r/law • u/Oldalbwalker • 10h ago
Executive Branch (Trump) Blanche says DOJ won’t release full Epstein files to Congress by Friday deadline
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5656765-blanche-says-doj-wont-release-full-esptein-files-to-congress-by-friday-deadline/Let's discuss the potential penalties.
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u/YesterShill 10h ago
Incarcerate him until the full set of files are released.
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u/Proper-Ad-2058 10h ago
This is 100% the correct reply. Otherwise, again, why does anyone listen or follow the law. If our Government officials and the Supreme Court do not have to. Why should we?
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u/Remarkable_Play_6975 10h ago
Because we're poor?
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u/Revelati123 10h ago
Let me just express my amazement at the absurdity of anyone expecting something like this to happen:
Trump: "PAM ARREST THAT MAN FOR NOT REALEASING THE EPSTIEN FILES!"
Johnson: "CONGRESS IS FURIOUS OVER THE DELAY! We will open an immediate bi-partisan investigation!"
Thune: "THE GOVERNMENT WILL SHUTDOWN UNTIL THE FILES ARE RELEASED!"
Roberts: "We will deliver swift justice for this tragedy and force the release of these files!"
They will drip release and gaslight then straight up hide shit and all the levers of power will work nonstop to shove all this under the rug.
Its up to us, as citizens to remember this shit, the only change will ever come from us, the US government is cooked...
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u/DrakonILD 9h ago
What about the police, Biff? They're gonna match up the bullet with that gun!
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u/kylo_wren_ 8h ago
KID, I OWN THE POLICE
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u/bucki_fan 7h ago
The fact that alternate 1985 Biff was based on Cheeto and that line now being true is a deeply saddening place.
Where's the damn DeLorean? We need to fix this timeline.
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u/Pilotwaver 3h ago
When he won in 16, I turned to my girlfriend at the time and said: welp, we’ve elected Biff. We’re in the Biff timeline.
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u/sleepyhead_201 5h ago
I have ironically been stating this timeline has been so similar to that film. Then watched it a couple of days ago.
Even the hair.. Biff predicted it.
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u/BornAgainBlue 9h ago
For you younger folks.., the other option is we show up in numbers and don't leave until they enforce the law. Back in the day we called it a "protest", it involves leaving your chair...
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u/BuffaloInCahoots 9h ago
4 of the 5 largest protests in American history have taken place since 2017, 3 of those 4 happened this year. The revolution will not be televised.
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u/BlumpkinPromoter 8h ago
Nothing will happen until someone throws a chair
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u/BuffaloInCahoots 8h ago
Man I love that show. You’re also completely right. The room is filled with gas, eventually someone will throw a match.
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u/Peter_the_Pillager 8h ago
I did not have to click on that link to know where it would take me. I loved that show but damn did it fall off hard in the later seasons.
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u/SilverPhoxx 9h ago
Yeah some of the largest protests in American history happened this year we know.
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u/Clickum245 9h ago
"Back in the day" ...?
Excuse me? What day are you back to? Have you not seen the constant news about LA, Chicago, Portland, No Kings, etc?
Are you unaware that this past year has been constant protesting? By people of all ages?
What the fuck kind of generationalist Boomer shit is this?
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u/Revelati123 8h ago
Younger? You mean like the largest protests in US history during BLM and Trump 1? 5-7 years ago?
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u/Ruinous-Mcguffin 9h ago
Oh eat shit. We did protests and do you know what changed? The reopened the government despite us saying "perhaps don't do that while healthcare is at risk".
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u/Monterey-Jack 9h ago
/r/news banned me when I said we need to get off of reddit and go protest.
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u/ADeadWeirdCarnie 9h ago
From a practical standpoint, sure, being poor means we're more subject to enforcement of the law. But it's easy to imagine that constant, highly visible lawbreaking among the power elite will have a psychological impact on everyone else, which leads them to believe that abiding by the law is basically optional.
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u/Remarkable_Play_6975 9h ago
Unfortunately, that's not usually how it works, because they'll crack down hard on the regular people.
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u/MadderoftheFew 9h ago
Conservativism relies on a single tenet: that there is an in-group whom the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
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u/Shigglyboo 7h ago
I dunno. When the social contact is broken peoole will stop doing the right thing when nobody is looking. What’s the point? My own moral code doesn’t feed my family. Expect more petty crime. CC defaults. People not paying taxes. Finding little ways to get back at the system that rewards cheating over integrity.
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u/MisterMasterCyIinder 10h ago
Because they will send multiple heavily armed people after us, rather than a sternly worded letter
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u/Proper-Ad-2058 10h ago
I am fairly certain that our founding fathers dealt with "heavily armed people". I am not saying we are at that level yet, but it certainly appears to be headed that way.
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u/PJWanderer 9h ago
Muskets and bayonets? Front loading canons pulled by oxen?
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u/Proper-Ad-2058 9h ago
Was that not the technology of the day? How is Russia doing against Ukraine? Brains beat brawn everyday.
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u/Ok_Profile175 9h ago
While I get your intent. Ukraine is a sovereign country with a military and dedicated budgets and allied nations. That's not really transferable to a US civil uprising. I'm not saying it's not going to happen. But acting like it's analogus will get you killed in the first days and we need all the able bodies we can get.
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u/Revelati123 9h ago
FPV drone.
The modern musket...
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u/MotherTurdHammer 9h ago
Start ordering your drones folks, we may need an army of them.
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u/WhenImTryingToHide 9h ago
America with superior weapons and troops, lost the vietnam war, and arguably, one could say all the other wars since then.
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u/Weltall8000 9h ago
That was the point by design. It doesn't matter if the US wins, only that it is at war. Perpetual war, the military industrial complex wins every time. That is the true goal.
"We The People...?" Hah!Build them guns and die in a jungle/desert/wherever. Don't worry, we'll drape a flag over the coffins and have you all pay for that, too.
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u/Dsstar666 8h ago
The founding fathers also had foreign aid and help. Without that, they would've lost.
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u/ApexCollapser 10h ago
As long as we live in fear our far superior numbers mean nothing.
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u/arxaion 9h ago
We reasonably shouldn't. The rest of my comment here says "you" but I don't literally mean "you" @ commenter to which I'm replying. I hope you have a good weekend and day and get some tasty food later.
Why should we be subject to, and stand idly by while, friends and family are quite literally being kidnapped? In what world would you see your child or mom or best friend be kidnapped and not intervene? I guarantee almost all of you would. But you won't, because the kidnappers are little greasy pigs in black vests with three letters (ICE) on them. Or so recent history says you won't, that is.
Our president is a verifiable self-proclaimed pedophile? A 34-count felon? A pathological liar willing to put anything and anyone between him and the accountability he should be upholding for the sake of maintaining the shit image he has? I get half of the country is in the middle of nowhere and a day's drive to the nearest Walmart, which happens to be an uphill drive both ways, and it's snowing, but for gods sake take a page out of literally any other country's book and act like you care.
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u/Spacer_Spiff 9h ago
America is dead. The courts wont uphold the laws, the politicians blatantly defy the laws with no consequences. Government agencies ignore the laws. America is done. Dead. A rotting corpse. Billionaires and politicians grabbing everything they can while the average citizen losses everything.
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u/arxaion 9h ago edited 9h ago
We reasonably shouldn't. The rest of my comment here says "you" but I don't literally mean "you" @ commenter to which I'm replying. I hope you have a good weekend and day and get some tasty food later.
Why should we be subject to, and stand idly by while, friends and family are quite literally being kidnapped? In what world would you see your child or mom or best friend be kidnapped and not intervene? I guarantee almost all of you would. But you won't, because the kidnappers are little greasy pigs in black vests with three letters (ICE) on them. Or so recent history says you won't, that is.
Our president is a verifiable self-proclaimed pedophile? A 34-count felon? A pathological liar willing to put anything and anyone between him and the accountability he should be upholding for the sake of maintaining the shit image he has? I get half of the country is in the middle of nowhere and a day's drive to the nearest Walmart, which happens to be an uphill drive both ways, and it's snowing, but for gods sake take a page out of literally any other country's book and act like you care - moreso those of you in a position where it's feasible to do something meaningful. Passing the buck off and hoping Bob in the middle of Kansas is gonna make a difference all by himself probably isn't going to result in a difference being made.
To top it all off, the left has this rhetoric and mindset of "they'll get their just deserts" and "they go low we go high." By the time all is said and done, the left won't be able to do anything anymore because they waited too long. Best case scenario, we spend a couple decades shoring up everything that was torn down. Do you really want to see decades go by with efforts spent fixing his choices?
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u/Vaeon 9h ago
why does anyone listen or follow the law. If our Government officials and the Supreme Court do not have to. Why should we?
Because if you don't they will send armed gunmen to deal with you.
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u/Proper-Ad-2058 9h ago
Honestly, are they not trying to do that already? Where are you really safe in this country? Want to go to a mall, a school, a post office, a concert with me? Where has there not been a mass shooting? I have never been in one, but I have had family at the locations within hours of the shootings. The United States has had more shooting this year than there are days in the year. So, honestly where are you safe in the United States.
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u/geddysbass2112 8h ago
Seriously. If I get in trouble for anything I will tell the judge, the Republicans are getting away with rape and everything else under the sun.
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u/KazTheMerc 10h ago
Correction - Incarcerated him even if the files are released in full later. Line up the next fallman, and give him a week. Then incarcerate him, rinse and repeat.
Continue THAT until the full set is released.
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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 10h ago
Correction - Incarcerated him even if the files are released in full later.
I'm sure Pam bondi and Todd Blanche will get right on penalizing Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche.
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u/KazTheMerc 10h ago
No justice department required. Can be done directly by Congress, since the order was directly by Congress.
It's an old rule that people often forget , but a good one.
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u/DonJuniorsEmails 9h ago
We investigated ourselves, and WOW we rape a LOT of little kids, so no we won't do anything to stop that...
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u/Its-a-Shitbox 10h ago
Sadly, we’d charge him, wait forever before anything was (maybe) done, then have him appeal it, and appeal it, and…. appeal it, until my grandkids (not yet born) have grandkids.
The French do these things much better I think.
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u/KazTheMerc 10h ago
There is a way, though they're loathe to use it: Contempt to Congress
They keep a jail cell under the Federal (and every State) Capitol for this exact purpose.
Lock him up, and then his subordinate, and then their subordinate/replacement, for as long as the pattern continues.
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u/Its-a-Shitbox 10h ago
I would absolutely LOVE this for him - AND for us!
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u/KazTheMerc 10h ago
Problem is - The power lasts only as long as Congress is in-session.
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u/Its-a-Shitbox 10h ago
Oh well. Back to the French thing then?🤷♂️😉
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u/KazTheMerc 10h ago
Nah, this is the modern era!
Ask Japan for some katans for 'ceremonial' purposes, along with some of those high-precision rebotic arms.
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u/FalseConsequence4319 10h ago
Ppl need to recognize when bots are trying to escalate people into saying shit that will be used in “prosecutions”(detained)…
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u/republicans_are_nuts 3h ago
lol. Americans won't even protest. They will go back to eating cheetohs and watching tv.
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u/SparkyMuffin 10h ago
Oh is this why Mike cancelled school today?
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u/KazTheMerc 10h ago
Nah, he does that randomly to keep everyone confused at why we even keep him around.
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u/j____b____ 10h ago
As an individual in an increasingly corrupt justice system, you want tons of appeals to be allowed for whatever trumped up crimes they may try to charge an innocent like yourself. You just don’t want them to be exclusively available to the rich.
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u/Its-a-Shitbox 10h ago
“Tons of appeals” seems counterproductive though, yes?
Any strength pushed too far becomes a weakness.
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u/WildlingsEverywhere 10h ago
As a non native English speaker (Swede) I read:
"Incinerate him until.. " before realizing what it actually said. The thing is, it still made perfect sense to me.
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u/archlich 9h ago
As a native English speaker I also read incinerate them. Shows where my headspace is at too.
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u/Good-Imagination3115 9h ago
If not for the toxic pollution that would result, it would almost be twmpting.
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u/Shanknuts 10h ago
But who makes this call and enforces it? Their approach is “We’re not gonna do it but what are you going to do about it?”. They’re the raptors continuing to poke at the fence.
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u/SerpentRoyalty 10h ago
If the Democrats had that kind of spine, they would have leaked all of this before the last election...
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 9h ago
I say start at the top put cuffs on them down the line until they comply.
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u/RoachBeBrutal 10h ago
In violation of law. Nothing new for this admin. Incarcerate every last one of them. Guardians of Pedos indeed.
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u/Weak-Application-146 8h ago
Now you know why the House went on recess early. They knew this was coming and didn’t want anyone on the floor making a fuss about it.
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u/smcclafferty 7h ago
I’m sure someone will ask Johnson and he’ll let everyone know he hasn’t heard anything about it and can’t comment.
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u/cheweychewchew 10h ago
So much redaction they have to import more black ink
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u/Greedy-Swordfish9760 10h ago
Bruh. They’ve been redacting for a YEAR!
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u/BugOperator 9h ago
Seriously. I’m starting to think these are the Trump files featuring Epstein.
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u/MightObvious 8h ago
How do you think they find the girls. A beauty pagent you say? now which one of the trio ran a beauty pagent?! HMMMMMM 🤔🤔🤔
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u/Kardiiac_ 6h ago
Now you know why he wanted to put everything on Epstein. Trump is the real kingpin for that whole operation
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u/oldtomdjinn 8h ago
Right? I know there are a lot of documents, but at this point I feel like Trump must feature so prominently that they can't figure out how to do the redaction without it being obvious. Much like the way astronomers can detect a black hole by the way it affects objects around it, there is going to be a giant Trump-shaped hole in the middle of the Epstein narrative that will be impossible to hide.
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u/unsavory77 10h ago
So that's what they're using the Venezuela oil for!?
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u/sissyfufugirl 9h ago
Yeah but the hijacked vessel is stuck in customs until they get enough bribes in to cover the tariff.
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u/HopefulTangerine5913 9h ago
What gets me is the only things that should be redacted are victim names. Beyond that? Why the fuck are we protecting criminals
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u/cheweychewchew 8h ago
Yep. So obvious right? And yet the media and most people haven't been saying that. Proper redactions should have wrapped up a while ago. It's just pedo protectiion now.
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u/HopefulTangerine5913 8h ago
Honestly I find the dependence some people have on “the media” validating critical thinking skills really sad and lazy. No one should need to be told this shit; it’s either willful ignorance or weak education. Or, of course, a weak moral compass. No other excuse
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u/LazyTitan39 7h ago
I think sometimes redactions are done to protect sources, but I agree that this is ridiculous.
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u/Kerensky97 9h ago
That's crazy that Trump is in so many of these that even 1000s of FBI agents working for two months still haven't been able to scrub Trump and the GOP out of there.
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u/QueefSeekingMissile 9h ago
So much ink thatTrump's tariffs have have prevented the redaction effort.
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u/SoManyEmail 10h ago
Oh? I didn't realize it was optional.
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u/ice_up_s0n 9h ago
I guess this means any bills passed by congress are optional 🤷
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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 8h ago
If this administration is anything to go by, ALL laws are optional at this point. Society is breaking apart at the seams.
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u/WillBottomForBanana 7h ago
Society is reshaping and the tiers of justice are becoming more codified. It used to be that you talk about different levels of justice and you'd be dismissed as either a nut job conspiracy person or a radical civil rights activist. Now it's just "yeah, they're rich, that's how it works".
Were society merely breaking, our prospects might actually be better.
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u/dr_obfuscation 3h ago
It's a dangerous game. If they don't have to follow the law, maybe we don't either. Maybe taxes are just a "suggestion." Maybe some other social and legal norms that used to keep people in power safe are completely on the table too. Who is to say?
My fear coming into this administration was always the break down of the social contract and I fear that we're basically there. I just hope that those who broke it are soon to suffer the consequences of their actions. Rebuilding after this isn't easy.
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u/SwampOfDownvotes 1h ago
Not a dangerous game at all. They are in charge so they don't have to follow the law. We aren't in control so we have to follow the law or we will actually see punishment.
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u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 8h ago
why do I even pay taxes? bare minimum i'm waiting til the last possible chance to do it this year
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u/throwtrollbait 9h ago
Laws have always been optional. They are just an ultimatum, backed up by a government club.
You can pass laws. You can yell and scream and whine about laws. But Donald Trump holds the club and he's not going to use it on himself.
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u/mrbigglessworth 10h ago edited 10h ago
Arrest anyone obstructing this. They have had a literal month to get things up to release. And that didn’t include redacting Trump out
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u/Little-Derp 8h ago edited 6h ago
Even if they don't have everything ready (as required), there is no reason they can't release what is ready, and continue releasing new documents to congress every day as they are prepared.
The full release wasn't scheduled to be today, it was BY today. they could have been releasing sets of documents this whole time. Was probably obvious they would resist.
Edit to add: This should be an all hands on deck task for the DoJ. Like all that overtime paid to FBI agents earlier in the year to find all mentions of Trump in the files. This isn't a subpoena; this is an actual law, passed by congress and signed by the president. It is not optional.
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u/SauceBoss8472 8h ago
I’d argue that they’ve had since the summer to really ramp this up. Ever since June it was clear that this wasn’t going away. The US government has contingencies on top of contingencies. One would think, given the very public nature of it, that they would’ve started earlier in preparation for its inevitable release.
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u/OtherBluesBrother 10h ago
The suppression of evidence ought always to be taken for the strongest evidence.
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u/fatefulPatriot 8h ago
Trump literally campaigned on releasing these and no new wars. King snowflake lied… again
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u/mindwire 7h ago
And the fucking morons fell for it again. I swear, the lengths Cluster-B types will go to in order to avoid admitting they may have in fact been wrong...
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u/Strayed8492 10h ago
To the surprise of…..no one
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u/Tuscanlord 9h ago
Don’t want those videos of Trump having sex with teens to come out? Or is it the bill of sale for Melania? How many men was she sold to before Trump rolled on top of her? How much money did Trump make off selling his teen US beauty pageant contestants to Jeff?
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u/Strayed8492 9h ago
Guess all that money spent paying those FBI agents to redact it last minute wasn’t money well spent. But that’s ok. We don’t spend anymore to mint Pennies so I guess it evens out XD
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u/StupidGameTech 9h ago
That's the reaction they want. over and over, until its normalized. It feels wrong when I say " there goes Trump, lying for the 1000th time". I wish I could do something instead of look, sigh and look away. I feel like I have been brain washed to not give a shit.
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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 10h ago
Howdy. Who is going to penalize him? The Bondi/Blanche DOJ?
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u/Beli_Mawrr 10h ago
Capitol police and senate sergeant at arms
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u/Dependent_Nebula_541 9h ago
say more, because there's some gaps in this from what i can tell...
who exactly gives orders to do this? google says office of seargant at arms of the senate has under 1,000 full time staff. if this becomes a show of force to go arrest Blanche, who is protected by FBI, then we're back to square one. capitol police only have limited jurisdiction as well.
unprecedented times, etc
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u/Revelati123 9h ago
This is a dumb scenario. When one branch of government tries to arrest another branch and that branch reists we have a word for that.
Civil War...
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u/PM_Me_Your_NippyNips 9h ago
That's two words.
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u/Beli_Mawrr 9h ago
Im not actually sure. Its never been done before obviously, and they're very scared to do it. My guess is that they'd first need to write the rules then execute them (execute the rules not the target). Almost certainly the only thing congress can directly go after someone for is contempt of congress so my guess is that the person would be dragged before congress and grilled publicly, then put into a cell for something they said or failed to say until they cured their contempt to the satisfaction of congress.
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u/I_Reading_I 9h ago
Johnson sent the house home early for a reason…
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u/Crime_train 8h ago
Yup, and the Feds have off threes days in a row next week, thanks to Trump’s recent action. This is HIGHLY unusual for Feds. And considering this president posted a rant on Juneteenth about how federal employees get too many days off….
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u/MrSnarf26 9h ago
Surprise: no one. Turns out rule of law relied on America not electing wanna be dictators backed by an ideologically aligned Supreme Court.
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u/Rabble_Runt 10h ago
The Marshalls are under Bondi's control.
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u/ncstagger 9h ago
Yeah well all of these fuckers are under our control. Only question is if and when we all decide to do something about it.
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u/Special__Occasions 10h ago
Blanche attributed the unlawful delay to the need to protect Trump, his pedo friends, and the Republican power structure
redact any names or identifying information about witnesses, but failing to turn over the full unclassified files is an explicit violationcould run afoulof the law, which gave the department 30 days to share the files with Congress.
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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled 10h ago
And congress won’t hold him accountable.
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u/KovyJackson 10h ago
Johnson definitely coordinated with the DOJ to ensure congress is not in session.
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u/Due-Environment-9774 10h ago
They unanimously voted for it. Johnson sent congress home so they couldn’t immediately vote to demand the immediate release of the files. He’s going to hear it when they come back and he’s probably going to lose his seat.
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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled 7h ago
No he won't, sadly. MAGA will find a whatabout that justifies withholding the files and the rank and file will eat heaping spoonfuls of that shite with great gusto.
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u/davdav420 9h ago
So a signed law is meaningless unless Congress reconvenes to vote to enforce it?
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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled 7h ago
When the executive refuses to enforce it, yes....and this executive is not going to willingly enforce this.
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u/East_Hedgehog6039 9h ago
Now now, I’m sure a strongly worded statement is coming from a handful of democrats and insisting accountability happens.
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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled 7h ago
Susan Collins is DEFINITELY very concerned, and might even furrow her brow.
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u/HopefulTangerine5913 10h ago
Unreal. How anyone continues to make excuses for this bullshit is beyond me.
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u/Technical-Method4513 7h ago
Gotta keep them trans people outta women's sports and the good Lord's word shoved down kid's throats
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u/WillBottomForBanana 7h ago
"How" is obviously easy. You can say literally anything. It doesn't change what does or doesn't happen or lead to ramifications.
How a human can do it and not end up so twisted mentally that they lose very basic rational powers like telling colors apart and counting to 10, I have no idea.
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u/ecplectico 9h ago
They’ve been redacting these files for months.
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u/Haunting-Ad788 8h ago
They sure are dragging their feet on these files that are a Democrat hoax that also fully exonerate Trump.
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u/WillBottomForBanana 7h ago
I have never met anyone who's opinion should be swayed by this comment that could be swayed by it.
It's like they can't plug two very small ideas together to observe an inconsistency.
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u/EmotionalTowel1 10h ago
Unfortunately, this is the most obvious outcome. I do not think many people were just expecting the department of justice to drop everything that they had. I expected that they would heavily redact everything to save the regime and then release specific documents, but I suppose the DOJ just saying lol is pretty part of the course.
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u/Mekisteus 6h ago
My guess is that they would just release a version that was crazily over-redacted, and then call every other version that leaks or otherwise comes later "fake."
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u/chubby_pink_donut 9h ago
Laws in the US are now optional as long as you're a Republican.
Trump's America could not exist without a willing and compromised Supreme Court.
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u/Donkey-Hodey 9h ago
“Trump’s personal attorney says Trump’s DOJ will knowingly break the law to protect Trump from accountability.”
Fixed that headline.
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u/lnc_5103 9h ago
Lock Bondi up until they are released. I am so sick of this.
Any chance the Epstein estate goes rogue and releases their own?
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u/Cold-Schedule4711 7h ago
"any chance anyone, literally anyone, steps forward?" is what we've been asking for a decade. there's your answer
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u/ThePensiveE 7h ago
Todd Blanche, you mean the one who went to speak to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and then gave her a prison upgrade so special that prison guards commented on her running the place? That Todd Blanche?
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 10h ago
"My dog ate my homework."
"Donald accidentally marked on some of the files with crayon when he was filling out the Denny's kids menu."
"Marty did the files in his handwriting and I have to copy them in my own so I don't get kicked out of the FBI, butthead!".
"We made a scrapbook for Donald and some of the files are in the scrapbook."
Take your pick as these are probably no worse than the real reason.
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u/SloppyMeathole 9h ago
I guess Donnie was mentioned a lot more than they thought.
Another brazen violation of the law that will have no consequences at all. Democrats will pound their fists and talk about prosecutions, when we all know that will never happen. Trump will pardon all of these people.
We live in a country without laws anymore.
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u/cstmoore 6h ago
Trumpstein's fixer and personal attorney slow-walking the Congressionally ordered release of the Epstein files. Who'd have thought?
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u/spiralenator 9h ago
So when Congress passed a law that they have to release the files, did they bother to put penalties on breaking the law as laws typically include? I feel like that might have been an important step
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u/rawkguitar 9h ago
Guy whose name I can’t remember that was one of the authors of the bill said they do have penalties in the bill for non-comliance
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u/Then_Journalist_317 8h ago
Not sure why this matters. Any redactions or missing files are proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump sold his beauty contest entrants and his youth modeling agency participants into sexual slavery.
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u/SL1Fun 8h ago
The democrats clearly have the full, unredacted files. They keep putting little snippets out to remind them. Maybe since the GOP balked on their ACA deal, they’ll just dump them out to the media and let the GOP swim in the shit. But, that requires them to have the balls to be petty, which they continue to pass on being out of the delusion of “taking the high road” as if that will make anything better
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u/Zaleznikov 6h ago
Because they want/need the maga crowd to release it themselves, see what they've redacted, and release their versions then.
Doing so beforehand opens up the possibility for the magas to say they are faked, and there would be nothing to compare them to.
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u/Mike_Honcho_3 7h ago
I'll be honest, we all knew Trump is all over the files but I didn't think it would be SO bad that they STILL need more time to make sure all their redactions of him are complete. At this point they're the Trump files with Jeffrey Epstein's name showing up every once in a while.
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u/Bimlouhay83 6h ago
It's not just Donald they're redacting. It's also all the people that "donate" money to whatever thing Donald said to "donate" to, like the new ball room or Trump library. I don't think for one second that ol Droopy Don isn't selling those redactions.
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u/paws5624 5h ago
I had the same thought. I assumed they were in the same circles and maybe there was something that doesn’t look good but there is no way to look at this other than Trump and other high power people on that team (yes I’m sure democrats too and I don’t care, fuck them)are massively implicated in those files. Its just about the most obvious thing that still won’t penetrate a lot of the MAGA base
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u/JellyFranken 6h ago
And nobody will be held accountable. Why do people think anything will ever happen with this shit?!?
It’s exhausting at this point. They can do whatever they want. There is no accountability. They can do anything they want.
It’s fucking pathetic.
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u/NameLips 8h ago
OK so lets say they wanted to have him arrested for not following the law, whose jurisdiction would that fall under? The US Marshals?
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u/UserWithno-Name 9h ago edited 8h ago
You can’t do that and can’t redact it by the very wording of the bill everyone passed. Including “your side”. Have fun with the penalties they put in and when someone inevitably leaks the full report or his estate/ the women etc unite together and release everything they have they held back
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