The shutdown began with the recesses of the house, in order to avoid seating a duly elected representative, whose vote could trigger release of the "Epstein Papers" and has only gotten worse since then. She remains unseated by Speaker Johnson. opinion.
Obviously Trump and the Republicans are pushing to suppress the Epstein files now that the narrative of a widespread and exclusively Democratic pedophile cult has broken down and the Epstein affair isn't as useful as propaganda, but the premise that literally everything Trump has done is an attempt to distract from Epstein is ludicrous. It just isn't that important.
It's obvious that even the worst case scenario wouldn't negatively affect Trump in any meaningful way. He won't lose his political or business contacts - all of those bastards were part of it too. He won't get impeached (again.) He can't take another term (legally.) His own base has already either stopped caring or else decided to toe the party line.
And how has it "taken down" a prince? Prince Andrew is still a prince. He's still rich. He still has connections. Trump would be no different. None of these people can actually be held accountable in any meaningful way within the bounds of the law.
We aren't quite there yet. Trump is still respecting Federal court decisions against him (though appealing them). If he starts blatantly ignoring those, then yes, we will be where you say.
What absolutely galls me is people like Mike Johnson claiming to be Christian and then covering up for this pedophile.
pcaharrier•2h ago
It's in the second to last paragraph, but I thought this seemed like a pretty significant and interesting concession.
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