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This 13 year old, or is it a different one?
Katie Johnson's testimony in full before trump was prez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
Jesus. That was drastic. I wish everyone in the US listened to this whole thing.
I would bet serious money she's telling the truth. Tbf, it's really hard to listen to.
I thought I owed it to myself to hear her. That video is 30 fucking minutes long. I can't listen to descriptions of actual child abuse for 30 minutes. There's no way that doesn't lead to me picking up a REDACTED and REDACTING some motherREDACTORS.
The total baselessness of these accusations is also supported by the obvious fact that Joe Biden’s Department of Justice knew about them for four years and did nothing with them—because they knew President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
If he did absolutely nothing wrong then release the files.
Merick Garland knew plenty of things and didn't do shit either. The fuck has that got to do with the truth? Republicans always act like they're the victims of attacks that don't happen and then use it to make the first attack later using their fantasies or how it went down as a blueprint. It's getting really fucking old. We should be even more ruthless than they already accuse us of being.
When do the Epstein files come out?
Sometime after Trump is dead, where everybody can pretend to be shocked and clearly had no way of possibly knowing
There are other people with a lot of money and power that will make sure they don't come out.
This is it. They will wait until he is dead. Then MAGA simps can claim, we never supported him but he was the Republican president so we had too, or they just die with him. Even better actually.
He gave the government until July 2 to comply.
Or what?
The FBI reports to Trump, and he put a toady in charge. Ditto for the DOJ. The Supreme Court has a tiny force of police who basically guard the buildings, but they don't go out and arrest people.
It's probably good that there aren't competing federal police forces, some of whom report to the executive branch and some who are on the judicial branch. OTOH, the courts need to be able to do something if they're being ignored.
Maybe it would work if the courts could tell the executive branch that until their orders were obeyed, the court wouldn't hear any other business brought by the government. Any federal prosecutor anywhere brought a case, and the courts would refuse to hear it until other matters were resolved. OTOH, with the way the republicans want to break the country, maybe they'd be happy to have the courts effectively shut down completely. But, if the courts started issuing default judgements because the government wasn't able to present their side, maybe that would work?
until their orders were obeyed, the court wouldn't hear any other business brought by the government
So that's kind of what's happening (very slowly)
The original law didn't have any teeth or punishments for failing to release everything by the deadline. However judges orders come with the threat of contempt, so if Acting AG blanche fails to produce the documents or a valid reason for redacting them he can be held in contempt. And this matters because the attorney general is required to approve things like Fisa warrant requests, media subpoenas, death penalty cases, official DOJ opinions.
Trump could fire him and appoint another, but they'd be hauled into court to face those same questions under that same threat of contempt.
That's a good start, but too often things happening slowly means that nothing happens in time. During Biden's 4 year term they started to investigate and eventually prosecute things that happened in Trump's first term. The clock just ran out though. Too many things were still being investigated when Trump took office again.
Great, and when they simply ignore it lock hiss ass in jail while everything plays out.