US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson has announced an early adjournment of the chamber, stalling efforts to force the release of documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The move delays a politically fraught vote on the matter until September amid growing bipartisan pressure for transparency. It followed a key committee vote to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's longtime associate, to testify before Congress.

Calls to declassify Epstein-related files have intensified recently, including from supporters of President Donald Trump.

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[–] 25 points 1 year ago

We need a house speaker who isn't a pedo defender.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    He must have gotten an alert telling him his kid was jacking it and had to rush home to watch...Sorry, I meant to say help...wait no, stop, that's it, stop him.

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    [–] 203 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Getting this in early: Maxwell Ghislaine did not kill herself.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well.... Just saw a news blip that said the DOJ wants to meet with her.

    So, I guess, yeah.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Probably to just let her go free after signing an NDA.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    So here’s a fun (/s) idea: she’s got so much leverage over trump, she can probably force him to pardon her.

    I think she’d be crazy not to try that, and how will Magaworld react if he does?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I'm betting on her suddenly testifying before court and "bearing it all." Confessing that there really isn't any list and they blackmailed and trafficked girls but only to a few sacrificial and unimportant people. And she will conveniently walk free as part of a plea deal to be included in the deal Epstein struck in 2007.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Meh, she testifies under oath it was Clinton and Obama and is magically "pardoned" by Trumpy wumpy. They find a crayon scawled note to nack that up titled "The List". 2 years later ahe "falls" from a window 20 floors up.

    MAGA are relived and all is well.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Mike Johnson also a pedophile? Who could have guessed? How many children has he raped?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    considering he has a porn pact with his kid, I wouldn't be surprised. it's always the biggest grandstanders.

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago

    Maybe or maybe not pedophiles.

    But definitely #1 with pedophiles.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago

    Pedophiles defending the pedo in chief

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The GOP (Guardians Of Pedophiles) doing their real job: being inhuman shit sucking scum

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    These are the actions of a guilty party.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Because why would our representatives in government do anything their constituents want? That's literally not the job. The job is to grift and collect corporate donations.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    You could smell the stink of desperation on the speaker's face as he was drowning himself in flop sweat but he pulled it off just in time!

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I see, again the coldplay concert incident.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    It’s funny the larger the web the bigger and harder they fall.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Whatever happened to if you got nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about. That's a lot of extra work for nothing to hide. Honestly, at this point, im shocked they haven't just burned everything and go oops, oh well.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    A nation occupied by oligarchs and israel

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Nothing to see here, please disperse. Absolutely nothing to see here.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's funny that they're so frightened when the release of the files will change next-to-no-one's minds.

    It's like they don't even understand what bootlicking depths their own cult is in (PROTIP: it's the same bootlicking depths every GOP congresscreature is at)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You're not taking into account that sitting elected officials are not the only ones listed in the files. There are no doubt some dark money financiers who would rather remain anonymous mixed in as well.

    Something made Johnson change course. It wasn't merely Dump being even more obscene.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Gotta make extra time for worshipping the pedophile in charge.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    This is how the right deals with things. They block their ears and close their eyes and say "la la la. I don't see anything."

    They do the same thing with the climate. "If we don't study it then we don't have to worry about any of the problems it might cause for us!"

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