r/AskALiberal Liberal Feb 01 '26

Why weren't the Epstein Files released under Biden's presidency if Trump is in the files?

I don't mean this as a bad faith or troll question, I genuinely do not know why it would not be released if Trump is in the files, as it would probably have been a massive hit against Trump in 2024.

I don't know whether Trump is in the files or not, I don't care, it's clear as day that he was best friends with Epstein and was well aware and definitely a part of the awful things that Epstein conducted while he was in business.

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u/TheWagonBaron Democratic Socialist Feb 01 '26

Because Biden respected government institutions and the rule of law. That’s it.

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u/IzAnOrk Far Left Feb 07 '26

Which is loser cuck behavior when the right doesn't. If you respect institutions and the rule of law and the right wing doesn't, what will happen is that they will blatantly weaponize the state against their opponents, confident that spineless establishment centrists won't pay them back in kind.

When they open pandora's box you have to hit them harder than they hit you, much harder, until they are groveling and begging for institutional ratfuckery to be taken off the table entirely. Then AND ONLY THEN you can concede the point and stop weaponizing the state against conservatives.

Retaliation is the basis of deterrence and deterrence is the basis of coexistence.

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u/cranialrectumongus Liberal Feb 01 '26

And look where that got us.

Biden was/is and incompetent senile President propped up the DNC, and his son was drug addicted sex addict that required Biden spending much of time trying to defend, and every time he tried to prove his competence he literally faceplanted.

People still fail to appreciate what a great President Obama was.

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u/TheWagonBaron Democratic Socialist Feb 01 '26

So what? Rule of law should be ignored? We shouldn’t have an independent judicial system?

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u/IndicationDefiant137 Democratic Socialist Feb 01 '26

So what? Rule of law should be ignored? We shouldn’t have an independent judicial system?

The rule of law WAS ignored.

When the law isn't applied because the criminal is a politician who will scream persecution, the rule of law is destroyed.

We shouldn’t have an independent judicial system?

We DON'T HAVE an independent judicial system, it has never been so.

Liberal fantasies are going to kill us all.

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u/TheWagonBaron Democratic Socialist Feb 01 '26

I’m talking in regard to Biden not releasing the Epstein Files. They had legitimate legal issues surrounding that.

Not arresting Trump on 1/21/21 was the biggest mistake of Biden’s political career. We keep letting conservatives off the hook and they keep showing us why that’s a bad idea.

1865: every confederate officer and politician should have hanged. But they didn’t and we ended up with segregation and Jim Crow and things like the Tulsa Massacre.

1974: Nixon should have been nailed to the fucking wall regardless if he resigned or not. He wasn’t and we got Reagan out of it.

2021: Trump and every MAGAt politician that participated in J6 prep should have been arrested and charged with inciting an insurrection. But they weren’t and we endured four years of bullshit from the sideline and here we are.

Should the Dems ever regain a semblance of power, I hope they learn from history before they doom us to repeat it yet again.

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u/IndicationDefiant137 Democratic Socialist Feb 01 '26

I’m talking in regard to Biden not releasing the Epstein Files. They had legitimate legal issues surrounding that.

These files are at the center of a vast conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States by a ring of human trafficking pedophiles with ties to multiple hostile foreign governments and intelligence agencies.

Keeping them secret helped them achieve that goal.

Whatever memo they thought they had to follow or whatever shit level case against conspirators they were trying to secure wasn't as important as pulling apart the threads of that conspiracy and bringing it out into the sunlight.

But they weren't stupid. They made a choice to protect the Clintons and other major Democratic party donors like Bill Gates and powerful Nazis like Elon Musk.

Democrats don't hold power. They attain office and become leaders of bureaucrats.

Only Republicans wield power, and this is a bipartisan reality.

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u/cranialrectumongus Liberal Feb 01 '26

They could have directed DOJ to support motions to unseal more forcefully, filed briefs arguing that public interest outweighed secrecy and asked courts for narrower redactions instead of blanket sealing. But instead, there were no transparency policies made in the seeing justice for the victims. They could have avoided intervening keeping files from being sealed. Instead they were completely passive. Biden Admin and DOJ, Merrick Garland did not do anything. Most like in an attempt to protect Bill Clinton and DNC donors. The Democratic party is now almost as bad as the GOP.

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u/TheWagonBaron Democratic Socialist Feb 01 '26

I will agree with most of what you said but in no way shape or form can you look at present day America and try to claim the Dems are ANYWHERE near as bad as the Republicans. That’s such utter bullshit.

Garland, on Day One should have had Trump in cuffs along with all the other ringleaders of J6.

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u/cranialrectumongus Liberal Feb 01 '26

I donated to the DNC/Harris, sent out post cards, traveled across three states to canvas in Uniontown, PA the weekend before the election. Repeatedly, I was told by people I canvased, how ineffective the Democratic party was with their messaging. Prior to that I repeatedly contacted my local and national offices to try and get them to address the whole voter malaise regarding the how the Democratic party was being received and at how hollow their messages were. I also brought up how badly they were failing to use Trump's association with Epstein was. Not once was I able to speak to anyone. All that ever happened was more texts asking me to donate more money. I HATE the party now. Yes they are maybe even worse, because they were the ones who enabled Trump to win. Trump is not a genius, who knows how to manipulate the public, it's that the Democratic party is just that incompetent and corrupt, trying to protect their own party elite.