Trump has faced growing resentment over the decision of his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to withhold information

Trump has faced growing resentment over the decision of his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to withhold information

Mike Johnson, speaker of the House, called for the justice department to make public documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, breaking with Donald Trump over an issue that has roiled the president’s rightwing base.

It was a rare moment of friction between Trump and the speaker, a top ally on Capitol Hill, and came as the president faces growing backlash from conservatives who had expected him to make public everything known about Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while in federal custody as he faced sex-trafficking charges.

Earlier in the day, Republicans voted down an attempt by Democrats to insert language into legislation that would require files related to the Epstein case to be made public. But the minority party is determined to keep the issue alive, and Democrats on the House judiciary committee have demanded that its Republican chair, Trump ally Jim Jordan, hold a hearing with Bondi and her deputy as well as the leaders of the FBI to answer questions about Epstein.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    832·
    2 days ago

    …right after he and all the other chucklefucks voted to NOT release it.

    Honestly, how the fuck does ANYONE take these fucksticks seriously?

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      141·
      2 days ago

      Your average person isn’t paying attention to details like this. They don’t know, and frankly don’t care even if they did.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        2·
        1 day ago

        This is an extremely salacious story. Sure, a lot of people have no idea, but the Epstein story has always had more traction than average.

        Don’t forget that QANON was the factor that shot HitlerPig’s campaign to the front of the pack, and the primary focus of QANON, at least at the beginning, was outrage over child sex trafficking by government officials. People who had never paid the slightest attention to politics were now “experts,” thanks to the QANON rabbit hole.

        THOSE people put HitlerPig over the top, and he needs to keep them on board. Once they realize that HE is the one they are truly after, many of them will crash, and either vote Democrat, or more likely, abandon politics altogether, which is fine, too.