He also ordered the doj to open a new investigation which allows his doj to bar any release of the files related to an “open case.” His followers have to be irredeemably brainwashed to accept this.

Now that he knows the vote is going to go against him, time for plan B. He can't let it appear that Congress would actually defy him so he has to "call for" it to happen so they still appear to be obeying him.

I'd be surprised if his minions in charge of the DOJ haven't already destroyed anything damaging to him as soon as they could get hold of it, but in any case we know they have a plan in place for DOJ to not release anything bad for him.

After thousands of FBI agents redacted all mentions of him?

Donald! You can just tell the DOJ to release them. You campaigned on releasing them, so just do it. They don't need to vote on it if you just do it.

At this point, I refuse to believe that the original files will be released unedited.

Trump's team has a had unrestricted access to the files for a very long time. The original files probably exists somewhere, they are too valuable for a career politician to not either do a quick ctrl+c ctrl+v or just doing a classic photographing the screen.

This is called "getting ahead of the story." The only problem is this story is a speeding freight train, and it's going to turn everyone in its path into a pink mist.

I have been concerned for a long time that they may try to release doctored documents

He just got a text that they finished replacing references to his name with Clinton, no need to delay anymore

Isn't it, you know a conflict of interest for him to have the ability to veto it if it passes the House and Senate, considering he's involved in all this?

If it's going to happen anyway, they might as well claim political credit for the thing they used to oppose, right?

They control the department of justice, both houses of congress, and the supreme court

Don’t get your hopes up

Man this "hoax" sure has a lot of material

It's wild how long the FBI needed to clean the files. I guess they are done now?

"We'd love to. But only the bits of it we want to show you"

DOJ: 'Nope, still investigating the Dem names in there.... Dunno how much longer this will take... Wish we could help you...'

They will play the democrat card.

I can't decide if Trump thinks this will make him look like less of a lame duck when the vote passes the house, or if Trump is trying to reverse psychology them out of it.

Ok... You heard him! Release them!

"A veto-proof majority"

Imagine Trump vetoing this

IF the midterms are free and fair (a big if, considering the efforts by the GOP to ratfuck every federal election since Biden won) then the Democrats need to make electoral reform a priority. Proportional representation in Congress and replacing the electoral college with ranked choice/runoff ballots is the only feasible way to save what's left of US democracy besides a revolution.

Narrator: they were, for the most part, wrong.

I've been saying this for a long time, but in software development, we have many practices that I think should be carried over to government.

One example is the idea of doing one change at a time. A decent software engineer would never accept a request that had a lot of wide-ranging changes. They would force all of the changes to be submitted individually, and to be accepted or rejected on their own merits.

Politicians constantly create enormous abominations of bills, like the ill-named "Big Beautiful Bill". With something like that, individual politicians have their power greatly diminished. They can do nothing but vote along party lines. They probably don't even have time to read the contents of the bill they are voting for. The only ones who have any power at all are the party leaders and those in the committees where those bills are created. But committee membership is limited.

You can see what happens when things are separated. If your bill is simply about releasing the Epstein files, and nothing else, then it's very difficult to explain why you'd vote against that. Suddenly, the individual politicians have the power they were intended to have by the founding fathers, as well as the ability to be held accountable by their constituents.

The fact that WH is green lighting this effort is super sus. The witches are mixing the pot….

So block it and once you can't stop it everyone pretends like they wanted it like that the whole time. classic.

I don't care what they say (for the most part). I care what they do.

So the orange cancer stalled long enough for the FBI to scrub his name from the files then? Wouldn't doubt it if he had them add new names.

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They are going to release 1 page, entirely redacted except for Bill Clinton's name.

Hypothetically, the files get released and contain damming evidence against Trump, evidence that would get any normal citizen immediately arrested. I demand to know WHAT WILL BE DONE THEN? WHAT IN UNCLE SAM'S NAME IS THE PLAN TO HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE?

I wonder how much was redacted during their "vacations."

As a conservative this has drawn out to long just release the files unredacted minus victims names so tired of hearing about the hearing about the files...let the chips fall were the may...it should be all of them republicans and democrats Should be voting to release ...as horrific as his convicted crimes are...Jeffrey Epstein openly discussed a disturbing plan to impregnate multiple women at his New Mexico ranch to "seed the human race" with his own DNA, a concept rooted in his interest in transhumanism and eugenics. They say there is no evidence that he started this...right...George Church's Lab: Epstein's non-profit organization, the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, provided donations to Church's lab between 2005 and 2007. Church's lab is known for pioneering various genetic technologies and was involved in founding companies such as Editas Medicine, which focuses on gene therapy... There is much more just st dive into it...The rabbit hole is deep and Elon musk his buddy holds beliefs that align with aspects of transhumanism, advocating for the use of advanced technology, particularly brain-computer interfaces, to augment human capabilities and ensure humanity's future in an age of artificial intelligence. He does not explicitly identify as a transhumanist but his ideas and work are often described as such...

Any Republican who hasn't visited the island would be fine releasing the files. A vote against it is a strong indicator that they're in them.