When was the investigation closed?

Ask Merrick Garland. I agree, he should have appointed special counsel into Trump inauguration day.

I agree with you that it was pointless for Biden to try and heal the nation and not inflame tensions. It was his mistake to think the right wing of the nation wanted any unity and Trump should have been given no deference or respect as he has none to give.

Biden was plenty competent but too civil and respectful.

No, it's just they didn't decide to use rank conspiracy as a strategy unlike Trump making that the crux of his politics.

Do you think I'm disputing that CSPAN aired it? Is that actually what you think? No, it's the title and implication was no added by CSPAN, it's opinion. You are using CSPAN to lend it credibility and I am saying that is irrelevant. The video tells the story (nothing)

Tara Reade's story didn't go anywhere because it's full of holes and nobody would corroborate it. She's also a Russian citizen now? It's suspicious at best.

Hey you can be mad all you want that Joseph Biden is 1000x the human being Trump can ever be. Gonna be hilarious when he's at Trump's funeral.

None of that is an answer to question so I'll ask it again if you want to dance around it again.

  "When was the Federal investigation into Epstein investigation actually closed?"

There was more than enough to stop Trump without even touching the Epstein stuff. If Merrick Garland assigns Jack Smith even 6 months earlier this is a very different discussion and it doesn't require a wildly unprecedented move to risk an ongoing investigation and DOJ policy.

Dems also didn't run on a campaign that Epstein was blackmailing people and a promise to expose it via release of the files, so what impetus did Dems in 2020 have to override FBI and DOJ policy about active investigations? Did Republicans bring up this issue and propose something from the minority position at the time? Were they barking about it?

The Congress could have done it but it would have been extremely unprecedented and definitely risk the ongoing trial, can you accept that?

Yeah there's exactly a reason I would never, ever take your word on everything. For everyone else here is the bombshell, i will actually link it because I am not a hack: https://www.c-span.org/clip/pu...

Also it says right there "This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN". To me it clearly looks like her own hand while the view is obscured but the audience can deny it. If this is your bombshell, this is deranged. Once again, Biden is nowhere in the Epstein files, Trump is.

Your purposeful ignorance on how our government works is not an excuse for your bad reasoning.

I would absolutely say the opposite, that Miller is quite incompetent and it's only via the fact he has access to such levers of power that he able to do what he does. I mean the handling on Minnesota and the Good/Pretti shootings is wildly incompetent, like there's a way to sweep those things under the rug and they are very bad at it.

  Trump is underwater on opinion even on immigration enforcement, his should be most popular issue. That doesn't happen under competence.

None of that explains why Trump picked Acosta for the cabinet though. Why that specific guy?

Fact's are facts. So being we both love facts here when was the Federal investigation into Epstein investigation actually closed? Was it during Biden's term or was there an active trial happening?

Maxwell wasn't arrested until 2020, convicted in 2022 and appealed until Sept 2024. At what point should the Biden DOJ have released files about an ongoing criminal case?

Well since Republican's seem to have a newfound appreciation for nuance and facts let's just look at the fact of when Biden took office Maxwell was still awaiting and undergoing trial, not being convicted until June 2022 and holding out on appeal until Sept 2024 so by all accounts the DOJ isn't going to release active investigative documents with ongoing court cases and Joe Biden, being a man of principles, was not one to directly interfere with the DOJ (even to his own detriment). Same reasoning that Trump 1 DOJ didn't release all the files, it was still an active investigation.

This sudden amount of releases came about from the fact that the Trump 2 DOJ *closed the case* in July 2025 so after that it was no longer against policy to release it all but even then still it had to forced out via Congressional vote as the Trump DOJ had said "no further disclosure". Also let's not forget Bondi's stunt where she gave right-wing media figured binders of documents of evidence that contained nothing.

Sure but even in that absolute-most-charitable-best-case scenario you lay out it just shows Trump is once again a terrible and incompetent executive, like, why else specifically hire Acosta for that role? He has no unique qualifications, there are probably a dozen other just as or more well qualified Republicans he could have tapped for the role, so why that guy who ended up having to get thrown under the bus anyway?

Can we at least admit it all looks real bad? Suddenly after Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden we're gonna slow down and dig into the nuance now? There is more here than there was against either of them.

Authoritarianism by its very nature means you have to hire based on loyalty, not merit or skill. Incompetence is baked in.

I don't think we've seen an ES6 game-play trailer much less it being an exclusive. Considering how well Skyrim and Fallout 4 sold on Playstation I just don't see them making those games exclusives, at least not forever, at most it'll be the PS version released after PC/Xbox.

Everything the XBox division is doing is leaning away from bespoke hardware consoles and that makes sense for them, they'd rather be a big publisher and leaving the bespoke hardware to Sony and Nintendo, it's basically PC all the way now for them. Not releasing for PS is just leaving money on the table.

"January is the month all the studios release their movies that are obviously too good for the end of the year Oscar season.

Also known as when studios dump all their garbage on your face"

Yeah this admin is paradigm breaking, we usually could not pin major economic movements on the Executive because they are not supposed to and historically have not involved themselves into such broad matters.

This admin though has decided they want to run anything and everything they can via the White House directly and Congressional Republicans, fully completing their transition into supplicant little worms, have decided Article I isn't really a thing, they have a king to make decisions for them now.

After the April "Liberation Day" announcement it's a fair call to pin these things directly to the President now, that's how they want to run things so you broke it you bought it applies here.