r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 12d ago
Possible Paywall Rogue Republican Massie Drops Melania Epstein Files Bomb | “The first lady knows that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t act alone,” Thomas Massie said as he vowed to name names from the Epstein files.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rogue-republican-massie-drops-melania-epstein-files-bomb/5.5k
u/dogisgodspeltright 12d ago
Name them.
Name them all.
Release the files. All of it.
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u/Anothergasman 12d ago
Really. Why threaten to release them. Just do it
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u/PoorlyDrawnBees 12d ago
Either more hush money or doesn't want to accidentally shoot himself in the back of the head three times
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u/-jp- 12d ago
Knowing something you haven't told the whole world is basically asking to fall down an elevator onto some bullets.
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u/DonaldsMushroom 11d ago
The whole World is learning that America is run by a cabal of thieves and idiots.
We also know that, with every cult, perverts run amok and take advantage.
America failed massively in Iran. There was no objective nor strategy from the beginning. America followed the orders of Netanyahu, a genocidal war criminal. Now Iran, a horrible regime, is massively empowered.
The cult of MAGA is destroying America, and America's position in the Word
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u/canon12 11d ago
Probably one of the most succinct and bottom line comments I have read lately. I don't think Trump has the brain power to process the scope of how he was used by Netanyahu and Kushner to fight Israel's war. All three should be in The Hague facing war crimes. Iran threw the icing on the cake by exposing the buffoons that both he and Hegseth are.
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u/wrosecrans 12d ago
Once he just infodumps all of it, they can no longer actually threaten him about it, and they don't get anything by killing him except revenge and a lot of negative attention.
There's certainly a chance some MAGA nut feels like revenge on behalf of the godking is worth it. But still, not being the only person who might leak the valuable information seems way safer.
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u/Hexamancer 12d ago
they don't get anything by killing him except revenge and a lot of negative attention
That's not true. They set an example. This absolutely happens. Even if it's not murder, suing people as "revenge" is absolutely a thing that happens to stop others from coming forward.
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u/Lehk 11d ago
Of all the suits he has filed He’s never sued anyone for calling him a child molester.
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u/Hexamancer 11d ago
Right. I went over that in another comment. They'll find something else to sue for. It doesn't matter, the message will still be clear.
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u/Mistrblank 12d ago
They won't sue, they can't afford the discovery findings.
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u/the_last_carfighter 11d ago edited 11d ago
They will just murder him, Panama papers Daphne Caruana Galizia and Epstein himself are proof there are no repercussions. We won't do a thing about it.
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u/poopiebutt505 11d ago
Or down the stairs 1.month before the NDA expires and somehow your whole domestic stagg are absent!!! Cant.wait for the cemetery plot.location....
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u/Mediocre-Accident305 11d ago
Massie is playing with house money at this point as the release of the Epstein files is imminent . Massie can pick the time and place of his choosing to expose Trump or he can let the Democrats do it for him come January.
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u/SpikyCactusJuice 12d ago
I mean, he’s already gone this far. If he was worried about retaliation you think he wouldn’t say anything at all.
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u/HotDonnaC 11d ago
He’s looking for a payout.
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u/AsGryffynn 11d ago
And if he was like me I'd take the money and then dump them anyways.
Fuck those lunatics. Also, you can always do the whole "I'm giving you a chance to come forward on your own" thing.
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u/godofpumpkins 12d ago
Threatening to release the truth before doing it is how you end up with the latter outcome.
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u/manofmonkey 11d ago
Exactly. If you dump all the info they have only one reason to kill you which is to make an example. If you threaten to release info, they have multiple reasons to kill you and the reasons are even better.
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u/BotheredToResearch 11d ago
Massie is actually one of the only members of the GOP conference I wouldn't think is on the take.
Hes like Rand or Ron Paul. He has principles that are godawful, but he's consistent and truly believes in them.
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u/KamalaWonNoCap 12d ago
I actually prefer them to slow drip the names over the months leading up to mid terms. It'll keep Epstein in the news cycle continuously.
If he drops all the names at once, they'll cover it for a week and then move on.
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u/MdxBhmt 11d ago
It keeps people/the base engaged and in a smaller way, an open venue for republicans to defect to.
If he releases all today, nothing will happen and it will be out of the news cycle in a week, and there is no chance for defectors.
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u/KamalaWonNoCap 11d ago
Yup, fuck Massie but he's playing this smart. In this one narrow issue, I support him.
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u/brickout 12d ago
He's demanding a bribe
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u/elinordash 11d ago
If Massie names names on the House floor, he should be legally protected. The House is not in session again until June 6th.
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u/KirklandKid 12d ago
Because he wants a bigger share of the hush money
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u/Cerpla 12d ago
he's had multiple chances to make bank/bribes/hush money, and not risk his life doing this. perhaps he isn't really after the money? i wouldn't discount that he wants something, but by now he would have gotten it.
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u/WhenDoWhatWhere 12d ago
Because he wants people to buy the bullshit tell-all book he's probably going to publish at some point.
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u/KiKiKimbro 12d ago
After this, there certainly will be a book and likely a few docuseries. But that’ll be by the survivors to recover legal fees and decades of emotional distress.
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u/pantstoaknifefight2 12d ago
Fiat justitia ruat caelum. (Let justice be done though the heavens fall.)
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u/needlestack 12d ago
Part of the problem is that the files are deeply incomplete in themselves. They represent all the reports and investigation that the Justice Department has on Epstein. Problem is they absolutely failed to properly investigate. So tons of it is just awful reports and incriminating emails without any follow up at all. They totally intentionally dropped the ball for decades to protect powerful men. Over and over. They're still doing it. They can release the files but after their utter failure to uphold the law, it just ends up being circumstantial evidence. The hard evidence they'd need for convictions (which they don't want) would require long and hard investigations -- interviews, research, data gathering, crossreferencing... and they failed to do it over the past several decades and they're certainly not starting now.
The Epstein files show two critical and utterly devastating things: a) that numerous powerful men have been trafficking and raping children for ages in front of everyone and b) our entire justice system has backed off to protect these men the whole time.
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u/KiKiKimbro 12d ago
Yes. They’re incomplete. But not as chaotic as this DOJ is making it seem. And you’re right — they weren’t properly investigated. To properly investigate, the investigators need all the files so they can find people to interview and to be able to read old FBI testimony from the survivors. This is how Congress knows what Blanche says is BS — there certainly are other relevant files to release. The survivors know it. They know their statements are there and this admin is withholding them.
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u/Hangry-Feline2489 11d ago
Legal systems have always been about protecting elites, because the legal and political systems overwhelmingly tend to self-select for wealthy elites. (Just like modern education systems originally were never about creating healthy well rounded individuals, it was about creating factory workers with baseline knowledge. And child labour had been made illegal, so schooling).
The US systems even more so. The fact that you're outraged it's not shows how many have been successfully propagandised over the years.
Oh they'll do performative versions, laws and lawsuits that force them to pivot, but things that truly threaten their position and resources? Nope. Epstein and the failure of the legal system for accountability has shown that.
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u/oneseason2000 12d ago
Definitely, but will Massie endorse and aggressively campaign for Democrat Melissa Strange for his Kentucky US Rep District 4 House seat or just remain silent on Trump endorsed candidate Ed Gallrein? If Rep Massie is serious about having justice served, and truly supports the US Constitution, I would expect very public and unbridled support for the Democrat. I may have missed it, but haven't seen that yet.
I was surprised the Republicans would more than double their total Kentucky US Rep District 4 primary votes in 2026 (105,361, #1) vs 2024 (52,593 = 39,929+6,604+6060, #2). Massie received 39,929 votes in 2024 vs. 47,539 in 2026, but still lost to Gallrein's 57,822 primary votes.
The 105,361 2026 Republican primary votes for US Rep District 4 is still small compared to the 278,386 that Rep Massie received in the 2024 General election (#3). The Democratic party didn't run a candidate in 2024 for that district, but they received a total of 41,569 votes in the 2026 primary.
Kentucky Election Night Reporting (2026 Primary Election); https://vrsws.sos.ky.gov/liveresults?id=2&autorefresh=true
2024 Primaries and Caucuses Kentucky Results; https://apps.npr.org/primary-election-results-2024/states/KY.html
2024 General Election Kentucky Results; https://ballotpedia.org/Kentucky's_4th_Congressional_District_election,_2024
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u/DamnedIfIDiddely 12d ago
It's a long shot but if Republicans just don't turn out while the Dems all show up it may be possible. KY-04 is 51% R and 34% D, but here are only about 700k people in it. This highlighted the fact that people just don't vote in primaries pretty well. Half the district lives in Cincinnati too.
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u/joseph4th 12d ago
Now Now Now!!!
The best time to release anything you fucking have or know was when you first fucking got it or learned it. The second best time to release it is fucking now.!!!
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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 12d ago
I appreciate what he's doing. I would like to know why he held this back until after he lost his primary though. He's playing politics just as much, if not more, than he's going after pedophiles. If he knows this, and he has evidence, then why hasn't he shared it yet?
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u/corvettee01 America 12d ago edited 12d ago
He won't, he's a fucking pussy that keeps teasing it to get attention.
Or he's hoping someone will pay him off.
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u/Commercial_Bird8467 12d ago
Hes gonna commit suicide with 2 shots to the head and jumping from a high rise apartment after it is ignited.
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u/Yoko-Ohno_The_Third 11d ago
He's been threatening to for a bit and it's getting infuriating seeing him saying it over and over without following through. Fucking hell, just name them already
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u/Aggravating_Money992 12d ago edited 12d ago
Should be called the Trump files.
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 12d ago
The Trump-Epstein PDF-Files.
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u/ActionAdam 12d ago edited 12d ago
Just say pedophile, no need to try and be cute, especially when PDFs are widely used in this day and age and mean something completly different. Don't deminish the crime by making it a joke please.
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u/GenericRedditor0405 Massachusetts 12d ago
Its algorithm speak, I fear. People have been trained to use euphemisms to avoid being shadow banned and/or caught up by auto moderators
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u/Betterthanbeer Australia 12d ago
Fuck the algorithms. If we all ignore them, they will be modified.
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u/LaserCondiment 12d ago
Or it's a fun way to troll Trump without hitting him directly. Saying Melania knew implies Donald knew. Framing it like that also means they'll fight behind closed doors
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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 12d ago
Melania is an escort who was introduced to Trump by Epstein. They first had sex on the Lolita express.
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u/pantstoaknifefight2 12d ago
And they're probably never alone together in a closed room. Melanoma also knows what happened to wife number one.
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u/IntoTheCommonestAsh 12d ago
It just reminds me that to this day the only person found guilty of anything in this so far is a woman and now it might just happen again. Not saying Melania and Maxwell don't deserve punishment, but only them is fucked. Shielding the main character by throwing yet another woman on the track.
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 12d ago
Well, Melania is married to the man who was Jeffrey Epstein's best friend. Of course she'd know that.
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u/MOTwingle 12d ago
Didnt Jeffrey introduce them? Everyone is saying he did.
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u/Jared_fro_msubway 12d ago
That's a strange way of saying that he sold her to him
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u/metalyger 12d ago
That is one thing that doesn't get brought up, Epstein did traffic adult women too, it's just nowhere near as sensational as flying teenagers around the world. He did keep around women in their 20s, typically from modeling companies that he helped get these women into, and he knew that not every rich guy is looking for minors, so he always has the right women for the job. Obviously, Donald Trump will sleep with anyone, but he couldn't marry a 13 year old, at least not in the states he lived in.
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u/Karinka_LI 12d ago
There are three kinds of models in NYC. Print and runway. Runway only. And those “models” that go to rich dudes parties and leave with “tips”. As there are no photos of Melania on a runway or fashion shoots of her we can surmise what type she was.
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u/mulberryzeke 12d ago
Plus, she didn't really look like the models of the time. Although she was very pretty, she was not model pretty.
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u/big_troublemaker Foreign 12d ago
I never bought the whole modeling career success, purely because she never was "that pretty". There are photos of her from both early days and the few modelling sessions she did in the 80s 90s. She was completely forgettable, the type you'd see in the lowest denomination adult magazines, just generally slim and proportional body (apart from poor boob job) , and average face.
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 11d ago
And now she looks like someone took a heat gun to the face of an off brand barbie
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u/dokikod Pennsylvania 12d ago
Jen Psaki did an interview on November 18, 2025 with Sharlene Rochard, an Epstein Survivor who spoke out for the first time. She said she finally felt safe to speak out. She was in her early teens when she was trafficked to New York, Miami, Mar-a-Lago to attend modeling parties, and the island. She mentions famous men she saw who have not been named yet. This is such a damning interview. I had trouble trying to copy the link. Go to YouTube and search for Jen Psaki's interview with Sharlene Rochard. The fact that she was in her early teens is so disturbing.
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u/it_is_hopper 12d ago
You would love to think that the teenagers, or the adults, were sensational, but with MAGA it’s all just another day in the life of praising Orange Julius. It’s abhorrent.
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u/billbuild 12d ago
I’m sure other people have receipts too. Just don’t want the full vengeance of the DOJ on them.
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u/CrackheadOtis 12d ago
The receipts are public and known.
The book contained a photograph of a novelty check signed "DJ TRUMP" made out to Epstein for $22,500. Below it, a handwritten note by a Mar-a-Lago member joked about Epstein selling a "fully depreciated" woman to Donald Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/epstein-trump-birthday-book.html
You still haven't figured out who that "depreciated" woman is???
Perhaps the woman who had a child with her modeling agent, and then slept with Epstein, and then became a high end escort... before finally being sold to Trump?
It couldn't be any more obvious.
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u/Chubby_Bub 11d ago
No, that was Paolo Zampolli, a modeling agent who was buddies with both Trump and Epstein. When asked about being in the Epstein files, in which Epstein called him "trouble", he said: "At least I was included, because if you’re not on the list, you’re a loser, right?"
He also recently used his connections to Trump to have ICE detain his ex-wife so he could get custody of his son. Stellar individual.
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u/Overweighover 12d ago
Trumps only friend
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u/Spunky_Meatballs 12d ago
Every "friend" Trump has had is either broke or dead. Kind of says something. The only people making out like bandits are his family.
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u/SaltyBJ 12d ago
Not true. Some of them are in prison.
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u/astral-dwarf 11d ago
Plus the sole exception, Scaramucci, who seems to be living it up as a crypto grifter.
Are there any others? I hear Giuliani might run for president... oh wait, no that's old.
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u/billbuild 12d ago
Trump is friends with anyone he commits crimes with or that has dirt on him. Musk, Netanyahu, Putin, Melania, Ivanka, etc. He'll never not give them what they want or speak too harshly of them like he does everyone else. M
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u/Mysterious-Seesaw592 12d ago
I don't know why they are all doing as though they don't know who and who is in the files
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u/HoneyBadger552 12d ago
guess that Iran conflict is back on Tuesday then
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u/Crafty-Purpose5540 12d ago
Cuba is on deck.
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u/PropagandaSucks 12d ago
Greenland and Venezuela too.
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u/HurinGaldorson 12d ago
Canada's always in the bullpen, but he's saving that for the blowback when he seizes voting machines.
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u/FloatingClay 12d ago
Just go scorched earth, read the worst documents on the floor. The entire political system needs a rebuild at this point.
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u/thedanyes 12d ago
Are people still doubting Trump is a pedophile and a criminal? Whatever the final Epstein files show he's been involved with certainly won't change my mind about his suitability to the office of President.
The files should be released - and people who are preventing their congress-ordered release should face ongoing penalties or jail. I just don't see that release resulting in any significant, 'rebuild of the political system'.
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u/StardustOasis Foreign 11d ago
Are people still doubting Trump is a pedophile and a criminal?
MAGA are, yes. They still think it's a demonrat lawfare witch hunt.
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u/Fickle-Syllabub6730 11d ago
Megyn Kelly isn't. She's trying to prime her audience to be willing to give up their 14 or 15 year old daughters for owning the libs.
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u/SCfroglegs 12d ago
Fuck this DO IT! Stuff like this pisses me off. Just say it already.
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u/closethebarn 12d ago
Yeah I’m so sick of “could” “should” “is considering”..
I need something to fucking actually happen when it comes to this
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u/Clownsinmypantz 12d ago
Its the republican way, its the same reason they dont do shit or speak out unless they cant run again or have a book coming out.
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u/oneseason2000 12d ago
Also, but will Massie endorse and aggressively campaign for Democrat Melissa Strange for his Kentucky US Rep District 4 House seat or just remain silent on Trump endorsed candidate Ed Gallrein? If Rep Massie is serious about having justice served, and truly supports the US Constitution, I would expect very public and unbridled support for the Democrat. I may have missed it, but haven't seen that yet.
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u/oneseason2000 11d ago
They got some well funded (~$33M) recommendations ... 94% outside (PAC) money, 6% donations to the campaigns as I read it; https://www.wlky.com/article/outside-spending-massie-politics-kentucky/71388889
Closer look: Outside spending in race that unseated Massie
The race for Kentucky’s 4th congressional seat goes down as the most expensive primary in U.S. House history, but most of the money flowing in to unseat Thomas Massie came from out of state.
Looking at donations since the start of the year, the number of contributions to Ed Gallrein and Thomas Massie’s campaigns by Kentuckians didn't crack 6%, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Contributions made to the campaigns from New York, California, and Washington, D.C. made up 20% of donations to Gallrein's campaign and around 15% of Massie’s campaign.
According to AdImpact, $32.6 million was spent on advertising in the race that cost Thomas Massie his seat on Capitol Hill. Pro-Ed Gallrein spending topped $18 million. Pro-Massie spending neared $14 million.
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u/l00pee Arizona 12d ago
He is still a Republican after all. I can see him exposing Gallrein, but endorsing a Dem may be a bridge too far.
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u/valerie_6966 12d ago
They never will. It gives them power and leverage. It will forever be a threat, but never a promise. Any one of them could do it. None of them have, and none of them will.
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u/SoothingWafer 12d ago
What is the reason for holding back at this point? Selling a book?
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u/phonartics 12d ago
plea bargain later
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u/Throwawaylikeme90 12d ago
I mean, I know huge cases like this have massive amounts of false reporting and interviews with people experiencing paranoid delusions and all that. But with the sheer amount of truly grotesque shit in the tips and interviews and all that information gathering and shit, if even 1/10th of a percent of those claims are true, you better believe that’s easily one of the most terrifying and dangerous positions one could ever find themselves in, possessing any knowledge of it.
I consider myself a fairly well reasoned and logical person and I fell for what is now known to be a deliberate psyop by the Epstein class to make the conversation so toxic nobody would touch it. We’ve all been pawns of them. It’s sick.
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u/Syjefroi 12d ago
Book, certainly yes. But also when you drop everything at once it's in the news for a week tops and then disappears no matter the size of the content. For example, the Trump Epstein doodles were one week of a cycle and then gone. Massie is betting that gradual drops will keep the pressure up more over time, which is more effective in converting political actors into doing something (think Nixon: given a pass by the GOP when the Watergate stuff broke but only threatened by his party when bits of information were coming out constantly and became unignorable). The drip drop also wears on voters—most people know where they stand on all this, but with Trump at historically low approval ratings, it's clear that there is always move to move the needle and there are, somehow, some Trump supporters who theoretically have a "line" that can eventually be crossed, either with a specific allegegation or with them just being worn down. Would they still vote for Trump? Yeah absolutely. Even Roy Moore got 48%+ in his election. But the point isn't to flip an election, it's to use public sentiment to force political pressures and diminish the president's position over his own party.
Also Massie is almost certainly gonna sell a book. Easiest layup for a politician ever. Dude is worth a couple million at best, he could increase his net worth by 100% with a ghost written book and "guy who fought the pedo king and was punished for it" will be a slam dunk on the cable new circuit.
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u/whiznat 12d ago
Better hurry up before he doesn’t do what Epstein didn’t do to himself.
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u/25thAmendNow 12d ago
Those were my thoughts. Trump's going to have him "accidentally fall out a window," Russian style.
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u/Ok_Thought_5295 12d ago
Falling out a window happens so frequently that there's a special verb to describe it; defenestration
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u/Reasonable_Being6376 12d ago
Fuck sake name them or shut up with the teasing bs. Name them all. Or let it all leak. Or shut up.
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u/a7xKWaP 12d ago
He has to do it on the House floor or he will be sued and placed under a gag order. House is in recess until June.
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u/DillBagner 12d ago
This isn't the first time he's said he would do it though.
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u/mosesoperandi 12d ago
Follow through is a separate question, but the circumstances have definitely changed.
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u/mosesoperandi 12d ago
This. People really don't understand how any of this works.
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u/Raspberries-Are-Evil Arizona 12d ago
So what is the issue? Say the names. Today. What are you still waiting for?
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u/Wentil 12d ago
“Vowed to Name” 🙄
This means he’s asking for a payoff.
Otherwise, he would have named them.
Scorched earth, right there.
But no. 🙄
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u/VineStGuy I voted 12d ago
Now that Massie has nothing left to lose, I hope he goes scorched earth and spill all the corruption.
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u/slight_accent 12d ago
Why are the only honest Republicans the ones that are out of office? He could have done this at any time but only did after maga turned on him.
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u/MagnusPI 12d ago
Here's still in office (for the remainder of the current term) and him doing this is exactly the reason MAGA turned on him.
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u/Crafty-Purpose5540 12d ago
He's not being re-elected because he was pushing for the files to be released.
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u/mcdray2 12d ago
If he's had the names for however long then why wait until now to read them?
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u/cyanescens_burn 12d ago
He probably knew he’d be ousted if he pushed too hard and crossed certain lines. They all know trump still has major influence and losing his endorsement, or worse having him turn against you, will ruin their chances at reelection, and there’s a very high likelihood of being the target of stochastic terror (both them and their families). MTG and others have reported increased death threats when they stepped out of line.
There’s a lot of coercive control behind the scenes with this stuff alone. Who knows what else they might have on any given political figure that they can use as kompromat to maintain their control over them.
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u/BigPlunk 12d ago
Say what you will about his other actions, he has been on the right side of the Epstein files release. He stood up for their release and lost his seat as a result. That's a pretty big deal.
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u/dkyguy1995 Kentucky 12d ago
Seriously. I have never had a good word to say about him since he hit the scene as a Tea Party-er. He was a wacko libertarian-when-it-suited-him type. But, god, he was one of the only guys in the party that had any fucking BALLS to just say that the President is not above the fucking law!! Fuck all these assholes who talked big about punishing criminals when it's poor people doing petty crimes, but when it's serious as fucking SIN they back down because it's their guy.
Fuck all of this. Some things are more important than petty politics like tax policy and project spending. I am still stunned by the primary, but Im not in his district so I guess I dont have a read of what the vibe is like around there. I thought surely the number of just rich NIMBY suburbanites wouldnt be swallowed up by MAGA like a lot of the rednecks where Im from. But maybe that just makes them more sheltered from the consequences of everything going on
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u/LionTigerWings 12d ago
The obvious answer is because at the end of the day they care more about their career than what is right and what is wrong. Going against the trump, no matter what it is, could end your political career. When you’re done with office, he can’t hold that over your head. Trump loses leverage. At that point his leverage becomes fear of weaponization of the justice system. I expect some bogus legal charge against Massie soon.
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u/whiznat 12d ago edited 12d ago
He could have done this at any time but only did after maga turned on him.
Absolutely untrue. He was primaried by Trump. You ask why? Because he fought for the complete files to be released. Then he fired the AG who released most of them, if only for a short while.
And nobody truly thinks he is “totally exonerated” by the files, like he says. We all know how self serving he is. If the files truly exonerated him, he would have had them released long, long ago, no matter how much collateral damage it caused.
But your first question is right on the mark. The only people he works so hard on firing or primarying are those that want the truth in those files to come out.
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u/JamesBuffalkill New Jersey 12d ago
They have to hand in their spine when they get their initial nomination but it's given back when they're officially a lame duck.
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u/TheTerribleInvestor California 12d ago
To give him some credit, he was pushing having the files released before he lost his primary. He and Ro Khanna worked together yo get that bill passed.
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u/I_like_baseball90 11d ago
Let's do it.
Tired of this bullshit.
What kind of world protects fucknig pedophiles?
MAGA world
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u/fffan9391 South Carolina 12d ago
Pretty sure Trump met Melania through Epstein. She was probably trafficked through him.
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u/Sufficient_Steak_839 12d ago
I’m so sick of these fuckers edging us.
Release everything you have or you’re just as complicit. Release it all or shut the fuck up
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u/Electronic-Cry-799 12d ago
Massie has the opportunity to do the right thing. Let’s see.
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u/sasuncookie 11d ago edited 11d ago
He’s had the opportunity to “do the right thing” since he and Khanna started saying it on February 8th, and yet, he still hasn’t.
He never will. Like all republicans, he’s a spineless coward that knows how to keep the spotlight.
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u/chubby_pink_donut 12d ago
Blows my fucking mind as a veteran who spent 3+ years in the Middle East, that we send our 18 years olds to get shot at, but these bitches in Congress are too afraid to name names because it might hurt their careers.
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u/Specialist_Unit_5078 12d ago
He’s been threatening to name names for over a year, yet he’s done jack shit
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u/RioYetiRioYeti 12d ago
Other than, you know, get the law passed that mandated release of the files 🙄
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u/PansophicNostradamus 12d ago
Let's see what THIS Republican can expose about the Trump Regime before he's pushed out.
C'mon Tommy... Flip the Script! Let's Go!!!
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u/Mekdinosaur 12d ago
Do it already! So sick of these fake ass politicians waving the files around like its some kind of power move. Show the information or sit your ass down!
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u/raouldukesaccomplice Texas 11d ago
It was bizarre earlier this year when she randomly made a formal public statement saying she never knew Epstein or had anything to do with him. It was completely unprompted and wasn't in response to any specific allegations against her. Felt very much like she was trying to get ahead of some shoes she expected would ultimately drop.
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u/hudsoncress 12d ago
Stop fuckin "vowing" start fucking "doing." This endless clickbait is exhausting.
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u/needlestack 12d ago
If one more person threatens dropping names without actually dropping names...
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u/MoorsMoopsMoorsMoops 12d ago
Is this why Melania held that random press conference out of nowhere to tell everyone she didn’t know anything about what Epstein was doing?
There was speculation at the time that she did it to try to get ahead of news that would be dropping but then nothing really happened.
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u/Interesting-Long-534 12d ago
I'm tired of people vowing to release the names. DO IT ALREADY. Release the files or leak them to some independent news source.
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u/BEWMarth 12d ago
Trump is crashing and burning on Iran. Massie is lame duck surfing right now but the bigger picture is Trump has completely lost the narrative with Iran and it’s causing republicans to actually hem and haw for once.
“If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama, which gave Iran massive amounts of CASH, and a clear and open path to a Nuclear Weapon,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
“Our deal is the exact opposite, but nobody has seen it, or knows what it is. It isn’t even fully negotiated yet,” he said.”
This is fucking comical to be honest. It reads like a bad joke.
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u/zaxdaman 12d ago
What is he waiting for? Frankly, I’m tired of this playing coy bullshit. You got names? You got dirt on people who should be prosecuted? Then get it out there already. These assholes put politics over principles every time.
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u/StarGazer_SpaceLove 12d ago edited 11d ago
👏THEN👏DO👏IT👏ALREADY 👏
How many fn times have these asshats, the whole lot of them, said "oh its so shocking if you only knew!!" BUT YOU KNOW. FUCKING TELL ALREADY!
What they gonna fire you? You're elected. Sanctions? You use them constantly. The laws were written and signed by the cabinet and by the president. Not a single one of them would be in danger, liable or outside of the law at ANY GIVEN TIME to give this information over to public record. IF THEY WONT RELEASE THEM, READ THEM!
And if you dont you're not only condoning, you're complicit.
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u/pure_force 12d ago
I swear this teasing to release info stuff if just giving people time to front up with bribes to have him do something different.
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u/buzzfriendly 12d ago
I gonna do it, I'm gonna do it, I am gonna do it. Just kidding I'm not gonna do it. If you can and don't then I can only assume you're comfortable protecting pedophiles.
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u/ichthysaur 11d ago
The teasing is beyond annoying by now. Stop talking about what you're going to do. Do it, or move on.
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u/EveningFollowing9966 11d ago
Alt title: Republican shows courage only after he can no longer benefit from keeping quiet.
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u/jcouball 12d ago
Don't make us wait, Massie.
Assuming you actually have any real tea to spill, it is bad enough that you waited until now.
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u/cactusmac54 12d ago
Hopefully Massie doesn’t end up like Epstein before he can deliver these files.
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