A week ago, the Trump Department of Justice released a small portion of the Epstein files. If it wasn’t clear enough already that the release looked to be an attempt to put the spotlight on Bill Clinton and avoid focus on Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime friend Donald Trump, today Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social “Democrats’ push for Epstein files boomeranged with Clinton featured prominently throughout.” That was also the title of a story from non-legitimate news outlet Just the News that he was linking to. That story starts out:
Democrats’ push for the release of documents surrounding convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein through a House vote appears to have backfired, as the disclosures intended to scrutinize Team Trump have instead spotlighted their own party’s connections, including former President Bill Clinton’s
The push for the release actually came through a bipartisan piece of legislation, which only had one vote against it in the House and passed unanimously through the Senate. And the members of Congress most interested in the release seem interested in the victims, not in partisan point scoring.
Later in the story one of the few significant files released gets put in to a partisan spin as well:
Adding to the headache for Democrats is the fact that, in this most recent tranche of formerly-classified documents, it’s been revealed that the first known opportunity to investigate, and possibly charge Epstein — with child pornography — was during Clinton’s time in office, but his Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to proceed.
The partisan nature of the choice of files released, shouldn’t be that surprising considering something that also happened last Friday. On Friday evening Donald Trump got on Air Force One and flew to North Carolina for a rally and then traveled to Mar-a-Lago. According to the White House, also traveling on the plane was Todd Blanche. That would be the Todd Blanche who previously Trump’s personal attorney and now is the Deputy Attorney General.
Todd Blanche then was staying with Donald Trump or at least nearby him, as on Sunday he appeared on Meet the Press from a studio in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, which is just up the road from Mar-a-Lago.
Some might remember the big brouhaha in 2016 when former President Bill Clinton simply met on a tarmac with the Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Now we have former personal attorney for the President as Deputy Attorney General traveling with the President as the Deputy AG is involved in releasing documents about a pedophile sex trafficker that was long the President’s friend.
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