Finally accountability?

While I'm disgusted and abhorred by the crimes committed by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, I haven't been obsessed or conspiratorial over the saga regarding his client list. However, in this day and age of staunch partisan politics, the release of documents with damining information on elitist individuals named on said list has been weaponized by both political parties. 

Finally on Tuesday, both chambers of Congress approved legislation to release all the documents, which President Donald Trump is expected to sign. 

Let's be honest here. Leftists didn't give two squats about the Epstein files until they heard there was a possibility they could be damning towards Trump. This is easy to ascertain simply because there were fervent calls to release the files during the first two years of President Joe Biden's administration when Democrats controlled all of Washington. But only now that we're less than a year into Trump's second term are Dems attempting to score political points by daring the GOP to get on board with a document dump. 

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) launched several truth bombs in response to this legislation. 

"As we vote to pass this legislation, and it will pass, it is impossible, however, to avoid problems with its politicization. One colleague has offensively gone so far as to say that to oppose this bill means you support pedophiles.

I know good public servants, former law enforcement, former prosecutors who never knew Epstein, never knew any visitors to his criminal enterprise, who have genuine concerns about supporting this bill out of fear of creating new victims or harming existing victims, or both...

That is what we've reduced Congress to, inserting itself into the prosecutorial process for political motivations driven heavily by hatred of President Trump... We should be motivated by truth and justice for all, not politics."

Sure, it's easy to say let's just open the floodgates and let all the information flow. But there are hundreds of victims of Epstein's evil pedophile who need to be protected. While I'm all about transparency, it shouldn't be at the expense of those who suffered genuine trauma. 

Hopefully it's not too much to ask to put staunch partisanship aside just this once and focus on the truly aggrieved. 

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