19 November—Oops. We didn’t get the most important topic of the biennium out of the way yesterday. Sorry. With the veto-proof majorities the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed in both houses of Congress after yesterday’s disquisition was posted—one negative vote in the House (for an acceptable reason) and unanimous consent in the Senate—even if Donald Trump should choose not to sign the bill, you’d think it would be enacted.

But consider that the Republicans in both houses were merely obeying Trump’s orders to pass the bill (and perhaps the buck) and that if he should change his mind yet again they’d surely follow his orders. And of course Trump could have ordered the ignoramus he made his attorney general to release the files whenever he’d wanted—if ever he’d wanted.

So don’t be disappointed if there’s not much succulent salacity in the released files to entertain you. Because under the bill Trump’s unweaponized justice department that’s been instructed—make that ordered—to persecute and prosecute Democrats who had anything at all to do with Epstein would be able to withhold anything that “would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary.”

Ty Cobb, a White House lawyer during Trump’s first term who has since seen the light and become a vocal critic, thinks “it’ll be a long time before we see anything, although there are certain documents that could be easily produced,” because Trump’s ignoramus attorney general will be instructed to cite the ongoing investigations of Democrats like Willy Clinton and Larry Summers as a reason to hold the files back.

And even if the justice department should open the Epstein tap, the juicy records from the New York grand jury that indicted the sleazebag wouldn’t be included in the flow because three federal judges (to date) have refused to allow the DOJ to unseal any of the proceedings, whose secrecy is protected by law.

On the other hand, while there are only something like 70 pages of grand jury evidence, there are said to be some 100,000 pages of Epstein files and associated filth in the government’s possession. So who knows?

In the meantime, here’s a celebration of yesterday’s Murder Inc. summit at the White House, with Saudi Arabia’s tyrannical murderer Mohammed bin Salman and America’s tyrannical murderer Donald Trump discussing Jeffrey Epstein and admiring F-35s like the ones to be delivered to Mohammed. Were they holding hands as they watched the flyover?