This is its own kind of October surprise.

Now we understand why Trump didn’t want [the Epstein files] released.

Just a week before the midterm elections, which are already shaping up to be a bloodbath for the GOP, Democrats have dropped a bombshell. “A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s,” states a just-released report from the Democrats of the House Judiciary Committee.

Additionally, they claim that Trump has leveraged his FBI and DOJ to cover up the evidence, and have now called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate any potential wrongdoing.

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
    27·
    2 days ago

    So the Democrats had the power to release this evidence but chose to just hold onto it until right now?

    • Marleyinoc@lemmy.world
      1·
      15 hours ago

      So the Republicans do everything in Lock step with him, are in total power of all three branches of government, and aren’t doing diddly squat except to empower him even more?

    • jumjummy@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, because up until this moment we had no idea that Trump was linked to Epstein.

      People are stupid, and unfortunately sometimes political manouvering is a strategic game.

      Given the complete lack of consequences for Trump so far, this release timing has a better shot of impacting the elections, thereby having consequences for Trump.