Rep. Jasmine Crockett explains why Joe Biden didn't release Epstein files

[SocialDemocrat61]

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. It will always irk me that there wasn't more done during the Obama administration.

Just seems wrong. And if it is against the rules to question this, then oh well.
Just maybe if it had been brought out and hammered that the current Pedo in Chief's name was in there more than 38K times, we might not have had his first term.
I know, revisionist thinking, but a boy can dream.

[karynnj]

3. It is difficult to go back through the timeline to know what should have been known

at different points in time. When Obama became President, we know that in the previous year, the Bush Administration's DOJ had given Epstein the Acosta sweetheart deal and he was in prison (sort of). The state of FL had closed its own case.

At that point, this seemed like the all too typical case of politicians donating any past contributions from a disgraced donor. What was surprising were stories after he served his very short sentence that he was still welcome in elite circles. ( At the time, articles mentioned only the relatively minor -compared to what he was quilty of - charge he pled quilty to and he served his sentence.)

In 2009, Epstein stopped a suit by Virginia Giuffre by paying her a large settlement. It looks like that settlement which ended her suit remained secret until Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz used it as a defense. It was then unsealed in 2022.

Ignoring all we know now, how would this have looked to Holder's DOJ in 2009? Would there have been any reason to re litigate the Acosta deal that stinks to high heavens now? Two victims did file suit that their rights were ignored when they were not consulted on the deal on July 7, 2008. This appeared to go nowhere until the Miami Herald brought more attention to it in 2019. It was then determined the victims' rights were ignored, but the deal was not overturned. The practical consequence was just that Acosta resigned from the Trump administration. One question here is why was that suit ignored for a decade?

So, could either of these fragile threads have unravelled the Epstein story? As a non lawyer, would the Giuffre suit have had any strength after she settled? This never went to court. Could the DOJ or FL have used the accusations even after the victim settled? In addition, she did not accuse Trump. I know that various accusations against Epstein and Trump were reported here before the 2016 election.

As to the plea deal, I don't know the legal rules for overturning a deal. Could the result of a 2009 look at how the deal violated victims' rights have had a different impact on the deal than it did 10 years later? Would an investigation in 2009 have made Giuffre less likely to settle?

Going completely into pure supposition, let's say it led the case to continue and she was a strong enough witness to lead to his conviction. The plea bargain having been overturned, it would seem that Maxwell, mentioned in the suit, would be tried then as well. In her suit, other men are mentioned.

Under Trump, Epstein was indicted, but died in prison before trial. The Trump DOJ seemed to drop everything. Biden's DOJ did use the information to convict Maxwell. The question is whether there was enough proof against anyone else. I would imagine a DOJ whistleblower would have emerged if there was a good case against Trump. Given the timing, that Trump was already the likely Republican candidate as early as the end of 2021, it could have been a tricky decision.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. Nice synopsis. I, however, am astonished that NO ONE before 2025 knew what atrocities lay in those files.

And, if they did, why weren't people prosecuted? There is rape, sexual assault of minors and even murder recorded in those file, and yet, no one seemed to care except the loonies at Q-Anon before 2025.

[MLWR]

6. "Why weren't people prosecuted?"

Good question. I have read that Epstein was somehow connected to international governments as well as the CIA and that "national security" was involved (blah, blah, blah) and it's all tied up with the deal he received from Alex Acosta. My guess is that there were huge pay-offs involved as well; after all we are talking billionaires here.

[karynnj]

13. While what is there certainly should have been investigated,

we need to be careful in remembering that we need to know the source and the context. However, the number of FIRST HAND allegations of rape and sexual abuse ( which FL opted to close their case on) made BEFORE the Miami Herald made everything better known makes it hard to believe that they shouldn't have opened a case on the federal level.

At least a though investigation of the plea deal and FL's state case would have seemed necessary.
All I can think of is that no one in the DOJ thought there was reason to question anything.

[Maru Kitteh]

19. I like your dream. I think DJT may have been the one who left in the horizontal

in your scenario. Yeah. I vastly prefer that idea to our current timeline.

[Mossfern]

2. I really, really love her!

So clear and to the point.

[Ray Bruns]

5. The explanation is simple. Joe Biden never ran on a promise to release the files.

Trump did.

[leftstreet]

7. +1

That is clever. Every time they let themselves get on the defensive, I cringe

I wish you were running things

[twodogsbarking]

8. She is so smart and articulate. I am in awe. She always blows me away. Geez.

[ChicagoTeamster]

9. There's no audio. Not even at the direct Youtube link

[SocialDemocrat61]

11. I get the audio

Maybe it’s your device?

[ChicagoTeamster]

12. But other videos work. Even on the youtube page when I tried it there.

[Wednesdays]

15. I got the audio, but only on the left channel

If you're playing just the right channel, then there's no audio.

[ChicagoTeamster]

16. Thanks, I've only use the one earpiece. I never knew that could happen other than from damage to the earpiece

[Torchlight]

10. She is clear, succinct and informed.

Knowing she's a part of our country's governance tends to mitigate what otherwise might be a truly deep despair for the nation's direction I believe it's taken.

[gulliver]

14. It doesn't hold water.

There is absolutely no way we withheld Epstein information in an election year when Trump was viewed as an existential threat to democracy. Even if it were true that we were somehow waiting for survivors to speak out or the process of the Maxwell conviction to complete, that would be damning, for us. It's absurd. Eloquent absurdity.

The truth is that the Epstein stuff is just a huge distraction and devastating in its captivating effect on the emotion-holic mob. Yes, a lot of the reported behaviors from people who should have known better are grotesque and far from victimless. Welcome to the Earth folks.

Like the Tao Te Ching says, we should be feeding bellies not our heads.

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. I feel sure that those victims who were raped, sexually assaulted and sometimes killed never felt/feel like it is

or was ever a huge distraction.

[Cha]

18. Thank You, for Rep Jasmine Crockett!