Hey MAGA, more wasted tax dollars!
Hey MAGA, more wasted tax dollars!
So today I learned there is federal mandate for paid leave in the USA. But your elected representatives get a 6 week summer holiday??
This from the skeleton that wrote 𝘐𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘞𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵: 𝘌 𝘗𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘴 𝘈𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦! Wonder how those book sales are doing.
George seems to have a weakness for straw-haired skeletons. I wish he would step up with what he must know from the 2016 election unless he was blind, deaf or excluded at the time.
Angry sex and not spousal privilege had to be what held them together.
Not a chance on this God’s green earth he didn’t overhear or suspect something.
Where are Dems? Sitting back and hoping Trump self destructs over Epstein is not gonna cut it. Take a page from Bannon. Be relentless, saturation, feed reporters to show the unholy alliance and GOP/Trump panicked COVER UP. GLOVES OFF. Throw EVERYTHING at the Wall and make it stick. Be brutal!
Just want to remind everyone again the Donald Trump was in the White House when Epstein died in jail . Everything he is doing right now is to try and get us to look the other way and to stop talking about Epstein . So keep talking about Epstein ........
Good grief. Don't make me agree with the wretched human.
When you lose the giant trump kiss ass that is Ann Coulter.
The day they return Democrats should start right back up with incessant demands to release every file the FBI or anybody else has.
We shall henceforth and forever refer to this as the "Epstein Johnson Congressional Recess".
How many GOP House members were Epstein clients? Could list have more than just billionaire pedophiles? Maybe a few mere millionaires in the House & Senate joined Trump& Epstein?
The cabal of sycophants are coalescing around their guilty leader in a futile attempt to cover up Trump's crimes.
Their same old BS. Shame on you, Mike Johnson.
He obviously has no shame.
Last year they did this to delay aid to Ukraine. An absolutely deplorable bunch of boot licking snobs.
They should not get paid for the time off
Precisely—but just the Team who insisted on the additional time off—-the other Team didn’t have a choice in the matter.
If I don't go to work on my scheduled days I don't get paid for them
Think that’s standard for all the workers who actually keep America running!
So the country is on cruise control, this is the time to rally, show that turd what children mean to us
What's it gonna take, @gtconway.bsky.social ?
House of Pedophiles
Stephen Colbert nails it. www.threads.com/@melaniebree...
Don’t ruin a song I love!
For a good cause.
Fine! But, it’s time to start docking pay for failure to work during otherwise normal working hours!!!
They only work 130 to 160 days per year as it is so I’m with you friend!’👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
It’s f*cken ridiculous that they work so little.
And make the big bucks with perks!!!
FREE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE
And the best healthcare with 0 copays
And, because fundraising from the Capitol offices is illegal, they work a few hours, then cross the street to an office building to call donor/owners to fundraise for NEXT term rather than working THIS term. So, half-days half the year for $175,000. Pretty sweet deal...for THEM (not for US, who PAY)
We’re in the wrong professions!
RIGHT?!? I guess if my company closes (HR yesterday said some ominous stuff), I can RunForSomething dot net!
They also get fully paid benefits for life - even if they leave after a few years
🤦🏽♀️ for doing nothing!
Facts 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Do they think the "problem" will disappear? Fat chance. Hmmm, will Maxwell get a pardon or will she have an "accident" in the meantime? 🤔
Yes
Release all the Epstein Files
This is even better because the dude with the jacket on the right looks like fetterman. Checks out.
🤣
🤬🤬🤬
even that broken clock ......
I think her sarcasm font is broken. No? 😕
She looks familiar. Maybe from 20 years ago?
It's pretty fucked up if I agree with @anncoulter
I think we are all surprised.
Shutting down to protect a pedophile. Got it.
I did not have "you will agree with Ann Coulter today" on my bingo card for this morning!! paint a stripe on my ass an' call me a skunk!
i am slapping myself while agreeing with that sycophant. i have put myself on time out for this one.
When they return they should not have any roles/jobs to return to
So, voting in September then...
Since when does Ann Coulter give a d*mn about rape victims?
Then, of course, they will postpone it til Thanksgiving. Trump strategy, postpone til they forget about it. It will be interesting to see them change MTG’s mind on this. What scares her - leaking that it really is her in the “bomber” photo?
😂
Another taxpayer-funded vacation
She's part of a growing group of right-wingers who are starting to position themselves for the post-Trump era.
Will that give them enough time time to scrub everything for a big reveal of whited-out pages?
OMG, I agree with Coulter. Call Satan hell has just frozen over.
This is the 2nd time I've agreed with her. They say a broken clock....
Jacob Chansly Qanon Shaman quit MAGA over Epstein files. Called DJT piece of shit. While people in this country pretend 2 B the leading moral compass on this planet, I recall a prince being dethroned over Epstein we can’t even unseat wanna be dictator. The world laughs at us or fears 4 our future.
Guilty, guilty, guilty.....
I can't believe I'm agreeing with Ann Coulter. Second time in the last few months. 😬😖
So typical of the GQPers!
There must be multiple videos. The amount of pushback that moses Mike has done only confirms it.
Republicans cannot govern in a democracy; they can only destroy it.
The first order of business in September has been leaked!
I guess they think we have short attention spans and won’t remember any of this in four weeks. THEY ARE WRONG!!!
Why are you sharing anything from this c-nt?
Then what?
Ann Coulter….. think there is any self awareness about how much damage to trust in truth she has helped create 🤬
DC is burning like a shanty town in a GOP created Santa Ana wind. Burn baby burn. 🔥 🔥 (Note: Figuratively/hypothetically of course, not literally).
ah shit, when you’ve lost one of the worst people alive
It's kind of disappointing to find oneself on the same side of an issue with Ann Coulter. This must be what it feels like to be Bill Maher. (Without the substance use.)
That shit is going to come out and I hope a lot shitbags go to jail
Even this insane harpy sees whats up.
Democrats should stay in town and conduct REPAIRING THE DAMAGE hearings to give voters a concrret plan for when sanity regains control.
This year is wild. I've agreed with her, Tucker Carlson and MTG.
Johnson: "We gotta get the hell outta town before this shit blows!"
First time I have agreed with her…
What is her deal?!! How can she be so vile, then completely correct?
I'm with her when she's right.
This is a lame WH. Running home every weekend, spending hard earned tax payor monies, all while stealing millions & billions off of US citizens & trying to kill us off by stopping gov't aid, paid for, by us!
It’s nice to see her attacking their own side.
The Alpha and Omega of the Epstein Cover-up mega-post pc93.substack.com/p/the-alpha-...
Republican constituents need to really think about who they are voting for!
Massie should file motion to vacate the speaker
Guessing that’s how long it takes to shred evidence
"We didn't kill enough Indians." - Also Ann Coulter
Ramsey Bolton loved those dogs when he was unleashing them on everyone else.
House members make $174K per year. They should not be compensated during a shutdown like this. Cut their pay by $20,078-$21,750.
Pay them hourly for the time they work at the Capitol. They get expenses and meals reimbursed to work less than20 weeks a year and work just Tuesday -Thursday. If they made an hourly wage of $30 an hour in DC it would be a middle income job.
And take away their socialized healthcare benefits they tell us we dont deserve
Smells like waste fraud and abuse to me. WFA!
And save some real money. Cut their staff by 25%. They aren't working anyway. Cut down on their medical ...let them pay...like the Americans they are supposed to represent and serve. TERM LIMITS for the Freeloaders.
They should reduce their pay to minimum wage, on the weeks they are off from work.
Can you imagine anyone else in the federal government, or even in the private sectors, deciding to just shut down their office and take 5 weeks off to avoid their professional duties? And we’re paying for this asinine move by the GOP. Bet their voters are Pissed about this too.
Where’s a copycat when you need one? People are pissed and will eventually start taking it out on the GOP. They can’t hide from their constituents forever. Folks have lost a lot over their “votes”. A 5 week hiatus could trigger some.
No, we would be putting the company out of business and we would get fired. Then again, anyone accused of sexual misconduct in a private company would likely be removed and if HR (congress?) didn’t do anything about it they would be fired too.
They're trying to stop this from being the dominant story of the November midterms.
Where’s that favorite drum of mine The one that reverberates with distinction & speaks in consistent thuds Of more out spoken people to say otherwise
Aren't the midterms a year from November?
2026 is a big one, for sure. But 2025 has a bunch of special elections for house reps in red states and a couple gov, AG and mayoral races. With the thin margins, every single one counts
Pushing it off doesn't make it any less dominant.
It just angers people even more. It’s like walking away from a small fire while hiding out and watch as it turns into an inferno.
Well, let's HOPE that's what it does: we tend to have a memory like goldfish when something is out of the media for a few weeks...I hope folks won't forget this, especially after YEARS of tinfoil-hat types saying our government was run by a cabal of pedophiles...and then Trump proved them RIGHT!
They made it worse ;)
Not pissed enough.
After 15 years of federal service, one accrues 8 hours of vacation every 2 weeks (5.2 weeks per year)-4 hours during their first 3 years (2.5 wks), 6 hours from 3-15 yr (3.9 wks). Since leave accrues by calendar yr, they wouldn't have 5 wks until December. Fire them. Yes, we are p/o'd about this!
And of course we know they wouldn’t “waste” their vacation days for this stunt. No. They’ll chalk it up to some lame excuse GOP House members need to meet with voters and constituents in their respective districts. Town halls to explain their position on Epstein files? Oh, hell NO.
Exactly 💯
The MAGA GOP House should hence forth be known as; House of Ill Repute!
Gak! I'm agreeing with Ann Coulter!
This is a picture of me in 2008, enjoying our provincial parks lol
😅😅😅
Well folk's, after all, it is Shark Week. This is why Mike Johnson sent everyone home early! "You yell ‘Obama / Treason’, everybody says, 'Huh? What?' You yell ‘Epstein’, we've got a panic on our hands Labor Day Weekend 2025!" And for good reason too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To cover Trump’s child rapes. Are any decent humans okay with this? The deflections and suspicious deaths continue. His own Senate report led by Marco Rubio says what Obama announced. Now back to the Epstein. Hundreds of thousands of pages in the full report!! www.npr.org/2020/08/18/9...
Reposting Ann Coulter. Wow worlds do collide over Epstein and Trump.
WE WILL NOT FORGET IN SEPT.
Has she changed her take on being regretful that European didn’t kill enough native Americans?
Apparently there are two models of blatant racist Republicans -- the ones who will forgive Trump anything because they're on the same team, and the ones who remember that being anti-pedophilia was a founding principle of the Q-Anon to MAGA pipeline.
I think Ann is both of those.
I certainly could be wrong because this DOES seem different, but based on the last 10 years, it’s very possible the administration will continue to dig its heels in, and the MSM will eventually move on from this because there will be no new information to report.
I thought it conveys a quid pro quo. Six week shutdown is a big ask. It's nothing as simple as a political favor. The question is, what does Trump have on Johnson?
Damn you, George, for making me agree with Anne Coulter!!!!
😂🤣😂
You know how effed up this damn scandal is when you agree with her.
Right?
True, but eww!
I know. I need a shower now. In my brain.
I physically shudder when I think of her and the other alien blonds…
In devilish fashion
Ann Coulter... even a broken clock is right twice a day.
They only work approximately 145 days a year for their salary of $174k. So now they’re only working 100 days this year?
SAYING THAT TRUMP NEEDS SPACE FROM THE DISCLOSURE OF THE EPSTEIN FILES AND HAVING GHISLANE MAXWELL TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS IS A FULL ADMISSION THAT TRUMP IS INDEED ALL UP IN THE EPSTEIN FILES, AND THAT HE IS AN ACCOMPLICE TO EPSTEIN'S AND MAXWELL'S CHILD RAPE, AND PEDOPHILIA.
www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr... OUTRAGEOUS-DOJ is meeting with a sexual predator who recruited young girls and GAVE them to epstein. she will say anything to get out of jail. Release EXISTING declassified files, release classified files (victims’ names redacted);get info from victims who have names!
Trump needs a space behind bars!
He has plenty of space, it’s all vacant between his ears.
Is his closet empty...
Is Moses possibly expecting t***p to die before September?
Who knows what any of these MAGA, Bible-thumping hypocrites are thinking?
Guess they got out of the kitchen…
Can you just see the chickens skittering away? Or rats.
Sometimes she can appear to be human. It’s rare, but it happens.
😡
Unacceptable!
This has been a frequent occurrence since Trump took office a second time.
It's just a continuation of the 🍊🌮🐀🤡💩's first term
If they did not get paid when they do not work, this would stop!!! When do they work???? NEVER, yet they criticize regular folks.
They don't care about their Congressional salaries, they get MILLIONS in dark money to obey Trump.
You know things are bad when IT weighs in on the logical side of things.
You mean now I agree with Marge and Ann?? I think I need a drink 😂.
We have court records. Republicans and Maga are COMPLICIT to every single repulsive hienious act trump has ever committed.
No 13 year old girl should ever have to experience this kind of trauma. Breaks my heart.
And Democrats aren’t clever enough to maneuver around this? What the hell are they even doing there? The country is being taken over by an authoritarian and they’re sitting on their ass, crying and whining.
I’m surprised MTGreene didn’t throw a major bitch fit! This would be the one time I’d be behind her!
What parliamentary procedure are you aware of that the rest of us are missing? Would be happy to forward to the democrats so they can start controlling the House as the party in the minority with your newfound information.
Is that my job? I would think at this point that it’s pretty obvious that, that unorthodox measures must be employed, to combat unorthodox measure.
So go extra-constitutional? Perhaps a coup d'état would satisfy you. We could consult with the J6 Capitol stormers and see if they have some unorthodox measures to share.
Or we continue to lay down. I don’t suffer under the delusion , that trump and his minions respect the established processes , or even the constitution. Hey, do me a favor and climb down off the cross, your sanctimonious bullshit is worthless . We are literally fighting for our democracy.
So still waiting-,what would you have them do to have stopped Johnson sending the House home? What power do the minority Dems legally have? I agree democracy is at stake but hoping for magic without offering solutions is simply noise.
Trump is not using the rules to destroy our country, but rather breaking them. The U.S. Supreme Court did this!!!! How are to believe he will respect the rule of law when it comes to elections?
Which elections? Midterms? Does he have a choice? He doesn’t have to respect them, the results are the results. If Dems take a co- equal branch then he know longer controls all 3. And yes, I’m alive in 2025 I’m aware of SCOTUS and their capture by Trump.
I do not pretend to be a constitutional professor. I do, however, believe that when I cast my vote, my representatives will absolutely do everything in their power to stop the single worst thing that has happened to our country since its inception ! Am I off base in my concern? This is not normal!
Key phrases here are “cast my vote” and “in their power”. Sadly, not enough of us cast our votes for the correct candidates therefore the Dems lack real power until at least Jan 2027. In the meantime we can protest, try to help those in need and (looking in mirror) try not to fight with each other.
Besides ridiculing people, exactly what are YOU doing?
Even Coulterguist is on trump about the coverup! Sad!
More time to scrub the files
There are plenty of files available for the public. You just need to know where to look. archive.org/details/epst...
Although they have had 6 months to do that, with (reportedly) 1,000 agents working 24 hours to "find and flag" (code for "delete" I'm guessing) any references to Trump. Pretty sure that unless Musk ALSO stole the original file, there will be no record that Trump ever MET Epstein...except 100s of📸&🎥.
#Epstein is NEVER going away! We’ll post it every day & sending everyone home #HolyMike just means we’ll be showing up in our home state reps offices!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Easier access to remind them: #Don0ldIsARapist #TrumpGUILTY #PedophileInChief #Maxwell is a RAPIST too! As any survivor of HER abuse.
archive.org/details/epst...
Those aren’t the #Epstein survivors. Excellent docs on Netflix & Prime Video with survivors giving their accounts of being groomed, seduced with money, raped & trafficked by #Epstein & #Maxwell, two narcissistic psychopaths who raped girls, some as young as 12 & 13. Congress needs to act!
Did you read any of the court testimony transcripts? The ones marked with a 9# are exactly that.
The link you posted was audio & I only heard a male voice. Maybe I misunderstood.
It totally conveys a bunch of welfare queens taking our hard earned money to go on vacation and ignore all the serious problems they have been paid to deal with.
So like can they vote in October or are they closed for Buisness?
Cowards
She helped put the pedo POTUS in a position to turn the US into some creepy Heritage Foundation white male dystopia. It was in the plans...why object now? She must have been denied her cut.
Did they all get the memo to push for the 25th so that JDuhh can step up?
If the “Das Haus” became any more cowardly or dangerous, I think they might implode!
Giving Trump and his attorneys time to figure out how to Pardon Maxwell(with lots of cash and an NDA)
Mikey likes it...
Til September, wow. America's enemies have so much time now.
Is shielding pedophiles a criminal offence?
“Aiding and Abetting” Helping someone commit a crime is illegal, and since pedophelia is illegal, covering it up is too.
Wait, what????
A truth unfamiliar to Republicans because they're rich and have staff: If you storm out of your house for a vacation leaving behind a mess you don't want to clean up...when you return the mess is still there and smells worse. When the GOP returns in September, the stench of pedophilia will
remain, permeating the very air in the Capitol. The fear of the abused...the lust and hormonal musk of the abusers...the different fear of the abusers, sour and aged by the weeks of feigned ignorance in those whose job it is to make things right.
If you want to clean things up, GOP, face your fears and do the right thing. Get those files, actually read them (as you did not read the bill you voted for, you cowards) and for once in your pitiful little whiny lives, realize YOU are not the greatest victims. Any victim of sex abuse beats
you out. Any hungry child in a classroom beats you out. Any sidewalk sleeper beats you out. FIX IT. Quit sucking up to billionaires for another term, hoping you'll be accepted into the right club. FIX IT.
Ann needs to pressure her maga group to get the Epstein documents released.. let’s go Ann.. if you still have any relevancy 🤔
The attacks on Stephen Colbert and other humorists show, ultra-conservatives cannot stand it when you laugh at them. Folks, humor is the greatest weapon against totalitarianism, laugh at them! youtu.be/RZzGfdnj4JA?...
Hmmm, sarcasm, amirite?
Never thought I’d support an Ann Coulter post, but here we are!
Pedophile/Rapist/Fascist President. FUCKING LOSER OF THE UNITED STATES,( FLOTUS) pass it on.🤣🤣
Lets all file ethics complaint against Speaker Johnson? I did, and sent email to my great congress rep as well . Easy instructions here in markdown format, with links. The more ppl start the process, the faster we help the corrective action. hackmd.io/@lifecrane/S...
And the dumb asses keep dumbing.
youtu.be/0z5iPzKnYSA?...
Can't win? Take the ball and go home. Apparently we all know what kind of child Mike Johnson was/is.
I cannot stand Ann Coulter, but she’s not wrong here…
The devout Christian Speaker of the House covering up for pedophiles is very on brand.
That Venn diagram is a circle
The August Recess is now the Epstein Recess
Can anyone work on our FY2026 budget in August instead of going on a six week vacation, ya friggin republic party goldbrickers!
Unbelievable. Stinks of corruption and the GOP, the party of Lincoln as they like to say, should be ashamed for protecting that man in the white house.
Laughing maniacally that Ann Coulter of all people is speaking out against this.
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Posing on a BED with your 12yr old? This screams pedophile, rapist, incest.
Ugh
Do his kids have any idea how sick their father is? Is it abused child syndrome?
Snope says it's a real photo that appeared in InStyle magazine in 1995. Honestly, I assumed it was fake.
‘What do Ivanka and I have in common? I was going to say sex…’ and everyone laughs uncomfortably.
Lately I find myself garnering sympathy for Ivanka, used and abused by her father.
Just bring it back as soon as they reconvene…
hearsay I know, but posting because after this corrupt AG scrubs and redacts the epstein file (what file? oh the skinny file where Clinton is bahd file, that file?). A future, legit AG could investigate numerous other leads. substack.com/@out5p0ken/n...
Republicans need time to hide the bodies
Et tu, Little Orphan Klannie?
STFU Biotch, you initially helped in putting the Orange POS into the White House!
OK, she can have another 15 minutes of attention for content like this.
He played you idiots again. Watch how many judges he appoints in that time while in recess while you are focussed on Epstein.
Never did I ever expect to agree with a statement by Ann Coulter
Political waste of time, efforts and resources. Where is DOGE when you need them?👽
This darn Epstein story won't go away. The longer this goes on the more photos, video, and stories popup. People keep posting memes it's not helping the situation. I don't know who these folks are that keep spreading new memes. They should go get a hobby.
Will a month be long enough to remove from the files all the many references to Trump?
Well, when combined with the 1000 agents working 24 hours to "find and flag" any references to Trump since February, yeah, probably. (And WHY would you spend those resources thusly instead of spending that time solving crimes?) 🤔
is that old crone still around? I thought she was confined to assisted living by this point...
How sick and corrupt this whole party is. Protecting a child rapist and he’s not the only one they’re protecting! Not one member says anything. Cowards! They so afraid of him and others they stay silent. Stop questioning if he’s guilty! He is. There are so many victims! He belongs in prison. F-them!
Call your rep daily during their recess to demand the release of the Epstein files.
Thus chic fucks with my head. Sometimes (rarely) she seems to have morals, other times she’s satan.
Yea… but she can smell the coffee
She’s Satan 💯 of the time. She goes where the wind blows…
DEMAND TOWNHALLS.
suppose the Dems will skeddadle on home too then. now would be the time to stay and support their base
Yes! And also go home, get out, talk to the people, do town halls, rally people
Now that we have magas attention—time to pound our message home. Clear the noise and show them who we really are and what we represent-not what they think they know through the filter of the orange ass and his long parade of sycophants
Shameful! Protecting a corrupt pedophile through the misdirection of Congress.
😆👍
Wow when you loose Ann Coulter you’ve lost the farm
What a nice job. Not surprised so many morons get it.
Die hard evangelical trumpers are cheering
Your former wife is a big part of what that party has become
You don't think that's a big part of why she's his former wife?
That's probably a big reason for the divorce. Many people have divorced over Donald Trump. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/di...
But he knows that and you are seemingly blaming him.
she is the first whore, hate her uterus🤰
When you lose Ann.....
Ol' "Adam's Apple Annie!"
Disgusting
Is this a rhetorical question?
💩🐔🐓💩 Anything to keep that vote from taking place.
A month gives them plenty of time to destroy evidence and cook up some deal to pardon Maxwell in return for her saying "Trump and Epstein barely knew each other and I never personally saw Trump hump kids ...."
I hate when I agree with her, lol.
LMAO, and if you are of a certain rightwing persuasion, when you have lost Ann Coulter, you have lost it all.
So the GOP Congress got a 6-week vacay?! At taxpayer expense? WTF?!
And we did NOTHING
They need time for Bimbo Bondi to get her black markers to redact every mention of trump in the files . Then Clinton will take the whole wrap .
They are betting, AND probably PLANNING, that a much bigger diversionary story to take its place. It's going to have to be pretty big. Like nukes or aliens big. They aren't going to be able to rely on any natural disasters, they've already proven that those aren't really any big deal to them.>
> Oh yeah, I almost forgot, but I ran out of space- Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.... and furthermore, Epstein.
Ann Coulter. Wrong side of history. Wrong side of history. Wrong side of history. Wrong side of history. Wrong side of history. Wrong side of history. Wrong side of history. Wrong side of history.
I hope Mike Johnson has the worst vacation in the entire history of vacations for protecting pedophiles instead of the victims.
He won’t he’s going home to rape his black son…just normal vacay stuff 🤦🏽♀️
Yeah, with porn breaks that they monitor on each other. Sick.
🤣🤣🤣 it really is…like who thinks of doing that??
MAGA Mike is praying this story goes away in a month. But the administration is doing everything wrong to prolong this.
All those republicans are afraid to be found on the list too
Shutting down the government to protect rapists and pedophiles. Got it.
Only in Coulterworld
I hate to agree with her on anything but that is correct.
and to have “conversations” with G. Maxwell, recruiter for sex traffickers and pedophiles.
House shouldn’t be paid.
GOP congress goes on vacation for six weeks instead of working to pass 12 budget laws needed to avoid Sept. 30 govt. shutdown!!! Work and do your jobs you republic party gold brickers!
They're just like their Dear Leader: when cornered, RUN LIKE HELL!
There was a time when the US criticised other countries for doing this. The US is falling rapidly.
Release the feckin' files, FFS! Delay, delay, delay. Isn't that a well known Trump tactic! Why are 'the people' so helpless in all of this...