Over the weekend, Epstein survivors demanded that additional documents be released, accusing the Trump administration of concealing more than 3 million files

A Republican senator has changed her mind about the Epstein files after reviewing unredacted documents associated with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis recently reviewed a handful of documents from the Epstein files without redactions, saying in an interview afterward that she now understands “what the big deal is."

Lummis, 71, told Capitol Hill reporter Pablo Manriquez on Monday, Feb. 9, that while she previously had said, “I don’t care” about Congress’ efforts to force the release of Epstein evidence, she now believes the issue was “worth investigating.”

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    That’s nice but it means nothing if she doesn’t do something about it. Release the files and impeach Trump. Anything less is just putting on a show to try to sway voters for the midterms.

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    Lummis, 71, told Capitol Hill reporter Pablo Manriquez on Monday, Feb. 9, that while she previously had said, “I don’t care” about Congress’ efforts to force the release of Epstein evidence, she now believes the issue was “worth investigating.”

    The cynic in me thinks she ignored pages and pages of trump named referenced crimes and saw Clinton’s name at least once, so now she’s wants to make political hay only against Clinton.

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    So there’s about 3 million files and Trump appears on more than 1/3 of them? They should probably be called the Trump/Epstein files

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      i thought it was 10 million total files. i have been paying as little attention as possible tho because i don’t want to get enraged or horribly depressed or something like that. i’ll accept your numbers over mine any day. is there a current authoritative set of statistics about the trump/epstein files?

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    I feel like the words “I don’t care” should never escape a politician’s mouth. Their entire job is to care. Why are they representing us if they don’t?

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    Amazing how they all grow spines after announcing that they’re not running for reelection.

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      It’s almost like the only reason they vote like pieces of shit is because their party. They hold no values of their own while they’re in office, and don’t vote based on what their constituents want. It’s solely what the party tells them to do.

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    You don’t care about illegal bombings of boats in the ocean, ICE’s cruel treatment of immigrants and the US citizens who care about them, nor massive sexual assault against underage girls until your face is smeared in it. What do you care about? The Republican party are monsters.

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    It is probably effecting the voting numbers for her and therefore she needs to pretend again to get the sweet sweet suckers to vote for her again come next cycle.

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      It is probably effecting [sic] the voting numbers for her

      Dude, she’s a senator from Wyoming who isn’t running for reelection in 2026. Did you even check before you speculated about this?

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        Aah, so a peaceful retirement where she can say she changed her mind so the people with pitchforks and torches don’t camp out the residence.

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          Okay, so instead of an “oops, my bad; maybe I’ll back off on this one”, you’re just going to make up literally whatever feels right to you regardless of evidence – and I say this as someone who, unlike you, knows anything at all about Cynthia Lummis and therefore has the capacity to hate her for the terrible things she’s done.

          This is pathetic. Do better.

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              Okay, in more polite terms: it’s fine to be uninformed, and it’s fine to be wrong. What’s not fine is to be confidently incorrect on a subject you know nothing about, get shown that you have no idea what you’re talking about, and then (the wrong part) instead of reflect on that and try to learn more so you can develop an informed opinion, just kneejerk pivot to whatever idea pops into your head next – just keep throwing spaghetti at the wall.

              For you, that’s the quickest way to never learn anything, and for the people around you, it’s just polluting the discussion with uninformed, unsubstantiated noise.

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                I don’t know you’re right.

                Have the wonderful day you want and please don’t give me another thought. Take care love.

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                  I don’t know you’re right.

                  I’m not making a claim about her motives in that comment. I’m saying that this commenter is just making shit up that sounds true to them, evidenced by the comment about an alleged contentious vote in a solid Republican state in an election she’s not even participating in. Anything they’re saying is paper-thin, and anything true they say is only true accidentally.


                  Edit: You removed a substantial portion of your comment speculating on Lummis’ motives, and so I was under the impression while writing this that you meant “I don’t think you’re right [about her motives]”.

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    She can see that its going to be impossible to completely ignore this and has to finally admit that its pretty damning.

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    See, that’s why they redact the shit, so they can skirt responsibility. It’s sad it took this long for people to open their eyes, but at least it seems to be starting to happen?

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      Heheh. Well, that’s what omnipresent global propaganda is for! Just keep them in the fox news buckets and they’ll never flinch.

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    Try to imagine the worst thing you can. It’s so much worse than that.

    Stuff that, once seen, can’t be un-seen.