Republicans frantically try to change the subject from the Epstein files

Congress cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst defenders of Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him – no matter how shameful or without law.

It was a week of transparent attempts of poor orientation by the GOP legislators, who try to appease the dear chief Donald Trump taking into account his request To distract the public from Epstein files – a scandal his own administration created when they said The government has no dossier of the disgrace sex predator which incriminates powerful third parties.

GOP leaders in the House have made great efforts to block the release of Epstein files, including Trump The name appears in Like Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were close friends for many years.

Other Republican legislators have taken over the management of Trump and called former President Barack Obama after Trump and Tulsi Gabbard National Intelligence made a bullshit accusation that Obama committed a “betrayal” during the 2016 elections when Russia has mixed this competition.

Other basic republicans have even come to the defense of Trump, saying that Epstein files are not a problem and that the public should simply move on. This is particularly curious because Trump’s own influencers have built the files for years like a delay bomb that shot down the elites that line up with Epstein.

Let’s take a look at the cowards of this week, okay?

First of all, there is the president of the Mike Johnson room, who sought to beat the bipartite legislation which would oblige the Trump administration to release Epstein files by creating his own swinging resolution. This bill says the Trump administration should Release Epstein files, but would have no legal weight to force documents to the public view.

But Johnson then refused to put this legislation for a vote, saying that he would wait until the room has returned from a five -week August break to allow Trump administration time to interview the sentenced Epstein partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, to see if she had incriminating evidence to share. (Of course, Maxwell has a lot to win By telling Trump what he wants to hear, because she purges 20 years in the federal prison and could be released if Trump forgave it or made his sentence commute.)

Some Republicans defended this ridiculous legislation, with the representative Chip Roy (R-TX) writing In an article on X: “A bill adopted by the Chamber is not” restrictive “if it has no chance of being signed by the president even if it is adopted by the two houses. During this time – a strong declaration of transparency of the congress requested from an administration which seeks in a similar way is transparency is what the Americans are looking for.”

But then, when Johnson had the wind that the Democrats would force the Republicans to the rules committee – a powerful committee which dates back the bills for votes on the field of the Chamber – to vote on the amendments linked to Epstein, He closed the house and returned the members to the house early.

“Person at Congress blocks Epstein documents”, “Johnson said During a press conference on Capitol Hill, even if he absolutely directed the defense to make sure that Trump would not have to publish the files. “No one in the congress does this. What we are doing here, the Republicans, prevent democrats from making fun of the rules of the rules because we refuse to engage in their political charade.”

Other GOP leaders have also tried to divert criticism for Trump without publishing the documents.

“In the end, look, the Democrats scream and cry”, the head of the majority in the Steve Chamber Scalie moaning in Politico. “They spent four years to cover themselves for Epstein, and you know, at least President Trump is in the courts at the moment to try to bring out documents, and I really think you will see, I hope, a lot not sealed of this and then we have other options.”

The whip of the majority of the house, Tom Emmer, went further, calling the Epstein scandal one “non-professional,” even if vote Show that Americans think Trump hides something by not publishing the documents.

Then there are the other GOP legislators who said that everyone had to just move on.

“We had much more important things to do for the American people than what happened eight, ten, twenty years ago … We must continue”, the republican representative of Florida Carlos Gimenez said.

But Gimenez continued by saying a few seconds later in the same interview as the government must examine the role of former president Barack Obama in the government’s investigation on Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections. Trump had encouraged the Republicans this week to push this new false conspiracy that his administration has prepared distract Epstein file scandal.

“We have to look at exactly what happened in 2016,” said Gimenez, without making the irony of his statement.

Other GOP legislators also pushed the false scandal.

“I also fully agree with President Trump, major history should be what national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard has released,” Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) said In an appearance on television, after playing Dumb on Epstein files.

And meaning. John Cornyn of Texas and Lindsey Graham from South Carolina called the Attorney General Pam Bondi to Name a special lawyer To examine the role of Obama in the Russian investigation. Of course, there is already was A special lawyer named John Durham, whose investigation has found nothing of Obama – or someone really.

In the end, Republicans are a bunch of cowards that will do a lot of trouble not only to appease Trump, but in this case to also protect a pedophile like Epstein.

Ashamed.