I’m not sure what his or Epstein’s conviction has in your argument.
Put simply, we tend to talk about him a lot because:
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he is the POTUS
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he happens to be in the news a lot
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he’s kind of raging war on the world economically or with actual bombs.
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Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November 2025. The DOJ were legally required to produce all the files by a deadline set in December. They have released them in dribs and drabs, kept lots back from being released, and redacted what has been released way beyond the requirement of the law.
One obvious conclusion is that Trump is lawless. There is nobody enforcing the ruling, and the notion of having coequal branches of government is laughable, as Congress is being ignored.
Beyond that, if there’s nothing incriminating that is very good news for Trump. All he needs to do is release the files, all of them, in accordance with the law, so his innocence will be established.
About that …
By not releasing the files, he forfeits any benefit of the doubt. It remains true that Trump is innocent until proven guilty, but the evidence cannot be illegally suppressed. The longer that continues, the more obvious it appears that he is guilty as hell.
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But there IS incriminating stuff about Trump in the Epstein files. We’ve seen it. And we’ve seen the DoJ’s shit for brains attempts to conceal troves of it. We also know there is a still about half the expected documents still unreleased.
Like, WTF are we even talking about with hypothetics about what a Dem DoJ would have done HAD there been stuff in there bad for Trump?
But if you want another angle…
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Well, I live in a world where I look for evidence to support my claims, you seem to live in a world where your fantasies are all you need.
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Question (And I’ll give my answer):
If the DOJ (Assume, hypothetically under any presidency) didn’t release the documents in current form:
- Would Andrew have been arrested?
- Would Mandelson have been arrested?
I don’t think either would have, it would have been swept under the rug. I think the pressure from the e-mails made it inevitable.
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This, folks, is what is called a non-sequitur.
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What point are you making here ?
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That no arrests would have been made if the documents were not made public, and I am talking about simple documents like e-mail correspondence. I am not trying to heap or give praise to anyone.
Andrew might also have kept his main title if the e-mails had not been released. If I remember correctly, only honors had been stripped after his disastrous interview.
If it helps, pretend that I have posted here for the first time so that you don’t have any preconceived ideas of me or my original question.
Well the answer was so obvious I was unsure as to whether I might be missing something profound or not.
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The documents that have been released have been made public despite the administration’s best efforts to keep them secret. This has been due to a clamour from certain politicians, what’s left of an independent media and the public, including many in the Maga movement. It’s not due to some great desire for transparency in the White House.
That’s there, there abouts but that doesn’t define this as a left Vs right issue. As I’ve said this is nothing of the sort.
This is about a global network that had infiltrated the US government and others. It fits with the US as it aligns with their foreign policy.
To actually quote Epstein, “it’s easier to tear it down than find a bargain”. That’s what this group have been doing and it’s exactly what the US (and others) have been doing, especially in the Middle East for decades.
Iran is just the latest chapter.
Is there a link between this group and let’s say Iraq? Maybe, that’s one aspect I’d like to see investigated.
Is there a link between this group and profiteering from global events driven by government policy. Yes there certainly appears to be.
Did this group pushing government policies that suit their aims? I strongly suspect they did e.g. Brexit and Steve Bannon. Have they in the US? There’s a question.
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It was an active investigation until 2025, so there was no option in releasing them earlier.
Bigger question for me is why the DOJ believed there was no evidence of crimes that warranted further investigation.
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Because the DOJ is DJT.
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This is what I don’t understand, you would think the DOJ (got the e-mails in ~2019) should surely have contacted the authorities in the UK, saying “Hey, here are some documents showing the sharing of classified information”, rather than release to public, everyone to uncover the sharing of classified information within months, and only then the UK do something about it.
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