The White House is planning to use the Epstein files against Democrats after they, in addition to several Republicans, successfully pressured lawmakers to vote to compel the Justice Department to release the remainder of the files against Donald Trump’s wishes.

After both chambers of Congress agreed to send the Epstein Files Transparency Act to Trump’s desk, two unnamed White House officials indicated to Politico that they plan to draw attention to Democrats who communicated with or were associated with Epstein.

“Democrats only started talking about the Epstein files once they thought they could use it to score political points against President Trump,” an unnamed White House official told Politico. “That will prove to be a mistake for them.”

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    The thing is…Democratic voters are ok with taking down ANYONE, including Democrats, who raped children. We’re not like the Trumpist Bootlicker Cult who excuse the Glorious Orange Leader’s child rape. String them all up. Bring on the new candidates.

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    Its so funny because we know already Musk’s brother, Bannon, and Clinton are in the files.

    Just statistically the dems are like 42% women so its more likely than not this is mostly nonsense. What this likely means is wealthy democrat donors are implicated and imo: fuck them

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    See, shit like this makes me think that the White House didn’t really have a coherent plan for the Epstein files after all, like they’re trying to make us think, and like the right and left talking heads alike have been warning us. If they did, they’d realize that we want to know if Democrats are in the files, so that we can get them the fuck out of our government, same as any Republicans in those files, and same as Trump.

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    Even just that the word “retribution” is used here shows whatever he does should be illegal.

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    We didn’t worry about the Epstein files because our president didn’t have anything to gain by burying the files deeper for his participation in the guys murder.

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    I can see 3 possibilities.

    1. Full uncensored release of the files -highly unlikely.
    2. a heavily edited and censored version with Donny’s name taken out bluntly.
    3. A couple of pages of people’s names that the White House and Donny picked. And whatever happens afterwards I feel like Donny will start a war with Venezuela to try to keep the media from totally focusing on the Epstein files.
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      1. Move the goalposts on “rape” and “pedophilia” because that’s kinda/sorta where they’ve been headed this whole time. It would also get a number of conservative politicians off the hook that aren’t even in the files. Basically like some kind of perverted Overton Window.
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      a heavily edited and censored version with Donny’s name taken out bluntly.

      I have a feeling that soon “■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■” will become a meme…

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      4: Someone who doesn’t like Trump releases the uncensored files, in retribution for something. If your future is ended by Trump, might as well have him hanging from the same scaffold.

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        1,000 FBI agents have seen them. Hundreds of victims know what’s in there. Senate committees, courts. I don’t think substantial modifications will be occurring anymore, it’s been frozen since March when they hastily redacted Trump’s name “as a private citizen”

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          Or one man could replace Trump’s name in the documents with Gavin Newsom in black sharpie and arrest him. The truth hasn’t mattered for years.

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      A few months ago, every single Republican voted no, every single one, and now all but one voted yes. Its amazing how the entire Congress will line up to protect a child molester ring. Kind of makes you wonder what they are up to now? They have had the evidence in their possession for a year to tamper with it.

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        I’m sure the administration suddenly removing federal whistle lower protections has NOTHING to do with fear of the people who had access to the real files.

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    Umm, does he not realise we would also want those pedophiles in jail too?

    Like sure ‘every pedophile’ is better, but half is a good start, we’ll get the rest in due time. Stuff is constantly leaking.

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      Trump is such a dumbass.

      The Democratic pedos are not going to jail without trials.

      I can’t wait to hear what comes out in those.

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      Yeah I look forward to it. Hopefully it purges some of the old guard that keep fucking it up.

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        Even if it is someone you actively wanted, the reaction should be to feel betrayed by then falling to love up to your standards, not to try to rationalize child sex trafficking to preserve your image of the guy.

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    So… he’s going to use the documents, which now show only Democrat names, because they were scrubbed, to get back at the Dems for forcing the release of the scrubbed documents?

    This makes zero sense. If we play along with the ruse that the documents only ever showed Democrat names, why would he be mad that the documents are being released? On the other hand, he agreed to release the obviously scrubbed documents knowing he’s not implicated, and for which the Rs voted too, so why would he retaliate over that?

    THIS MAKES NO SENSE!

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      The fact that they’ve held on to this info for so long, and have never officially identified anybody, tells me that there are a LOT more Republican names than Dem names. Otherwise, they would have been screaming the names from the top of the Washington Monument.

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      Once the MAGAs knew that it would pass, they new that their No votes would be used to bludgeon them in the 2026 Midterms, which are going to be brutal enough without that.

      Despite this, they are ALL complicit in the delay of releasing these files, with plenty of rationalization on record to quote on campaign attack ads. They can still be beaten with the Epstein Files, and everything else they’ve fucked up.

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      Hypocracy on display. Trump spent 4 years demanding the Democrats release the files, scoring political points on the right. Now it’s projection all over again.

      I’m sure there are several people in the Democratic party who were part of this. That does not matter. bad is bad. I don’t care if you otherwise appear to have similar values to me.

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      He told them to pass the bill and is acting like he was somehow betrayed… its all for a scam that we can only guess at currently…

      My money is on them removing their own names like everyone assumes…

      Or find a way not to release them even after the vote.

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        Why he was suddenly “onboard”:

        He thought that the Democrats were bluffing, thinking that Trump would veto. With the threat of Trump actually passing, they would get too scared that their sacred cow Clinton getting caught up.

        He might have been assured by the DOJ that the files were safe to release (now).

        His demand to get investigations going again locks the files back up. An official in an interview basically said as much, that starting investigations would b block “portions of the files” regardless of this bill.

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    Fucking try it cock sucking little piggy. I vow to provide shelter and hide any US rep, or senator that voted yes to releasing the files, no matter which party they are with.