But Republicans and Democrats alike say the files, including jail CCTV, contain little new information.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35385827

The files are in a google drive here

The House of Representatives Oversight Committee published 33,295 pages, including flight logs, jail surveillance video, court filings, audio recordings and emails.

But Republicans and Democrats alike said the files contained little new information and it is unclear if the justice department is withholding other Epstein records.

  • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    428·
    18 hours ago

    if there was anything in the epstein files that was going to hurt trump, the democrats would have already used it. all this fuss is being made over something that won’t be enough to incriminate anyone and that his supporters don’t care about even if it did.

    this is hillary’s emails or the benghazi bullshit all over again. it’s pure political theater. but it’s a nice distraction from the military force he’s assembled to invade venezuela or CBP being trained to use mortars and weapons of war, or ICE getting Israeli spyware that allows them to hack any android or ios device remotely without you knowing, or any one of the other hundred things that are going on that should be alarming people.

      • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        312·
        17 hours ago

        Biden controlled the DoJ while the investigation was ongoing. Do you think Biden would have covered for pedophiles, if they had evidence that would incriminate?

        I don’t think much of Biden, but him being sympathetic to pedophiles isn’t something I would believe, even if those pedophiles were in his party. That’s just pizzagate nonsense.

        • scops@reddthat.comEnglish
          181·
          17 hours ago

          even if those pedophiles were in his party

          I disagree with you on this. I fully believe that Biden is enough of a status-quo type that he would withhold the documents if there were enough names to significantly damage the current Democrat hierarchy.

          I respect the job he did while president, but Biden wasn’t rocking the boat any more than he had to.

        • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
          8·
          15 hours ago

          Do you think Biden would have covered for pedophiles, if they had evidence that would incriminate?

          given the vast number of frequent flier miles Bill Clinton had to the island, hell yeah. We forget Trump was once buddies with Democrats.

          • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            15 hours ago

            Also democrats tend to keep more of an arms length with doj. This idea that they would go rutting through everything looking to use it for political gain like trump is a bit rediculous given historically we do not see the behavior with them. Heck they would pause if they knew he was on with concerns about harming the office of the presidency.

        • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          12 hours ago

          How quickly we adapt. The president SHOULDN’T control the DOJ. separation of powers is supposed to be a thing.

        • RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.todayEnglish
          72·
          16 hours ago

          You seem to have forgotten that Biden was a weak, ineffectual president who ran on a platform he mostly failed to deliver. He acted like he was scared of using executive orders, and made a lot of stink about niche issues like a student loan forgiveness, but even on those couple issues he was hamstrung by courts and republicans.

          If Biden had been handed a smoking gun of evidence that would have put Trump behind bars, he would have opted to shelve it in a drawer because “presidential decorum blah blah blah”.