Now why would he do that? One can’t help but wonder.

Trump puts intense pressure on Republicans to block release of Epstein files

Why? What’s it to him? They’re not his files. We know he doesn’t give the tiniest shit about anyone but himself. Why in hell would he put intense pressure on his team to keep shtum about Epstein?

Unless…

Trump has cranked up his intense pressure campaign on congressional Republicans to oppose the full release of the justice department’s files related to Jeffrey Epstein, before a crucial and long-awaited House vote on the matter next week that scores of Republicans are slated to support.

It couldn’t possibly be that there’s damaging information about him in there could it?

The belated swearing-in on Wednesday of the Democratic representative Adelita Grijalva – which the House speaker, Mike Johnson, had refused for almost two months during the government shutdown – brought the number of signatures on Republican Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna’s discharge petition to the 218 needed to force a floor vote on legislation demanding the Department of Justice release all of its investigative files on Epstein within 30 days.

Will some unlucky Republican drop dead of unspecified natural causes today?

CNN reported that top officials summoned representative Lauren Boebert – one of four Republicans in the House who have signed the petition – to a meeting in the White House Situation Room with the attorney general, Pam Bondi, and FBI director, Kash Patel, to discuss her demand to release the files. Trump had also telephoned her early on Tuesday morning, a day before Grijalva was due to be sworn in and provide the crucial final signature.

Trump also reached out to Representative Nancy Mace, another of the Republican caucus in the House who have signed the petition, but the two did not connect. Mace instead reportedly wrote the president a long explanation of her own personal experience as a survivor of sexual abuse and rape, and why it was impossible for her to change her position on the matter. She wrote on X that “the Epstein petition is deeply personal.”

Trump, of course, could not possibly care less about Mace’s personal experience of sexual abuse and rape. He’s a sexual abuser himself, and a keen abettor of sexual abusers. How women feel about the matter is irrelevant in his world.

But even if the bill passes the House, it still needs to get through the Senate and be signed by Trump. Senate leaders have shown no indication they will bring it up for a vote, and Trump – who had long promised the release of the files on the campaign trail – has decried the effort as a “Democrat hoax”.

What kind of hoax is it to promise the release of the files and then block the release of the files? I guess that’s a Trumpat hoax.