The intrigue: The “Rule of Five” law allows any five members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to request federal agencies to provide information about “any matter within the jurisdiction of the committee.”

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    one possibility is people who have been ensconced in MAGA, entirely because they think every Democrat eats babies, will have their reality shattered by the completely obvious and well documented fact that Trump is a pedophile, and not even just A pedophile but THE pedophile, the final boss of 1990s human trafficking and serial rape.

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      I don’t have much faith they’ll care. A big part of their ideology is hurting women and children. It’s already well known he’s a rapist, he’s said as much himself. They famously don’t care about truth. I think absolutely damning evidence will come out, and they’ll move forward without much fuss.

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        This. They’ll scramble for a few days until Fox News gets the narrative ready for spoon-feeding, then calling him a pedophile will be dismissed as another facet of “orange man bad”.

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        Anecdotally I have seen evidence of Trump supporters in my own life who have fallen off their love of him. Mostly though it’s because their own lives have not improved. They aren’t hardcore magas just people who don’t know any better, are not smart, kind of racist, or just sucked into whatever rabbit hole they’ve found.

        I doubt it’ll change much what’s presented in media and functionally who’s voting for him/others like him. But it’s been nice not to hear people praise him day to day in my own life.

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      people who have been ensconced in MAGA, entirely because they think every Democrat eats babies, will have their reality shattered

      Hard to have your reality shattered when you weren’t living in reality to begin with.

      You’ve got a clutch of hooting, screaming podcaster apes who have been flogging Epstein as the Rosetta Stone of a dozen different conspiracy theories. They were supposed to dine out on Pam Bondi dripping “Breaking! New Epstein Things! Rosie O’Donald and Greta Thunberg definitely in the same state as Jeffrey during peak pedophilia era!”

      Instead, Trump just puts the kabosh on the whole thing, barely a month after Bondi teases a whole string of info dumps.

      If you can jangle a different set of keys in their faces, they’ll come back around. Trump’s just not willing to do that because he’s gone into his “bored of being President” phase.