# Epstein Files =\> Trump Impeachment & Conviction? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 10, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733 "2025-11-10T17:42:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 30
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/581 "2026-01-13T02:31:39Z")
I’ve been sort of following this of Threads. It all seems a little too convenient, all the names that it implicates. It involves Andy Biggs and Jim Jordan when they were just out of undergrad (if my math is right), and I have to wonder what young poor 20-something nobodies would be doing at a millionaires’ pedophile/snuff farm. Also involves Lindsay Graham and Clarence Thomas. I mean, it’s some seriously fucked up stuff. But I don’t know… ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/582 "2026-01-13T02:35:39Z")
It’s too reminiscent of all of the fake abuse stories during the Satanic Panic era. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/583 "2026-01-13T02:37:13Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > It’s too reminiscent of all of the fake abuse stories during the Satanic Panic era I was thinking the same thing. I’m reminded of the Dale Akiki trial in San Diego when I was a kid, where he was accused of sacrificing elephants and giraffes in a church daycare and forcing children to drink human blood. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/584 "2026-01-13T02:55:39Z")
Yeah, it reads like a kid making fanciful stuff up. I wonder if at some point he was hypnotised to “unlock buried memories” and rendered any accuracy impossible to determine. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/585 "2026-01-13T14:43:43Z")
5 million files related to an open and shut case? Total horseshit. The Trump administration in a nutshell. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/586 "2026-01-13T15:45:22Z")
In terms of giving testimony before the House Oversight Committee, Bill and Hillary Clinton have said “Thanks, no:” > **[Clintons refuse to testify in Epstein probe despite Bill's half-naked tub pic](https://www.the-sun.com/news/15775279/clinton-refuse-testify-epstein-probe-hot-tub-pics/)** > > BILL and Hillary Clinton have declined to testify in the House Oversight Committee’s probe into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The former president, 79, and former secretary of state, 7… ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/587 "2026-01-13T15:57:39Z")
That, and reverse-wing Pizzagate. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/588 "2026-01-13T19:12:01Z")
If Bill is in there, that has to come out _along with everything else_. Republicans are going to keep the spotlight on Clinton, and keep diverting attention from the fact that the files are still illegally unreleased. Also, while I’m at it, water is wet. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/589 "2026-01-13T19:37:52Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > If Bill is in there, that has to come out _along with everything else_. Clinton is known to have accepted a couple free jet rides. IMHO- big deal. Note- hey dudes- a posed photo-op with a Politian and Epstein & co is rather meaningless. Pols do those as a matter of course. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/590 "2026-01-14T01:10:34Z")
Supposedly congress is going to hold him in contempt. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/591 "2026-01-14T01:14:58Z")
Yes, Republicans are claiming they will. [NPR: Republicans say Clintons risk contempt of Congress for not testifying on Epstein](https://www.npr.org/2026/01/13/nx-s1-5676148/bill-clinton-hillary-clinton-jeffrey-epstein-house-oversight-depositions) If you want to know their motivations for doing so… > Democrats on the oversight committee, who signed off on the subpoenas as part of a larger list, have noted that most of the other people have not been forced to testify. They’re being singled out solely for political reasons. Of course. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/592 "2026-01-14T18:05:25Z")
It is kind of weird watching the US turn into a third world government. I am luckily far away, but I have lived in a failed state (Zimbabwe), with two exceptionarily corrupt presidents who ruled much like the Trump model - crony capitalism and self enrichment. Voter fraud. It is a smaller county so easier there than the massive USA, but hey, welcome! We have cheap labour and practicality 0% ability to match the GDP vs National Debt ratio. Welcome to the club. ---
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/593 "2026-01-14T21:37:58Z")
The kid survived. The trouble with the Sascha Riley story is making a firm connection from his step dad to Epstein. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/594 "2026-01-15T20:44:54Z")
> [@TeroSunbear](#): > > The trouble with the Sascha Riley story is making a firm connection from his step dad to Epstein. Thought that was firmly established that his stepdad flew for Epstein. 🧐 ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/595 "2026-01-15T21:08:58Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > They’re being singled out solely for political reasons. Of course. True as may be, they risk jail time by refusing to show up. That is, of course, unless they’ve been told that the current executive - the guy that they played golf with for a couple of decades and otherwise had all the same friends, engaging in all the same hobbies - would be disinclined to press charges. One notes, for example, that there has never been a “lock her up” initiative on the part of either Trump administration. The closest they got was in attacking Perkins Coie, as I recall it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/596 "2026-01-15T21:23:19Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > True as may be, they risk jail time by refusing to show up. Seeing what happened to Steve Bannon is a sign that the threat is legitimate. On the other hand, there is also TACO. Who knows? ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/597 "2026-01-16T05:09:38Z")
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dsoQ\_UHBio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dsoQ_UHBio) &1 annoying narrator but … 🧐 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/598 "2026-01-17T16:33:12Z")
According to [the Meidas Touch YouTube channel](https://youtu.be/dr7NgcV7T8M?si=mNGqQL0gjS4dAuOY), the DoJ filed a motion stating that the Epstein Transparency Act cannot be enforced by federal courts, therefore they don’t have to comply with it. They’ve also claimed that the judicial branch [cannot appoint a neutral person to monitor the release of the files.](https://www.wesh.com/article/epstein-files-doj-neutral-expert-court-battle/70027073) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/599 "2026-01-17T16:41:19Z")
You know, it almost appears just a little as though that fella Trump would really rather prefer that these files remain under wraps. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733/600 "2026-01-17T19:29:33Z")
Another blatant example of the regime flouting judicial authority. Checks and balances? That’s just fake news. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epstein-files-trump-impeachment-conviction/1024733.md?page=31)