“We have nothing to hide,” said the president of the United States, Donald Trump, this Sunday on his social network, Truth. It was a notable change of mind about the convenience of disclosing the papers related to the case of the millionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein,
Before being re-elected, Trump and his people promised that they would do so as soon as they returned to the White House, but then they changed their mind in July. They have since blocked access to the contents of those files, while the Congressional Oversight Committee has gone
Last week, Trump pressured Republicans in the House of Representatives to sabotage a law designed to order his declassification in a vote that 218 representatives of both parties managed to force. That vote is scheduled for this Tuesday. This Monday he assured that if the legislative initiative goes ahead in Congress, he will not oppose the publication, even though it is within his power to veto it.
“Republicans,” wrote the president of the United States, “should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide, and it is time to turn the page on this Democratic hoax perpetrated by radical left lunatics to distract from our greatest successes.”
This is a legislative initiative promoted by a Democrat, Ro Khanna (California), and a Republican, Thomas Massie (Kentucky). The latter received a nasty attack last Friday from Trump, who criticized him for having remarried a year after being widowed. Despite the tasteless message, Massie emerges stronger from this crisis. Last week, he ventured that “between 40 and 50” of his coreligionists would vote for the release of the pedophile’s files. This Monday, a few hours before it was expected to be studied in the Capitol, he calculated that the initiative would be
Massie has pressured them by reminding them that Trump will not remain in the White House in three years, but that a vote “in favor of protecting pedophiles” will haunt them for the rest of their political careers.
Trump’s change of mind seems like an attempt to regain the helm of the story, which, it is well known, he does not like to lose. Part of that operation began last Friday, with the request to Attorney General Pam Bondi to launch investigations into Democrats who regularly appear in the files that are coming to light. He cited three: (and Clinton cabinet member) Larry Summers and megadonor Reid Hoffman. Bondi immediately said he was getting to work.
Then the Senate
It is worth remembering that allowing Republicans to vote in favor of publishing the files is nothing more than a simulation. Trump would end it sooner – immediately, actually – if he ordered Bondi to release the files, because he doesn’t need Congress for that.
If the proposal goes ahead this Tuesday, it would go to the Senate, where 60 votes would be needed. Democrats have 47 seats. Then, the law would have to be signed by Trump.
Robert Garcia, a member of Representatives, stated in a statement this Monday that Trump “has tried by all means to stop the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.” “Now he has panicked and realized that he is about to lose the vote on Epstein, which would force the Department of Justice to release the files,” Garcia stated. “Let’s be clear: Trump has the power to release all the files today. “But instead, he wants to continue this cover-up and launch new bogus investigations to divert attention and delay our investigation. He won’t get it. “We will get justice for the victims.”
This Monday, a few of them released a video in which they pose with photos of themselves from the time they were abused by Epstein. “It’s time to shed light on the darkness,” they say in that recording. They are scheduled to go to the Capitol tomorrow to pressure legislators with their presence.
Epstein died in 2019 in a maximum security cell in Manhattan, while waiting to be tried for a sex trafficking ring with hundreds of minor victims. The coroner ruled it a suicide. Believers in conspiracy theories suspect that he was killed to prevent him from pulling the blanket over
At the moment, there is no evidence on that client list. The publication of all the files, closer than just a few days ago, may serve to dispel these suspicions once and for all.
