Whoa! Trump Falls into Perfect Trap to Expose his Past
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How did Congressman Massie and Ro Khanna set up the ‘perfect trap’ for Trump?
Donald Trump just walked right into a perfectly laid trap that may expose his dark past. Precisely what he's been trying to avoid since December 19th when the Epstein Transparency Act required that his Department of Justice turn over all of the Epstein files. The Trump regime to date has only turned over less than 1% of the Epstein files. Let's talk about the perfect trap, how Donald Trump walked right into it, and what I think a federal judge is now going to do. And a lot of people didn't see how carefully planned this trap was. And now people get it. And in the legal community, everyone's like, wow, this was a brilliant move by Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna and Republican Congress member Thomas Massey.
who were the leads on the Epstein Transparency Act. You see, they filed this document on Tuesday where they finally revealed their plan and the trap that was set, and it was brilliant. So you may recall about a week and a half, two weeks ago, Massey and Khanna filed a request to be deemed something called an amici and file an amicus brief, meaning a friend of the court brief, before a federal judge, Judge Engelmeyer, in the Southern District of New York. Why Judge Engelmeyer? Well, Judge Engelmeyer is the judge presiding over the United States versus Ghislaine Maxwell criminal case. She was, of course, convicted of child sex trafficking, sentenced to over 20 years, put in a maximum security facility before Trump's DOJ, moved her to the minimum security facility in Camp Bryant, Texas.
and gave her VIP treatment. So in this amicus brief that was filed a week and a half or two weeks ago by Ro Khanna and Thomas Massey, they make a recommendation to this federal judge, Judge Engelmeyer, perhaps you appoint a special master or an independent monitor who can go into the Department of Justice files, determine how many records exist in the Epstein files, prepare reports for the court, and then produce the Epstein files forthwith because the Trump regime is in criminal violation. Now, it seemed that federal Judge Engelmeyer was a little bit skeptical whether these Congress members have standing. But Judge Engelmeyer then asked Trump's DOJ the question, do you believe that these Congress members have standing, number one,
in order to intervene in this action, right? And then number two, do you believe, Trump DOJ, that federal courts like this one, like Judge Engelmeyer, that we can make rulings compelling you under the Epstein Transparency Act to produce the Epstein files, to enforce the Epstein Transparency Act? So last Friday, the Trump DOJ does this late night filing.
What does the Epstein Transparency Act require and what was the December 19th deadline?
They say Thomas Massey and Ro Khanna do not have standing. They're not parties to this action. The only parties are the DOJ, the United States, and Ghislaine Maxwell. And this criminal case is well over, Judge. So you can't have parties now intervening. They're not parties to the case. This is a criminal action. But then the DOJ had to answer that second question. Can courts enforce the Epstein Transparency Act and the Department of Justice last Friday? Remember I covered this filing? They said no. And they said there's no private cause of action in the Epstein Transparency Act. And they argued, the DOJ argues, that Congress did not evince, is the word, did not evince any intent to allow the Epstein Transparency Act
to be enforced in a federal court. In other words, the Epstein Transparency Act, according to the DOJ, does nothing. It recommends the files get produced, but if the DOJ and Trump don't produce anything, then there's nothing a court can do about it. Just think about that. So Epstein, the Epstein Transparency Act, according to the DOJ, means no transparency at all. So one brilliant thing that Thomas Massey and Ro Khanna accomplished is they smoke out the DOJ's position and Trump's position all along that Trump and Bondi and Blanche ultimately agreed. Let's make this thing a law because they figured we're just going to argue down the line a year from now after we delay, delay, delay, delay.
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