No more bringing a butter knife to a gun fight?
Democrats are showing they’re ready to get dirty and hit President Trump where it hurts by stoking the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that’s severed his MAGA movement.
The strategy strays from the official line coming from top Democrats such as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), who say they want their midterm campaign message to center on Medicaid cuts and other kitchen-table policies contained in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
But the focus on Epstein has also been remarkably successful, energizing the Democratic grassroots and aggravating tensions within the GOP.
And this week, it prompted Republican leaders to scrap their legislative plans and head early into the long summer recess — all to avoid votes on the Epstein saga. [snip]
At every turn, Democrats are publicly bashing the administration for reneging on promises to release the Epstein files, aggravating the unusual split within Trump’s far-right MAGA base.
They’re demanding votes on bills to force the Justice Department to release those files, paralyzing House floor activity on the Republicans’ preferred legislative agenda.
And they’re backing an obscure procedural maneuver designed to force a floor vote on the Epstein files in the fall, ensuring that the national debate on the sordid episode — and the headaches it’s created for Trump and the GOP — will endure for at least a few more months.
“This is a cover-up of epic proportions, where you’ve got the majority party literally having us leave Congress early, and not having the Rules Committee meet, because they don’t want to deal with releasing the Epstein files,” Rep. Ted Lieu (Calif.), vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus, told reporters Tuesday in the Capitol.
“The story’s not going to go away because, at core, this is an issue about underage women who are sexually abused and assaulted,” he continued. “Attorney General Pam Bondi should not be protecting Epstein’s legacy, nor his clients, nor should congressional Republicans be doing the same.” [snip]
“We’re going to continue to support those efforts,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar (Calif.), chair of the House Democratic Caucus. “Donald Trump and his son and his closest friends spent years fanning the flame of this theory, and now we’re holding them accountable.”
“Do they want to protect the rich and the powerful? Or do they want the truth?”
Taking their foot off the gas pedal would be not only an act of supreme political malfeasance, but an unconscionable betrayal of the many victims of Epstein and the role of elite clients, including the adjudicated sexual abuser and convicted felon Malignant Fascist, over the years the vile scandal played out. Pusillanimous institutionalist/ establishment types like Jeffries and Sen. Chuck "Strongly Worded Letter" Schumer need to get on board or get out of the way. The reaction of the Malignant Fascist and his rotted- out party/ cult to the Epstein files -- the coverup, the outrageous distractions -- only serves to prove that there's a big fire behind all that smoke.
Release the Epstein files!
(Photo: California Democratic Reps. Aguilar and Lieu / Rep. Lieu's office)
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