re: WSJ: Trump said Stephen Miller ICE deportation's too 'far', Melania, Texas, FL complained

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Can't a Democrat controlled congress release every single bit of the underacted "Epstein files" on day one?

You expecting they will?

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I don't have faith the Democrats will do anything. I don't really fear them like others on here because they are a weak party with no plan and no leadership. As long as the Clintons are alive, they will sit on this. Biden never publicly promised anything with the files. That should tell you something. Its all political theatre.

Now Trump did claim he would release them and the client list and prosecute offenders. Then suddenly there was no client list. Then he actively seems to be trying to bury it and close the investigation.

As i have said - Congress already said release them, but its not like a binder on their desk that they can hand over. The files are physically stored in federal evidence lockers (mostly in NYC & Florida) in the form of physical records, digital files, and court evidence. The DOJ and FBI control these documents are are responsible for their release. The files were supposed to be released by Dec 19 2025, but the law permits withholdings to protect victims and the excuse is that it could take years to review everything. They answer to the President.

There is some legitimacy in wanting to protect the identity of victims so they shouldn't be completely unredacted. But the DOJ has been redacting names of email correspondents and entire pages and documents are missing and this is where there has been political disagreement.

If someone sent an email that says 'who was that girl last night?" they should answer to the court of public opinion. Reps like Clay Higgins aggressively disagree with me on this. He thinks we should protect the identities of people who emailed with Epstein. That is not what was ordered in the declassification and I am confused why people support his position on this.

Perhaps someone will explain it to me.

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We should have placed heavy emphasis on states who were cooperative. This could have avoided. We should have focused on employers, and applying more pressure on soft self deportation efforts. Cutting off handouts, going after NGOs, employers, etc

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SFP has been screaming this for 2 years now essentially.

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The result could have been better. Instead we chose to send undermanned, and under trained random guys with masks into mobs to wrestle around with some fat Mexican chick or something like that

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And then official government accounts posted hype videos about it.

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I know we are the side of facts and logics. But elections are not one on facts and logics. You have to understand the marketing and optics side of this. And we just have to always step on our dick and never learn these lessons.

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This exactly, and it covers basically every issue this cycle, not just immigration enforcement.

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Videos of ICE agents running people over in SUVs aren't media framing.

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Holy missing context.

People interfering with police put themselves in that position.

I give them no quarter.

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being called mean is worse than having violent illegals on the street.

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You were snatching 1st generation Abuelas and sick old men from their houses. In front of screaming children and the 2nd & 3rd generation CITIZENS that just switched to blue and booted any hint of red from office. "Violent" illegals was not the focus. It was a sales line.

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Americans like people that work. Americans may also want only people here legally, but brutalizing people who showed up to work that day was always going to play very badly with the American public.

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That’s the Stephen Miller aspect….