Nothing like a bright and early Truth Social post from Donald Trump, tacked onto a prophetic (and alarming) post from son Junior. The entire structure of the Epstein files has changed and it’s now taken on a life of its own, like a runaway train. It will stop, eventually. First it has to steamroll down that deep ravine and then it needs to avoid that box canyon before it finally runs out of track and grinds into the dirt. Trump’s biggest problem is that he saw the Epstein files as a means to destroy Democrats and even at this late hour he’s still pushing that narrative. But in fact it’s a way to destroy himself. That fact has eluded him.
“Very apparent” https://t.co/UzbTWZJJ5j pic.twitter.com/aJq4aU2BJZ
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) November 14, 2025
MAGA was not expecting this. They were looking to burn a bunch of elites. They’re burning their cult leader instead. That is exactly why the likes of Boebert, Mace, and Greene jumped on board, was to see Bill Clinton and others dragged through the streets in shame. Thomas Massive I’m not sure about. His motivation may be anti-Trump because God knows he has every reason to be. But the other three were out to see PizzaGate on steroids, kids, adrenachrome, you name it and the last thing they were banking on was finding out what a pig Trump is.
And now it gets worse because it always does. Politico is reporting that now House Republicans may defect en masse and support the release of the Epstein files. Mike Johnson had the House in session for a day, swore in Adelita Grijalva and now he presumably wants the House dark until next week so that things can cool off. Wrong. If anything, now the House has burst into flames.
Republicans are bracing for a significant chunk of the conference to vote for Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D-Calif.) and Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) Epstein file disclosure bill once it lands on the House floor.
Senior Republicans privately believe dozens of Republicans will vote for it, possibly 100 or more, according to five people granted anonymity to speak candidly. Democrats pushing the petition publicly predicted that Republicans would rush to support the measure once it hit the floor.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said earlier Wednesday that he’d vote in favor of a bill demanding the Justice Department release files related to Jeffrey Epstein, but expressed confidence in the House Oversight Committee’s work in releasing information related to the case.
“I think it’s a little bit of a false hope that’s going to provide these great results,” Bacon told MSNBC about the discharge petition. “It’s still got to work its way through the Senate and the president. But we’re already getting a lot of results.”
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) also said he’d vote for the measure when it comes to the House floor.
“Sure I’d support it, absolutely,” he said in a brief interview. “Unless there’s some reason not to. I don’t see any reason not to.”
Rep. Rob Bresnahan, a vulnerable Republican in a Pennsylvania swing district, said in an interview he also would vote for Epstein bill on the floor.
So now as many as ONE HUNDRED! House Republicans are going to vote to release the Epstein files after doing everything they could for months to block release by refusing to sign the discharge petition. What are they going to say now, that they ALWAYS wanted it released?
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 14, 2025
What is comical here is that underneath it all a lot of Republicans hate Trump. They’re too fearful to stand up to him but there is strength in numbers and it looks like that’s the operant formula now.
And of course that will drive Trump insane, but look at it this way: Trump’s on his way out unless he tries another coup of some sort. The House members are coming up for reelection. They need to be on the right side of history. I believe they’ll turn on him en masse. And on some level, he senses it. That’s why he’s losing it this morning on social media.
Trump is melting down on Truth Social this morning over Epstein. pic.twitter.com/LmMHatmTLA
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 14, 2025
Monday could be a really wild day.
Don Jr’s post reveals they are a family of geniuses!
When dedicated rat turds like MTG, Boebert and Mace desert a ship, you know it’s leaking, soon to sink. Maybe they’ve figured out that Trump is expendable now. The slimbag Vance is ready and waiting and the clown cabinet would sell their mothers for political gain, so turning against Donald would be as easy as telling another lie. Hegseth imagines himself VP and so, unbelievably, does Don Jr. Put the popcorn on, folks.
Well, Hegseth may well imagine himself as VP but Congress might be able to dump HIM without needing to impeach him. See, if something happens to Drumpf and Couchbanger steps up to the top spot and actually does put Secretary of Drunken Weekend Warriors’ name as the new VP, Congress has to vote on that nomination. It only requires a simple majority in BOTH houses but the only two men to undergo this process, Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew, and Nelson Rockefeller to replace Ford after Ford became President, had very little trouble in getting those majorities. Ford was “confirmed” by a 92-3 vote in the Senate and 387-35 vote in the House (Ford was serving in the House at the time). Rockefeller was “confirmed” by a 90-7 vote in the Senate and 287-128 in the House (Rockefeller’s “sin” that caused so many no votes was he’d been the Governor of New York and too many conservatives–both Republicans and Democrats–in the House felt he was too “liberal” while a number of liberal Democrats were concerned at some non-specific “improprieties” that came up during the hearings as well as some pure post-Watergate partisanship). Incidentally, that opposition by GOP conservatives is why Ford decided to pick Bob Dole as his running mate in the 1976 election.
As for Junior, again. There’s a very good chance enough damage will have been done to the Drumpf name from the Epstein affair that Vance will say, “Who’s Junior? Never heard of him.”
A sinking ship because of the hole he blew in it as he was ‘hoist by his own petard’.
Is this a one-off or the start of an avalanche. History in politics shows that, as soon as power begins to seep away, a dam bursts. Will this be the case here and, if so, how will it manifest itself? My thoughts are that, if the Venezuela venture is indeed a prelude to an attack/war, T will have stepped well over the boundaries of separation of powers and so will test the new found spines.
It’s interesting that Drumpf’s little “Psychopathic Lies” account would try to tie Epstein to the Democrats because “Epstein was a Democrat” since, right up until about the mid-2000s (2006 or 2008, or thereabouts), Drumpf himself was a Democrat. Or, at the very least, played with the Democrats. Wasn’t it back around 2000 that Drumpf was considering a Presidential bid AS A DEMOCRAT?
Until he worked out that Democratic supporters wouldn’t be stupid enough to vote for him – but republican ones would.