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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWILL TRUMP DESTROY THE EPSTEIN FILES? - 11.17.25 Countdown with Keith Olbermann
So, will he?
I mean you don't think he's serious about WANTING them released, do you? He's just trying to avoid a 100-vote defeat. Note he hasn't asked the Senate to pass a bill. And he's already throwing out "what can be legally released" caveats - like he cares. And Trump is still threatening to prosecute President Clinton. He's thrown Marjorie Taylor Greene under the bus. He's destroyed the House and the DOJ. He's invoking The Streisand Effect and insisted we all stop talking about it. His Government Shutdown ran out of gas - what does he do now? He's terrified of what's in there, to the point where Senator Chris Murphy said it's enough to potentially end his presidency.
I mean Alexander Haig and others told Nixon to burn the Watergate tapes, in public, with the media present and Haig says Nixon asked him to do it but Haig demurred and later says it was the biggest mistake ever.
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WILL TRUMP DESTROY THE EPSTEIN FILES? - 11.17.25 Countdown with Keith Olbermann (Original Post)
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marble falls
(69,401 posts)1. Destroying them is a confession. Because it isn't as if he has the only files, it will be the end of MAGA.
Jersey Devil
(10,667 posts)2. There are a lot of checks on destroying the files
There are former prosecutors (Comey for one, who prosecuted Epstein at SDNY) and FBI agents who know what was in those files who would come forward if key parts are now missing.
Additionally, only a part of the files have been released by the Epstein estate with more to come and Trump has no idea what is or isn't in those files.
rampartd
(3,058 posts)3. the epstein videos represent significant income from extortion
annd allow him to exert control over a wide range of political and business leaders. He will not willingly give up the 'hook" he has on , well lindsey graham is no secret but many others.