Is President Trump’s push to unseal grand jury materials from the Jeffrey Epstein case about transparency or optics? @preetbharara.bsky.social and I break down Bondi’s arguments on a new @cafedotcom.bsky.social Insider. Listen: cafe.visitlink.me/V5B4s7
It's Optics.
People should get out and protest this weekend. “No Pedophile Kings” is not exactly a family friendly subject, but that is where we are at. Congress has shut down to protect the President, and that is just not acceptable.
Optics. Next topic
We have to move from analysis to action. We are being flooded with information and we know exactly what is happening. But what do we do with all this energy? Epstein, the BBB outrage, ICE thugs on the streets…. So… what do we do about it? All this calamity without an outlet is not good.
The House in Congress controlled by the GOP could do something about all of this, but they shutdown the entire House over a month simply to evade voting on a Bill to release the Epstein file. They now have enough for the vote to pass. Keep in mind we Taxpayers pay members of Congress $175K+ …
annually; provide great health insurance for them & their families; pay for myriad perks; pay for them to have a Pension; provide a 401K Plan, and more. Who among us thinks it’s ok for them to shutter House simply to evade a vote their dear GOP leader is apparently quite frightened? …
How many of us in our jobs have the luxury of simply up and leaving for over 1-month to evade doing something? Most employers would fire any such person on the spot…
I don’t think GOP in Congress have given much thought to the fact they are NO LONGER NEEDED. They have ceded ALL their powers to the Executive Branch, and they NO LONGER REPRESENT THEIR CONSTITUENTS, ONLY TRUMP. Why in the world are we Taxpayers sitting back hardly saying a thing? Surely, you…
realize they still get paid, have health insurance, and all their other benefits over the 1-month period they will be out? This is one hell of a lot of money in salary alone!
Optics.
When released the files will be half blacked out (redacted). When only things that should be redacted are victim and ci personal info.
Its about:
Awesome
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....or perhaps he may be nervous because he could be implicated. Why else would he pretend he doesn't know what is going on, when a reporter asks questions; stating I don't know what DOJ is doing on this subject. We should be so lucky he could construct a sentence that makes sense.
Just more of the same bullshit from Trump.. Deflect and Blame… Deflect and Blame!!!
Optics, always optics because there's absolutely no substance. He's just a ball of orange painted spite and bone spurs... apparently.
Well curated info release- ergo, lies!
Happy Birthday to you! Thank you for all you do.
Why hasn’t the DNC plastered the country with billboards with this photo and select others?
Optics. Or he's finally gone so senile he honestly can't remember he was there in the first place.
Optics!
They're going to make a deal with Maxwell, get out of prison if you say ony Democrats joined in the assaults..no one in this administration can be believed! Release the documents, Maxwell testimony can not be trusted!
If I guess the right answer what do I win?
Nothing transparent about the Trump admin.
I don't want to see court records, the list will appear on BANK records of those he extorted.
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Grand jury files won’t reveal anything
It’s always optics. Central casting is his thing. He wins court of public opinion, he wins. Eventually, he’ll lose. Pedophilia MIGHT be the wedge. But it’s not certain.
Trump transparency is not on my bingo card.
The pretest probability that Trump is corruptly lying about breaking laws is 100%. There is no need for analysis.
It's all 'smoke and mirrors' to distract while they 'sanitize' the files, removing any real information that may show unpleasant links trump has to anything illegal that he may have done or even just witnessed 'on the plane' or 'on the island' or in any of the many parties they both attended!
Happy belated birthday Joyce! 🎉
Never forget that 211 House Republicans voted to protect pedophiles.
Trump himself idls probably too far gone to think of this but...maybe he's counting on the courts not releasing Grand Jury material, so he could get credit for pretending to want openness but not pay the price.
I think we know the answer
Both things can be true.
Trump cuts agency overseeing sex trafficking www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
