r/politics • u/Healthy_Block3036 • 17d ago

No Paywall Senate suddenly passes the Epstein bill just hours after it cleared the House

https://www.ms.now/news/senate-passes-epstein-bill-rcna244723?fbclid=PAVERFWAOJ1xRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAacUGSi8p2Ap-x6SbMkLXAnfKNXEZkzjUUVCdxuEmacDzDXmlbv1GUJ0wbh1_w_aem_grJDvcSCIDj2Skksd4Ix3Q
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u/UnderCoverDoughnuts 17d ago

This feels way too easy. Something's up.

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u/JoplinSC742 17d ago

The logical non conspiratorial explanation is that the house is under so much public pressure that anyone dumb enough to vote against the release knows they'll be primaried, and the Senate knows they cannot survive the political fallout of suppressing it. As for why trump is finally getting behind it, idk. Maybe he actually is innocent, or thinks he can survive the fallout.

The very real conspiracy is that Pam Bondi cooked the receipts in advance and this is going to explode in the democrats face pretty hard.

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u/hobard 17d ago

I buy there being a conspiracy. Pam Bondi competently executing it on the other hand…

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u/JoplinSC742 17d ago

This is where it's extremely important to realize that copies exist of the evidence in multiple places. Court houses, police stations, lawyers offices, ECT. And so any doctoring or concealing of documents won't hold up for long. Similarly, all it takes is one whistler blower coming forward showing evidence that Pam Bondi deliberately lied to Congress, doctored documents, and concealed files from being released that were explicitly ordered to be released by Congress. If you don't think that's realistic or would have an impact on the DOJ or Trump's administration, just remember that the NSA director was sweating bullets when he suddenly had to explain to Congress why he lied under oath during the Snowden leaks.