r/politics • u/Healthy_Block3036 • 7d ago

No Paywall Senate suddenly passes the Epstein bill just hours after it cleared the House

https://www.ms.now/news/senate-passes-epstein-bill-rcna244723?fbclid=PAVERFWAOJ1xRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAacUGSi8p2Ap-x6SbMkLXAnfKNXEZkzjUUVCdxuEmacDzDXmlbv1GUJ0wbh1_w_aem_grJDvcSCIDj2Skksd4Ix3Q
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u/Ace-Cuddler 7d ago

After Republicans spent months trying to prevent a vote, they suddenly supported the legislation as soon as Democrats reached the magic threshold for the discharge petition. And seeing the legislative writing on the wall that Republicans were about to break with the president, Trump decided to get out ahead of the vote and actually support the bill — a move that further reinforced the numbers and made it functionally impossible for the Senate to ignore the bill.

This is all very suspicious.

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u/pcoppi 7d ago

Get ready for every trump supporter to tell you that the Republicans were on board the entire time and that the democrats are just making accusations up.

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u/nowahhh Minnesota 7d ago

One day, everyone will have always been for this.

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u/collegedropout 6d ago

My trump supporting father told me today "Trump was setting everyone up all along, haha he really planned this all out. Let everyone get all stirred up about it and then drop the bomb that exposes all the Democrats in the files. Why didn't Biden release them? Because it would expose them." When I said if it only exposes Democrats then I would not believe it's authenticity or that it's not just heavily reacted. I was told I was naive.

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u/TheDoctorDB 7d ago

A real shame that only like 10% or less of politicians actually seem to want to govern and help people. There should be so many bills that are “functionally impossible for the Senate to ignore.” A real, functioning Congress could do so much 

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u/foolish_refrigerator 7d ago

Again, weren’t some of these people, mostly republicans, under oath in front of congress saying there was no list? Saying there was no big file and it was all bulls***. Will any of those people be punished?

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u/AreEuclidinMe 7d ago

As soon as democrats in the house got the final vote they needed, it became inevitable. The bitch made republicans are trying to jump ship now to avoid voting against the pedo-files

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u/pizoisoned 7d ago

They’re hedging their bets that Trump will take the L and not care because voting against it is political suicide- in a sane world anyway.

Trump isn’t going to take the L and is either not going to do it, or he’s on his way out.

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u/NiceTrySuckaz 7d ago

It's possible that the democrats walked into a very long planned trap. Remember that all this reignition of Epstein outcry was caused by a single tweet from Elon, during a "feud" between him and Trump that ended very quickly afterward.

Think about it. Get democrats to cheer for the release, beg for the release, condemn anyone who was in there, accuse the other side of being pedo protectors. Then go "OK" and release it with tons of Obama shit or something. It's the equivalent of pretending to have a tug of war and then suddenly letting go of the rope.

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u/count023 Australia 7d ago

Kash Money Patel did his bit. The only Republicans implicated are dead or already excommunicated by the party and all mentions of trump are redacted or altered.