Rep. Jake Auchincloss
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semi-legal or illegal way of just ignoring the congressional dictum.
And I think what's imperative for Democrats is to not make this an isolated situation around the Epstein files.
I know those have the most salience.
I know those are the most salacious.
But to describe and to delineate
how this actually, this is just one dot of a constellation of corruption.
I mean, you've got the Secretary of Commerce flacking his own crypto enterprise in Pakistan and the Middle East.
You've got RFK Junior's top policy aides owning
companies on the side that are flacking bidets with tax preference dollars.
You've got Brad Smith, who ran CMS for the first 100 days, hooking up health insurance corporations with less regulation and more reimbursement, despite the fact that those health insurance corporations are investors in his company that he's currently running.
And don't even get me started on the Trump family itself, like the Trump coin and his sons.
This is threaded through.
This is marbled within the patrimony of Donald Trump.
And the Epstein files are one example of it.
It shouldn't be behind the scenes.
It needs to be fully out in the open.
And it's not a messaging problem.
It's an ideas problem.
I am fed up with Beltway strategists and consultants who sort of massage and message test and pressurize different talking points.
No, it's about framing it as the working class, blah, blah, blah.