Trump and the House GOP to avoid a vote on releasing the Epstein Files — a vote Trump was nearly certain to lose. As Rep. Eric Swalwell told me, “We have shut down the government to protect Donald Trump and how close he is to the Epstein Files.”

Like many Democrats, I considered this theory as just that: a theory competing with other plausible explanations. Perhaps the GOP wanted to use the shutdown to fire government workers. Maybe Trump wanted to use the shutdown to weaken the Affordable Care Act. Maybe it was all just an effort to distract from high prices.

With the stunning release of new emails, we learned it probably was the Epstein Files all along. At a minimum, Epstein emails indicate that Trump was aware of some of what the convicted pedophile was up to, writing that Trump “knew about the girls.” There are other emails, but you get the gist.......................

[Lovie777]

1. Duh...............

shithole only cares about himself. The current administration and the republican party mission was to abide by his wishes ........

WHILE, stealing tax payers money, destroy the Department of Education, Medicare, Medicaid, SS, SSI, Snap, and Democracy.

[Blue Owl]

2. Krasnov was more than willing to let the entire nation suffer to save his own fat ass

Tell me again MAGA, why is this criminal pedophile so adored by you? Why?

He'd be the first person to throw you into the gutter yet you continue to keep him on some imaginary pedestal that only fuels his psychotic criminal narcissistic behavior.

[Clouds Passing]

3. Release The Double Duo Pimpstein Files

[Javaman]

4. I still maintain he was part of Epstein operation

And actively participated in trafficking the teens

[Susan Calvin]

5. Now if only this will finally be enough to sink them.

God only knows what's happened just so far should have been enough.