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.”
Last time I checked it was nearly unanimous with only 1 nay… Didn’t realize the Dems had such power.
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.
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.
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.
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.