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riversedge

(76,547 posts)
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 03:32 AM 22 hrs ago

House GOP blocks Dem maneuver to force release of Epstein files

Source: axios


4 hours ago - Andrew Solender



House Republicans on Monday night voted against attaching a Democratic amendment to landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would force the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Why it matters: It's the outcome Democrats anticipated, and one they plan to gleefully cite as President Trump continues to grapple with the MAGA fallout over the DOJ's handling of the documents.

"The question with Epstein is: Whose side are you on?" Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), the author of the Epstein measure, told Axios ahead of the vote.
"Are you on the side of the rich and powerful, or are you on the side of the people?" he said, promising to introduce the amendment "again and again and again."

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Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/trump-epstein-khanna-doj-democrats-republicans






"The question with Epstein is: Whose side are you on?" Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), the author of the Epstein measure, told Axios ahead of the vote.

www.axios.com/2025/07/15/t...

(@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T07:27:49.646Z

Rep. Virginia Foxx, wearing a blue suit and putting her hands in front of her face while sitting at a wooden dais.
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House GOP blocks Dem maneuver to force release of Epstein files (Original Post) riversedge 22 hrs ago OP
The MAGAt base assumes the alleged Epstein client list Dr. T 21 hrs ago #1
If so, it shows how insanely stupid they are because... ananda 12 hrs ago #20
I'm beginning to doubt the existence of Dr. T 9 hrs ago #28
Let's just say customerserviceguy 5 hrs ago #33
Um... why couldn't somebody "accidentally" sneak it out to some eager information broker? calimary 21 hrs ago #2
Or maybe Elon.... TheRickles 16 hrs ago #7
if Elon wants to end Trump azureblue 14 hrs ago #11
I wish, but I still think Eloon vs Drump is a sham cat fight, just for distraction of us Eaters... wcmagumba 9 hrs ago #26
Trump behaves like a cornered animal with any mention of EPSTEIN Skittles 3 hrs ago #35
....... They did this in the middle of the night hoping the American people wouldn't notice. ...... riversedge 21 hrs ago #3
G.O.P. is nothing but a sick joke at this point BoRaGard 21 hrs ago #4
EVERY DAY they show they DO NOT CARE what WE THE PEOPLE want Skittles 20 hrs ago #5
Even though we have millions of mouth breathing racist, sexist, Christo Fascist, and proud to be stupid .. Botany 16 hrs ago #6
They are brainwashed into voting for Trump. They receive nothing but fake news, outright lies, hadEnuf 15 hrs ago #8
What would a liberal Fox News look like? moose65 13 hrs ago #15
There's no downside with telling the truth and shooting down the lies of Fox news and the rest. hadEnuf 9 hrs ago #24
but just how STUPID do you have to BE to believe someone like DONALD FUCKING TRUMP Skittles 10 hrs ago #23
I know it, but they do believe him. Or at least they pretend to. hadEnuf 9 hrs ago #25
The question that really needs an answer, in a nutshell. the nelm 7 hrs ago #30
it boggles the mind Skittles 7 hrs ago #31
Which is what scares me about 2026. LT Barclay 13 hrs ago #17
Could be that a lot of their donors are in the Epstein files. Bev54 9 hrs ago #27
Can we move back to the Big Bullshit Bill Now? MadScout 14 hrs ago #9
Oh, gosh no! That's not 'deep state' behavior at all! Torchlight 14 hrs ago #10
GOP Ghastly Old Pigs mntleo2 14 hrs ago #12
MAGA---Molesting All Girls Always spike jones 14 hrs ago #14
I wonder Linda ladeewolf 14 hrs ago #13
He's on the list and they're in denial. Initech 13 hrs ago #16
gop is the hypocrite, cowardly party samsingh 13 hrs ago #18
I would like to say I am surprised. lonely bird 12 hrs ago #19
Keep it up! Keep fighting, keep adding to the blue tsunami... CapnSteve 12 hrs ago #21
Family values Republicans Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 12 hrs ago #22
They have to clean it up first before pbmus 7 hrs ago #29
Well. we know one GOP member who never made the cut to be on the Epstein List Sessuch 5 hrs ago #32
BRAVO House GOP! That'll make you popular with the part of the magat base Jack Valentino 4 hrs ago #34

Dr. T

(296 posts)
1. The MAGAt base assumes the alleged Epstein client list
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:02 AM
21 hrs ago

is loaded with high-profile Democrat names. Democrats know that if the client list exists, Donnie the Child Molester is at the top.

The main thing is that, in the absence of the list, everything else is just conspiracy and speculation. MAGAts have been groomed to accept these "alternate facts" as reality. Dems leaning into it is like throwing gas on the MAGAt fire.

I'm going to make some popcorn and pull up a chair. This will be fun to watch.

ananda

(32,566 posts)
20. If so, it shows how insanely stupid they are because...
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 01:46 PM
12 hrs ago

Why would Republicans block the release if Democrats
are on it?

Hmmm

Dr. T

(296 posts)
28. I'm beginning to doubt the existence of
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:12 PM
9 hrs ago

a client list.

If that’s true, then the FBI can't release something that doesn't exist. But MAGAts will keep digging even if it's a dry hole. It will consume them and hopefully drain their energy until the MAGAt movement disappears like a fart in the wind.

customerserviceguy

(25,229 posts)
33. Let's just say
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:44 PM
5 hrs ago

that anyone who would believe Pizzagate would pretty much believe anything!

calimary

(87,030 posts)
2. Um... why couldn't somebody "accidentally" sneak it out to some eager information broker?
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:03 AM
21 hrs ago

A low-profile individual in the corner of some newsroom or obscure investigative operation who unexpectedly winds up with “the Scoop of a Lifetime”?

Just sorta kicking some ideas around…

azureblue

(2,482 posts)
11. if Elon wants to end Trump
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 11:42 AM
14 hrs ago

This is his golden opportunity. Elon should release the files loudly.

wcmagumba

(4,343 posts)
26. I wish, but I still think Eloon vs Drump is a sham cat fight, just for distraction of us Eaters...
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 04:30 PM
9 hrs ago

Skittles

(165,954 posts)
35. Trump behaves like a cornered animal with any mention of EPSTEIN
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:23 PM
3 hrs ago

no freaking way would that be used as a distraction

riversedge

(76,547 posts)
3. ....... They did this in the middle of the night hoping the American people wouldn't notice. ......
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:10 AM
21 hrs ago




Harry Sisson @harryjsisson
·
13m
Republicans in Congress just BLOCKED the release of the Epstein files in the middle of the night while you were asleep. Every Democrat on the House Rules Committee voted for it while Republicans voted against it. They are running cover for Trump and hoping you wouldn’t notice.
Harry Sisson
@harryjsisson
Here’s the article on it. They did this in the middle of the night hoping the American people wouldn’t notice. Unfortunately for them, we did. And I won’t stop talking about it.




BoRaGard

(6,234 posts)
4. G.O.P. is nothing but a sick joke at this point
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:17 AM
21 hrs ago

no moral or ethical guts at all. What a disgrace.

Skittles

(165,954 posts)
5. EVERY DAY they show they DO NOT CARE what WE THE PEOPLE want
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:07 AM
20 hrs ago

it boggles my mind that so many people will vote for them

Botany

(74,701 posts)
6. Even though we have millions of mouth breathing racist, sexist, Christo Fascist, and proud to be stupid ..
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 09:49 AM
16 hrs ago

…. voters … see the dumb asses in Kerr County, TX who turned down the early warning system for
the Guadalupe River … but @ the end of the day they have to cheat.

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/archive?sort=new

hadEnuf

(3,303 posts)
8. They are brainwashed into voting for Trump. They receive nothing but fake news, outright lies,
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:53 AM
15 hrs ago

or no real news at all. They have listened and watched that shit for decades and they believe it is the truth. Right-wing media is specifically designed for people who are closed minded and get addicted to things quickly and for the lowest of the bottom-dweller racists and haters.

Democrats, liberals and progressives should have responded with our own 'news" and with the same ferocity as the right. We never did and still haven't, so here we are. I believe it is that simple.

moose65

(3,384 posts)
15. What would a liberal Fox News look like?
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 12:49 PM
13 hrs ago

We are at a disadvantage with news, since we like to tell the truth!

Would a liberal news channel deliberately distort the truth? Would we find one or two stories about something crazy in a red state and run that over and over and over again? I doubt it.

Sometimes, the truth is boring. Competence is boring. We are handicapped in everything!

hadEnuf

(3,303 posts)
24. There's no downside with telling the truth and shooting down the lies of Fox news and the rest.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 04:23 PM
9 hrs ago

I think a majority of the country is starved for that. Yes, MSNBC is good, but it is a peep in a room full of bigmouths. They too are also under right-wing influence through NBC.

The playing field has changed. There is no more non-partisan news anymore. They are systematically destroying NPR as we speak. It's all one sided and the loudest voice with the most money wins.

We all long for the days of the boring old news where you just got the facts and made up your own mind, but those days are gone. We need to be fighting fire with fire. Maybe use their own marketing tactics, except with the truth.

Skittles

(165,954 posts)
23. but just how STUPID do you have to BE to believe someone like DONALD FUCKING TRUMP
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 04:16 PM
10 hrs ago

I mean, come on, he is a BUFFOON, he is RIDICULOUS

hadEnuf

(3,303 posts)
25. I know it, but they do believe him. Or at least they pretend to.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 04:27 PM
9 hrs ago

It's like they've been lulled into a video game or something.

the nelm

(116 posts)
30. The question that really needs an answer, in a nutshell.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:06 PM
7 hrs ago

I mean, come on. Lots of noise, bluster and fury over 2020, but not an iota of actual evidence ever presented in any one of the 60 plus court cases, yet he's still going on about it. The hundreds of classified docs that he fought tooth and nail to hide and keep from the gov't, the whole thing with Stormy and E.J. Carroll, the 34 financial fraud convictions - never mind that what little that is out there with Epstein has how many photos/vids of himself palling around with the guy, along with the young women? And they continue to eat it up like candy. What kind of a gullible fool does one have to be to still, at this late date, not start to question that they've been played, up, down and sideways. It boggles the mind.

Skittles

(165,954 posts)
31. it boggles the mind
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:08 PM
7 hrs ago

I have long thought if you can make people believe in the guy in the sky you can make them believe ANYTHING but.....TRUMP? WTF!!!!!!!!

LT Barclay

(3,033 posts)
17. Which is what scares me about 2026.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 12:53 PM
13 hrs ago

Obviously someone has been telling them that they don’t need to sweat the next election. So the fix is in and God help us all.

MadScout

(10 posts)
9. Can we move back to the Big Bullshit Bill Now?
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 11:19 AM
14 hrs ago

We all know this was a distraction meant to divert our attention from that.

Don't get me wrong... that list should be published and everyone on it be investigated, but they were never going to release it.

Torchlight

(5,072 posts)
10. Oh, gosh no! That's not 'deep state' behavior at all!
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 11:35 AM
14 hrs ago

C'mon, Q-tips! You're all over this! It's worldwide! There's pizza! Do your thing... or admit you're a rube who's been duped by a carnival barker-- there's just not much wiggle room on this one.

mntleo2

(2,601 posts)
12. GOP Ghastly Old Pigs
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 11:47 AM
14 hrs ago

My mama told me many years ago not to trust a Republican. At the age of 73, there is nothing more true.

Cat in Seattle

CapnSteve

(335 posts)
21. Keep it up! Keep fighting, keep adding to the blue tsunami...
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 01:51 PM
12 hrs ago

Accountability. Every single Republican that voted to end food for hungry kids, kick 17 million people of health care, etc. needs to pay the price in 2026.

1) Dems win the house and senate in 2026, flip red states blue (most notably Texas - people here are angry at the GOP - never seen so much energy to kick the bastards out), and win up and down the ballot.

2) The convicted felon is impeached a third time. This time the Democratic majority in the Senate votes to convict. This is not the only impeachment, however. There are many more, notably Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

3) Most of the executives in the Executive Branch run afoul of the emoluments clause (it applies to all federal office holders after all), Leading those removed from office? J. D. Vance, K. Noem and "Whiskey Pete" Hegseth.

4) In 2027, the Speaker of the House (Democrat Hakeem Jefferies) assumes the role of POTUS.

5) The decades long road to rebuild our democracy begins.

"If the world were to end tomorrow, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther

Sessuch

(211 posts)
32. Well. we know one GOP member who never made the cut to be on the Epstein List
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:27 PM
5 hrs ago

Virginia Foxx

Jack Valentino

(2,795 posts)
34. BRAVO House GOP! That'll make you popular with the part of the magat base
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:10 PM
4 hrs ago

who wants those filed released!

Maybe make them stay home in the mid-terms,
for which it is more difficult to get them out to vote anyway....

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