U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz (R- OR) said he is not trying to protect Trump on the Epstein matter.
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Bentz said he opposes this because House Republicans have an even better plan, one that reveals even more Epstein material on Trump and others.
That doesn't pass the smell test.
Trump and the Justice Department say there is nothing to see here. Forget it. Quit asking questions. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson went so far as to abruptly adjourn Congress to stop a vote to open up the Epstein files. In this context it doesn't seem remotely plausible that the GOP is in favor of more disclosure.
Millward is a singer, songwriter, and music producer, now living in Medford, Oregon after having worked in Silicon Valley and Nashville. I consider him representative of the many millions of people whose curiosity has been aroused by the Epstein files. His guest post raises questions. Some things don't make sense.
Cliff Bentz's position that Republicans are actually pushing for more disclosure is one more suspicious thing that flies in the face of what Millward can see with his own eyes.
Millward suggests that the coverup continues because sensitive people want to avert their eyes. These crimes are too terrible to contemplate. Maybe so. I suspect a different reason. My guess is that the files make Trump, or someone very close to Trump, look bad.
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Guest Post by Rick Millward
Rep. Massie's “Epstein 20”Kentucky GOP Congressman Thomas Massie has been leading the effort in the House to release the “Epstein Files”. Recently he referred to 20 men that are allegedly in them:
1 A royal prince
2 A rock star
3 A magician
4 Billionaire
5 Billionaire
6 Billionaire
7 Billionaire
8 Billionaire
9 Canadian Billionaire
10 A high-profile individual in the music industry
11 A very prominent banker
12 A high-profile government official
13 A high-profile former politician
14 The owner of a car company in Italy
15 Hollywood producer worth hundreds of millions of dollars
16 ??
17 ??
18 ??
19 ??
20 ??
No names yet, so we are playing a guessing game with questions that may be answered in the DOJ files on the Epstein investigation.
There may be some information at the DOJ, but there’s also a very real possibility that these documents are gone. Shredded, burn-bagged. I have this suspicion because it’s entirely plausible that one of the reasons, maybe the biggest one, that the files are being suppressed is that investigators were waved off at the beginning. Maybe the names are there, but no other facts. When “Mr. X” showed up at the island, no more questions were asked. If this is true, releasing the “files” would reveal that no action was taken beyond an innocuous mention.
Without facts, these names escape any connection to crimes. And if there was no investigation, there would be no facts. This speculation leaves us with wondering if any agents might be able to shed some light on what actually happened. Were they told not to look into specific events?
Another weird, suspicious thing: no leaks, no whistle blowers.It’s tight. This is not normal. We live in a society that has information pouring out of every orifice. Usually, when a government department is holding back information in the public interest, some brave and principled soul calls a journalist. Not here. Not yet. This suggests that whatever is being hidden is terrible and might possibly shake the foundations of power here and elsewhere, or maybe just embarrass some A-listers. Every category on this list contains a plethora of possibilities.
Despite a continuing effort to distract and minimize it, the Epstein scandal is growing, but it still does not dominate public discourse. I think it’s because it’s too terrible to contemplate. Moral and empathetic people shy away, deny its importance to our collective conscience. I understand this. It’s hard. Children were sexually abused by rich and powerful men. We can’t allow ourselves to look away. They need to be held accountable to redeem our own culpability.
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11 comments:
Sex trafficking of young teenage girls probably involving some degree of rape and republicans are trying to not have it investigated to protect Trump. Being best friends with a man like Epstein says it all for me. Republicans have made a deal with the devil and let’s see how that works out for them and for our country.
Joe Biden controlled the Epstein files for four years, and could have released any information that was detrimental to Trump, but he didn't, because that info doesn't exist. It's more likely that Bill Clinton screwed minor children than Trump did. Democrats have no agenda, so they have to squeal about Trump instead.
I totally agree with what Rick has to say, but based on our experience in the past ten or so years, I would be very surprised if evidence of pedophilia could curb Republican devotion for their anti-American billionaire outlaw.
Speaking of which, watch out for his goon squads at the Multicultural Fair today. Be on the lookout for well-armed masked thugs rounding up people of color. As Blacks used to say during Jim Crow, be woke.
Right. Democrats have no agenda, other than health care, reproductive rights, voting rights, climate change, the rule of law, the Constitution, etc. In other words, preventing our democracy from being turned by Trumplicans into a dictatorial White “Christian” kleptocracy.
I believe Biden did not release any of the files was due to the fact Epstein was on trial. Biden had a hands-off approach to the DoJ. Now that Epstrin is dead and there is nolonger a trial the files should be released.
And no one is asking why they did not release them. Perhaps Hakim, Pelosi, and others in leadership understand why they did not.
It was Russia, Russia, Russia 24/7. And then the Mueller Report came out, and the whole thing evaporated without even a puff of smoke. My guess is that the same thing will happen here. But it would be interesting to be wrong.
Once again, MT repeatss the false narrative. It makes me worry that he reads and watches nothing but Fox. I know he is not in the cult, but he is stuck with their talking point. In fact the Republican Senate committee report reported that in deed there was an enormous amount of Russian help to the Trump campaign. The "Russia, Russia, Russia" complaint is what Trump complains about, falsy. The Meuller report did indeed report collusion and help as well. The thing that caused it to disappear, somewhat, was the false description that it absolved Trump laid out by Bill Barr. Fox and TRump and whatever other sources MT absorbed, put out the "totally innocent" narrative and MAGA Fox cultists loved it and believed it. MT apparently heard enought of it to repeat it yet again. Bob Mueller said loud and clear that Barr misrepresented the findings of the report. The GOP senate was forced to admit the same thing. I urge people who are frustrated with Democrats not to over-correct by assuming that if Democratsa are too censorious and woke then Trump's lies about Rusia, Russia, Russia must be true. Again, the Meuller Report and the Senate report both said the same thing: that there was rampant intentional help to the Trump campaign from Russia. So I will say it: Russia, Russia, Russia did in fact collude wit Trump.
Russia helped elect t-Rump and the reasons are obvious. Ironically, so did James Comey. I'll bet he regrets it now.
My point, Peter, is that the Russia, Russia, Russia thing was politically ineffective, something that I thought would be obvious to everyone.
The Mueller Report came out and the whole thing evaporated. Do you remember some other sequence of events?
Wouldn’t it be smarter to try to figure out why “RussiaGate“ didn’t work, instead of clinging to it and saying it should have? Or are you determined to repeat the same failed strategy with EpsteinGate?
And, by the way, I don’t even remember the last time I watched Fox News. It has probably been at least months. So you can stop worrying.
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