It’s a lot easier to flip and flop or turn on a dime or any other 180-degree metaphor when you have no principles or beliefs. And that is the wonder of Donald Trump.
After months of doing whatever he could to block the release of the Jeffrey Epstein records, the president is supporting their publication and says he will sign the bill, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, being voted on today by the House of Representatives.
Yes, this is the same Trump who had House Speaker Mike Johnson keep the chamber out of session for nearly two months and refuse to swear in a new Democratic member from Arizona for seven weeks after she won a special election because she would become the final signature needed on a discharge petition to bring the Epstein bill to the floor.
Yes, this is the same Trump who is backing a Republican primary challenge to Rep. Thomas Massie, who joined with Democrats to lead the discharge effort.
Yes, this is the same Trump who brought Rep. Lauren Boebert to the Situation Room last week to urge her to abandon the discharge.
Yes, this is the same Trump who withdrew his endorsement of discharge petition signer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her a “traitor.” Once Trump’s biggest ally, Greene now has a Trumpist nickname of “Brown,” because when green grass rots it becomes that color.
Yes, this the same Trump who had his henchwoman, Attorney General Pam Bondi (who has control of the files and faked a release of them this year) sic the Manhattan U.S. attorney against Bill Clinton and other Democrats for ties to Epstein.
Yes, this is the same Trump who had his execrable director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, yesterday release thousands of Amelia Earhart files that were already public. What’s next, the mystery of Judge Crater?
Yes, this is the same Trump who can order the files released any time he wants without waiting for Congress.
But still Trump insists, “The Democrats were Epstein’s friends, all of them. And it’s a hoax, the whole thing is a hoax.”
With Epstein survivors on hand as invited guests today, the bill will pass, with every Democrat voting yes and possibly every Republican as well, now that their leader is in support. And if the Senate follows, and there is no reason it won’t, and Trump does sign, here come the files.
The bill says the AG shall “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Attorneys’ Offices, that relate to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.”
The bill also says that “No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.” That includes Trump and Clinton and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the son of Queen Elizabeth and brother of King Charles, who used to be called Prince Andrew until his Epstein ties had him kicked out of the palace.
Epstein died by his own hand, hanged in his cell in the now-closed Downtown’s Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2019, but his evil legacy of sexually abusing underage girls and young women is haunting his pals from the old days, including Donald Trump. And that’s no hoax.
