Trump is against releasing the Epstein files?
Weird.
I mean Hilary definitely fucked those kids, but she isn’t running for office afaik
Edit: Sarcasm is a little beyond y’all then lol.
If you can’t spell Hillary or understand the concept of evidence, maybe keep quiet a bit more? The other option would be pick up a book.
There is so much wealth backing up the incentive to never disclose the contents of the known files that someone like Trump can literally just babble about being uncomfortable disclosing the contents in the most guilt-steeped, incriminating way imaginable (as he did) and even face backlash for it by millions, and STILL the news cycle will bury it, nobody will be allowed to question him on it, it will disappear like everything else that could potentially harm the wealthy.
It’s wild how many people on the right are still locked into a fantasy world belief about rings of powerful cultists kidnapping children to perform rituals and drain their essences like some kind of Indiana Jones movie… meanwhile they are sending money to the very people who sponsor the world’s most elite and expensive child-sex-trafficking operations.
They rather the darkness of the world be packaged into some kind of fantasy-scape Hollywood narrative so that it’s easier to dismiss and not actually worry about, something that can be set down and walked away from the way you would a bad movie. This preserves the emotions and assuages the fears and guilt.
too bad biden doesnt have the balls to do it
Honest question, can the POTUS unilaterally declassify something like that?
Yes. As far as I have read. Also that goes double now that SCOTUS has made almost anything the president does legal.
Yes they can, it’s actually what Trump is trying to insist he did do in the classified documents case, which he did not.
Technically I don’t think they declassify it, but they can release the contents if they so desire.
Back in the 50’s my dad had a security clearance, and at one point worked on a highly classified project that he said about 10 people, including the President, knew the full details of. A few months after my dad’s involvement with the project ended he heard the President talk about it during a state of the union address.
The next day when he got to work there was a memo waiting for him saying that under no circumstances was he to confirm, deny, or even talk about anything he may have heard the President talk about.
The project remained classified for years after that day because it involved national defense. The President spoke about it to let the USSR know what our capabilities were, but not the specifics of how we did it.
apparently, just by thinking about it. yes.
the president can literally do whatever he wants with the only recourse being if congress decides to punish him. he could kill trump tomorrow and as long as the congress leaves him be, its legal as an ‘official act’.
The conservative court would just rule it wasn’t an official act and say he could be prosecuted for it. They have no qualms with contradicting themselves for whatever political goal they are seeking to achieve.
Assuming this is in reference to Epstein’s testimony to the Grand Jury, that was never classified. Those records were sealed under State (Florida) Law. And were also unsealed in July by a special (also State) law. But, to answer the question you are asking “could the President unseal such documents?” No, the President could not. Especially considering that the documents were sealed by State Law, over which the President has zero say. The President could apply political pressure and ask the State nicely to do it. But, the President cannot unilaterally override State Law.
A State can’t deny the federal government access to documents. Once the federal government has the documents, they can do whatever they want with them. They can be sealed to Florida residents and unsealed to DC residents.
But more simply, a Federal Judge can over rule a State Judge.
She should. She won’t, but she should.
Nobody ever will. It will implicate people at every station of power in the US and other countries, it will show just how many sick fucks are running our world, it will make a large number of wealthy or famous figures who have ever railed against child abuse or social issues into a potential criminal rapist.
And this is one person, one island, one set of files and documents.
The world is vast, and the several hundreds or thousands of people involved in this case are just a fraction of what really happens all day, every day, both in and out of US culture.
Wait did Kammala actually say she’d do it?
Probably not, a lot of people are projecting stuff on her that she won’t ever do.
If I was her I would say that I would. I’d say something like “The Epstein files? Oh yeah, I read them, I will be releasing them so America knows who, and what these sick bastards have done”
