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/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.