cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35963824

Via The Hill

Republican lawmakers say it now appears certain that a discharge petition that’s being circulated in the House by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) will get enough signatures by the end of the month to force a vote on a bill directing Bondi to release the Epstein files.

Massie and Khanna are only one vote short of getting 218 signatures to force a vote on their bill.

Once Arizona holds a special election Sept. 23 to fill the vacant seat of Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who died earlier this year, they’re likely to reach the threshold

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[–] 80 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

Question coming from my own ignorance but how do we know they haven't tampered with the files by this point? It seems like they control enough of the government to get agents that would be willing to delete it modify evidence, I'm just not sure what controls are in place to ensure that nothing has been tampered with

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

    2 months ago they put people on around the clock sifting of the files for Trumps name according to this NBC article. And gave no explanation as to what they were supposed to do after flagging them.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/fbi-personnel-jeffrey-epstein-files-mentioning-trump-dick-durbin-says-rcna219699

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Ask the victims who have come forward if anything is missing which should be there. That is probably our best indicator of truth on what gets released.

    Also remember, this is like the third time files have been “released.” Take that for what you will.

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

    Below is an excerpt:

    REDACTED
    REDACTED
    REDACTED
    REDACTED
    Bill Clinton
    REDACTED
    REDACTED
    George Soros
    REDACTED
    LITERALLY ANYONE NOT WITH OR FRIENDS OF THE GOP

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    I believe it when I see it unaltered.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    UNREDACTED

    If it's redacted, Trump is a child rapist by default.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Why wouldn't they alter them before they released them?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Show of hands who believes that we'll get unaltered files that do anything but exonerate Trump? I hope nobody is really banking on any damning revelations.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I really hope this isn't bullshit.

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

    ... force a vote on a bill directing Bondi to release the Epstein files.

    Bondi: "No."

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

    One would hope at that point that at least some of the honorable congressmen and women would begin to understand that they aren't ever getting the power they gave to Trump back.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    hope this isn’t bullshit

    It'll likely all be redacted till 2087 or some other sh!t

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

    "For national security reasons."

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

    For national security reasons.

    More likely to protect trump and his doner class

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

    Oh, they'll "release" it all right. But they'll narrow down the scope as much as possible to some combination of "things that have already been released", "things that can't be released" (ie, the grand jury records, which are pretty much never released and which require judicial approval), , and "new things the public hasn't seen yet but which are redacted to near total blackness".

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  • The grand jury thing seems like a red herring to me. Nothing should be in the grand jury files that isnt already in the rest of the investigation files because that's where they got the information to present to the grand jury in the first place.

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

    Big distraction coming at the end of the month.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I wonder how obviously it'll be doctored. Like will they expect anyone to believe it's legit, or will they take more of a "what are you gonna do about it" approach.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I'll fucking believe it when I see it. I'm not holding my breath.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    "i guess theres nothing we can do except release the files, and you'll just have to believe they are the real ones.......our hands..... are tied...... :("

    its crazy how many people are willing to defend pedophiles if it advances their agenda.

    crazy how the absence of empathy makes people literally insane, its almost as if they are mentally ill and not fit for positions of power, or something.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski…where y’all at?

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I'd bet some or all of them have been outright destroyed by now, since there's no respect for procedures or the rule of law in any branch of the US govt any more and whomever has actual physical access is probably a stooge loyal to the regime by this point.

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

    I’ll laugh when they release the files and it conveniently only names Democrats

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    It is filled with the name "Bill Clinton" over and over again over white-out.

    Did you know the names "Bill Clinton" and "Donald Trump" have the same number of letters? Pretty handy.

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

    That's not even a question, a top DOJ official straight up told a date that's exactly what they were going to be doing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Do you remember how Trump tried to take control of the National Archives as, like, his first action in office? The idea that he just wanted to display the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office never seemed like enough to me. I think the files have already been copied, and there was a copy in Biden's presidential records. Who knows where else they've been sent?

    If they're released in an edited or heavily redacted state, I bet we'll get the real ones shortly thereafter.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    As far as I'm concerned, they release it unredacted, or else we get to assume every redacted name is Donald J. Trump.

    But I'm also in camp, "We'll never even know about all the shit they had time to destroy."

    AND I'M ALSO IN CAMP, "I heard Trump would really be getting sent to jail any day now for about four years, so maybe nothing will happen."

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

    The senator observed that when Bondi said in February that a list of Epstein’s clients “is sitting on” her “desk right now to review,” she created a huge expectation that the administration would reveal the names of the well-connected and wealthy men who participated in Epstein’s sexual exploitation of girls and teenagers.

    “That was really unwise,” the lawmaker said.

    It was really unwise for the person leading the department of justice to imply she could somehow bring justice?

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

    Can't wait for absolutely nothing to come of it

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

    This one has legs. They're trying to quash it for some reason. I'm not saying it'll bring down Trump, even though he's obviously in there, but it'll probably bring down at least a few senators.

    And Trump's base is breaking with him on this like they haven't done in a decade. This is bigger and worse than I've ever seen. If it shifts the balance of power in Congress, I could see something happening to him too.

    That's the thing about Teflon. If you keep using it over and over, it eventually wears off. Given enough time, something will stick.

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  • Have there ever been more cowering cowards cowering at the boots of the most cowering lying coward amongst cowards?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Both a blessing and a curse. Bye-bye Donnie, hello little Vance, who does the Peter Thiel dance.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They seem sad about it - "admitting"?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    "now appears certain" is not the same thing as inevitable.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I just don't expect anything substantial to come of it. Seriously, they've been so blatant with the corruption, why quit while you're ahead?

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    My word, a petition to force a vote to provide a directive for someone else to release the files? The administration must be shaking in their boots!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Can't wait for absolutely nothing to come of it

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Believe it when I see it.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't wait for absolutely nothing to come of it

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