Key Epstein Deadline Arrives as Attention Turns to Venezuela
By: Catherine Bouris (The Daily Beast)
Oh, looky over there, at the rockets red glare, while the Reagan neocons pee down their legs. And be sure to thank our troops for covering Donald's ass.
Now we know that Mr. President of Venezuela could send a Delta Force team into the DOJ and extract the files. (Yes, boys & girls, Trump just legitimized using the military for law enforcement. Please, pay attention.) But serving America's interests isn't a priority any longer. Trump has offshored his nation building to Venezuela. Too bad, America, you're fired.
¡ ¡ Viva la Venezuela!! ¡¡Viva el jefe!!
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As Americans slept and President Donald Trump invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader, an inconvenient deadline was looming: the date for the Department of Justice to explain its controversial Epstein file redactions.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee noted the timing in a post on X, writing, "We are sure it's just a coincidence, but today is the statutory date for the DOJ to explain its redactions in the Epstein file productions."
"We have not forgotten, and we won't let up—regardless of the President's new unconstitutional actions." The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
Oversight Dems/X
While the deadline to release the Epstein files came and went last month, the Trump administration has faced serious questions regarding its decision to redact large swaths of the released files.
The administration faced additional scrutiny after it was discovered that the Department of Justice had deleted 16 files from its website after the fact, including one that featured a photo of Trump with Epstein.
A picture of Trump and Epstein was in Epstein's desk drawer and scrubbed from the DOJ's Epstein files dump. X / House Oversight Democrats
The DOJ claims that it had to weigh executive and legal privacy and considerations around victims' privacy when determining what to redact, but critics have pointed out that this doesn't account for the millions of files that were not released on time and still have yet to materialize.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna and his Republican counterpart Thomas Massie, who have been spearheading the campaign to pressure the Trump administration to release the Epstein files, announced on Friday that they would be bypassing the DOJ to demand that all of the files be made public by asking the Southern District Court of New York to appoint a "special master" to ensure all of the documents are released.
"What I want to see over these next few weeks is for the documents actually to start coming out that the American people want to see—and the survivors want to see—which is the documents that name the rich and powerful men who are on Epstein's rape island," Khanna told NPR's Michel Martin.
The pair is also seeking to hold Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt of Congress, which would result in her being fined for every day that the DOJ fails to release the files in their entirety.
Reps. Thomas Massie, Ro Khanna and Marjorie Taylor Greene have spearheaded the effort to get the files released. Heather Diehl/Getty Images
The Department of Justice estimates it won't finish reviewing the remaining files until at least Jan. 20, writing on social media, "We have lawyers working around the clock to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release the documents as soon as possible."
It has enlisted some 400 lawyers to assist with the efforts.
Khanna, a member of the House Oversight Committee, told NPR that he and Massie were "less concerned about the delay and are more concerned about the documents that are being withheld."
"We want to see the survivors' statements to the FBI where they name other rich and powerful men who abused them or who covered up the crimes," he said. "And we want to see the draft prosecution memos, which explain why many, many men were involved in the cover-up and abuse."
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All hail the new President of Venezuela!
¡¡Viva el jefe!!
Many people are wondering: Just which "jefe" does that refer to?
Which jefe in particular has a better chance of "Making Venezuela great again"?
All the TEA Party Republicans in the Trump administration are backpedaling so hard that its difficult to tell. Trump had his 5 minutes in the spotlight as el Jefe but now that the pretty fireworks are over comes the questions that Trump cannot answer.
I haven't heard any of the TEA Party nimrods surrounding Trump brag about the body count. Isn't the typically how establishment Republicans measure the success of a military operation?
(for those concerned the above is not a real picture)
But maybe he "plays one on TV"?
¡¡Viva el Jefe!!
It's something to watch people claim that everything that happens in the world is dictated by the Epstein files. It's really destroyed people's brains.
Then why has Donald Trump expended so much political capital to keep the Epstein files secret? Why did it require a veto proof law (unanimous save one) to force Trump to release the Epstein files? Why is Trump still dragging his feet to comply with the law he signed?
An excellent question!
('Tis a great mystery indeed . . .)
Epstein hated Trump for the last decade of his life, to the point he was texting his Democratic allies in Congress during Congressional hearings to try and help them "get Trump." If he had information that would hurt Trump why didn't he make it public when he was alive?
He supposedly had all this information saved to blackmail his enemies. Yet Exner, Trump and others turned on him with impunity. How does that happen?
Maybe, just maybe, do you apply Occam's razor and simply follow the evidence instead of believing Trump's enemies (including Epstein) conspired to keep damaging information about Trump secret while resorting to making things up about him?
So?
Because it is the info he had that allowed him to get a slap on the wrist during the 1st Trump administration. If he betrayed 1 billionaire with the info he had, the other billionaires would look at him differently, and possibly even order a "hit" on him while he was unprotected in his prison cell.
I didn't see anyone turning on him.
Making things up like decade old pictures, birthday cards, flight logs, and email????
Occam's razor needs the damned Epstein files that Trump is trying to hide. This is not about Democrats or Trump's enemies, this is about Trump engaged in a cover up.
There is now a law requiring release of the Epstein files to the public. Trump signed the law. Why would Trump sign the law if he wasn't going to enforce it? Can Trump comply with a law or not?
So?
You need it explained why someone who hates another person enough to text a democratic congressmen during a committee meeting ways to get their enemy would at the same time sit on evidecence that would destroy him? Are you kidding?
ecause it is the info he had that allowed him to get a slap on the wrist during the 1st Trump administration.
What nonsense is this? The Trump admin is the on who arrested him and he was facing life in jail when he offed himself. Does the fact that you have to make things up to support your theory set off any alarm bells yet?
f he betrayed 1 billionaire with the info he had, the other billionaires would look at him differently
So just more conspiracies...
Making things up like decade old pictures, birthday cards, flight logs, and email???
Yeah, like fake pictures, letters etc.. Don't you remember falling for them? The actual documents didn't show any illegal behavior, hence the need to make things up.
So no explanation then. Got it.
Obviously the evidence speaks for itself!
This theory is actually in line with the reality of how Esptein acted:
There wasn’t any material Epstein blackmail scheme.
We know this because (1) both Wexner and Black, the most likely targets of blackmail, cut Epstein off with impunity, which wouldn’t have happened if they had risk—at one point, Epstein paid Wexner.
(2) we’ve seen “Epstein trying to blackmail” in action, a pathetic attempt *in writing* to get Bill Gates give him a few thousand dollars. In that instance, (a) Epstein learned about Gates’s affair by coincidence from trying to seduce a former Gates mistress, and (b) Gates ignored the email without consequence. That’s not the m.o. of someone running a nine-digit blackmail ring.
(3) blackmail makes no rational sense as a business model. Until MSM publicity during the Trump administration, Epstein could relatively risklessly get what he wanted from rich people and celebrities through charm and generosity. Epstein’s crimes were perverted and expensive and personal to himself. Why risk exposure of his criminal activity by involving people he didn’t control when there was no upside he couldn’t obtain by legal means? Wealth management pays better than blackmail.
No, I have no explanation for why Trump is covering up the Epstein files. I have no explanation for why Trump is not complying with the law he signed.
Releasing the files which would put an end to made up stories. That would be the rational thing to do. Trump is rational, isn't he? Or do we beginning calling Trump "dozing Don"? (At least Trump is keeping some part of Sleepy Joe's legacy alive.)
The DOJ arrested him. Trump did not have the same sycophants who were willing to ignore a pedophile the 1st time.
So you don't believe billionaires would be able to reach him in his prison cell and killing him, staging it as a suicide, while deleting all camera footage and disappearing the one-time prison guards who were suppose to be watching him?
I remember a certain president claiming something about a fake birthday card, until that exact same card was released and shown to be accurate.
There has not been any evidence, so far, of an Epstein blackmail scheme, HOWEVER there has been evidence that Epstein has collected evidence that could be used for blackmail should the occasion present itself.
What if that be the case...perhaps President Trump could be the most qualified in "making peoples' brain's Great Again'?
Or not???
(Curious minds want to know!
)
Not everyone.
In fact, strange as it may seem, the fact is that I know several folks that actually don't believe that at al!!
Yes, they are typically called conservatives. Thanks for noticing.
You're welcome!
(It actually wasn't as difficult as people may think)
There's an olde saying:
A fool and his brain are easily parted.
Vic Frankenstein, is that you? Egads, Igor, what manner of grey matter is this?