Thune dismissed the need for the Senate to amend the bill, pointing to the broad support it received in the House. He said any amendments would have delayed its passage and required sending the revised bill back to the House for another vote.

Now, the onus is on Trump—the man who has dedicated much of his second term to keeping the Epstein files under wraps, equating it to a “Democrat hoax”—to decide whether the bill should be enacted as-is.

The bill’s passing in the Senate has been viewed as a defeat for both the White House and Johnson.

MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell was among those criticizing Johnson’s tactics, saying that he was left “pathetically humiliated” by the Senate.

He added later on his Tuesday night show, “Every member of Congress who didn’t know it already knows now that Mike Johnson has no idea what he’s talking about when he tells them what’s going to happen.”

If enacted, the legislation will require Attorney General Pam Bondi to make available all unclassified records and documents held by the Justice Department and the FBI related to the investigation of Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, within the next 30 days.

As written, the bill requires that no records be withheld, redacted, or delayed due to embarrassment or potential harm to someone’s reputation.

The names or identifiable information about victims and material depicting child sexual abuse can be redacted, but such omissions must have a written justification submitted to Congress.

>>1458885
>Thune dismissed the need for the Senate to amend the bill, pointing to the broad support it received in the House. He said any amendments would have delayed its passage and required sending the revised bill back to the House for another vote.
That was the point, lmao. They could have poison pilled it. Instead. Schumer said balls on the table and forced everyone in a position where it had to be their ass on the line to personally block the bill and nobody jumped on the grenade cause they saw what happened to Higgins.

C'mon down Mickey! We got a prime spot for you on the human centipede Right behind Trump since he's older and much fatter than you and will die first.

>>1458883
My favorite sitcom:
>Donald takes unpopular position
>Cronies rush to justify it
>Backlash
>Donald and cronies to to greater lengths to justify it
>Members of the house start getting cold feet
>Taco: Donald pretends to never have supported the unpopular thing and blames his cronies
>Cronies have to stand there humiliated as a laugh track plays
We're in the ninth season, and it's getting a bit formulaic... but honestly it's still a fun watch.

>nooooooo, you weren't supposed to pass it after i passed it! read your fucking script!
God I wish these people could get smacked for malpractice.

>Johnson
His own name sums him up perfectly

>>1458883
How bad can the Epstein Files be?!

Is nobody asking why they had to include a clause 2.c.1.e "information kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy"?

Why would this lil old rich pedo have files on him relating to foreign policy or in the interest of national defense? People like idk spies or intelligence assets have files like that.

>>1458883
Reminder that before he became a congressman his only job was being a lawyer for a christian nationalist thinktank.

>>1459019
>his only job was being a lawyer for a christian nationalist thinktank
>what has happened since, certainly 24 hours ago
>christain
Where is your 'God' now, Johnson? *Tips Trilby*

>Senate Republicans not wanting to amemd the bill
They value their careers more than Trump's.
Here's that bus coming for an orange pedo to be metaphorically thrown under.

>>1459108
he can always get a job on the evil stephen colbert report if his speakership falls through

>>1458883
>‘Humiliated’ Johnson
...so he's a limp dick.

>>1458883
>the legislation will require Attorney General Pam Bondi to make available all unclassified records and documents held by the Justice Department and the FBI related to the investigation of Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, within the next 30 days.
>30 days
https://i.postimg.cc/DZCwwT2W/home-alone-2-trump.jpg
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal!
>midterms
...and a Happy New Year!

>>1458883
According to reports he's now trying to make the threshold for these kinds of petitions higher than 218. Fucking sore loser.

>>1459208
They have almost a full year to rig it and make sure that doesn’t happen

>>1458883
>A “pathetically humiliated” Speaker Mike Johnson was visibly fuming when his plan for an Epstein files bill blew up in his face
At least it wasn't Bubba that blew up in your face, Mike.
It was when a man or horse doing so on your boss's face due to blowing is the reason why it's all come out the way it has for you.

>>1459208
>>1458883
An honest question.
Given there was no video or pictures of trump signing the bill.
What are the odds he didn't sign it at all in order to buy another 10 days to further have his name censored from the e-mails and Epstein's list?