This has become a joke. First, there were no Epstein “files”. Then Kash Patel and others in the GOP camp and various podcasters demanded that the Dems “put on their big boy pants and tell us who the pedophiles are”. Then Patel went silent and denied that he had reviewed the files and there was nothing in the files. Then Pam Bondi (US Attorney General) had them on her desk but–despite the potential resounding impact–hadn’t got around to looking at them. Then Bondi said there was nothing significant in the files but she assigned hundreds of FBI agents to their review and supposedly the redacting of every Trump name reference. This process required 3 to 4 weeks and the FBI viewing of thousands of pages.
- Fast forward to today…after delaying the 218th vote by shutting down the House of Representatives for several weeks and claiming the newly elected Arizona Representative could not be sworn in during the unplanned recess, Speaker Mike Johnson (who was being sued for his failure to swear her in) relented and the vote in the House to release the Epstein non-existent, non-relevant, redacted files will be conducted today. Trump has announced he has nothing to hide. Translation: after the file redactions and possibly other “cleansing” techniques, there will be NO MENTION of Donald Trump in the Epstein files.
- THE FUTURE: Trump will say loud and clear “I TOLD YOU SO, IT WAS A DEMOCRAT HOAX ALL ALONG”. Or, because an active investigation is now in process, the Attorney General will refuse to disclose the Epstein files until that investigation is concluded…delay, delay, delay.
BYPLAY: now that the files cannot implicate Trump, his GOP sycophants will jump on the bandwagon and demand the Epstein file release. Trump is now on record as willing to sign the order to release when it hits his desk. So all that has happened is that Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, Stephen Miller and the FBI have strategized their way out of danger. The narrative now says Trump is willing to release the files and the GOP is in favor of full transparency…now that the files have been scrubbed.
BOTTOM LINE: The Epstein file debacle is just another in the long line of legal side steps that Trump and his cronies have successfully engineered to avoid telling the truth and paying for their crimes. Do not expect the Epstein files to produce bombshell info. Do not expect the victims to get justice. Do not expect the Dem lawmakers to celebrate a win. The truth will remain hidden just as all of Trump’s other crimes. The question will always be” “Is the President of the United States a child sex predator?” And the answer is we’ll never know. Another Trump criminal investigation that dies on the vine.
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