The released files contain the anonymous tips people sent in, including ones sent after Epstein became public knowledge. This tip was likely fake (or at least the fading embers of my faith in humanity hope it is), but we’ll never know for sure due to the DOJ’s refusal to investigate any of it.
It’s good that they don’t investigate it now. They’d just bury anything they want and purposefully do a bad job. If a shred of normalcy ever returns to the White House then it can be investigated properly
Silly Biden - back then it was presumed that the president shouldn’t interfere with investigations like that. They should be done apolitically, and independently.
Communications use shortcuts. You didn’t define what “return to normalcy” was and I didn’t put restrictions on what that meant. After the first trump presidency, there was already a “return to normalcy” in which the US government was in stable enough hands to do all that, and nothing happened.
I wasn’t saying that “Biden needed to personally handcuff trump and put him behind bars” I was saying “the US already returned to a state of normalcy where the correct investigation could have happened and justice dealt, however this was not done.”
I agree. Biden was too worried about looking like he was politically interfering and even put republicans in charge. He get them a chance to clean house and they failed miserably. And so Biden failed clearly also. Hopefully if they get another chance, the gloves come off.
Putting William Barr, a Republican and someone with multiple indirect connections to Epstein*, in charge of the investigation ranks among the stupidest decisions Biden made during his presidency. He killed any chance at seeing justice done and opened the doors for a second Trump term out of his outdated belief that reaching a hand across the aisle is still effective in a post-civility politics era.
This whole clusterfuck could have been avoided if literally anything had been done to prevent it, but Biden’s desire to appear impartial had him put someone in charge who had multiple reasons to slow-walk and kill the case. A case where, again, any ethical lawyer in Barr’s position would have recused themselves given his historical connections to Epstein.
* Through the law firm he used to work for as well as his father. AFAIK there no direct link between the two, but it was still enough to make him an unacceptable choice.
The released files contain the anonymous tips people sent in, including ones sent after Epstein became public knowledge. This tip was likely fake (or at least the fading embers of my faith in humanity hope it is), but we’ll never know for sure due to the DOJ’s refusal to investigate any of it.
It’s good that they don’t investigate it now. They’d just bury anything they want and purposefully do a bad job. If a shred of normalcy ever returns to the White House then it can be investigated properly
You mean like when Biden was in power?
Silly Biden - back then it was presumed that the president shouldn’t interfere with investigations like that. They should be done apolitically, and independently.
Communications use shortcuts. You didn’t define what “return to normalcy” was and I didn’t put restrictions on what that meant. After the first trump presidency, there was already a “return to normalcy” in which the US government was in stable enough hands to do all that, and nothing happened.
I wasn’t saying that “Biden needed to personally handcuff trump and put him behind bars” I was saying “the US already returned to a state of normalcy where the correct investigation could have happened and justice dealt, however this was not done.”
Trump was still firmly in control of the Republican Party and Miller still held the reins.
Then it sounds like their control of government and power is what is ‘normal’.
I agree. Biden was too worried about looking like he was politically interfering and even put republicans in charge. He get them a chance to clean house and they failed miserably. And so Biden failed clearly also. Hopefully if they get another chance, the gloves come off.
Putting William Barr, a Republican and someone with multiple indirect connections to Epstein*, in charge of the investigation ranks among the stupidest decisions Biden made during his presidency. He killed any chance at seeing justice done and opened the doors for a second Trump term out of his outdated belief that reaching a hand across the aisle is still effective in a post-civility politics era.
This whole clusterfuck could have been avoided if literally anything had been done to prevent it, but Biden’s desire to appear impartial had him put someone in charge who had multiple reasons to slow-walk and kill the case. A case where, again, any ethical lawyer in Barr’s position would have recused themselves given his historical connections to Epstein.
* Through the law firm he used to work for as well as his father. AFAIK there no direct link between the two, but it was still enough to make him an unacceptable choice.
I feel seen.