Lawmakers dissatisfied with lack of transparency in Epstein recordsdata launch.
Clinton featured in recordsdata, releases assertion defending himself.
Threat of impeachment for AG Bondi over dealing with of recordsdata.
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The Epstein Files lastly hit the streets final Friday and the reactions to the discharge have been tepid at finest aggrieved at worse.
According to ABC News, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is dissatisfied with the shortage of transparency in to the recordsdata and describes the partial launch of knowledge “insufficient”.
“Congress has acted decisively, bipartisan majorities in each the House and the Senate, invoice signed into regulation by the president, and it does seem, after all, that this preliminary doc launch is insufficient. It falls in need of what the regulation requires,” Jeffries instructed ABC News’ “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
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Jeffries will not be alone on this sentiment. Even his colleagues from the opposite aspect of the aisle like Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and his Democrat associate Rep. Ro Khanna, authors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, are displeased to the purpose that they’re stated to be contemplating articles of impeachment for Attorney General and religious MAGA bootlicker Pam Bondi. Only time will inform if that risk turns right into a promise.
Bill Clinton Reacts To Being Featured In Epstein Files
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Former President Bill Clinton, a person who was embroiled in a really ugly sexual harassment scandal, launched a press release responding to being prominently featured within the Epstein recordsdata that had been launched final week.
“The White House hasn’t been hiding these recordsdata for months solely to dump them late on a Friday to guard Bill Clinton. This is about shielding themselves from what comes subsequent, or from what they’ll try to conceal perpetually. So they’ll launch as many grainy 20-plus-year-old images as they need, however this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, by no means shall be. Even Susie Wiles stated Donald Trump was incorrect about Bill Clinton. There are two varieties of folks right here. The first group knew nothing and lower Epstein off earlier than his crimes got here to mild.”
Multiple images of Clinton had been among the many 1000’s of pages of recordsdata that had been made public in keeping with AP News.
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They included a photograph of him on a non-public airplane sitting with a lady draped over him, a photograph of Clinton in a pool with Epstein’s companion Ghislaine Maxwell, and one in all him in a sizzling tub with one other girl. The faces of the ladies had been redacted from public viewing.
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If something, the discharge of those recordsdata has been anticlimactic and that’s not an accident. It seems that the powers that be needed this to be a really managed launch that retains vital folks clear.
