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Massie, Khanna demand full release of Epstein files, will try to force House vote Tuesday
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OMG! This mostly redacted document is key!
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LOL! You're wrong for that!
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Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie confirm they are actively drafting articles of impeachment and inherent contempt against Attorney General Pam Bondi over the DOJ’s failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, though they have not yet decided whether to formally bring them.
This is how serious the violation is.
Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie confirm they are actively drafting articles of impeachment and inherent contempt against Attorney General Pam Bondi over the DOJ’s failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, though they have not yet decided whether to formally bring them.
This is how serious the violation is.
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https://x.com/adamscochran/status/2002830904255811840
Quite importantly “inherent contempt” can be done by either the House or Sensate independently without the other chamber.
If this passed the House Sergeant-at-Arms would *arrest* Pam Bondi and bring her before the House for a trial on the matter.
She’d be in an under oath trial, and face risk of imprisonment for continued contempt, or additional perjury charges for false testimony.
Most importantly unlike regular “contempt” the “inherent contempt” is not something that the DoJ is in charge of, it’s solely a Congressional power, so neither Bondi, nor Trump can interfere.
It’s not been used since the 1930s and it’s unclear if enough Republicans have the spine to enforce it right now, but it is deserved - and it’d be a wild moment for the history books to have the head of the DoJ arrested by Congress!
Oh and I should add “inherent contempt” is a *procedural* crime - not a federal one.
Trump cannot pardon Bondi for this.
https://x.com/adamscochran/status/2003131164597371298
Still seeing a lot of confusion about @RepThomasMassie and @RoKhanna’s “inherent contempt” move.
Here’s what you need to know:
-This is NOT a federal charge. (It’s a “procedural” charge)
-Trump CANNOT pardon “inherent contempt”
-EITHER the House or Senate can charge inherent contempt by itself, and does NOT need both Houses to agree.
-The Sergeant-at-Arms would arrest the person in contempt and bring them before the House for a trial.
-Failure to resolve means they can be held in custody of Congress.
-Perjury in this session is its own new crime.
-If Trump pardoned perjury OR the cover-up during this then:
A) Bondi loses her 5th amendment protections related to those crime and can be compelled to testify.
AND
B) The pardon itself would be a “pardon of ill-intent” and its acceptance creates a new crime of blackmail/conspiracy as it’s part of a cover-up - creating a liability for Bondi AND the President, as it’s no longer an “official act”
AND
C) Contempt is a continual crime. If the pardon forgave prior contempt and Bondi was still in contempt after, it would be a new crime not protected by the pardon.
This is why Massie and Ro have chosen this specific legal action.
It’s rarely ever been used because the optics require A LOT of united political will.
But, it’s a very clever and specific charge that Congress has for EXACTLY this purpose, so that the President cannot have his DoJ side-step Congressional authority.
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https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ/status/2002828987580522563
The Epstein files game theory is extremely funny
Whatever's in there is clearly damaging enough to both sides that they both know it can never ACTUALLY be released unredacted
So this means the optimal strategy is for the party who's not in power to troll the shit out of the party in power over releasing them (bc they know they can't actually do it)
"wow just wow. The fact you won't release these files means you're complicit in infinite pedophilia. You can tell I'm innocent though, because I'm strongly pushing for them to be released"
"Uhhh... Didn't you just sit on this for like 4 years without releasing them too though?"
"You are a rapist pedophile, shame on you"
They'll probably cycle back and forth like this for another 2-3 election cycles until all the people implicated in the files are dead or irrelevant and then just release the whole thing uncensored to an audience of people who are at this point too bored to care
The Epstein files game theory is extremely funny
Whatever's in there is clearly damaging enough to both sides that they both know it can never ACTUALLY be released unredacted
So this means the optimal strategy is for the party who's not in power to troll the shit out of the party in power over releasing them (bc they know they can't actually do it)
"wow just wow. The fact you won't release these files means you're complicit in infinite pedophilia. You can tell I'm innocent though, because I'm strongly pushing for them to be released"
"Uhhh... Didn't you just sit on this for like 4 years without releasing them too though?"
"You are a rapist pedophile, shame on you"
They'll probably cycle back and forth like this for another 2-3 election cycles until all the people implicated in the files are dead or irrelevant and then just release the whole thing uncensored to an audience of people who are at this point too bored to care
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