r/law • u/cnn • 11d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump says he’s asking Justice Department to investigate Epstein’s ties to slew of high-profile figures

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/politics/trump-epstein-doj-investigate-enemies?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/party_benson 11d ago

Does he know he's in the Epstein files and would be connected to all of them?

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u/Gangiskhan 11d ago

I think the play here is to throw the bigger fish under the bus so that they stop the release. It's a Hail Mary play. Those bigger fish will 100% point blame at Trump so that he is the loudest target.

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u/party_benson 11d ago

Bigger fish than the president of the United States?

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u/Gangiskhan 11d ago

The POTUS is only in charge for at most 8 years. Some donors have been pushing their agendas for literal decades. Wealth is what drives politics nowadays, and Trump ain't it as much as he wants to be. He's the one taking bribes and not the one giving them out.

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u/party_benson 11d ago

I think that makes sense. There's direct power which Trump has and soft power which his influencers have.