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Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then what's the point of releasing the epstein files?

[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a neat false equivalence.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No really. If this hearing is an example of what we can expect after the files are released, then what's the point?

Here's a possible scenario:

files are released
lots of important people are exposed as having done horrible, illegal things
trump gets another felony and stays in power
nothing changes

^^^ what do you see going differently after the epstein files are released?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

I'll agree that nothing changes, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be released anyway.

We already have docs from other cases that implicate loosely people in power (all the way to the top)

It's unlikely that they have truly damning things calling out people and acts, those would just have been burned long ago.

What's in there needs to see the light of day and be public knowledge good, bad, change, no change.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

The MAGA base does actually care about pedophilia. They've been told it's trans people committing it though. If they see evidence that it's the elite, in particular Trump, then some will flip, or at least lose interest. Assuming we have elections in the future (even local will be useful), this is something we should push.

Don't expect it to lead to immediate consequences. I don't think anyone expects that. Expect it to lead to them losing control of some of their base.