“Trump’s failure to release the Epstein files is an insult to survivors and a further stain on an administration that continuously bends over backwards to protect abusers," said one critic.
Everyone knew this was going to be the outcome. It doesn’t mean that forcing them to do this was worthless though. First, it makes it very obvious to everyone that they’re hiding something. Second, this is illegal, as congress specifically forbade redactions for the reasons they gave. This probably won’t do anything, but it’s still good to make them break laws in case it can be used later against them. Third, it wastes their time. The people who had to go through and redact all this stuff weren’t doing other things.
Only 11 more months before the midterms. Correct me if I’m wrong, but if congress does not punch back, this will be fodder for a house oversight committee to look into the failure to release the files in the way intended by the law.
There is always the chance they incompetently bungled something, like all the previous times. We’ll know once they’ve all been parsed. Though this is the most important one, so we’ll see.
Hey! Exactly what we expect!
I’ve been saying this every time someone says “release the files!”.
As if they’d release documents showing that Trump managed Epstein’s warehouse stock.
Everyone knew this was going to be the outcome. It doesn’t mean that forcing them to do this was worthless though. First, it makes it very obvious to everyone that they’re hiding something. Second, this is illegal, as congress specifically forbade redactions for the reasons they gave. This probably won’t do anything, but it’s still good to make them break laws in case it can be used later against them. Third, it wastes their time. The people who had to go through and redact all this stuff weren’t doing other things.
Only 11 more months before the midterms. Correct me if I’m wrong, but if congress does not punch back, this will be fodder for a house oversight committee to look into the failure to release the files in the way intended by the law.
There is always the chance they incompetently bungled something, like all the previous times. We’ll know once they’ve all been parsed. Though this is the most important one, so we’ll see.