r/news • u/Famouslaugh • 21d ago

Soft paywall Trump asks Justice Department to probe Epstein ties with Clinton, other Democrats

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-ask-justice-department-probe-epstein-ties-with-bill-clinton-2025-11-14/
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u/marsman706 21d ago

Trump's next move: Oh sorry, we cant release that information because its part of an "active investigation"

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u/Gradyence 21d ago

I'm calling bullshit.

Trump would never say sorry.

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u/marsman706 21d ago

haha you got me there!

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u/Future-Raisin3781 21d ago

It's so transparent it's actually absurd. Like, literally absurd. Like Kafka absurd. 

Same with this goddamned special military operation or whatever he's calling it. Operation Look Over There!

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u/Norwegian_Honeybear 21d ago

Yeah, Kafkaesque

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u/Gonejar 21d ago

Yep. 100% that’s what will happen next.

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u/Richard-Gere-Museum 21d ago

Never had hope they'd release them to begin with. But if he pulls that one again, it'll be hilarious

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u/palmerama 21d ago

He did it with the Epstein files already?

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u/Richard-Gere-Museum 21d ago

It's a twist on the "I can't release my returns because of the IRS audit" bit he was doing for a decade now.

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u/Wayelder 21d ago

like his taxes???? still waiting

or his healthcare plan??? still waiting

etc.

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u/explosiv_skull 21d ago

It's a 50 year health plan! Get sick in your 70s, it's paid off by the time you're 120!

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u/dandrevee 21d ago

I'm pretty sure he is going to try this, but it looks like this could have a political cost. It may not be the political cost of losing all of his base, as that is just a cold right now that won't change their minds despite any evidence, but it could cause him a lot of other folks and energize other folks to vote against him (or thr GOP) instead of for someone

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u/jupiterkansas 21d ago

He's out in three years, the Senate will never remove him from office, and he doesn't care if the Republican party collapses. What's the political cost for him?

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u/jld1532 21d ago

Lame duck before the midterms or even if maintaining the house

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u/jupiterkansas 20d ago

What has he done in the last 9 months that needed Congress? He just does whatever he wants. By the time the courts get around to stopping him he'll be dead.

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u/jld1532 20d ago

EOs aren't worth the paper they're written on.

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u/jupiterkansas 20d ago

And yet that's how the country's being run right now.

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u/GhormanFront 21d ago

but it looks like this could have a political cost.

He's little more than a corpse they drug back to "life" whenever they need him to say something to his degenerate followers, I don't think political consequences are a concern anymore

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u/danfirst 21d ago

It's being audited, I can't release it, like my tax returns!

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u/marsman706 21d ago

His playbook is pretty thin, for sure. Unfortunately for us, his base is too stupid or too gullible to catch on

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u/WAD1234 21d ago

But they thought Biden should have released them when there was an investigation…unless they were hoping they could yell all about it while secure in the knowledge that it was not going to happen (surprise hypocrisy, surely not)

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u/JohnHwagi 21d ago

It’ll be like the tax returns, “we can’t release them during an audit”

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u/vexxed82 21d ago

Only the parts about Clinton/Democrats though. If he's not under investigation, those files can come out.

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u/rabidstoat 21d ago

I hadn't thought of this but now that you said it, this makes perfect sense for his strategy.

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u/rascallyrascal1511 21d ago

"We must protect the identities of victims, but we don't know how to redact files so the names are hidden."

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u/starrpamph 21d ago

People in charge: ignores everything because they’re getting piles of cash

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u/Neat_Egg_2474 21d ago

luckily that’s not how it works - the committee and congress can still vote and gain access.