Mike Johnson closes the early house to block Jeffrey Epstein’s archives

Washington-President Mike Johnson (R-La.) Abruptly canceled the next votes of the Chamber and decided to send the legislators to a five-week break, all because he wants to block a bipartisan effort to force a vote on the files to release files in Jeffrey Epstein, the dishonored financial and former friend close to President Donald Trump.

The camera was scheduled to be in session until Thursday, with votes scheduled for that day. But on Tuesday morning, Johnson discarded those plans and decided to close the store before Wednesday afternoon. Legislators now return to their districts until September 2.

Johnson told reporters that he is fed up with the efforts of the Democrats to force votes to launch Epstein archives.

“The American people are better to serve by ending the shows of the Democrats,” he said at a press conference on Tuesday. “That is what we are doing by not allowing the rules committee to continue those nonsense this week.”

“We have finished receiving a conference on transparency,” he said.

On Monday night, the Democrats forced an early end of an audience of the Chamber Rules Committee by announcing plans to force the committee to vote on a bipartisan bill so that the Department of Justice releases all its archives in Epstein, which faced multiple positions related to the sexual trafficking of minors.

The committee, which the speaker directly controls his meeting and never returned.

Johnson said Tuesday that he supports “maximum transparency” in Epstein’s records, but is concerned about “protecting innocent victims” of Epstein. The idea that the Department of Justice must publish all its records in Epstein could damage them, he said.

“We also have to be judicious and careful to protect the innocent,” he said. “We cannot be careless in an open launch like that.”

But Johnson overlooks the real problem he faces, which is that many Republicans from the House of Representatives also want to see all Epstein files launched. The representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) And another 11 Republicans signed the Bipartisan bill with the Democrats, and are not retreating when trying to force him.

“Americans were promised justice,” Massie He said Tuesday In social networks. “Our binding bipartisan legislation to release Epstein’s complete archives now has 20 sponsors. We can soon begin to collect firms necessary to force a public vote in the United States Chamber. Is your member on this list?”

The other gopers on this bill are the representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia), Tim Burchett (Tenn.), Eric Burlison (Mo.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Jeff Van Drew (NJ), Eli Crane (Ariz.), Cory Mills (Fla.), Tom Barrett (Mich.), Max Miller (Ohio), SC), SC), SC), SC). (Texas).

Trump created this problem for himself. He and the senior officials of his administration spent years feeding conspiracies about a list of Epstein clients, and Trump promised to launch this alleged list when he was running for president. All fueled this idea that The Democrats hid Epstein’s list of clients to protect powerful figures in their party that alleged that they were in it. Attorney General Pam Bondi said challenging in February, weeks after Trump had won, that Epstein’s clients’ list was “sitting right now on my desk for review.”

But Bondi is now claiming this list It does not exist at alland Trump is trying to move on.

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He enraged many of his firm supporters, who wonder, along with all others, why he is hiding Epstein’s archives. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported last week On a spicy birthday card that Trump gave Epstein in 2003, with a strange note. Trump, furious for this story, is now demanding the newspaper for $ 10 billion for her.

During his press conference on Tuesday, Johnson called Massie for working with Democrats to try to force the Epstein archives.

“Massie is the one who tries to bite Republicans,” Johnson said in response to a question about the efforts of his Republican colleague. “Let me say about Thomas Massie: could you accept my south,” bless your heart? “

The speaker also seemed to be trying to deceive people about what Massie and others are trying to achieve with his invoice versus what the action is currently taking with respect to Epstein’s archives. He repeatedly said that Trump ordered the Department of Justice to “be released everything,” which means that “there is no purpose for Congress to” also present this.

But Trump only directed the launch of the testimony of the grand jury related to the case of Epstein, which is a small fraction of Epstein’s records and archives. And even this order only arrived in response to a land of pressure from its own base.

“Trump is in all Epstein files.”

– Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.)

Representative Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) Said he talked about Epstein’s archives during the Biden administration, and Trump and Epstein were based on what has been made public so far. He said that the two appear together in multiple videos and photos, there are “strange appointments” of Trump about Epstein, Court’s allegations that include Trump’s name, aircraft records that show Trump flying with Epstein and “now this spooky birthday card.”

“Trump is in all Epstein archives,” Lace told reporters on Tuesday.

“Why do you think we have all this explosion now about Epstein?” asked. “Because Attorney General Pam Bondi went to National TV and told the American people that Jeffrey Epstein’s clients’ list was, quoting, sitting on my desk right now. Where is that list of customers? Why don’t you throw it?”

Later, on Tuesday, former speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Announced that he would also be signing in the Bipartisan bill. It seems that he has changed his mind in the situation, since only a few days ago he was calling Epstein’s controversy “a distraction.”

“For years, the victims of Epstein, many of them only children when they were abused, have waited justice, often in silence and pain. They deserve answers,” Peeli said in a statement. “They deserve dignity. And they deserve their government’s action.”

She pointed directly to Johnson for her efforts to “block transparency”, saying that her actions are an “abdication of duty” and a “deep insult” for Epstein victims.

Pelosi said: “It is especially shameful that President Johnson has closed the House of Representatives during the summer to avoid a vote on this resolution.”