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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump had plenty of time to scrub the files.
So now "Release the files"
They are so goddamn transparent.
Permanut
(7,765 posts)Ocelot II
(128,332 posts)The files are voluminous, and exist in both paper and electronic forms, and no doubt there are multiple paper and electronic copies of the thousands of documents kept in many different offices and computer storage. And the Epstein estate has tons of it that the feds might not even have. It would be impossible to make all incriminating evidence disappear from all the paper and electronic copies, and if one copy disappears another will almost certainly be produced from somewhere. Electronic copies are really hard to get rid of because you don't know if, when or by whom it was copied and where the copies went. If someone wanted to leak parts of the files it would probably be pretty easy - nothing like when Daniel Ellsberg had to smuggle 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers out of the office in his briefcase, a little at a time, over a four-month period in order to photocopy them a page at a time.
rainy
(6,311 posts)Ive been thinking Trump probably had Bondi and gang scrub him from the files. So you have made it seem impossible for that to have happened
Ocelot II
(128,332 posts)would backfire badly, because someone is bound to know evidence has disappeared, which makes the situation even worse. Remember Nixon's "missing" 18-1/2 minutes? That made the fact of the Watergate coverup even more apparent.
Klarkashton
(4,572 posts)Would simply add to that chaos and uncertainty and he wants that.
Nothing is rational or linear anymore.
RockRaven
(18,422 posts)switches his position so as not to lose the vote. He's running to the front of this mob which out of his control while waving a flag, so he can pretend he's leading a parade. He's following from the front.
"Yeah, well, that was the outcome I wanted. I won!"
yaesu
(8,819 posts)And those mentions will be disappeared.