What Wasn't Subpoenaed

 

     Not so fast. 

     Just because the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Epstein files, following the lead of the House Oversight Law Enforcement subcommittee, it doesn't mean that Republicans have actually found their inner crusaders. It's not as if the Grand Old Party had a sudden Scrooge-like revelation in the dead of night and remembered there was such a thing as the rule of law, that pedophiles should be hounded until they wind up in prison even if they happen to squat in the Oval Office after a rigged election.

      Even though Congress is in recess for the entire month, Chairman James Comer used his subpoena powers in absentia to issue a blizzard of subpoenas. But folded into the subpoenas are compelled depositions from Bill and Hillary Clinton, because, to Republicans, all roads lead to Chappaqua.

     Comer also plans on compelling the depositions of the last six Attorneys General: Merrick Garland, William Barr, Jeff Sessions, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and Alberto Gonzales, as well as two former FBI Directors, James Comey and Robert Mueller.

     So, it'll basically be Old Home Week from the last five presidential administrations. But several names are conspicuously absent from the subpoenas. Namely, Alex Acosta. Acosta, you might remember, was the US Attorney in Florida who decided to moonlight as Jeffrey Epstein's defense attorney and craft the sweetheart deal of the century. He decided to drop all federal charges against Epstein and get him to plea to two state offenses of solicitation of a prostitute, thereby retroactively making Epstein's then underage victims sex workers.

     Acosta engineered all this without the knowledge of the plaintiffs or their legal counsel. The non-prosecution deal also effectively shut down all federal investigations into Epstein's minor sex trafficking empire and tapped him on the wrist by giving him 13 months in the sheriff's stockade in which he was allowed to leave for 12 hours a day on a "work release" program so he could continue diddling little girls with impunity.

     Acosta was rewarded by Trump by being made Labor Secretary until he was hounded out of office by the Miami Herald's Julie K. Brown.

 

     Perhaps Comer was pressured into issuing the subpoenas in advance of the NY Times' bombshell story today about Epstein's mansion, including pictures, some of video cameras hidden in at least two of his bedrooms. The Times also revealed the existence of another series of letters from Bill Clinton and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for his 63rd birthday in 2016 when Trump was running for president. That was eight years after he was forced to register as a sex offender. And yet, they still flocked to him like seagulls on a plate of French fries on Coney Island, as if they were desperately trying to stay in his good graces.

      Epstein courted some of the world's richest and powerful luminaries in what would be known as the most infamous salon in New York City history. Among the luminaries was a then-little known right wing bomb-thrower named Steve Bannon.

     Bannon also wasn't named in the subpoena even though he's boasted several times about having 15 hours of recorded conversations with Epstein.

     Among others who included letters were media mogul Mortimer Zuckerman, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Woody Allen, Joichi Ito, Lawrence M. Krauss and Martin Nowak.

     None of them were subpoenaed, either. 

     Even the Daily Caller, a right wing rag, couldn't help but notice the notorious omissions.

     Epstein was a monster who not only kept secrets, he wallowed in his perversions as if rubbing peoples' faces in it. According to the Times, one of the things federal agents found in his seven story townhouse was a 1955 first edition of Lolita, the Vladimir Nabakov book about an intellectual who becomes obsessed with a preteen girl and repeatedly rapes her.

     Trump is that way, too, except he calls his perversions and peccadillos by other names.

     But the Comey subpoena is plainly a fishing expedition and, not only that, it's one that's trolling for certain fish, like the Clintons. It still hasn't occurred to that idiot that Trump's filthy, semen-flecked name is all over the Epstein files for some good reasons, even though he must know that Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche informed Trump that he was in the  Epstein files back last May. Trump is probably throwing French fries and ketchup all over the walls of the White House right now, dying to explode at Comer on Truth Social.