In BOTH situations, he was legally capable of releasing either any time. He could have released taxes during the audit, he could have declassified Epstein files with a flick of the wrist.
According to him he can declassify documents just by thinking about it. No wrist flicking required. Of course, that only applies to documents stored in the bathroom on his golf course.
I’m okay with them just releasing the parts of the Epstein files that involve Republicans. I mean, I want the full files eventually, but I’m perfectly fine starting with the Republicans.
A LOT of this narrative reeks of “See, chuck schumer is actually a heroic genius”
But the basic idea is that trump can still pocket veto this. I forget the specifics but essentially it is the idea that he can ignore the bill for 10 days which would expire it and punt it back to the House. And if The House is out of session (which they will be because it is thanksgiving and our politicians would NEVER dare inconvenience themselves for The American People) it basically kills the bill entirely and they have to re-pass it.
By getting it through the Senate ridiculously quickly it makes it MUCH harder to argue that the white house ran out of time. And it does sound like House republicans may have been counting on that since johnson was talking about how the Senate would take forever to pass this.
The other theories I have seen are all based around “investigating the Democrats”. Either insist that NO files can be released because they are part of an active investigation or insist the reason it is predominantly republicans and bill clinton is because all the Democrat files had to be held.
Personally? I think both immediately trigger massive leaks because of just how widespread they are and how bipartisan the access has been in the past. And any token sacrificial republicans will IMMEDIATELY narc on everyone else before they can hang themselves in a jail cell.
And if the big beautiful bill ever faces even a chance of consequences for his actions, you can bet that he (and mostly Hilary) would start blabbing about trump sucking him off.
He can’t, because pocket vetos only work if both chambers are adjourned during the 10 day period. Not at recess, adjourned. If he doesn’t sign it within 10 days or just becomes law.
I don’t know what games are suddenly being played but this is sus af
They announced that they are investigating Democrats regarding Epstein.
An investigation can prevent the release of the Epstein files, regardless of whether the president signed the bill or not.
Yep, going to play this as “I was always for releasing them the whole time” but “oh no, the mean DoJ says no one can see anything right now”.
I would totally release my tax returns, but I’m being audited, sorry.
In BOTH situations, he was legally capable of releasing either any time. He could have released taxes during the audit, he could have declassified Epstein files with a flick of the wrist.
According to him he can declassify documents just by thinking about it. No wrist flicking required. Of course, that only applies to documents stored in the bathroom on his golf course.
Would also require the ability to think…
I’m okay with them just releasing the parts of the Epstein files that involve Republicans. I mean, I want the full files eventually, but I’m perfectly fine starting with the Republicans.
A LOT of this narrative reeks of “See, chuck schumer is actually a heroic genius”
But the basic idea is that trump can still pocket veto this. I forget the specifics but essentially it is the idea that he can ignore the bill for 10 days which would expire it and punt it back to the House. And if The House is out of session (which they will be because it is thanksgiving and our politicians would NEVER dare inconvenience themselves for The American People) it basically kills the bill entirely and they have to re-pass it.
By getting it through the Senate ridiculously quickly it makes it MUCH harder to argue that the white house ran out of time. And it does sound like House republicans may have been counting on that since johnson was talking about how the Senate would take forever to pass this.
The other theories I have seen are all based around “investigating the Democrats”. Either insist that NO files can be released because they are part of an active investigation or insist the reason it is predominantly republicans and bill clinton is because all the Democrat files had to be held.
Personally? I think both immediately trigger massive leaks because of just how widespread they are and how bipartisan the access has been in the past. And any token sacrificial republicans will IMMEDIATELY narc on everyone else before they can hang themselves in a jail cell.
And if the big beautiful bill ever faces even a chance of consequences for his actions, you can bet that he (and mostly Hilary) would start blabbing about trump sucking him off.
He can’t, because pocket vetos only work if both chambers are adjourned during the 10 day period. Not at recess, adjourned. If he doesn’t sign it within 10 days or just becomes law.