Hey Republicans, it’s time to get out the shovels and dig a really deep gap. Then bury without end the stench and false innuendo coming from the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Particularly now that the lifeless monster’s cohort, Ghislaine Maxwell, has informed the Justice Division that she by no means as soon as noticed President Trump “appearing inappropriately in any approach” and that he “was by no means inappropriate with anyone” regardless of an extended affiliation with Epstein.
These ought to be the ultimate phrases of the sordid saga and provides the GOP the arrogance to cease runnin’ scared on the topic and drop its silly obsession with the case.
The social gathering is wasting your time and its Home majority by chasing shadows whereas extra urgent issues for the American folks go begging for consideration.
The necessity for an pressing course correction stems from the truth that, in current months, it generally has been troublesome to resolve which social gathering was extra obsessive about the case of the lifeless pedophile and intercourse trafficker.
Crockett will get it
Even Rep. Jasmine Crockett, the foul-mouthed radical Texas Dem, informed reporters that the case was not a precedence for Democrats in the identical approach it has been for the GOP.
The Epstein case, she claimed, “wasn’t a promise that we made. So this was not one thing that was entrance and heart.”
For as soon as, she’s proper. The GOP is driving the Epstein prepare, and frittering away confidence in its potential to control.
In reality, there’s some overlap with the Dems, as each events have charged at numerous instances there exists a hidden trove of paperwork that can disgrace and incriminate numerous members of the opposite social gathering.
For Dems, Trump is their fantasy goal. Bereft of important on a regular basis points towards him that resonate with voters, some lefties, particularly within the media, have been placing outsized bets on the concept the Epstein case holds the important thing to their redemption and the president’s collapse.
That focus makes some sense as a result of they’re fully out of energy in Washington and are determined for something that would give them an edge towards the president and the GOP.
Within the Home, the fixation is centered on the Oversight Committee, with some Dems seeing gold in Trump’s admitted friendship with Epstein within the ’90s and early 2000s.
The actually odd half is the way in which the GOP has behaved. Though there has by no means been any credible declare of wrongdoing by the president, most Republican members on the Oversight Committee have been erratic.
They’ve been so decided to discover a Holy Grail of Epstein paperwork that they voted with Dems to subject a broad subpoena to Trump’s personal Division of Justice.
That quantities to pleasant hearth on the White Home.
To be truthful, the DOJ has made a nasty state of affairs worse and helped stoke conspiracy theories. Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi initially promised to launch information earlier, together with an Epstein shopper checklist, then backtracked, saying the paperwork didn’t exist.
Reported blowups between Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, fueled a suspicion even amongst some Trump supporters, together with in Congress, that the administration isn’t simply confused, it’s truly hiding bombshells.
Bongino threatened to give up, and Bondi has been bleeding help, although Trump continues to precise confidence in her.
Lingering doubts
Nonetheless, the GOP congressional push for paperwork displays how these earlier errors have helped to unfold doubts.
A key subject is whether or not the division has been hiding a shopper checklist as a result of Bondi flip-flopped on whether or not one existed.
She additionally mentioned in a memo that the case was closed and that no extra information from it could be launched whereas confirming earlier probes that Epstein died by suicide in a New York Metropolis jail whereas awaiting prosecution.
Neither Epstein’s brother nor Maxwell purchase the concept he took his personal life.
Nonetheless, the discharge of the transcript and recording of the two-day Maxwell interview are robust causes for the GOP to name off the canine and switch to different issues.
The interview passed off in a Florida jail final month and was led by Deputy Lawyer Normal Todd Blanche.
Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in December 2021 of intercourse trafficking and conspiracy fees associated to Epstein, informed Blanche “I by no means witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any approach.”
Her robust help for Trump’s claims that he did nothing improper received’t fulfill the Dems, however ought to be greater than sufficient for the GOP to maneuver on.
But, oddly, that doesn’t appear to be the plan.
Comer needs extra data, saying earlier within the week that “There are various information in DOJ’s custody, and it’ll take the Division time to provide all of the information and make sure the identification of victims and any little one sexual abuse materials are redacted.”
He added, “I respect the Trump administration’s dedication to transparency and efforts to offer the American folks with data on this matter.”
Attempt to think about a Dem committee chairman issuing a subpoena to an legal professional basic underneath a Dem president, then badgering for increasingly.
It could by no means occur.
Do not forget that, as legal professional basic, Eric Holder known as himself Barack Obama’s “wingman.” And when former AG Merrick Garland realized Joe Biden needed Trump prosecuted, he shortly complied — with two history-making indictments.
Fishing expedition
But Republicans on Comer’s committee enthusiastically be a part of with Dems to demand all the pieces Justice has on Epstein.
Even now, Comer by no means says what he suspects is on the market and who could be broken by it.
Absent some focus, it smells like a fishing expedition of the Trump administration.
In the meantime, his committee, which is the Home’s chief investigative panel, by no means delivered the products it promised to search out on the Biden household influence-peddling scheme all over the world.
There was tons of tantalizing speak and attention-grabbing financial institution information have been produced displaying Biden members of the family sharing in some funds, however there was no large remaining supply, only a quiet ending, which let the “Massive Man” off the hook.
Sadly, an identical sample appears to be unfolding about one other Biden matter. Only recently, eight months after Trump took workplace, Comer began to name witnesses in a probe of who within the White Home deliberate and carried out the plot to deceive the general public and Congress about Biden’s extreme cognitive decline.
An early witness, Ian Sams, a former press aide, testified in a secret listening to that he solely noticed Biden twice throughout the greater than two years he labored for the president.
“It raises severe considerations about who was calling pictures on the White Home,” Comer mentioned.
It definitely does, Sherlock. Nevertheless it’s your job to offer the solutions to these questions, together with whether or not Biden was mentally match to have the nuclear codes.
What are you ready for?
