Five members of Congress spanning both parties and both chambers want a briefing by Friday on the Trump administration’s progress in releasing the Epstein files.

    • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The shutdown ended, and then all of a sudden there was a vote to release the files. For a little bit I thought it’d be vetoed or pocket vetoed, but then all of a sudden the president signed off on it.

      Call me silly, but when the files didn’t come out the very next day, I was like “ok so this is where the shenanigans kick in”

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        No shenanigans kicked in before the vote to release. Like a few days before Trump ordered, and Bondi complied opening investigations into Clinton, JP Morgan, and a few others. The bill says they can withhold anything involving on going investigations. Like they teed this up ahead of time to not release a thing but be able to say they voted to do so.

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      At least not the interesting and essential ones. They’ll be withheld due to “national security”.