“The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my Epstein Transparency Act,” Ro Khanna, the California Democratic congressman who co-wrote the law requiring full disclosure of all of the government’s investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by Friday, said in a video statement posted on social media.

By way of example, Khanna noted: “They released one document from a New York grand jury of a 119 pages totally blacked out! This despite a New York judge ordering them to release that document, and our law requires them to explain redactions. There’s not a single explanation for why that entire document was redacted.”

“We have not seen the draft indictment,” Khanna added, “that implicates other rich and powerful men who were on Epstein’s rape island, who either watched the abuse of young girls or participated in the abuse of young girls.”

“It is an incomplete release, with too many redactions. Thomas Massie and I are exploring all options,” Khanna said, including the impeachment of justice department officials, finding them in contempt of Congress, “or referring for prosecution those who are obstructing justice.”

Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican congressman who co-wrote the legislation, shared Khanna’s video statement on social media, with the comment that the document release by Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general who previously served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law” that Trump signed, “just 30 days ago”.

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    Firstly: the partial / redacted release was entirely predictable.

    Secondly, I dont understand where we are at now.

    Is this impeachment going to be like all the others and be meaningless?

    If JD Bimbo lady was charged and convicted wouldn’t Trump just pardon her?

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      US Constitution, Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:

      …he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

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        “Obviously the founding fathers meant to exclude ilegal impeachments. And since it would be from the crooked democrats and RINOs, any impeachment at this point would be an ilegal one.” (Says Trump and the Supreme Court probably.)

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      I can at least answer this one

      Is this impeachment going to be like all the others and be meaningless?

      Yes. No impeachment has ever had any teeth to it. This man broke the record for being the first to be impeached his first term. Then he broke another record by being the first to be impeached twice. Why not a third?

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        Impeachment of Trump is not yet on the table, but impeachment of Bondi and Trump’s personal lawyer currently acting as Bondi’s deputy, that’s on the table and could result in a removal.

        While it’s true that no impeachment of a president has succeeded, the process has succeeded several times.

        Also remember that while Trump is somehow bulletproof, his hanger ons enjoy zero protection.

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          Impeachment of Trump is not yet on the table, but impeachment of Bondi and Trump’s personal lawyer currently acting as Bondi’s deputy, that’s on the table and could result in a removal.

          Impeachment, maybe. Removal of any Republican would require too many Republican Senators to ever be feasible.

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      Is this impeachment going to be like all the others and be meaningless?

      Nah, don’t worry: it’s going to be even MORE meaningless, now that the fascist criminals are in full control of every single branch of government and may well succeed in remaking campaign and election laws so that it stays that way no matter how big the majority of people disapproving of them gets.