To expect that Trump will face any accountability on the Epstein issue is delusional. The victims will not get justice, and that's a tragedy. But it's also a tragedy that we're spending this much time on the GOP shenanigans related to Epstein when the administration is acting lawlessly on so many other issues and damaging the country in countless ways
Agreed, but the endless saga of the Epstein files finally seems to be putting cracks in Trump's stranglehold on the Congress, which could eventually open the door to massive legal vulnerabilities for Trump. Nothing else has previously had that effect. So I say, milk Epstein for all it's worth and break not just Trump, but MAGA as well.
We want the TAPES exposed!! ALL of them. FBI has viewed them, according to Bondi/Patel orders. We want to know what they revealed about the perpetrators while protecting the victims!!
“Legally entitled to” is doing a lot of work there. The Trump White House and his DOJ will make that determination and can use it to throw a broad protective blanket over any evidence damaging to Trump."
The salient point here is than any decision by the DoJ has zero force of law. It can have opinions about what is legal or not, but outside of the boundaries of DoJ employees who feel bound to accept them, they mean bupkis.
The DoJ Opinion that a sitting President cannot be either investigated or prosecuted is a perfect example. The Constitution says no such thing. To the contrary, when talking about the impeachment of Federal officers, it makes no distinction among the variety of them, which plainly includes the President. And it states that impeached and convicted officers may also be tried and convicted as per the law. The key word there is "may", which does not place a requirement on prior impeachment before legal action may can be taken. Former Attorney General John Mitchell, for instance, was tried and convicted of his crimes in office without ever being impeached by the Congress - and yes, former officials are indeed subject to impeachment by Congress to prevent them from holding office ever again. And to repeat, the Constitution makes no distinctions whatsoever among the varieties of impeachable officers.
To get to the point - if the DoJ releases less than the full tranche of Epstein documents, based on a Trump/Bondi "decision" about what the Congress is "legally entitled to", those officials can be sued in Federal court for full release. They can also be subject to a contempt of Congress ruling, which Congress has the legal power to enforce. And Congress, should it choose, could also prosecute those individuals, and any others involved, for the crime of sedition.
All unlikely, of course, given the GOP/MAGA stranglehold on the Legislature, but the Congress was designed to be the most powerful Branch, and it does indeed have oversight authority over the Federal government as a whole. And, as noted by many media sources today, Trump's iron-fist hold over the GOP is weakening. I doubt it will weaken enough soon enough, but we can hope.
The FBI have had teams — up to a thousand employees, it's said — to comb through the Bureau's "Epstein Files" trove to sanitize as many tRump references as is humanly possible to catch, and I would be shocked — shocked, I say! — if this process was no more than simple redacting. One has to believe that there people within the FBI who are prepared to leak info that otherwise would never be released, or released in a bowdlerized fashion to lessen the impact, and the entirety of "Epstein" has such astonishing legs that the entire business will still be alive through the mid-terms and beyond.
I heard about this out on files last night .It is a very big and easy out .Have AG he appointed to investigate others and most files will be locked for awhile . The man is scum period . I didn't know if he would use this out or distract with a war .Great reporting ,By David and TPM
As far as Epstein is
concerned, remember
where those 20,000 files
originally came from.
They have more, I'm
sure.
Wondering where
Blanche thinks he's
going to practice law
after the blue wall falls
on him.
Paul Weiss (no relation)
Releasing the files is just the beginning. Accountability & Justice are next.
To expect that Trump will face any accountability on the Epstein issue is delusional. The victims will not get justice, and that's a tragedy. But it's also a tragedy that we're spending this much time on the GOP shenanigans related to Epstein when the administration is acting lawlessly on so many other issues and damaging the country in countless ways
Agreed, but the endless saga of the Epstein files finally seems to be putting cracks in Trump's stranglehold on the Congress, which could eventually open the door to massive legal vulnerabilities for Trump. Nothing else has previously had that effect. So I say, milk Epstein for all it's worth and break not just Trump, but MAGA as well.
I just hope you're right
We want the TAPES exposed!! ALL of them. FBI has viewed them, according to Bondi/Patel orders. We want to know what they revealed about the perpetrators while protecting the victims!!
https://substack.com/@deanobeidallah/note/c-177813489?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2xpfg
“Legally entitled to” is doing a lot of work there. The Trump White House and his DOJ will make that determination and can use it to throw a broad protective blanket over any evidence damaging to Trump."
The salient point here is than any decision by the DoJ has zero force of law. It can have opinions about what is legal or not, but outside of the boundaries of DoJ employees who feel bound to accept them, they mean bupkis.
The DoJ Opinion that a sitting President cannot be either investigated or prosecuted is a perfect example. The Constitution says no such thing. To the contrary, when talking about the impeachment of Federal officers, it makes no distinction among the variety of them, which plainly includes the President. And it states that impeached and convicted officers may also be tried and convicted as per the law. The key word there is "may", which does not place a requirement on prior impeachment before legal action may can be taken. Former Attorney General John Mitchell, for instance, was tried and convicted of his crimes in office without ever being impeached by the Congress - and yes, former officials are indeed subject to impeachment by Congress to prevent them from holding office ever again. And to repeat, the Constitution makes no distinctions whatsoever among the varieties of impeachable officers.
To get to the point - if the DoJ releases less than the full tranche of Epstein documents, based on a Trump/Bondi "decision" about what the Congress is "legally entitled to", those officials can be sued in Federal court for full release. They can also be subject to a contempt of Congress ruling, which Congress has the legal power to enforce. And Congress, should it choose, could also prosecute those individuals, and any others involved, for the crime of sedition.
All unlikely, of course, given the GOP/MAGA stranglehold on the Legislature, but the Congress was designed to be the most powerful Branch, and it does indeed have oversight authority over the Federal government as a whole. And, as noted by many media sources today, Trump's iron-fist hold over the GOP is weakening. I doubt it will weaken enough soon enough, but we can hope.
The FBI have had teams — up to a thousand employees, it's said — to comb through the Bureau's "Epstein Files" trove to sanitize as many tRump references as is humanly possible to catch, and I would be shocked — shocked, I say! — if this process was no more than simple redacting. One has to believe that there people within the FBI who are prepared to leak info that otherwise would never be released, or released in a bowdlerized fashion to lessen the impact, and the entirety of "Epstein" has such astonishing legs that the entire business will still be alive through the mid-terms and beyond.
I heard about this out on files last night .It is a very big and easy out .Have AG he appointed to investigate others and most files will be locked for awhile . The man is scum period . I didn't know if he would use this out or distract with a war .Great reporting ,By David and TPM