Must’ve finished scrubbing his name from them.
Edit: Maybe it’s a “I’d release them if I could, but the investigations prevent me” situation.
My own theory on the flip-flop back to his original stance:
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The DOJ/FBI have finished sanitizing the entire document to clear Trump and Republican loyalists, so releasing it now will only help them.
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The worst of the damning information (about Trump knowing about the girls and not stopping it) has already been made public so there’s no point in hiding it anymore. Republicans have already spun the narrative as “not that bad” and Trump survived, so why not win some brownie points and release the official document in it’s entirety?
I can’t see any other reason for why he suddenly wants them to go public again. Trump only ever does things that serve his own self interests, so him blocking it for so long was beneficial to him in some way, and now continuing to block it doesn’t benefit him.
Option 3 I think is most likely.
DOJ just started new investigations into Clinton, JP Morgan, and others at Trumps behest. Once vote happens to release files DOJ says “Oops no can do with an ongoing investigation.” Repubs look like they care and nothong goes public.
Its an easy win win for them
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Edit: Maybe it’s a “I’d release them if I could, but the investigations prevent me” situation.
That, or a “I know they don’t have the votes in the Senate, so it’s moot” situation.
So what exactly is preventing them from releasing not just redacted but heavily edited “Epstein files” where they removed any hint of Trump and added a few additional democrat names for good measure? They’ve certainly had enough time to create something like that.
My biggest worry is what if they release doctored documents
To play the devil’s advocate, it’s certainly possible Trump publicly supports the House voting to release the original documents because he either 1) has ironclad assurance that it’ll die in the Senate, or 2) will just pocket veto the bill. There was substantial political downside to them opposing their release, and many many ways for them to kill this whole thing in the future.
Trump doesn’t want the files released, but their Legislative Affairs and Communications Director finally woke up to a strategy that wasn’t political suicide.
Whatever they’ll release, it won’t be the original files.
Someone just told him they finished destroying the evidence that implicates him.
Alright we are probably going to get two versions of the Epstein files the one edited by trump that will probably be released first and the real one that will be released later when Trump is dead or out of office in some way
I’m hoping the second one is released when the people named in the files released by the government go, “Oh no, we’re not going down in this alone,” and put out their emergency backups.
Because now they’re going to try and claim they “can’t due to an ongoing investigation”. This will be like pulling teeth.
His cult will believe it.
Just like releasing his tax returns because “they were in an audit”
‘DOJ still investigating the Dem names in the files…, sorry lol!’
So, either he just realized how guilty he’s been making himself look… or, he’s playing 4D chess with us, and just broke out the “reverse psychology” card. (wink, wink…nudge, nudge)
Well, Megan Kelly just tried to sell that not all pedophilia is bad. So, it’s probably a gas-lighting plan. It’ll probably work too. His base are all gullible fools.
And pedophiles too. Don’t forget his entire base are pedophiles, even if only by proxy.
Both valid theories I’d say.
