Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., signed a petition Wednesday to force a House vote on releasing files related to Jeffrey Epstein, giving it the needed 218 signatures.
Grijalva was sworn in as the newest member of Congress on Wednesday, more than seven weeks after she won a special election in Arizona to fill the House seat last held by her late father.
At the risk of being that guy, it’s not what has happened to the US government, but what the US government has always been. Like, rich men getting off scot-free for diddling kids (and other crimes against ordinary people) didn’t start with Trump; the Epstein files didn’t become a thing under Trump. America has always been a country by and for rich men.
That’s pretty much the world mate. Rich men used to do a bit of a better job in the US of keeping each other in check though. Epstein was a rich man. You can argue he should have / would have been brought to justice sooner, but at least he was. The opposite of being blind to what’s going on is being so aware of it that you become nihilistic about it.