General Discussion

I could make a lot of counter-arguments, but I'll just make two for the sake of brevity: Virginia Giuffre gave that list of names, IN COURT (civil, but still court), friend. Thus, "you can see that the victims weren't allowed to continue their exposure of their abusers in court" is demonstrably untrue. She sued Maxwell and Andrew and got settlements from them both, estimated to have been millions of dollars. And I'll mention that I don't believe that Richardson or Mitchell had sex with Giuffre, but if they did, no way did they know she was being trafficked, and probably did not know she was 17 rather than 18. Which means, the one and only list that is known to exist? I question its usefulness. Sorry

This brevity is to leave room for the most important point: there will be NO additional justice meted out on behalf of the victims with Trump and Bondi in charge of ANY proceedings, document dumps, nothing. Incidentally, there will be no advantage gained by Democrats politically by the same. I think it's a giant distraction, and anything we 'learn' is going to benefit Trump, and Republicans, period. They'll make sure of it. Also worth considering is that the more MAGA sees Democrats yelling about releasing the files, the more they'll believe Trump and his stupid 'Democrat Hoax' story and NOT want them released. OUR anger over this will pull his angry fans right back to his side, with no gain for Justice, or for Democrats. I very much question whether this is the time for our side to agitate for the release of documents, because they absolutely will be curated, ala Barr and Mueller.

And don't get me started on how much we should prefer to see Maxwell (or rather, not see) rotting in jail right now, not 'testifying' to the GQP congressional flying monkey brigade.