Thread 1431857

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/03/donald-trump-immigration-tariffs-epstein-us-politics-live-news-updates
>Only two more Republicans needed to force House vote on Epstein files release, congressman says

>Democratic congressman Ro Khanna says the House will be compelled to vote on legislation to release the Epstein files if two more Republicans sign on to a petition he has introduced along with Republican congressman Thomas Massie.

>“We need just two more signatures to force the release,” Khanna said. So far, they have received the signatures of 212 Democrats and four Republicans: Massie, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-again-calls-epstein-case-a-hoax-as-survivors-demand-accountability
>WATCH: Trump again calls Epstein case a ‘hoax’ as survivors demand accountability

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/trump-epstein-files-victims-maxwell.html
> President Donald Trump on Wednesday called demands that his administration release the Jeffrey Epstein files a distraction from his successes.
> A group of victims of the notorious sex offender Epstein called for those documents to be publicly disclosed.
> Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and California Rep. Ro Khanna held a press conference with victims of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on Capitol Hill.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/02/congress/epstein-action-as-congress-returns-00539395
>Freshly back in Washington from the August recess, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) plans to take the formal steps at 2 p.m. today to file a discharge petition, the procedural maneuver necessary to bypass leadership and force a vote on his resolution compelling the DOJ to unseal the files related to the late, convicted sex offender.

>Once he does that, Massie said in a social media post Tuesday morning, he can begin gathering the necessary 218 signatures required to bring the resolution to the floor. He said in an interview last week he expects to secure that number quickly. Massie also has co-sponsored the measure with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), so a combination of support from virtually all Democrats and at least a handful of Republicans all but guarantees the two lawmakers will meet that threshold.

https://www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-reports/watch/epstein-survivors-say-they-re-creating-their-own-list-to-release-246546501856
>Epstein survivors say they're creating their own list to release

>>1431857 (OP)
>and four Republicans: Massie, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert.
Interesting how it's all women except for Massie.

>>1431859
19 year olds in polisci classes at community college say that.

>>1431859
I want Bill Clinton thrown under the bus. Unless MAGAts want Trump thrown under the bus and say so, there's the difference.

>>1431857 (OP)
Literally why would he be this opposed, to the point of doing a fucking flyover to try and drown the victims' conference out, for any other reason than he is on them and he fucked kids?

>>1431865
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2673956478
>“Helping Thomas Massie and liberal Democrats with their attention-seeking, while the DOJ is fully supporting a more comprehensive file release effort from the oversight committee, would be viewed as a very hostile act to the administration,”

I'd be eager to see the local shill try to explain why releasing a list of pedophiles would be hostile to Trump's administration if he wasn't a pedophile

>>1431866
>DOJ is fully supporting a more comprehensive file release effort from the oversight committee
Didn't they already do that and it turned out to be like a handful of new files (that didn't actually say anything new) amidst like 3k files that had been public for years?

>>1431857 (OP)
wake me up when i see arrests of every loli island visitor.

>>1431857 (OP)
I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that the Epstein Files are going to have basically almost every politician, celebrity, and person of note from the past 40 years. And they're afraid its going to cause untold damage to the world of the fact that everything is ran and maintained by pedos and deviants.

>>1431869
Why do you want to hurt the Trump admin and a lot of good conservatives??

>>1431867
https://abcnews.go.com/US/unreleased-epstein-files-include-logbooks-private-island-records/story?id=123851356
The three-page index is a report generated by the FBI that lists the evidence inventoried by federal law enforcement during the multiple investigations into his conduct. According to that index, the remaining materials include 40 computers and electronic devices, 26 storage drives, more than 70 CDs and six recording devices. The devices hold more than 300 gigabytes of data, according to the DOJ.

The evidence also includes approximately 60 pieces of physical evidence, including photographs, travel logs, employee lists, more than $17,000 in cash, five massage tables, blueprints of Epstein's island and Manhattan home, four busts of female body parts, a pair of women's cowboy boots and one stuffed dog, according to the list.

The unreleased evidence notably includes multiple documents related to two islands Epstein owned in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Little Saint James -- where his compound was located -- and Greater Saint James. According to the index, the files include a folder containing Island blueprints, photographs and other documents.

Some of the documents could shed light on who visited the island. According to the index, the files also include a Little Saint James logbook as well as multiple logs of boat trips to and from the island.

>>1431875
The evidence also includes multiple lists, one vaguely described as a "document with names" and an employee contact list. Investigators also recovered pages of handwritten notes, multiple photo albums, an Austrian passport with Epstein's photograph and more than a dozen financial documents.

The records also include three discs containing the outcome of "court authorized intercept[s]" of a phone number previously belonging to Ghislaine Maxwell.

In a joint memo released last week, the FBI and DOJ argued that a "large portion" of the records included photographs of victims and child pornography. According to the DOJ, the evidence includes "images and videos" of victims who appear to be minors, "over ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography," and a "large volume" of images of Epstein. Authorities also concluded that Epstein did not maintain a "client list" or blackmail prominent individuals.

Well it's over. Johnson brought up the Oversight bill which keeps everything in committee hell forever. There will be no lists released, only what James Comer says they can release. Comer is one of Trump's biggest fanboys and probably won't release anything damaging on him.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/03/congress/house-approves-symbolic-epstein-measure-investigation-house-oversight-00541827

The House approved a symbolic measure that would affirm the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into the handling of case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The measure, included in a House rule that cleared in 212-208 vote, has no practical implications, as the Oversight panel is free to continue its probe without any further action on the floor. However, the House GOP leadership has been touting the investigation as a better alternative to Republican Rep. Thomas Massie’s controversial legislation that would compel the release of materials in the Epstein case in 30 days.

Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), his chief co-sponsor, have been building support for a discharge petition that would compel a floor vote on their measure. The duo need two more Republican votes, if all Democrats sign on as expected, to force the vote.

Entering the House floor just before the vote, Speaker Mike Johnson insisted again to reporters that the Oversight provision in the rule would bear fruit.

Johnson also reiterated his opposition to Massie’s discharge petition, even as some victims have said they support Massie’s effort.

“I don’t begrudge anything that the victims have said. ... It’s a heroic thing that they’re doing,” Johnson said. “But there are hundreds and hundreds of other women, some of them recruited and groomed as minors, as young as 13 years old, who do not want their identities to be known.”

Send Trump fifteen dollars so he can go to heaven

>>1431882
Republicans talking about protecting the victims of sexual assault in order to protect the perpetrators of sexual assault.
God. They're all so fucking disgusting.

>>1431857 (OP)
the entire world is fucking 14yo, why is it such a problem in the US?

>>1431933
It's a country founded by puritan religious zealots ffs.

>>1431933
A combination of brainwashing and a having practical avenue for political shitflinging

>>1431941
I don't think religious zealots are actually against this tho, every holy scripture has stories of this and it's not considered wrong in any of the abrahamic religions. These religious zealots have been doing this for thousands of years and nobodies complained until recently.

It seems more an issue related to modern feminism, it's viewed as a way to control women from a young age

>>1431857 (OP)
Membership
Total Membership Party Divisions
· 435 Representatives · 219 Republicans
· 5 Delegates · 212 Democrats
· 1 Resident Commissioner · 0 Independents
· 4 Vacancies

how is that not enough votes already? because of 4 vacancies? they have a majority of 216-215 why should that be counted?

>>1431948
The Oversight bill which supplanted the Massie-Khana bill passed 212-208, which means Massie won't get another chance to bring his bill to the floor. Make of that what you will.

>>1431859
I want my party of choice to be free of pedophiles. I don't have any fucking loyalty to these fuckers. Why do you?