cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40387506
House Speaker Mike Johnson is conveniently sending Congress home the day before the Justice Department is supposed to release the Epstein files in full. The announcement came Wednesday night.
This looks like yet another instance of Johnson doing every little thing he can either to delay the release of the files or to make it so that his fellow GOPers don’t have to be in town to answer to their complicity in this monthslong campaign to avoid their release—as he did by egregiously delaying the swearing-in of Democratic Representative Adelita Grijalva for weeks.
Wait, is he closing it preventively so they’re not in session when they drop?
This is going to be an interesting weekend…
Less interesting now. Trump’s people just quietly announced that they will not meet the deadline.


