Posted on 07/16/2025 3:42:49 AM PDT by RandFan
The battle over the Jeffrey Epstein files that’s severed the MAGA faithful is also surfacing on Capitol Hill, where GOP lawmakers are torn over President Trump’s refusal to release government records related to the deceased financier and sex offender.
The debate is fracturing the House GOP conference, with hardline conservatives — ardent MAGA allies — echoing the base’s demands to make the documents public, while other Republicans are joining Trump’s calls to “not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.”
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stunned Washington on Tuesday when — after initially deferring to the administration — he sided squarely with the first group, urging the Justice Department to release all the files related to Epstein in its possession.
“It’s a very delicate subject, but we should put everything out there and let the people decide,” Johnson said in an interview with the conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.
But his remarks have only thrown a brighter spotlight on the administration’s refusal to release the files, and the conservative frustrations that followed. By defying Trump, Johnson also risks a backlash from the president, who was crucial to Johnson’s rise to the Speakership and has helped him survive tough internal battles since then.
Just a few hours later, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has seemingly delighted in being a thorn on the president’s side, said he would try to use a long-shot procedural gambit known as a discharge petition to force a vote on requiring the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) cosponsored the resolution.
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The only thing I care about withe the Epstein stuff is how he died. I don’t believe he killed himself.
Oh yes, and we are now getting National Enquirer type coverage of this issue, lol.
Everything would be like the Steele Dossier that Hillary put out about Trump. It would likely be lots of just bogus made up crap about Trump and others in the files.
The Trump-Epstein brouhaha looks like its proof-positive
Epstein was a part of the super-secret Israeli Mossad apparat.
Netanyahu could be putting the never fail “better-do-the-right-thing-for-Israel”
pressure routine on Trump to drop the Einstein probe.........or else.
Even sap-happy Bondi got the drift.
Just love the sources you post. Just impeccably true. No doubt. /s
Autoerotic asphyxiation
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Someone who worked in Israeli intelligence said Epstein was spy who conducted honeypot traps .
This is the conclusion I can see given how badly trump is messing this up
I just don’t know how many countries were involved .I suspect US and possibly England and certainly Israel
He also appears to have been a money launderer for arms dealers.
I now also have to wonder if Epstein is alive given how crazy everyone is acting at the moment.
I don’t either. Early on when the cell conditions were described it was mentioned that nothing in the cell could be fabricated into a noose. The bedsheets are made of a paper-like material.
You know for a fact he is dead?
See Megyn Kelly’s statement on the subject from January 2024
Democrat news outlets are fanning the Epstein flames. The Trump base that is outside of the big cities could care less about Epstein files being revealed. They live remotely from the pressurized urban mass media. They have other priorities they want done by Trump.
Tim burchett has written a letter calling for Maxwell to testify
Agree. I’m sick of hearing about Epstein. The SOB is dead.
Think Trump has just proven to be a bold faced liar as I just heard him say in a tarmac interview yesterday “Nothing to see here move along....” Trump wants Mega to stop talking about it...Even his own Staff disagree with him...
See if you can get a clue after carefully considering what mike Benz is saying here
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1942752401129365688?t
The 2026 mid-term election is looming. Whatever the hell is going on, PDJT, et al., need to FIX IT NOW. We were the biggest winners in 2024, and easily could be the biggest losers in 2026 if this doesn’t shake out soon.
Trump allegedly has near-Solomonlike skills in negotiations and problem solving. If true, now’s the time to use them.
If the issues with Epstein and everything associated with him are monumental, or if they’re meh, it doesn’t matter. The perception of cover-ups and lies can ruin PDJT’s last two years and America if we lose House and/or Senate.
Right! Definitely ulterior motives!
I agree! Count me as one of the country folk who think Trump has higher priorities.
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