Republican lawmakers have warned President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi that withholding any documents relating to the Jeffrey Epstein case “would add fuel to the fire.”
The warning comes as Trump caved to pressure and signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act Wednesday evening, while Bondi fumbled her way through questions on how the Justice Department would proceed now that it has 30 days to release the files.
Bondi has changed her stance on the matter a number of times this year, prompting fierce criticism from the MAGA base and beyond.
There are concerns from both sides of the aisle that she could cite the ongoing investigation into Epstein’s ties to Democratic associates, ordered by Trump last week, as a reason to withhold the files.
“You can adjust for whatever investigations are going on but if you do a blanket hold, I think that they’re going to have a lot of people angry,” GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina told The Hill.
The bill left them exceptions for ‘national security’ and ‘protecting the identities of innocent people’.
They’re going to redact the shit out of them.
There will be a big fat Trump sized hole in the Epstein files I guarantee it
Also every other Republican in it sized holes.
That is their last chance to hide the files. Do you really think they care about making people angry?
…or they will be severely scorned and admonished. And if they continue causing trouble after the scorned admonishing, they will be summarily SLAMED.
Anything after the initial SLAMming, will result in additional SLAMS.
Probably a meltdown or two
Or else what?
They all know what it says. They’re done covering up for him to save their seat from a primary. The whole team flipped, so they all have cover from his response. They’re not going down as a whole party for the sake of this guy’s ego. For the first time. This is a big change publicly, but im sure that a majority have just been waiting for the page to turn on this guy’s popularity.
Political wind socks.
I call bullshit on this. Call me when they vote to impeach him. Until then this is just more of the same shenanigans.
I think you have misunderstood me. Impeaching him wouldn’t help them keep their seat. The Epstein issue polls different.
Exactly. Even they don’t know. Democrats rely on threats of accountability but have little ability to hold anyone accountable.
Good choice of photo, Independent editor.
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Lmao, it was too small on my browser to catch that. That’s a good pic to have on standby.
That’s not a vagina. It’s called a vulva.
Only if you’re an anatomy textbook.
Not really. That’s just what it’s called.
Do you know what the word “colloquial” means?
JFC, 100% perving… Probably creamed his diaper.
Or he fell asleep standing up?
BS, his eyes are open. He’s squinting to look at her ass, etc.
Ah, he’s got the super squint.
“You can adjust for whatever investigations are going on
So in other words, they’re STILL not serious about transparency, knowing full well that those investigations are political theater to distract the base.
Turns out that in the bill there is apparently a part that specifies any material withheld for investigative purposes needs a non redacted summary delivered in its place. So the authors seem to have some checks in place for shenanigans
non redacted summary
That’s nonsense. By virtue of being a summary, it’s going to exclude things at the discretion of the summarizer.
Bill Barr’s proclamation that the Mueller report exonerated Trump was a summary. I’m not expecting any summary by Bondi or her underlings to be any more accurate or transparent.
There is no way that any documents that show trumps name will released underacted or even better… just not released at all.
maga definitely will try to hide them but there are so many docs and maga staff are so mediocre, it’s almost impossible they will not miss some
This regime isn’t even capable of holding anyone accountable for sex crimes. They’re not worried.
I’m wondering if the DOJ is covering up this crap and an official is leaking it unedited. Would that official be committing a crime? I’m serious; I have no idea what the applicable laws would be.
Oh they’re gonna
wink wink.
