If we never saw him again, I’m ok with that.
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Trump showed up Sunday evening to address the Naval academy - his first official event since the to address military leaders 6 days prior. He was over an hour late.
He addressed them like a MAGA rally crowd - dropping his greatest hits like “Barack Hussein Obama” to crickets and referring to Democrats as an annoying gnat that needs to be “taken care of” (not in the good way).
The fact that his speeches now seem to be mostly to military and law enforcement entities is not subtle and is terrifying.
Johnson has adjourned the House for the week. Good job that there’s nothing serious going on right now that requires Congressional action.
The more chaff they throw into the air, the more it becomes clear that the evidence in the Epstein files is devastating.
Trump is going to be big mad.
As is everyone else in the files.
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Pardon me?
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Irrespective of who’s involved and what the stakes here are and so on, I have a very difficult time conceptually with the idea that one dickhead federal prosecutor can, for WHO KNOWS WHAT REASON, decide that a whole host of charges are off the table, and that all other federal prosecutors in other jurisdictions now are prohibited from prosecuting crimes that may have happened or did happen elsewhere. It seems like the US judicial system was set up to avoid that sort of shit, just like it was set up to keep a defendant from being tried for the same shit again and again. It seems like two sides of the same coin to me.
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Disgusting piece of human trash.
So many lives are far worse for her actions.
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To be fair to the system, Acosta broke a number of DOJ rules in order to do what he did. It seems like here, for once, even this SCOTUS will not prop up that malfeasance.
Also, to be fair, while Acosta’s life will continue to be pretty cushy I’m sure, he was hounded out of his sweet cabinet post and will know that, in every room he walks into for the rest of his life (Oval Office excepted), there are a number of people there who want to string him up by the balls.
Effectively pardon a serial child rapist, get a cabinet position. Nice work if you can get it.
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That’s all he has left. Does he have the balls to do it?
The reason the House is closed this week is so that they are not forced to hold a vote on a bill to release the Epstein files, particularly as it is very like to pass. It’s one thing for GOP House members not to sign Massie’s discharge petition, it’s quite another to vote against releasing the files on a simple, single-issue bill when they all face re-election next November (and a primary in-between).
The bill is going to come up sooner or later and, if it passes, the drama then moves on to the Senate. There are 33 GOP Senators up for re-election next November, some - like Cornyn - facing a primary. Is Cornyn going to vote against releasing the Epstein files? His recent campaign ads are basically him duct taping himself to Trump, so he can vote “no” (which is what Trump wants) and lose his primary or vote “yes” and retain a chance of keeping his job.
It takes so few GOP votes to pass the bill in either chamber that it almost certainly gets through and finally ends up on Trump’s desk where it will be vetoed it and that will be the end it.
But the carnage of GOP cannibalism that it leaves behind will be immense.
I doubt it. The maga media / disinformation apparatus can very easily gin up some other fake outrage to distract the maga base even further from objective reality. There are just a few Republicans of any stature who are still hung up on this. The rest have obediently moved on, exactly like I knew they would.
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Anyone running a primary against anyone who voted “no” on releasing the files is going to make that vote a centerpiece of their campaign. That’s where the carnage will happen.
I suspect the rallying cry will be Bill Clinton’s name repeated ad nauseum.
That’ll be enough to keep loyal MAGAs and otherwise normal GOPers in line.
And enough to turn off many swing voters.
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I wish I shared your optimism, but I just don’t believe Republicans are going to turn on themselves. The MAGAts will continue to be so, and the wishy-washing ones will continue to obey sans demur. None of them, and I mean none, are willing to buck Trump. Period.
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You don’t think Paxton is going to scream from the rooftops if Cornyn votes “no” on this?
Otherwise reliable MAGAts Massie, MTG, Boebert and Mace have already broken with Trump over this.
Nope
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You think Paxton has too much class to do that?
What about the “none of them, and I mean none” bucking Trump when 4 of the most extreme MAGAts already have?
Meanwhile:
A majority of Republicans — 67% — said they’d want all the files released, which “obviously goes in the face of what the administration has been pushing,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist University Institute for Public Opinion.
It’s a vote-winner on the right, which is why Trump adopted it and why it will be a wedge issue in GOP primaries.
I think he has too little guts to do that.
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