Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was one of the first Democrats in Leadership to see that There was an opportunity for his party in the Maga requirement of their president to release the Epstein files.
Jeffries saw an opening not only to split Trump from his congress republican protectors, but also to bind Epstein to the corruption of Trump and the Republican Party.
Leader Jeffries was right. He has been able to drive a wedge through the Republicans and trumps Trump.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) Was the first to take the issue at the beginning of July, and it was soon embraced by Jeffries, who told United Democrats and all the leadership of the Democratic Committee in the House to stop the Epstein pressure.
Politics reported on the success of the democratic strategy:
The strategy has effectively hijacked the house, derailed the agenda of the Hill Republicans and the speaker Mike Johnson forced to send legislators for a break at the beginning of August. Not to mention embarrassing Trump in the process and exposing the surprising boundaries of his swing to a party that he has kept in his claws for the most of a decade.
“We try to say that Trump has been full of shit for years and it is not really held, right? But something about this subject makes a healthy part of the Maga world – especially people who are not ideologically tailored to Trump, but a kind of flirt with him last year when they pulled the lever for him – are:” Yes, he is certainly full of shit and others in the assist aid “and a senior aid aid,” a senior aid, “a senior aid,” a sondocratic aid, “a senior aid,” a senior aid, “a senior aid,” a senior aid, “a senior aid.” Anonymity to speak frankly about dynamics on the hill.)
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“Everyone is always talking about Trump who is ‘Teflon’ – that is clear because all Hill Republicans are almost a pack of armor for him, anyway? But in this case they are not,” said a senior democratic assistant who discussed the strategy. “And so it exposes him, I think, of more attacks that would be wiped otherwise – and makes it easier for us to drag his songs down while we create chaos among the Republicans.”
Democrats have been so successful that they forced the speaker Mike Johnson to close the house and send everyone home Because the speaker Does not want to vote or debate about Epstein.
Trump’s power comes from the protection that Republicans in the congress give him, and the protection has disappeared on this issue.
