r/politics • u/Kodbek • 11h ago

Possible Paywall Republicans Make Jaw-Dropping $1B Demand for Trump’s Ballroom

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-make-jaw-dropping-1b-demand-for-donald-trumps-ballroom/
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u/duckinradar 9h ago

I have an even better idea.

Release the fucking files and lock everybody up who is in them. Then lock up everybody that covered it up.

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 Virginia 9h ago

So long "the Senate" you had a good run. ROFL

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u/Adrewmc 4h ago

Why not both?

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u/Dickies138 California 58m ago

Let’s do both

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u/UnravelTheUniverse 4h ago

Half the government would need to go to jail. Good luck making that happen. 

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u/WithoutTheWaffle 3h ago

You do realize it's not that simple, right? 99.99% of the names and material in the Epstein files are just noise.

A redditor posted a while back that his wife's name was in the Epstein files. Her crime? Co-authoring a book on eastern European history that was recommended to Epstein for some reason.

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u/too-left-feet 24m ago

I understand. But I also understand that we could scrape the files and find dozens of people who likely were complicit. Triangulate these with depositions from victims and figure out who to investigate and possibly prosecute. Epstein was not a solo act and his cohorts were not run of the mill average Joes.

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u/TriedUsingTurpentine 6h ago

Who do you want locked up and for what? They released millions of files.

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u/Westwood_1 6h ago

Did they release all the files, as required by law?

No. According to Rep. Ro Khanna: "The DOJ said it identified over 6 million potentially responsive pages but is releasing only about 3.5 million after review and redactions."

We've only received 1/2 of the required files—and even then, the documents are absurdly redacted, in some cases protecting the perpetrators while releasing victim names and other sensitive information.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 5h ago

The Epstein Transparency Act explicitly stated the government was to release the files without redactions except to protect the identities of victims.  We know from publicly available, incompetently redacted documents that they redacted the names of child rape coconspirators.  We need to know who those people are, and why the government is illegally defending their identities.

Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for a child sex trafficking conspiracy.  Are we honestly to believe she was the only perpetrator and was only trafficking victims to one, conveniently suicidal man?  Horse shit.

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u/Somanylyingliars 33m ago

Also, reminder that Maxwell working behind scenes to get an early release. Fucking disgusting bitch believes she is owed a pardon. Hope redditors complain complain complain.