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Trump suggests he’ll release Jeffrey Epstein ‘client list’ if elected: ‘I’d have no problem with it’

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Transparency or Treason, you make the call!

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And now the sickest grandpa burn of 2025:

"Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left," Trump said in a social media post Saturday morning as part of an online back and forth with Greene.

Trump added he would consider backing a primary challenger and in a social media post later in the night withdrew his endorsement of the congresswoman

Greene said Saturday in an X post that she had received death threats.

"I never thought that fighting to release the Epstein files, defending women who were victims of rape, and fighting to expose the web of rich powerful elites would have caused this, but here we are," Greene said in an X post Saturday morning "And it truly speaks for itself."
 
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And now the sickest grandpa burn of 2025:

"Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left," Trump said in a social media post Saturday morning as part of an online back and forth with Greene.
Do we understand it correctly that wanting child molesters behind bars is "left" now?
What is then "right"?
 
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says she will vote to release Epstein files, that it’s ‘wrong to implicate the president’

The congresswoman said she wants to see a list made public of “the alleged perpetrators and criminals that were engaged in the trafficking of victims.”

“I will tell you that from the get-go I have been actively against any pardons that might exist for Ghislaine Maxwell,” Luna said. “I just think that she’s a terrible person. She should not be getting any special treatment.”

[Luna did not sign the discharge petition, but many people are saying that a few dozen Republicans will vote to release the files.]

ETA: Don Bacon, Tim Burchett, Rob Bresnahan...
a few dozen Republicans will vote to release the files

Can we expect to see these people all the sudden been investigated for incorrectly filing mortgage files, campaign finance or driving under influence Februari the 29th 2021?
 
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Do we understand it correctly that wanting child molesters behind bars is "left" now?
What is then "right"?
I guess it is this guy:


(just the first article I found on Bill "the Leauge" Donohue, the man who pretends to be an organization and definitely defends priests that are worse than Epstein.)
 
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"Real American voters"....don't care if Trump raped girls?

What a condemnation this will be to the people who take up this flag and fight the release.
Prepare yourself for the screeching of tyres and the smell of burning rubber as all those who argued against the files being released now read Trump's latest U turn and do a similar 180.


'The US president has said he backs US lawmakers efforts to release the files, ahead of an expected House vote this week.

US president Donald Trump has urged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, reversing his earlier resistance to such a move.'

So, do you support the release of the files, or not?
Umm, well...I do. Well, I did. Until I didn't. So now I think I do. Until of course I don't.
 
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House Republican Alleges Epstein Had ‘Thousands of Hours of Tapes’ of ‘Bedrooms’ and From Private Island (and Alex Acosta had them too)​

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) said deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had “thousands of hours of tapes” that captured moments from his parties, bedrooms, and his private island.

Sessions replied that there are “thousands of hours” of footage, which had been obtained by former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta. In 2008, Acosta agreed to a widely criticized deal in which federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges against Epstein, who ultimately pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation with a minor.
 
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Prepare yourself for the screeching of tyres and the smell of burning rubber as all those who argued against the files being released now read Trump's latest U turn and do a similar 180.


'The US president has said he backs US lawmakers efforts to release the files, ahead of an expected House vote this week.

US president Donald Trump has urged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, reversing his earlier resistance to such a move.'

So, do you support the release of the files, or not?
Umm, well...I do. Well, I did. Until I didn't. So now I think I do. Until of course I don't.
just...just...just.....just.........

TELL ME WHAT TRUMP SAYS!!!
 
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Democrats unite the nation (and even Congress)

House votes to approve releasing the Epstein files by a near unanimous margin

The measure passed by a vote of 427 to 1.

"I'm all for it," Trump said from the Oval Office

Trump does not need legislation in order to approve the files for release

[Rep Clay Higgins R-LA was the lone Nay.]

ETA: Passed the Senate with a unanimous consent vote.
 
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Democrats unite the nation (and even Congress)

House votes to approve releasing the Epstein files by a near unanimous margin

The measure passed by a vote of 427 to 1.

"I'm all for it," Trump said from the Oval Office

Trump does not need legislation in order to approve the files for release

[Rep Clay Higgins R-LA was the lone Nay.]

ETA: Passed the Senate with a unanimous consent vote.
Johnson and Trump aren't too happy that the Senate passed it without any amendments.
 
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Trump says he signed Epstein bill

It's unlikely the Justice Department would release the entire Epstein file, according to sources. Any materials related to ongoing investigations or White House claims of executive privilege will likely remain out of public view.

Trump did not need to wait for Congress to act -- he could order the release immediately.
 
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Trump says he signed Epstein bill

It's unlikely the Justice Department would release the entire Epstein file, according to sources. Any materials related to ongoing investigations or White House claims of executive privilege will likely remain out of public view.

Trump did not need to wait for Congress to act -- he could order the release immediately.
Couldn't Biden have ordered the release then? What was he waiting on?
 
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Couldn't Biden have ordered the release then? What was he waiting on?
No. My understanding is that he couldn't (or perhaps really really shouldn't) release them until Maxwell's appeals were finished, which didn't happen until this year.
 
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No. My understanding is that he couldn't (or perhaps really really shouldn't) release them until Maxwell's appeals were finished, which didn't happen until this year.
This would be the case. Maxwell's appeals didn't end until this year.
 
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No. My understanding is that he couldn't (or perhaps really really shouldn't) release them until Maxwell's appeals were finished, which didn't happen until this year.
If there was something really bad about Trump in the files do you really think Maxwell's appeals would have stopped them from releasing them?
 
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If there was something really bad about Trump in the files do you really think Maxwell's appeals would have stopped them from releasing them?
Yes, absolutely. Because if the files were released, that would essentially kill the case against Maxwell and let her walk free. Perhaps abiding by the law and procedures is a novel concept for you.
 
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