Epstein Earthquake

Congress Remembers How To Flex

Breaking News: The Epstein Files Transparency Act just set off an earthquake in Washington.

2 days ago, I said Trumpet was showing better cognition and game-sense than some people think, because on Sunday he switched from opposing the House vote to pretending to support it. That constitutes a tactical stall in the face of realizing he was going to lose. It was probably the smartest play possible.

What I didn’t predict was how quickly Congress would play back.

And today, Tuesday, some muscle memory may have at last returned to Congress.

They passed the bill he clearly did not want, and it was glorious.

It was Unanimous minus just 1 vote from Louisiana.

Louisiana, sorry, you seem to still have a representative willing to carry water for wealthy child sex abusers.

I mean, 427 to 1 in favor is amazing, and then Schumer took the House’s touchdown and kicked a field goal on top. He got Republican leadership to stand by and allow unanimous consent to deem the measure from the House already passed the moment it hits the Senate.

That’s the Ents “Releasing the River” on Saruman and his orcs of Orthanc.

So, a moment to breath the free air again, some things, like trafficking in under-age girls, get a near unanimous vote no in our Legislature.

But, now the cover-up goes back to the Executive Branch, which is where it’s been all this time anyway, because Trumpet can release whatever he wants whenever he wants to. This whole vote drama at the Congress has been used by this regime as a distraction from the protection racket going on under Trumpet and his Department of Justice.

I will be pleasantly surprised if this legislation changes what gets released about Trumpet allies because it has, you know it, loopholes.

I’ll give a quick explain of those and I’m going to add that there’s a significant typo, which you may not hear other’s address for you.

The bill is pretty simple: it’s only six pages long and has just three sections.

Section 1 is the name: The Epstein Files Transparancy Act. That’s it.

Section 2 is what must be released within 30 days.

Section 3 is what must be released 15 days after that.

Here’s where the problems lie:

Section 2 has three subsections: (a), (b) and (c.) OK?

Section (a) lists what we want released: emails, internal memos at DOJ, flight logs, plea agreements, institutional ties, etc.. Good stuff for Justice.

And! Section (b) prohibits any redactions for reputational harm or political sensitivity, Also Good Stuff.

But, Section (c) is the loophole bucket. Some are good: like protecting victim’s identities, no releasing child porn or death pictures. All good. But, the bad-faith loopholes are: no ongoing investigations or anything an Executive Order labels as national security or foreign policy. Giant, flucking, loopholes. Drive a tractor trailer of Epstein Files through those.

Finally, there’s a big typo.

Legislation often has typos, but this had to go through the discharge process, so it couldn’t get fixed along the way.

Section 3 requires a list of what was not released. Good.

But the typo comes in where it says they must release all government officials named or reference in any redacted materials, because the typo says quote no redactions permitted under subsection section (b) (1).

That should have said (c) (1).

Because (b) says what cannot use as a reason to hide things, remember?

So therefore, think back to Venn Diagrams, there’s nothing in the set of redactions under section (b), meaning the regime will later say, technically truthfully, “there are no redacted government names under Section 3.”

It’s a tiny bit of legal camouflage inadvertently included in this process.

But it’s a political win!

Perhaps even a defining one, because if Congress can remember to use these muscles to push the Epstein cover-up back to the President, perhaps they can awaken to stop more lawbreaking?

Perhaps.

For now let us celebrate putting the spotlight back to Trumpet and his DOJ: where it should have been the whole time.

But let us know the war goes on, because we should expect bad-faith obstruction by this regime to continue to protect powerful pedophiles, including, almost certainly, Trumpet himself.

In hope of eventual Justice for the Victims, and Justice for All,

Amen, America.