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In reply to the discussion: If embarrassing and damaging Trump details are in the Epstein Files... [View all]no_hypocrisy
(52,387 posts)28. The Buck Stops Here. If there was definitive evidence and Biden knew about it,
my best guess is that he didn't choose to release it for two reasons:
1. His faith. I have no doubt that Joe Biden would have meditated on this, asked his priest for guidance, and believed it would be sinful to purposely hurt another soul, especially after the latter had not held back on hurting him and his family.
2. His integrity and pragmatism. Joe Biden believed that he could win a second term without releasing the Epstein files. And if he did release the files and won, a certain segment of the population would believe that he won by playing dirty, by using the cruelest strategy against his opponent. (Don't get me wrong. The same segment would be cheering TSF for doing the same thing to Biden. Which he did. Hypocrisy reigns.)
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If embarrassing and damaging Trump details are in the Epstein Files... [View all]
WarGamer
Jul 19
OP
No one at DOJ leaked even a bit... after the DOJ has been leaking stuff for 30 years?
WarGamer
Jul 19
#4
However, Senator Wyden has rightly demanded the release of the Treasury department file on Epstein
Scrivener7
Jul 19
#21
It's not vindictive to take down a man involved in trafficking children
still-prayin4rain
Jul 20
#36
It wouldn't have been petty or personal. If it could have been released, it should have. And if it couldn't
Scrivener7
Jul 19
#23
Yep, exposing a person's involvement with harming children is not petty.
still-prayin4rain
Jul 20
#37
There ***WERE*** embarrassing details released MAGA didn't care then and they don't care now
uponit7771
Jul 19
#11
The Buck Stops Here. If there was definitive evidence and Biden knew about it,
no_hypocrisy
Jul 19
#28
I think Biden really wanted to try to return us to " norms" of politics. I may be wrong, but I am skeptical that
tulipsandroses
Jul 19
#31
From what I understand.. the files were not opened because of appeals being made
Peacetrain
Jul 20
#40