More than a month has passed since the deadline for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all its files related to the investigations into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And while the department has publicly shared thousands of documents since that date, those releases account for only a fraction of the materials it has in its possession—leaving the vast majority of the so-called “Epstein files” still unreleased.

“I don’t give a rip about Epstein,” Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado said last week.

“Like, there’s so many other things we need to be working on,” she continued. “I’ve done what I had to do for Epstein. Talk to somebody else about that. It’s no longer in my hands.”

Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who serves as the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told reporters last week that he believes the DOJ “is cooperating.”

“They are turning over documents,” he said. “We would all like for them to turn documents over quicker, but at the end of the day, they are complying.”

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    Well I guess technically I also “don’t give a rip about Epstein,” since Epstein is dead.

    I do very much give a rip about Trump and all his wealthy friends in relation to Epstein.

    I’m especially interested in finding out what’s in those JP Morgan records of Epstein transactions with Peter Thiel that Republicans in the House and the Senate repeated blocked releasing. Why is Scott Bessant so catty about them? Why has this (like so many other Thiel related crimes) received so little attention from the press?

    How the Gawker Trial Was the Gateway to Trump

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      Thiel didn’t welcome the attention. He vowed privately to get revenge on Valleywag, which he described as “the Silicon Valley equivalent of al Qaeda,” a “Manhattan-based terrorist organization” that was apparently terrifying tech bros into conformity. It took him almost a decade for his quest to succeed. In March 2016, a lawsuit against Gawker brought by Hulk Hogan over the publication of a leaked sex tape resulted in its bankruptcy. Hogan, like everyone else, only discovered the identity of his mysterious and dedicated benefactor after the trial.