Posted on 11/13/2025 5:18:56 AM PST by RandFan
.... Separately, President Donald Trump and Rep. Nancy Mace, another Republican who’s signed the petition, had been playing phone tag for the past 24 hours. The South Carolina Republican sent a direct message to the president Wednesday outlining why she’s supporting the discharge petition, according to a source familiar with the message who said it largely mirrored a public statement in which she said: “I will NEVER abandon other survivors.”
But both the meeting and Trump’s efforts to talk to Mace underscored the administration’s concerns around the Epstein saga, which roared back Wednesday morning when the House Oversight Committee released more documents it had obtained from Epstein’s estate. (Leavitt said Wednesday the emails from that trove that mention Trump “prove absolutely nothing.”)
Besides Boebert and Mace, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is the other Republican who’s signed onto the petition from Reps. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, and Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, to force the vote on the release of the files on the House floor. The pair received the 218th decisive signature from Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva Wednesday afternoon, allowing the push to force a vote to move forward.
Had anyone removed their name from the petition before reaching 218, Massie and Khanna would have no longer had the support needed to move forward.
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They only had EXACTLY the 4 Republicans to get to 218 so any defection would have killed it. It was a squeaker.
But they got it over the line. Tremendous effort and the 3 GOP ladies stayed strong!
There will be a lot more GOP votes on the actual vote in a few weeks time
Some say a large number will vote for it. 40-50+
Discharge petition or not the survivors can step forward now. But they don't.
When dementiacrats accuse, they’re really projecting their admission of guilt.
Remember this.
They should all be voting for it. I don’t understand how Republicans could change their minds on this.
Lying headline. The meeting in the Situation Room involved other topics.
Schlepsteam. Still?
It’s the Masshole and Randpaul lover again
Situation Room??? LOL. Its so bad that Trump considers it a national emergency!!!! Oh my. This is going to be the end of Trump if those emails get out, isn’t it CNN? I thought CNN was trying to pivot back to being more down the middle, or at least not simply anti-Trump shills. I guess not.
Boebert specifically said there was no pressure.
Epstein’s network spanned business, finance and politics he seemed to be looking for dirt on people if not doing dirty stuff with them.
Why did he need all this dirt on people?
No word why the Biden and company didn’t release the Epstein files.
Sometimes holding incriminating information on your opponents is more valuable than releasing it. I've often thought this is the way a politicized FBI or CIA would control Presidents and House & Senate members.
Leverage is a powerful weapon in DC.
I saw this morning that the demonicrats blocked the vote, if there was anything detrimental to Trump you better believe the left would have shown it.
“They should all be voting for it. I don’t understand how Republicans could change their minds on this.”
I agree. They made releasing those file a big campaign promise, and then all of a sudden, it got pulled back.
There’s only one explanation - there’s something in there that’s not good news for the Republicans and/or Trump.
Of course, given that the Rats didn’t release it when they were in power, most likely also means that it has bad news for them as well.
Get them, fulfill your promise and pursue justice against the worst offenders.
That it was only Epstein was raping underage girls is a claim only an imbecile would believe.
There is a reason why the Royal Family disowned Andrew.
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