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Democratic leaders accuse Republicans of protecting pedophiles
The Hill ^ | 07/23/25 1:34 PM ET | by Mike Lillis

Posted on 07/23/2025 3:01:34 PM PDT by RandFan

House Democratic leaders on Wednesday stepped up their hardball criticism of President Trump and the GOP over the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, accusing their rivals of shielding pedophiles by not releasing federal files surrounding the case.

The Democrats say the decision by GOP leaders to leave Washington a day early for the long summer recess — a move precipitated by Democratic efforts to force votes compelling the Trump administration to release those files — is indication that Republicans don’t want the details of the Epstein case revealed because they might implicate wealthy GOP donors, or even President Trump himself.

“What a fitting end to these six months of Republican control in Washington,” Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.), the Democratic whip, said during a press briefing in the Capitol. “Instead of doing their jobs — instead of standing up for kids, for families, instead of standing on the side of transparency and accountability — Republicans are running away, all to avoid the release of the Epstein client list, all to cover up for pedophiles.”

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They've flipped the script

I've said before they should be careful what they wish for with Maxwell appearing

1 posted on 07/23/2025 3:01:34 PM PDT by RandFan
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“”” Republicans are running away, all to avoid the release of the Epstein client list, all to cover up for pedophiles”””

So.....why didn’t these democrat politicians release it at any time in the last four years??????? They also controlled the House and Senate from 2018-2020 so they could have released it then.


2 posted on 07/23/2025 3:04:04 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: RandFan

Bad optics to recess early for anything let alone to stop a vote about Epstein

Yet another red flag that something major is being covered up.

Is Johnson really that stupid not to realize what was going to happen after they went on vacation early.


3 posted on 07/23/2025 3:04:41 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RandFan

That’s ironic since for FOUR YEARS I did not hear ONE Democrat mention Jeffrey Epstein’s name NOT ONCE..so tell me again who is protecting pedophiles


4 posted on 07/23/2025 3:04:55 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: RandFan

That’s rich coming from the party of homosexuals and perverts


5 posted on 07/23/2025 3:06:22 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Sarah Barracuda

then you weren’t listening.

Senate Finance Committee has been hot on the trail after the Dechert report.

UNDER BIDEN


6 posted on 07/23/2025 3:07:45 PM PDT by RummyChick
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all to avoid the release of the Epstein client list, all to cover up for pedophiles

So why didn't Biden release the list, democrats?

7 posted on 07/23/2025 3:09:27 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: RummyChick

Explain to me why the Epstein thing became the most important issue in the history of the world in the last week.


8 posted on 07/23/2025 3:10:28 PM PDT by shelterguy
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So say those who let these kids get sold on the kiddie sex slave market enabled by their revived slave trade and protect real pedophiles like these guys https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4330275/posts William-Mc-Elroy-Dalton-Terrell-Andres-Trejo-072225-8f5d4bcab00e4f729f5090a1a99aa06a .... William Chase McElroy, Dalton Terrell, and Andres Velazquez-Trejo https://people.com/bunker-of-hell-men-alleged-rape-small-children-alabama-11777035 arrested for allegedly operating what local authorities described as an “abhorrent” and “horrific” child sex abuse ring out of an underground bunker.
9 posted on 07/23/2025 3:10:52 PM PDT by cuz1961 ( )
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The communists are slowly building up to their declaration that Trump bombed Pearl Harbor and started WWII...


10 posted on 07/23/2025 3:11:06 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: shelterguy

Thats a laugh considering ICE is catching the pedophiles from other countries that have come into our county illegally, let in by the previous DEMOCRAT administration who turned a blind eye to it and put into office liberal judges who went easy on pedophiles when they were caught and let the off only to find these people did the same crimes again.

That child sex trafficking in Alabama investigation is looking into a mexican gang being involved in the trafficking of the children held for sexual abuse in a bunker in Bibb County Alabama for years. Just busted. Children between the ages of 3 to 10 with the oldest 15 and abused for years.

THIS is what is in our country.


11 posted on 07/23/2025 3:11:39 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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“””Thats a laugh considering ICE is catching the pedophiles from other countries that have come into our county illegally,””””””

And the democrats protect those pedo files every step of the way.


12 posted on 07/23/2025 3:13:21 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: RandFan

This is why Trump is pissed at Maga morons falling into this trap.

Bunch of idiots so triggered they can’t see the forest for the trees.


13 posted on 07/23/2025 3:13:26 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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+1


14 posted on 07/23/2025 3:14:28 PM PDT by TexasGator (11/I1.here is no Sharknado system)
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To: RandFan

So says the ones who let cartel coyotes traffic over 300,000 kids into the country to disappear and be abused .

They , DNC, are the ones protecting pedophiles in schools, libraries , everywhere .

Spit

Lying disgusting projectionist hypocrites.


15 posted on 07/23/2025 3:19:15 PM PDT by cuz1961 ( )
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To: RandFan

“...shielding pedophiles by not releasing federal files surrounding the case.”


Not to make light of Epstein’s crimes/sins but was he ever accused of trafficking prepubescent boys and girls? That’s what pedophilia is, not some older guy going after a 16 year-old.

Besides, lowering the age of consent to allow such things is a democrat thing, not a MAGA/Trump/Republican thing.


16 posted on 07/23/2025 3:20:54 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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"Pluh pluh plug blerg u was right honk honk the MSM news cycle died after 3 days and I can't resurerect it because Kaintuck and no one kares..."

At least his box says, "See new information" ... LOFL!

17 posted on 07/23/2025 3:21:01 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: RandFan

Barney Frank might advise. Age 85. “Married” to a man since 2012. Was involved in major sex scandal of homosexuals in 1987-1990 investigated by the US House Ethics committee for alleged paid escort services run from his residence by his current lover.

Wikipedia: (note the GOP accuser was also acting “lewd.”)

The Committee found no evidence that Frank had known of or been involved in the alleged illegal activity and dismissed all Gobie’s more scandalous claims; they recommended a reprimand for Frank using his congressional office to fix 33 of Gobie’s parking tickets and for misstatements of fact in a memorandum relating to Gobie’s criminal probation record. The House voted 408–18 to reprimand Frank.

The attempts to censure and expel Frank were led by Republican Larry Craig. Eventually, Frank would criticize Craig for hypocrisy after Craig’s own arrest in 2007 for lewd conduct in a public restroom. Despite the controversy, Frank won re-election in 1990 with 66 percent of the vote, and by larger margins until the 2010 mid-term elections when his victory margin went down to eleven points.


18 posted on 07/23/2025 3:21:22 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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what I want to know is... why are they not prosecuting all the pedos that are in those files!!!


19 posted on 07/23/2025 3:22:18 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: SuperLuminal

Ha. After months of TV coverage they will notice he was born in 1946 so had an alibi.


20 posted on 07/23/2025 3:22:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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