A bombshell report revealed Monday that under the first Trump administration, the FBI appeared to have issued a “stand down” order to New York Police Department investigators regarding their criminal probe into Jeffrey Epstein, an order that came just five days after the disgraced financier’s arrest in 2019.
The existence of the supposed directive was revealed by law professor and legal scholar Ryan Goodman, who found it buried within the Justice Department’s recent release of around 3.5 million files on Epstein.
“The directive applied to NYPD’s Special Victims Unit – the group specially trained and equipped to handle sex crimes and child abuse cases,” Goodman wrote in a report published Monday in Just Security, a non-partisan law and policy journal.
It’s kind of like a lot of workplaces. You might have a supervisor who’s a tyrant, and makes every second at work horrible, and then there’s the supervisor who respects and leads their team, and makes work feel worthwhile.
But despite their very different approaches, they still have the same objective of serving those above them. While we fight over which is the more effective supervisor, it never occurs to us to blame those at the top who are causing the conflict in the first place.
There’s not a single oligarch who champions Democrats or liberal policies for a reason.
The people at the top put the tyrant who’s a supervisor in place against all laws and reason. Your analogy only works if it’s a workplace instead of a government that’s been crippled to be as inefficiently nepotistic as a workplace. Entirely done by the one and only party that’s been campaigning for running the country like a business for decades.
Absolutley none of that is the same as managers (Democrats) and workers (every US citizen) now stuck employed somewhere they can’t leave because the whole company was sold to a team that gutted everything we all built together over a century to instead maximize our suffering for where it can be most profitable. Something the left has fought against for decades, and now gets blamed for “going too far.”
They clearly didn’t go far enough. That’s the only thing rotten about them. They didn’t rot as fast as the rest of the ship, and are literally the only ones now doing anything to at least try to stop the rot from spreading.
Not a single GOP member cares about this country more than they care about Trump and his donors money. That rot is far more visible and obviously worse.
We wouldn’t even have an Epstein class if Reagan didn’t cut their taxes so that wealth could instead be spent on setting up international child sex trafficking rings.
If you want to compare this country to a business then please stop pretending like that is something anyone but republicans have wanted for decades for the very reasons we’re now discussing as bad.
Both sides are now rotten, and that rot has almost exclusively come from only one of those sides.