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The GOP chair was caught off guard and scrambled—first delaying the vote, then trying to sabotage it by adding amendments to include Biden administration communications. Democrats called their bluff and agreed.

Then the GOP chair, Rep. Higgins, lied, claiming the motion FAILED until Rep. Robert Garcia forced a full roll call vote.

Ultimately, the vote passed 8-2 after 3 Republicans DEFIED their leadership and joined all 5 Democrats to pass the motion.

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[–] 19 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

They think the Epstein thing might actually stick this time. They're trying to use that as best they can. Any party would do that

It might be a strong move for once though. Time will tell.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    I'm going to ask a honest question because I don't know the answer. If Trump's name is on the list, why didn't Dems release it when Biden was in office? Yes I know that's a question the right has been asking but I don't know the answer to it.

    Because I don't care who's on the list, Republican or Dem. They all deserve prison

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Not sure if Biden/dems have given a reason yet. I believe, typically, the official reason they keep this files secret is they may still intend to take legal action in the future.

    Unofficially, Biden's AG Merrick Garland really did not go hard against Trump. They let him get away with an attempted coup, not sure if that was at Biden's request or if Garland persuaded him not to.

    Farfetched theory on my part but Biden really tried not to stir the waters, I feel, to avoid a civil war.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    My cynical ass thinks Biden didn't want to set precedence that the rich / president can be held accountable. He naively thought Trump is done anyway, let's just go back to the status quo and not bother with real consequences for the rich.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago
    1. Trump's in the files, but they probably don't have the stuff from the wildest conspiracy theories. So there's going to be a let down no matter what.
    2. There's a lot of victims in those files who deserve some protection and privacy. Redactions take a lot of manpower, as we've seen with this 1000 agent effort. That manpower could be spent on going after live criminals.
    3. Dems in the files too.
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Apparently it was under seal by the courts while Ghilaine was on trial, and only became unsealed in Biden's literal last week in the presidency. And he was trying to do a bunch of things at that time, especially with Ukraine and Israel.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Along with what Salty said, it also almost certainly implicates some of the DNC's donor class. At this point, it's too big of a win to not go with it and too big of a loss to go against it though. I don't know if there's any amount of money that could get the majority of Democrat representatives to stick their necks out and go against it.

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