Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Sunday he thinks it’s a “big mistake” for the Trump administration to release heavily redacted files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying the issue could now “plague them for months.”
“I think it’s a big mistake,” Paul said in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” when asked about concerns over the Justice Department’s partial release of files on Friday.
“I mean, look, the administration has struggled for months and months with something they initially ginned up and then sort of tried to tamp down. So, any evidence or any kind of indication that there’s not a full reveal on this, this will just plague them for months and months more,” he continued.
Easy to say. It’s a performative statement when you only talk about it afterwords instead of demanding the files be released plaintext beforehand.
If Trump took a knife and went on a stabbing spree in front of a crowd, would ANYTHING be done about it? Anything at all? Would he just be allowed to continue presidenting while headlines meekly tell us it may be illegal for presidents to stab people?
So long as he rationalizes it as “part of his official duties”? It doesn’t even have to be coherent.
In that case, all but the most “radical leftists” in the media won’t bother to protest. Everyone will keep their heads down, praying they aren’t next. Until they are.
Meanwhile, the rest of us just abandon that machine for our own chaos of new media. No one under 50 will notice, except thru some react streamer.
Both Thomas Massie and Rand Paul are terrible for all Americans but are getting this one issue correct.
Republicans should have never nominated Trump in the first place.
Fucking children is a big mistake… For the administration.
Rand Paul is a piece of shit who I hope one day takes a long walk off a piece of driftwood he thought was a pier.
But I hope he’s right and this becomes a snowballing bigger issue for the administration.
diving in front of the camera
“I’m a US Senator and I’m saying something obvious, please do an article about me!!!”
Paul’s (and his noxious friend Mike Lee’s) faux-libertarianism has been barely a speed bump for this Presidency. So much for Small Government.
Guaranteed of someone was trying to give poor people free food rand would be on the warpath though
All of the leadership in the DOJ should be arrested. Including Miller if it can be shown he’s involved in making decisions.
I mean he can barely see over the table, it’s gonna be stretch to prove he could ever reach a pin to sign anything
This assumes the contents will not be worse for them.
Yeah exactly. The only reason they would choose to heavily react the files and refuse to release others is because the contents of those files is absolutely decision to Trump. Paul acts like they’re just accidentally covering this up.
Right. He doesn’t want to call Trump a pedo to his face for political reasons. But he’s clearly pointing it out. Call it deceitful, call it politeness, your choice, we all understand the message.
Americans understanding subtext? That would require reading and not simply watching TV.
There’s nothing the administration can do that will be bad for them, they are immune from any possible consequences for anything
