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The Republican-led House on Tuesday issued subpoenas to the Justice Department and high-ranking officials for files related to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. But there was one notable name missing from the list of subpoenas: President Donald Trump.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Genuinely from a place of ignorance, what's stopping the democrats from adding him to the list?

Even if they have to put it to a vote and it fails, that's more fuel for the fire

[–] socialsecurity@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Prolly would require GOP approval and they won't give it with trump on the list

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

But even if it fails that approval stage

They all just have to go on TV/YouTube/TikTok and do the "they won't let you know the truth" and "if you have nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" combo ad infinitum

Literally it's the exact script that works on their followers

Edit: typo

[–] miked@sh.itjust.works 13 points 23 hours ago

Dems are weak.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's too bad they couldn't have done it at any point between January '21 and January '25 either.

[–] socialsecurity@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

It was a political suicide... I am not justifying it just commentong om fact that they are doing this now because it is good for them. Not because they are the good guys.

Trump played too loosey and now they got one him.

I am sure all the real people gonna get protected, trump is gonna be the fall guy

[–] Bell@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Alexander Acosta is the name I wanted to see. He was giving Epstein amazing deals waaaayyyy back in 2008 - why?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

😱

Clearly some sort of formatting error.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

If you do happen to see "Donald Trump" on the list in the future, it's definitely an error.

For the first name, that "D" is actually a "B". And the "o" is supposed to be an "a", but the top part got cut off. The next "n" is actually just two "rr"s printed too close together. The "a" following it is correct, though. That last "ld" is actually a letter-swapped and smudged "ck".

In the last name, the paper was knocked while printing the "T"—it's actually an "Ob". The "u" was cut off half way through printing; it's an "a". And the last "p" was just leftover toner on the paper that got mixed in with the "a".

(For those who don't want to suffer trying to comprehend that, the joke is: it was supposed to say "Barrack Obama", typo and all)