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Republicans warn Bondi not to bury Epstein files after law’s passage

Old_JoeOld_Joe
edited November 20 in Off-Topic
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:

Senate majority leader, John Thune, and others push the attorney general to release Epstein records within 30 days
Within hours of Donald Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, Republican senators were on the ground to issue a pointed message to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi: don’t bury these documents.

The bill’s passage marked a rare moment of bipartisan support in an otherwise ideologically fractured Congress as it now sets a 30-day deadline for the release of Department of Justice files related to the actions of convicted sex offender of minors and financier Jeffrey Epstein, dubbed by a judge “the most infamous pedophile in American history”.

It also marked a rare defeat for Trump, whose own contacts with Epstein have been the subject of intense speculation, along with many other powerful figures who associated with the sex trafficker who killed himself in 2019. Trump had originally been against the passage of the bill, before switching in the face of a rebellion in his own party.

The bill passed the House of Representatives with 427 votes and sailed through the Senate by unanimous consent, a level of cross party support rarely seen. Rather than celebrating, many Republican lawmakers spent the week bracing for what they fear may come: a slow drip of information, justified one way or another by Bondi’s justice department.

“People who feel very strongly about this will feel like they’ve been duped” if the justice department claims “we can’t release anything because of an active investigation,” said Republican senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. “I don’t think that that will help calm the suspicions many have harbored for a long while on this.”

The anxiety stems from the Trump administration’s earlier resistance to transparency, which included months of dismissing public demands – and even insults for those calling for release – before reversing course this week when its passage became inevitable.

Now, with Bondi opening investigations into exclusively Democrats mentioned in Epstein’s correspondence, Republicans are watching closely for signs the department might use those probes as a reason to redact or withhold materials as they are now part of an ongoing investigation.

Comment:   Gee, don't the Republicans trust their own DOJ ?  I wonder why that could be? Maybe they have "TDS".

Comments

  • MarkMark
    Or what, are they going to scold her with bad words? The whole of the repugnant party has been feckless all along since 47 was elected and now they are all high and mighty? I've got to wonder what's behind the curtain other than them coming to the realization that many of them will be out on the unemployment lines come the mid terms.
  • Observant1
    I'm concerned that Ms. Blondi and her underlings will use active investigations
    as an excuse to avoid releasing Epstein documents in a timely fashion.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    You ain't the only one. You think it's just a coincidence that Trump threw that into the pot a few days ago?
  • Observant1
    edited November 20
    Old_Joe said:

    You ain't the only one.
    You think it's just a coincidence that Trump threw that into the pot a few days ago?

    No coincidence at all.
    Just another step in Trump's months-long obfuscation campaign.
  • DrVenture
    What is happening is that the calculus over what is worse, letting it all out, or being seen as a party to withholding the release has changed.
    Old_Joe said:

    Gee, don't the Republicans trust their own DOJ ?  I wonder why that could be? Maybe they have "TDS".


    Hahaha!
  • AnnaAnna
    It's a preplanned and, probably, now moot point. The vote in Congress was more to take Epstein out of the election in 26 than to produce the files. The President isn't up for reelection, so his merry men figured out a way to hold back anything they want to hold back while appearing to comply with the bill in all legal ways they can. From what I've seen from their flock, it probably will work very well even if it ends up an endless court case.
  • CrashCrash
    Yes, I too am suspicious. The Repugnant Party is allergic to truth, ethics, facts, integrity.
    The Dems are not saviors. But they still have a soul which could help to guide the Ship of State. I don't have to be "woke" to see this massive, vital, essential difference between the two.

    BOTH parties have actively assisted in the genocide of Palestinians. Lots to be forgiven for. But at root bottom, the Dems are still trying.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    "BOTH parties have actively assisted in the genocide of Palestinians."

    Yes, for sure.
  • a2z

    it just takes gop voters to be be distracted by anyone under more suspicion than trump. and that information flow is under multiple control barriers.
    an extremely low bar for rightwing media and MAGA pols.
    i fully expect MTG to pull the focus anywhere but trump.
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