It was the "Epstein Shutdown" after all!
- jjcarney100team
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
So says Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from an American yesterday. After a 54-day break, Mike Johnson had little choice but to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva at 4 PM, and she immediately signed the discharge petition to the FBI for release of the Epstein files.
Earlier in the day, the Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released three emails from a cache of more than 23,000 documents received from the Epstein estate. These were bad enough. But the ones the FBI are holding promise to be worse.
That’s why Trump spent the hours before the 4 PM deadline frantically trying to get one of four Republican representatives who had signed the petition to remove their signature. He failed. The huge amount of pressure from constituents (including MAGAs to whom promises had been made) proved stronger than pressure from Trump.
Cox cites a Politico report that said as many as 100 Republicans will support the bill (petition) when it comes to the floor. If the House passes it, it goes to the Senate and, if the Senate passes it, to Trump for his signature. If he vetoes it, Congress has the option to override his veto.
I say we stop castigating the eight Democratic Senators who voted with the Republicans to end the shutdown and forced the House of Representatives back into session. What they did turned out to be a very good thing for us, and a very bad thing for the GOP. There is now a chance that Trump (who is looking more and more like a pedophile) will get his just desserts.
