• criss_cross@lemmy.world
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    Why do I feel like something is ultimately wrong here?

    I know one theory is that Mike Johnson was hoping that the bill would get tied up and die in the Senate and that backfired spectacularly, but this still just feels off.

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      Because you’re not stupid.

      Months and months of blocking, covering, denying, and flat out lying. Then all of the sudden, 180 degree flip and release.

      You’re not crazy, none of us are. This is very unusual and suspicious. Keep your eyes peeled.

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      Well they can’t release anything that is currently under investigation or classified, and trump can classify things with his mind, so he claims.

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        “currently under investigation” is the key phrase here. There’s a reason why he’s suddenly “asking” for investigations against Democrats regarding Epstein. It’ll give him the excuse he needs to redact whatever he wants and claim it involves a current “investigation”.

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      They did a ctrl+h to replace “Donald Trump” with “Bill Clinton”, “Barack Hussein Obama” or “insert Democrat here” and think we’re too stupid to notice.

      I jest, but whatever is released will conveniently have references to Trump or his donors missing. They will release just enough to claim that there is nothing else to show.

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        There’s always evidence of tampering. It may take some time but once found it will come right back to him. This is just all he has left now to buy more time. What he’ll do while that clock is running out is the next question. We’ve seen part of it, the authoritative shift.

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            An act that was clearly illegal given that he misrepresented emergency information, and I expect the exact same punishment will be recieved for THIS tampering of things.

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      My taxesthe Epstein files are under auditpart of an ongoing investigation and can’t be released.