A federal judge has cornered the Justice Department for withholding files on FBI interviews with the woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to release unredacted versions of several Jeffrey Epstein files, or explain why the DOJ should be allowed to keep them secret, as he sided with investigative journalist Katie Phang, who had accused Blanche of violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act. He gave the government until July 2 to comply.
Narrator: he won’t comply and nothing will happen.
The best outcome that’s actually feasible is that this keeps the Epstein Files in memory and the backlash to the coverup turns more MAGA voters away during the midterms. There’s not much that can be done within the system when his party controls the executive, legislative, and judicial branches and is afraid to go against him. Forcing them to continually and publicly block release is disastrous for their party’s approval ratings - sadly, Republicans becoming slightly less popular is likely the only consequence of note to come from this whole tragedy.
Start disbarring these people and they’ll think twice about pulling this shit.
This was the moment when he realized… nothing was going to come of this