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And, to be less coy, how is the opposition party the one that treats Bill Clinton as its most valuable elder statesman? It's somehow Epstein all the way down. Glad I'm a left-wing Chomskyite, cynical about all of those corrupt, elite institutions. Wait...

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Bill Clinton hasn’t been relevant in politics for like twenty years. Nobody on the left thinks about or cares about him.

He's still extremely relevant, if only to derail discussions as demonstrated here. I'm waiting for someone to bring up Al Franken!

Don't forget Ted Kennedy!

Depends on how deep the pillow talk went during the Obama admin.

> its most valuable elder statesman

That's Barack Obama. Among other things, he's not 80 and still has the vigor of youth. Clinton is just old at this point.

Pretty sure Obama is the MVES of the Democratic party.

As someone who voted for Bill Clinton. If Bill Clinton is implicated, then he needs to suffer for it.

I think the real question is why didn't the Biden administration release the files. How many very powerful people left and right are in there?

tl;dr: Because there were ongoing investigations (which was true) and it's generally considered bad to release your evidence before trial, or something like that, IANAL.

This will also be Trump's (false) reason for not releasing them.

Why was t true before but false now?

I suspect it's been the false reason the whole time.

No one is investigating anything, only wiping hard drives and tying up loose ends

IMO the most egregious reason is the July 2025 memo from DOJ/FBI saying there was nobody else to investigate, after months of public interest and official statements they were working on it. If they now flop back to claiming they can’t release because of investigations, then that’s unequivocally a false reason.

> I think the real question is why didn't the Biden administration release the files. How many very powerful people left and right are in there?

If I had to guess it's because there's nothing incriminating about Trump in them. Otherwise we all know they would have been leaked a long time ago.

> Bill Clinton as its most valuable elder statesman?

Huh? Bill Clinton has been a relatively invisible ex-president compared to the other modern ones (aka Carter & Obama, Biden hasn't been gone long enough for data).

Perhaps that's because he didn't want to overshadow Hillary, but it's at least partly because of the Lewinsky affair.

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