Mike Johnson who railed against the Epstein bill – but voted for it – is now mad the Senate approved the measure

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2. I wonder why? My guess is that Johnson’s been putting his Johnson in places he shouldn’t.

3. Guy who bailed by keeping the House out of session for months is tweaked because the people he left holding the bag failed to cover his ass.

   Science is still looking for a violin small enough to play his sad song.

4. How dare they approve a bill that I myself voted for! Treachery!

5. I think this confirms what some people have said that he and Trump really thought this would die in the Senate and they could push it away for awhile. He did not think the Senate would simply vote it through and thought he had time to make calls and wear down congress members’ resolves to stop it there. They’ve clearly got backup plans, but this would have been the easiest way to rinse their hands.

6. Mike Johnson knows about this? I could have sworn he didn’t know about anything.

7. This is not the response of a guy who knows the files have been scrubbed

8. *”said a frustrated Johnson, who said he opposed releasing the files on the grounds that it could reveal the identities of many of the victims.”*

   And he is right, just that he thinks the pedo’s are the victims having their names out there.

9. Sometimes I think there is this huge conspiracy to cover up some massive scandal involving Epstein. Then this weirdo comes out, votes yes then is pissed the senate also voted yes. And I’m not sure these people know what the hell they are doing and they might not even be able to put together a massive coverup.

10. “…the Senate — which is no certainty, that that will be — that they will take the time methodically to do what we have not been allowed to do in the House,” Johnson said. ”

    What an ass. He was the one who sent the House home to prevent it from coming to the floor; not to mention avoiding swearing in the new Rep that would make it go through quicker.

    No wonder that picture of him is full of grey now. He knows how history is going to view his part in all this.

11. >”It needed amendments.”

    The Speaker of the House couldn’t find time to try and amend the bill in all the weeks he was keeping the House closed after it became clear it was going to come to a vote.

12. No reason to get upset when they already have the plan in place to release the fabricated version.

13. Maybe this will be a lesson to him that no one in Trump world has his back. Maybe grow a spine and don’t fight so hard to protect guilty Trump, Mike!

14. He was counting on the Senate stalling it. You all act like there is a plan for a cover up when they clearly did not want this to happen.

15. What the fuck is this guy’s problem? Like, nothing he says makes any sense at all. How do guys like this get into power? I wouldn’t trust him to manage a local Wendy’s.

16. Johnson regularly relied on the Senate to carve out legislation they like first. This was Thune and co telling Johnson to do his damn job and approve a bill that they actually like. The Senate clearly wants to get rid of this issue and quickly. If you approved something you don’t like, too bad. Do your assigned job next time.

17. From my understanding, Johnson was hoping it’d get amended in the Senate to basically strip the teeth out of it, they couldn’t do so in the House becaues the discharge petition forces them to JUST vote on it, not amend it, and Senate Dems got past that by immediately calling for unanimous consent to pass it through the Senate without amendments, and right now the GOP is in this weird sort of game of chicken where none of them WANT to be on the record as having blocked the release of the files. The Senate amendments were supposed to be their way of doing so sneakily.

18. “Chuck Schumer rushed it to the floor”. Did he really say that with a straight face? As the Minority Leader, Schumer can’t rush anything anywhere. It was Thune (R) who somewhat amazingly did the right thing

19. I dont understand the messaging. “This is all just a Democrat attack on Trump!” Democrats are just trying to have the files released. This is only an attack on Trump if he’s in them in an incriminating way. Is that what they are saying? He’s in them?

20. I wonder if the Senate was tired of being the punching bag for the House doing nothing?

21. I still have 0 faith that this isn’t a coordinated ratfuck, I hope to be proved otherwise but these people have voted in lockstep to protect their people since I’ve been alive.

22. This is what’s so fucked about US politics. They didn’t have to vote to approve it. Nobody held a gun to their head. All of their criticisms could have been addressed in dragged out negotiations, as usual. But because their god-king said jump, they jumped. Every last one of them. None of them know if Trump has an endgame or if he’s just gone into old man shouting at clouds mode. So now all of them are panicking because there’s not a single backbone among them. They’re more scared of Trump than they are their base, and that should have everyone concerned.

23. Very funny to whine about Chuck Schumer pushing it through without amendments when Senate *Majority* Leader John Thune was very clear that he didn’t feel like amendments were needed on a bill that passed the House 427-1.

24. Everyone is speculating Trump and the GOP have some master plan to cover this whole thing up, but I actually have hope that’s not going to work at all. For one, Johnson seems pretty shocked that the Senate passed this through. Trump basically has no choice but to sign it now. DOJ/FBI might try to redact or remove any mention of Trump, but that would not only be a monumentally difficult task, it also doesn’t account for what the Epstein estate has, testimony of the victims and witnesses, and countless journalists and investigators over the years combing through anything Epstein-related. These documents don’t exist in a vacuum. It will be extremely obvious that there’s a giant Trump-shaped hole in the files.

25. The whole point of his schtick is to give cover to trump to veto it.

    “It needed amendments”

    “Schumer rushed it through inappropriately”

    Now trump can veto it, send it back and they will throw some ridiculous amendments on it to either hamper what is available in the files or the amendments are egregious enough that it wont pass.

26. He denied the people of Arizona representation for 50 days to protect the Epstein files just to get steamrolled by his own party.

27. Mike Johnson is Smithers from The Simpsons so he is doing what Smithers would do.

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