08/29/25
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday he thinks the House will “probably” vote on “one measure or another” related to releasing more information about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after a battle over the case sent the chamber into an early break last month.
Johnson said he’s not so sure the move will be a priority, though, as lawmakers have already begun to collect details from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and its meetings with Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted after the wealthy financier died by suicide in a federal prison while awaiting trial in 2019.
“We have our own resolutions to do all this, but it’s sort of not necessary at the point because the administration is already doing this — they’re turning it over,” the Speaker said in an interview on CNN “News Central” Friday morning. “There probably will be a vote of some sense, but we’ve got to get everybody collected again and build consensus around that.”
Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) are planning to bring survivors of Epstein and Maxwell’s abuse to the Capitol next week to build support for a bipartisan resolution they’ve proposed that would force the Trump administration to release all documents and materials collectively referred to as the Epstein files.
“It’s not even necessary,” Johnson said. “The process is playing out as it should.”
“Very soon the American people will have that information, and they should have had it all along,” he added.
The House abruptly broke for its August recess a day ahead of schedule in July after the chamber reached a stalemate over attempts to uncover more information about the Epstein case.
Epstein hobnobbed in elite circles and was a longtime friend of President Trump before a falling-out that preceded Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea in a Florida prostitution case involving minors. Epstein’s crimes, social connections and death have all sparked intense public interest in the case.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former Speaker, was among the critics who slammed the House’s early break last month, calling Johnson’s decision to leave early “shameful.”
“To block transparency in this manner is not only an abdication of duty — it is a profound insult to the victims who have carried the burden of this trauma for decades,” Pelosi wrote in a July 22 social media post.
Johnson insisted Friday that he supports transparency and is committed to informing the public about the Epstein case.
“We’re for maximum transparency,” he said. “With the Epstein files, I’ve been saying this for years — we’ve been intellectually consistent from day one, and over this break, over the last couple weeks in August, the Department of Justice and the administration have been fully compliant with Congress’ subpoenas, and they’ve submitted over 34,000 Epstein documents already.”
Johnson, though, has openly questioned whether Maxwell’s testimony holds any value for lawmakers.
“Can she be counted on to tell the truth? Is she a credible witness?” he told reporters July 23 of the “obvious concern” he has when asked if he supports the effort to subpoena her. “I mean, this is a person who’s been sentenced to many, many years in prison for terrible, unspeakable, conspiratorial acts, acts against innocent young people.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5477192-epstein-files-vote-mike-johnson-ghislaine-maxwell
“Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former Speaker, was among the critics who slammed the House’s early break last month, calling Johnson’s decision to leave early “shameful.
“To block transparency in this manner is not only an abdication of duty — it is a profound insult to the victims who have carried the burden of this trauma for decades,”
Johnson and many other former Republicans have handed their spines to the orange bone spurs. And, like TACO, they also surrendered their dignity and morals. The most glaring display of what many in our government have reduced themselves to, is them pissing on the victims of Trump’s rape victims, but not only them, also the vampire’s countless murder victims in Ukraine.
From Fear and Loathing – Closer to the Edge
Today :
“On August 12th, 2025, Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin possesses a comprehensive kompromat file on Donald J. Trump. He didn’t suggest it. He stated it. The file, he said, is extensive, meticulously documented, and designed not to destroy Trump—but to control him.
According to Mussayev, the kompromat includes financial records showing illicit transactions connected to accounts either owned by Trump or clearly affiliated with his name. It also contains statements from operatives who were directly involved in kompromat operations—individuals who could, if necessary, provide witness testimony confirming the authenticity and intent behind the material. Most damning of all, he claims, are the recordings: audio and video documentation of sexual crimes against minors and acts of violence against women.
Mussayev states that this material has been in the Kremlin’s hands for years. He claims that the Russian FSB has deliberately leaked fragments of this kompromat, not to expose Trump publicly, but to exert pressure on him. The goal, according to Mussayev, is strategic: ensure Trump remains aligned with Russian geopolitical interests. That includes undermining NATO, destabilizing the European Union, and pressuring Ukraine into surrender.
The kompromat doesn’t exist to embarrass Trump—it exists to guide him. Mussayev describes it as a calibrated pressure system. When Trump hesitates or veers from Russia’s interests, the FSB lets just enough out to remind him who’s holding the leash. It’s not chaos. It’s design. And the person benefiting from that design is Vladimir Putin.
Mussayev also asserts that Trump has worked systematically to prevent any U.S. investigation into his criminal exposure. He claims Trump has turned American institutions—Congress, the DOJ, the FBI, intelligence agencies, even immigration enforcement—into instruments of personal protection. In Mussayev’s view, these institutions now answer to a single man, and that man answers to Moscow.
He makes clear that Trump cannot negotiate with the FSB. He cannot buy them off. He cannot order them to bury the kompromat. The operation was never about money—it was about leverage. Trump may hold the presidency, but Putin holds the file.
Mussayev’s allegations do not come in the form of speculation. He does not hedge his words or offer qualifiers. He names names. He explains the mechanisms. He draws a straight line from Soviet intelligence practices to modern blackmail operations and directly implicates Donald Trump as a long-term target who was successfully recruited, compromised, and used.
These aren’t historical footnotes. Mussayev is not recounting a Cold War anecdote. He is describing an active security breach—one that, according to him, still defines the behavior of the most powerful man in the United States. Mussayev claims that Trump’s current refusal to investigate his own crimes, his loyalty to Kremlin-aligned figures, and his policy sabotage of Western alliances all stem from the kompromat Putin is holding.
The allegations suggest that the American presidency is compromised at its core. Not just politically. Operationally. That the person issuing executive orders, appointing judges, and influencing global conflict zones may be doing so under foreign pressure. Mussayev is not coy about this. He says the evidence exists. He says the recordings are real. And he says the only reason Trump hasn’t been exposed is because Putin doesn’t want him exposed. He wants him useful.
This is not about guilt or innocence. It is about leverage. It is about a foreign adversary exercising influence over a U.S. president through a system designed to operate in silence. The kompromat doesn’t need to be revealed to work. It just needs to be feared.
If what Mussayev says is true, the implications are not hypothetical. They are immediate. And they reach the highest level of global power.
More is coming.
This is just the first breach.”
“A calibrated pressure system. When Trump hesitates or veers from Russia’s interests, the FSB lets just enough out to remind him who’s holding the leash.”
Sounds about right …….
Taco’s behavior supports this idea in a strong way.