The regime's new Epstein coverup will backfire
Deep Dives
Explore related topics with these Wikipedia articles, rewritten for enjoyable reading:
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Jeffrey Epstein
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The article centers on the Epstein files release and coverup allegations. Understanding Epstein's full history—his financial career, social connections, the scope of his crimes, and the 2008 plea deal—provides essential context for why this document release is so politically charged.
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
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The article references 'Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor' and allegations of his involvement with Epstein. His Wikipedia article details the Virginia Giuffre lawsuit, his BBC interview, and his withdrawal from public duties—key context for understanding why his absence from the files is notable.
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Contempt of Congress
12 min read
The article mentions Representatives considering charging DOJ officials with contempt of Congress. Understanding this legal mechanism—its history, famous cases, and actual enforcement powers—illuminates whether such threats have real teeth or are mostly symbolic.
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Last Friday, the Trump administration flagrantly violated the law by failing to release the full and unredacted Epstein files as mandated by an almost unanimous vote of both houses of Congress. But Attorney General Pam Bondi and company are sorely mistaken if they think giving Congress a middle finger is going to make the scandal go away.
The administration’s blatant defiance of statute is yet another ugly exercise in lawlessness by a fascist regime which attacks the Constitution on multiple fronts virtually every day. It makes a mockery of the pain of victims and survivors who Jeffrey Epstein assaulted and tortured when they were children. It’s not a surprise that Trump is disregarding the law, but that doesn’t make his decision to do so any less cruel or any less disgusting.
The Trump years have shown us again and again that our system of government often fails miserably to hold powerful people accountable. It would be premature to argue that this will be different — and in fact it seems very unlikely that Trump will be impeached or removed for his association with a sexual abuser, just as it’s unlikely he’ll face consequences for his own history of sexual impropriety and violence.
But that does not mean that Trump and his enablers in his party will face no consequences for this egregious, clumsy, and contemptuous coverup.
We already know that Trump’s stonewalling on Epstein has created major rifts in the MAGA coalition and has generated horrifically bad press for Trump even on the right. Those fissures are only going to metastasize as Trump tries to pretend he has fulfilled the law when he obviously has not. No one can know the future. But none of the plausible paths forward looks good for Trump or the Republican Party.
Barely pretending
The Epstein Files Transparency Act — passed, again, almost unanimously by both houses of Congress — is a short, uncomplicated measure.
It gives the attorney general 30 days to “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format” all unclassified materials relating to federal investigations of Jeffrey Epstein in the government’s possession. The statute also says, “No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of
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