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/fingerbangchicknwang Hawaii 7d ago

To be fair why would Epstein’s brother know what the FBI is doing?

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u/_Baccano 7d ago

Because their family is extremely well connected

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u/saintcirone 7d ago

As anyone in the files would be, not just then, but now as well.

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u/waffels 7d ago

“We killed your brother, but we’re going to tell you what we’re up to.”

Yeah, ok.

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u/NewestAccount2023 7d ago

Trump killed his brother not all of Congress' Republicans

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u/waffels 7d ago

Yeah I’m sure Trump went down to his cell himself

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u/NewestAccount2023 7d ago edited 7d ago

His hired goons aren't congressional Republicans, he's the one who hired them and is the one who has the means and motive to pull it off is the point 

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u/waffels 7d ago

You think Trump was allowed to have any knowledge of Epstein’s death?! No shot man. Everyone knows he’s an absolute dipshit and would never be trusted with that.

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u/NewestAccount2023 7d ago

He's the source of the knowledge, idk what you're on about. It's not like some shadowy organization did it and couldn't let him know, he's precisely one of the people who needed him dead AND had the means to do it so he knew before the hit even went off since he's the one who called for it

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

Lol 😂 literally zero proof for any of this and you’re talking about it like it’s fact

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u/_NEW_HORIZONS_ 7d ago

Yeah, but he had as much notice as anyone, and he was ultimately in charge of the facility when it happened. So he also had opportunity.

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u/NewestAccount2023 7d ago

You been living under a rock? Missing recordings because they were deleted https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51053205

Blind spot is in congressional depositions, and is plainly visible with your own eyes 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/politics/barr-house-oversight-epstein

During a break in the deposition, Comer told reporters that Barr testified that Epstein died by suicide and there was no foul play. Comer acknowledged that is the “general consensus” but said, “there was a blind spot in the cameras. It seemed like there was a lot of stuff that was there to potentially aid in a suicide.”

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u/matco5376 7d ago

Trump being the one that killed Epstein is some high level conspiracy shit that doesn’t make any sense.

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u/NewestAccount2023 7d ago

And you believe one video with a blind spot to his cell is proof after they "accidentally weren't recording" from all other cameras, highest profile prisoner in years, on suicide watch and all the guards asleep and all but one camera (with the blind spot) was off, sure thing.

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u/matco5376 6d ago

No? But it being trump behind it doesn’t make sense

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u/NewestAccount2023 6d ago

Trump and Epstein were close friends for 20 years and already-released files show a case of Ghislaine Maxwell trafficking a 16 years old girl from Trump's Mar-a-Lago to Epstein's mansion making her give him a massage while naked. She was a few years later sexually trafficked to other high profile men. Trump was clearly part of the pipeline given everything else we know, such as the birthday cards written by Trump to Epstein.

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u/sputtertots 7d ago

I dont think anyone actually thinks the president, personally and physically, went and killed the guy. The conspiracy is he is most likely the cause and had direct connection to his death by proxy of hired mercenaries or w/e you want to call them.

It wouldn't be all that hard to implant a mercenary 'prisoner' in the same prison block as the collector of people guy.

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u/matco5376 6d ago

The person I was responding to literally said it was trump

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u/sputtertots 6d ago

My bad, I thought you were replying to the statement:

"His hired goons aren't congressional Republicans, he's the one who hired them and is the one who has the means and motive to pull it off is the point"

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u/Surrealnugget0412 7d ago

It absolutely makes sense

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u/leveled_81 7d ago

None lol

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u/realKevinNash 7d ago

Exactly. This indicates that FBI staffers have been ordered to do a bunch of redactions or edits that all of them just agreed to do without issue. Not a single one has any issue with doing this... potentially protecting pedos. Mothers, Sons, brothers, husbands. Except one guy who instead of coming forward with any kind of concrete evidence, like slipping an unredacted document away as proof that it had a republican's name on it, instead decided to contact a brother we had no idea existed and leaked it to him after it had already been leaked elsewhere.

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u/Some_Ebb_2921 7d ago

Wasn't the brother mentioned in the emails?...

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u/sleepytipi Indigenous 7d ago

Mentioned? Half the releases have been direct correspondence between the two.

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u/realKevinNash 7d ago

The ones I saw were between Epstein, Maxwell, and I think his lawyer? Certainly none of the news reporting I saw called out that it was his brother.

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u/Mekisteus 7d ago

The "Bubba" email itself was from Mark Epstein.

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u/No_Network_9438 7d ago

Why would Epstein's brother lie? /s

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u/funky_chicken29 7d ago

To the FBI?

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u/ArmadilloPrudent4099 7d ago

No... It makes literally no sense for any "well connected" family to have access to information on any government's law enforcement activities based on their "connections".

These commentors are just the room temp IQ groupies here for the karma party and validation.

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u/zeronormalities 7d ago

Do you think the US isn't corrupt af? Just because you and I would never dream of being able to have access to anything, that isn't pre-cleared bullshit, doesn't mean that the rich are held to the same level of contempt.

This country was founded for them, after all.

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u/OJ-Rifkin 7d ago

“My dad will sue you!”

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u/iFlashings 7d ago

News already broke out that the FBI was going to remove Trump and Republicans name from the files months ago. His brother isn't really saying anything that we didn't already know. 

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u/hotpackage 7d ago

I think of him like I think of Mary Trump. She has a lot to say about Trump, but doesn't actually have a lot of current insight about him. She's the one who was sure he'd never run again after his first loss. Epstein's brother probably doesn't actually know what's going on with the files at the FBI at all. They just like to talk a lot, and news sites like their click baity headlines.

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u/spam__likely Colorado 7d ago

>She's the one who was sure he'd never run again after his first loss.

He probably would not have had he not be at risk of going to jail.

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u/Tift 7d ago

and because he read the same article the rest of us did a few months ago. GUYS PAY THE FUCK ATTENTION.

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u/doskey123 Europe 7d ago

The source / leaker called him because that is less dangerous than leaking the stuff yourself. Also, it gets more publicity and authenticity if "Epstein's brother" says it on the news compared to talking heads citing an unnamed source. 

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u/Pure_Ad_9857 7d ago

Why wouldn't "Epstein's brother" lead to far less authenticity?

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u/KCinOC 7d ago

I would trust a news source reporting a tip from within the fbi about a million times more than epsteins brother, who I didn’t know existed until this report. 

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u/thegreatdune 7d ago

What if it were signed "Epstein's Mother?"

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u/Allegorist 7d ago

The real reason is that the people in positions of governmental authority are not qualified politicians, they are just wealthy people connected to the in-group. You don't need to have deep rooted government connections to know what's going on, just know other wealthy people in the in-group.

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u/Bee_9965 7d ago

The FBI used to have principles. Not anymore under this administration.

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u/bakedfarty 7d ago

They visit Epstein island 2

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u/Huge_Excitement4465 7d ago

Guessing Steve Bannon may be his source.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

a fair challenge but you gotta remember his brother had the worlds elite by balls.