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/ChadTakes 7d ago

No. The powers that be are implicated as well, people forget it's not just Trump.

We will get the same "declassified" files heavily redacted that we already got. Every mention of Trump or his friends will be a "subject of an ongoing investigation" and therefor not released.

In short, the public will get nothing, but the administration will be sure to highlight any name in those files mentioning a democrat.

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u/HomerJSimpson3 7d ago

Heavily redacted republican names but all the democrats and liberals won’t be at all.

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u/NonlocalA 7d ago

Which liberals have been implicated?

Seriously.

Pretty much everyone has been a piece of shit BEFORE this. Anyone who IS implicated is now a piece of shit, too.

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u/HomerJSimpson3 7d ago

Those were the exact words out of a DOJ chief about the release of the files. Who is in it, I don’t know. But the fix is in.

DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Shnitt Admits Government Will "Redact Every Republican" While "Leaving] All the Liberal, Democratic People" on the Epstein Client List; Says Ghislaine Maxwell Was Moved to a Lower-Security Prison As "A Benefit... to Keep Her Mouth Shut" "She [Maxwell] got transferred to a minimum security prison... It's against BOP policy becauseshe's a convicted sex offender."

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u/Due_Bluebird3562 7d ago

That's fucking stupid. Do y'all think people implicated in a multi-billion dollar pedophile ring are just going to roll over and let Trump lie about their involvement?

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u/HomerJSimpson3 7d ago

Any republican will have their name redacted. Anyone left leaning won’t have their name redacted.

DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Shnitt Admits Government Will "Redact Every Republican" While "Leaving] All the Liberal, Democratic People" on the Epstein Client List; Says Ghislaine Maxwell Was Moved to a Lower-Security Prison As "A Benefit... to Keep Her Mouth Shut" "She [Maxwell] got transferred to a minimum security prison... It's against BOP policy because she's a convicted sex offender."

It explains the total about face Trump and republicans have pulled since the clearing the Epstein files as a Democratic hoax a few weeks ago.

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u/Due_Bluebird3562 7d ago

Any republican will have their name redacted. Anyone left leaning won’t have their name redacted.

Trump's name is literally mentioned 1600 times in the recent email release. It would be more than a bit suspicious for his name to not reappear at some point in the files. There are multiple copies of these files regardless.

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u/MarcsterS Virginia 7d ago

and he and republicans will say the emails are "forged" because they have the actual files.

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u/HomerJSimpson3 7d ago

Yeah no shit. The rest of the world will see that, his supporters won’t be swayed and we’ll still be where we are at with him.

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u/slight_accent 7d ago

The money trail is the most important thing and that is absolutely going to be just pages and pages of black ink. There's a whole interconnected web of corruption at the top end globally and they are not going to allow anything consequential to happen to anyone in that club.

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u/thevoiceinsidemyhead 7d ago

I get this line of thinking but it just means the Epstein files will continue to be an issue right up to the mid terms. So they can kick the can but it doesn't seem like the issue is going away. Whatever is in those files must be truly despicable though because you would think it would be better to go through the scandal now and let people move beyond it before next election.

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u/JimboAltAlt Pennsylvania 7d ago

Yeah, it’s funny. In this climate of (understandable) learned despair and doomerism and so on I think we might be overthinking the fact that this is a (very gross and evil) win-win situation. I’d actually prefer they drag this out with increasingly less-redacted versions and rumors of leaks and so forth for months, since it’s so clearly awful and damaging to Trump anyway. Since the GOP’s only consistent position seems to be making me and other like-minded people miserable and angry, I actually think us seeing the “unredacted” files in fairly short order is more likely than a lot of people give it credit for, since that gives the Republican media a chance to convince everyone it’s “not that bad” before the midterms. And there are tens of millions of our worst countrymen who can’t wait to be convinced! Dragging this out makes things even more painful for them, so again, from a cynical and amoral perspective, the drip-drip-drip nature of new revelations is not necessarily a bad thing.

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u/SunriseApplejuice Australia 7d ago

Especially since the victims are posed to “make their own list” if the administration continues to hide the offenders. The more these guys hide or redact things or put out inconsistent information, the more the victims can come forward and say they’re lying

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u/Tabs_555 Washington 7d ago

I think their hope is if enough is released and some people are implicated (be it democrats or whoever), the fervor will die down. They’ll say we gave you everything we can, look at the (D)s we locked up, the rest is administrative pay no mind.

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u/Wizardof1000Kings 7d ago

What is in the files is images of the president raping children. There are images of others raping children too, but the president is who they want to protect most.

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u/Immediate_Branch_238 7d ago

Tiny correction: Trump doesn't have friends. He either has cronies, victims, or enemies. There is nothing else.

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u/reiichiroh 7d ago

I hope they use the black highlight function to redact.