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BumRushDaShow

(160,717 posts)
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 03:53 AM Yesterday

'GOP is not pleased': Republicans furious over Dems' new Epstein file drop

Source: Raw Story

September 26, 2025 4:49PM ET


Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) spokesperson lambasted Democrats on Friday after they released just six pages of the recently released cache of documents from the estate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Republicans have been largely mum on the matter, with the House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman making only a polite request to the Department of Justice for the investigation documents.

Among the items obtained by the Epstein estate, however, were schedules and flight logs, which showed names including those of tech billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.

In an email to Huffington Post congressional reporter Jen Bendery, Comer's spokesperson ranted, "They are intentionally withholding documents that contain names of Democrat officials, and the information they released today is old news." The House Oversight Republicans have their own social media accounts where the documents could be posted.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/epstein-files-2674045873/

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'GOP is not pleased': Republicans furious over Dems' new Epstein file drop (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP
Boo-hoo. sinkingfeeling Yesterday #1
"Fuck these people."--Hunter S. Thompson Dulcinea 5 hrs ago #59
The flight log stuff is indeed old AF, and anyone's names on any of them mean SFA AZJonnie Yesterday #2
Perhaps because they were focused on flying the damned plane! n/t SheilaAnn Yesterday #3
Yeah, planes pretty much fly themselves for the last 40+ years, and there was a pilot and co-pilot AZJonnie Yesterday #4
You really don't understand how aviation works. paleotn 15 hrs ago #36
Maybe not entirely, but I'm pretty sure I understand how perjury works AZJonnie 14 hrs ago #42
Another point for your argument that not all plane rides were sex romps ... FakeNoose 13 hrs ago #46
Thanks for giving me a word of support on this when nobody else will AZJonnie 13 hrs ago #49
We can't even speak the same language. BidenRocks 9 hrs ago #58
Whataboutism IbogaProject 23 hrs ago #6
Please see my post 4 on this thread. AZJonnie 23 hrs ago #8
Sorry I hit comment under your post IbogaProject 23 hrs ago #9
Perhaps. And perhaps the Dems are stringing things along. paleotn 15 hrs ago #37
SFA? (n/t) thesquanderer 21 hrs ago #11
I'm with you LoveTheDU 19 hrs ago #20
Sorry, I used a UK term there AZJonnie 16 hrs ago #32
Great acronym! We should adopt it Evolve Dammit 13 hrs ago #45
They're pilots, not hall monitors... Evolve Dammit 15 hrs ago #41
Please see my post/replies starting with #4 on this thread AZJonnie 14 hrs ago #43
I agree with you. Should have used sarcasm emoji Evolve Dammit 13 hrs ago #44
GOOD Skittles 23 hrs ago #5
Republicans must stop protecting child rapists Champp 23 hrs ago #7
Because they are the child rapists durablend 22 hrs ago #10
RepubliSCUM snowflakes need to learn to deal with it. MLWR 21 hrs ago #12
They sound desperate. We just be doing something right. Martin68 20 hrs ago #13
Epstein's Plane JPK 20 hrs ago #14
Apparently the latest one was a Gulfstream GV-SP BumRushDaShow 20 hrs ago #16
Isn't it AF-2 now (for JD)? Evolve Dammit 13 hrs ago #47
LOL BumRushDaShow 12 hrs ago #50
I thought the "Lolita Express" had been, or was currently in use?? Dunno Evolve Dammit 12 hrs ago #52
Release the flight logs! BumRushDaShow 11 hrs ago #54
yep. And the contents of the safe that FBI had to cut open. Allegedly contained numerous hard/ thumb drives, etc.?? Evolve Dammit 11 hrs ago #55
For the moment let's assume the GOP is telling the truth here dsc 20 hrs ago #15
As others have said: "If Epstein was a Liberal, TV, Newspapers and...... chouchou 19 hrs ago #17
Why does the GOP want to protect child molestors? travelingthrulife 19 hrs ago #18
Eat shit and die you child sex trafficking ring protectors. Botany 19 hrs ago #19
Comer on the list? Old Crank 18 hrs ago #21
Yes? And? hatrack 18 hrs ago #22
Well then, release the whole fucking set of Eptsein files!! aeromanKC 18 hrs ago #23
Well cry me a river! LW1977 18 hrs ago #24
Lemme guess: Their criminal idiotic ignoramus. Justice matters. 17 hrs ago #27
I thought you guys WANTED the list to be released. sakabatou 18 hrs ago #25
DROP THE FILES NOW!!! usonian 17 hrs ago #26
Why is Comer furious since he said it was old news? llmart 17 hrs ago #28
A way to circumvent this republianmushroom 17 hrs ago #29
"They are intentionally withholding documents that contain names of Democrat officials" Wiz Imp 17 hrs ago #30
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 17 hrs ago #31
Like the undesirable said... Kid Berwyn 16 hrs ago #33
They're both probably unemployed and have no healthcare. paleotn 15 hrs ago #38
Don't the GOP clowns realize that pussyfooting around with releasing the files only makes them look guilty as hell? ificandream 15 hrs ago #34
Fuck Whose Feelings? czarjak 15 hrs ago #35
The "fuck your feelings" crowd sure got their feelings hurt when people didn't bend the knee before Charlie Kirk. sop 12 hrs ago #53
Keep the story alive. Don't let them off the hook. Don't let them deflect. paleotn 15 hrs ago #39
Is James Comer in the Epstein files too? I think Emile 15 hrs ago #40
I have an emoji I want to share to the maga............. turbinetree 13 hrs ago #48
I just realized that when I first saw your post I misread it as... Hekate 12 hrs ago #51
just work together to nail the offenders RussBLib 11 hrs ago #56
Mike Johnson can go fuck a tree shredder Blue Owl 11 hrs ago #57

AZJonnie

(1,636 posts)
2. The flight log stuff is indeed old AF, and anyone's names on any of them mean SFA
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 04:38 AM
Yesterday

Epstein knew tons of very powerful people, and flew them around all the time, and loaned his plane out as well. We've seen all this stuff. It's time for some ACTUAL evidence IMHO

Lawrence Visoski and David Rodgers were Epstein’s main pilots.

Both have been questioned, testified, and supplied records, but both deny witnessing sexual abuse during flights. There is no public record of a pilot stating they saw or knew of molestation occurring on the plane


AZJonnie

(1,636 posts)
4. Yeah, planes pretty much fly themselves for the last 40+ years, and there was a pilot and co-pilot
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 05:50 AM
Yesterday

Perhaps you'd like more details, from their 2021 testimony at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, as witnesses for the prosecution?

Visoski stated Epstein did not restrict the pilots’ movement around the cabin; he and Rodgers were free to move about during flights to use restrooms or get coffee, which required passing the main seating/lounge area.

Both said they typically stayed in the cockpit for most of the flight but occasionally went into the cabin, and that Epstein never warned them to stay out of certain areas nor indicated they shouldn’t interact with guests.

They both testified they did not witness sexual acts or see any evidence of sexual activity or paraphernalia (e.g., used condoms, sex toys) during or after flights, nor did they notice any child passengers who were not with a parent

Clarification:

Both pilots noted seeing “young women,” but distinguished them from preteen or very young looking children.

There’s documented evidence (flight logs, testimony, depositions) that Giuffre was in fact a minor on many Epstein flights, but the pilots themselves did not recognize her as such based on appearance or conduct.

paleotn

(20,935 posts)
36. You really don't understand how aviation works.
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 02:47 PM
15 hrs ago


Plus, flying rich people can be a sweet gig compared to commercial airline milk runs. Why upset the apple cart. Rich people do tend to talk.

AZJonnie

(1,636 posts)
42. Maybe not entirely, but I'm pretty sure I understand how perjury works
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 03:18 PM
14 hrs ago

They testified, under penalty of perjury and FOR THE PROSECUTION against Maxwell in an extremely high-profile criminal trial. 4 victims were at the trial to testify. Virgina Giuffre, who was well known to: 1) talk freely, 2) name names, and 3) have flown on their jet *dozens* of times was still alive at the time. And yet no victims, not even VG, accused them of lying on this point.

I'm sorry but I'm a very analytical person and TTBOMK the publicly available evidence that the plane rides were big sex parties for a powerful cabal of rich pedos stands to this day at exactly none, therefore I do not conclude things not in evidence

FakeNoose

(38,756 posts)
46. Another point for your argument that not all plane rides were sex romps ...
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 04:50 PM
13 hrs ago

Bill Clinton himself has explained why he flew on Epstein's plane several times. He was going somewhere (often a transcontinental trip) for a fundraising speech or meeting, and Jeffrey happened to be going in the same general direction, so he offered Bill a free ride. Bill accepted the offer. He was always accompanied by secret service, and sometimes Hillary was also with him. Nothing naughty happened on any of the trips that involved Bill Clinton, and we know that for a fact. (It's been confirmed by the secret service guys.)

Any women who happened to be on Epstein's plane weren't necessarily there for sexual reasons. Also we can't assume that the men on those flights were aware that the sexual abuse was taking place on Epstein's property. I'm sure that some of the men did know, but not all of them. I'm guessing at least some of them would have been appalled, if they had known.

This is why the passenger lists on Epstein's plane are not proof of anything.

AZJonnie

(1,636 posts)
49. Thanks for giving me a word of support on this when nobody else will
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 05:06 PM
13 hrs ago

You are getting the gist of what my actual point here is in making this argument.

Which is partly to defend Clinton and other Dems who WILL be on the flight lists if I'm honest, but also that I want to finally see some actual evidence of this supposed all-powerful pedo cabal that Epstein was supposedly supplying multiple underage girls to.

At this point in time, I consider such an organization to be little more than conjecture, based almost entirely on what Virginia Giuffre said while suing Maxwell for defamation in civil court in 2015 for millions of dollars.

I'm not saying it's NOT true, at all, I'm just still waiting on the evidence, and the lack of such at this late point makes me doubt there ever was any such a cabal or 'ring' as what people imagine, here and elsewhere. I'm sorry to everyone who finds it offensive that I don't 'toe the party line' about it, but my brain operates on evidence by nature, it's how I'm wired

BidenRocks

(2,268 posts)
58. We can't even speak the same language.
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:08 PM
9 hrs ago

TTBOMK?

IDKWTFYATA!

Yet another problem.
My Spanish is better than young speak and forever acronyms.

KWIM?

IbogaProject

(5,032 posts)
6. Whataboutism
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 06:40 AM
23 hrs ago

They are trying to equate flying to foreign destinations on philantrophic missions with their own flights to pedo-island.

AZJonnie

(1,636 posts)
8. Please see my post 4 on this thread.
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 06:56 AM
23 hrs ago

Note that 4 victims testified in Maxwell's case. None of them, nor Virginia Giuffre (the single source and progenitor of the entire 'pedophile cabal' mythos, who for some reason chose not to testify against GM, even though she'd sued the pants off of her in CIVIL court in 2015), ever disputed these pilots testimony, at least not in public.

I submit to you it's unlikely they would be lying, with 4 of the victims right there, plus VG still alive at the time and claiming she was abused by Epstein, knowing as well that she flew on their plane in the *dozens* of times.

We know awful shit went down, of course, but there is ZERO evidence it went down on Epstein's plane

IbogaProject

(5,032 posts)
9. Sorry I hit comment under your post
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 07:00 AM
23 hrs ago

I meant to comment on the thread itself and the GOP desparately trying to deflect.

paleotn

(20,935 posts)
37. Perhaps. And perhaps the Dems are stringing things along.
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 02:50 PM
15 hrs ago

Killing the Repukes by death from a thousand seemingly innocuous cuts. But no matter. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.

AZJonnie

(1,636 posts)
32. Sorry, I used a UK term there
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 01:54 PM
16 hrs ago

It means "sweet f*** all" which in turn means like none or nothing.

AZJonnie

(1,636 posts)
43. Please see my post/replies starting with #4 on this thread
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 03:25 PM
14 hrs ago

Look, we know horrible shit went down with JE&GM, all I'm saying is being on the flight logs is nowhere near enough evidence to make accusations against any particular individual.

Individuals like Bill Clinton, for example

Champp

(2,132 posts)
7. Republicans must stop protecting child rapists
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 06:52 AM
23 hrs ago

How sick is the soul of the Republican Party that they are so perversely dedicated to protecting child rapists?

MLWR

(564 posts)
12. RepubliSCUM snowflakes need to learn to deal with it.
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:07 AM
21 hrs ago

They put a pedophile in office, not once but twice. And believe me, no one cares if they are "furious" that it's finally coming into the light of day.

BumRushDaShow

(160,717 posts)
16. Apparently the latest one was a Gulfstream GV-SP
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 10:06 AM
20 hrs ago

Per this - https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epsteins-jet-spotted-in-middle-east-2019-8

Plane looked like this -



(source - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html)

He supposedly had an earlier smaller plane from the Hawker series -



Per -




Adam Klasfeld
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Replying to @KlasfeldReports
Asked if he saw "females" by the pool, he replied "hundreds of times."

Asked what percentage of the time they were topless, he said about 75% to 80% of the time.
Adam Klasfeld
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Asked how many times he flew on Epstein's plane, Alessi initially responded "none" — then corrects himself.

He did take a ride on Epstein's first plane, the Hawker.

That's this one.
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2:04 PM · Dec 2, 2021

Evolve Dammit

(21,246 posts)
55. yep. And the contents of the safe that FBI had to cut open. Allegedly contained numerous hard/ thumb drives, etc.??
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 06:33 PM
11 hrs ago

dsc

(53,162 posts)
15. For the moment let's assume the GOP is telling the truth here
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:52 AM
20 hrs ago

there is a very easy solution, release all the files.

chouchou

(2,392 posts)
17. As others have said: "If Epstein was a Liberal, TV, Newspapers and......
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 10:21 AM
19 hrs ago

.....Probably air-raid horns would be blasted all over the country this morning.

Botany

(75,364 posts)
19. Eat shit and die you child sex trafficking ring protectors.
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 10:37 AM
19 hrs ago

They can’t deny the reality of what is in the documents so they have to lie and
say that the Democratic officials are hiding democrat (can’t even say the right
name. ) people who are on those documents too. Now had did Comey
and or his staff even know that DEMOCRATIC people were in those Epstein documents?

Protecting Child Rapists = the GOP.

aeromanKC

(3,724 posts)
23. Well then, release the whole fucking set of Eptsein files!!
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 11:51 AM
18 hrs ago

We all know there are some Dem names in there as well. Whatever. Release the Epstein files in their entirety.

sakabatou

(45,334 posts)
25. I thought you guys WANTED the list to be released.
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:06 PM
18 hrs ago

Oh wait, they want to protect the sickos.

republianmushroom

(21,468 posts)
29. A way to circumvent this
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:43 PM
17 hrs ago

...intentionally withholding documents that contain names of Democrat officials,...is to release 'ALL" Epstein files, unredacted. If you got the balls Comer.




Wiz Imp

(7,501 posts)
30. "They are intentionally withholding documents that contain names of Democrat officials"
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:44 PM
17 hrs ago

As the article states: "The House Oversight Republicans have their own social media accounts where the documents could be posted". There is nothing stopping Republicans from posting documents if they think it will serve some purpose. It's pretty obvious, they don't have anything or they would release/post it.

ificandream

(11,409 posts)
34. Don't the GOP clowns realize that pussyfooting around with releasing the files only makes them look guilty as hell?
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 02:15 PM
15 hrs ago

They're obviously figuring that the flash bulbs won't go off in the heads of the dumber-than-dirt magas. Which is likely true.

sop

(16,195 posts)
53. The "fuck your feelings" crowd sure got their feelings hurt when people didn't bend the knee before Charlie Kirk.
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 05:34 PM
12 hrs ago

Hekate

(99,587 posts)
51. I just realized that when I first saw your post I misread it as...
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 05:24 PM
12 hrs ago

“GOD is not pleased”

RussBLib

(10,206 posts)
56. just work together to nail the offenders
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 06:35 PM
11 hrs ago

...is that so hard? Why is that so hard? Likely there will be many more Republicans than Dems. Just a hunch.

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