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Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was one of the first Democrats in the direction of seeing this There was an opportunity for his party in the Maga request of their president to release Epstein’s files.
Jeffries saw an opening not only to divide Trump from his Republican Congress Protectors, but also to link Epstein to the corruption of Trump and the Republican Party.
Leader Jeffries was right. He was able to make a ditch by the Republicans and Trump wading.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) was the first to seize the question in early July, and it was quickly adopted by Jeffries, who unified the Democrats and said to all the leaders of the Democratic Committee in the Chamber to maintain the pressure of Epstein.
Politico reported the success of democratic strategy:
The strategy actually diverted the Chamber, derailed the agenda of the Republicans and forced President Mike Johnson to send packaged legislators for a recreation in early August. Not to mention the embarrassing Trump in the process and expose the surprising limits of his influence on a party he organized in his claws for a better decade.
“We are trying to say that Trump has been full of shit for years and that he is not really stuck, right? But something about this subject makes a healthy part of the Maga world – especially people who are not ideologically aligned with Trump but who have somehow flirting with him last year when they pulled the lever for him – being like,” yes, he is definitely full of shit ” (This aid and others in history have obtained anonymity to speak frankly about the dynamics on the hill.)
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“Everyone always talks about the fact that Trump is` `in teflon ” – it is obviously because all the republicans of the hill are roughly an armor costume for him, right? But in this case, they are not,” said a senior democratic assistant discussing the strategy. “And so it exposes it, I think, of more attacks which otherwise would be brushed – and allow us to make its figures more easily slide while creating chaos among the Republicans.”
Democrats have been so successful that they have forced Mike Johnson Close the house and send everyone back home Because the speaker Do not want to have votes or discuss Epstein.
Trump’s power comes from the protection that the Republicans in Congress give him, and on this question, this protection has disappeared.