General Discussion

Release the Epstein files, then get rid of the ‘Epstein class’

* Democrats released emails raising questions about Trump’s knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.

* President Trump does not want us to read the Epstein files.

By Anita Chablis
Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2025

We are being ruled by the “Epstein class,” and voters deserve to know the details of that particular scandal, and to be able to expect better of their leaders in the larger sense.

That’s the message we’ll be hearing a lot in the coming weeks and months now that Democrats have successfully moved forward their effort to release the full investigation into former President Trump buddy Jeffrey Epstein.

“When you take a step back, you have a country where an elite governing class has gotten away with impunity, and shafted the working class in this country, shafted factory towns, shafted rural communities,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) told me Wednesday.

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How appropriately strange for these days would it be if Epstein, who faced sex trafficking charges at the time of his death, provided the uniting message Democrats have been searching for?

“Epstein and economics” sounds like a stretch on the surface, but it is increasingly clear that Americans of all political stripes are tired of the rich getting richer, and bolder. The Epstein files are the bipartisan embodiment of that discontent.

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-13/chabria-column-epstein-files-california-congressmen-ro-khanna-robert-garcia

Now’s the time — and yet, so many see only opportunities to fold.