President Donald Trump says he has ordered the justice department to produce additional documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval,” he said.
It’s unclear if Trump is authorising the public release of these documents. Such action would typically require court approval.
Yeah Bondi, slap together some more doctored BS to tell whatever story you need to tell. Maybe more “raw unedited footage” pasted together and missing 3 minutes.
It doesn’t hurt so long as we don’t expect it to have much effect. I also don’t think the midterms will make a difference, even if Republicans lose every possible seat in an absolute blowout. We’re in a dictatorship 6 that’s featuring domestic death camps 6 months in; violence against opposition is not unimaginable.
Midterms are definitely important as far as putting some brakes on the crazy train.
There was plenty the Dems didn’t do that they should have done when they had their chance, but when you look at something like vaccine roll out under Trump, the way it went once the Senate subcommittee on COVID was formed, was not the way Trump was planning.
Before Dems got involved, Trump had already been making plans to give a private pharma company government contracts. As bad as COVID in 2020 was, it definitely could have been a lot worse if Trump had been allowed to run wild.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/before-the-pandemic-top-contractor-received-billions-from-government-to-help-prepare-the-nation-for-biowarfare/2020/06/17/38d9ad3a-a41b-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html
Here’s a nonpaywalled version
https://archive.is/2020.06.18-020532/https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/before-the-pandemic-top-contractor-received-billions-from-government-to-help-prepare-the-nation-for-biowarfare/2020/06/17/38d9ad3a-a41b-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html
TLDR, he was planning on completely privatizing and patenting a vaccine, that wouldn’t be affordable to the majority of the country. Shit would have been horrific.
Not to mention the company he would have contracted with ended up having a lot of quality deficits due to bad manufacturing/production issues. So the vaccine they would have made, which would have been insanely expensive, also would have been dangerous bc of the shitty quality.
Democratic oversight after the midterms is the only reason why we had the private-public rollout with the NIH handling safety and research and Moderna and Pfizer handling rollout.
This is also why Trump has taken away the NIH funding given to Moderna by the Biden administration for an up to date bird flu vaccine, and why he is so set on destroying public funding in science and safety oversight.
We’re in a dictatorship. You can’t compare his last administrations to now. He’s destroying every check on his power, doing blatantly unconstitutional things, preparing to ignore anything the legislature might do to hold him back. You just don’t understand the level of fucked we are, nor do you get that there’s no electoral path to stop him.
Well I guess all we can do is curl up in a ball and not vote. Probably for the best 😉
No, you should probably vote, just with different expectations of what can be accomplished. It’s why you should consider 3rd party options if the Dem in your area has demonstrated cooperation with fascists and feudalists. Besides, local elections are more important now that ever. Just because democracy can never again unseat our führer, doesn’t mean it can’t accomplish other things