Trump Is Living On Borrowed Time As Democrats Will Have Epstein Files Signatures Soon

Special House elections that Democrats are expected to win in Virginia and Arizona this month will give them the signatures needed to force a vote to release the Epstein files.

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There has been a great deal of focus on the pressure and threat campaign mounted by the president to scare Republicans out of signing the Epstein files discharge petition in the House.

However, there is another path to the Khanna/Massie petition getting the two needed signatures that could force the House to vote on releasing the files. Two hundred eighteen signatures are required on the discharge petition. After all of the current House Democrats have signed, along with four Republicans (Massie, Mace, Greene, and Boebert), they will still be two signatures short.

As Gretchen Carlson pointed out on MSNBC’s The Weekend on Saturday morning, those two signatures could come from Democrats who likely be elected to fill currently vacant House seats.

Video of Carlson:

Carlson said, “One other thing I wanted to mention, because in your open you said that it only needs two more Republican votes for all those documents to be released. Three Democrats have died in office so far. You know, if those seats become filled. Those two votes could come from actual new Democrats coming in as well.”

The seats that Carlson was talking about are in Democratic districts and were held by Reps. Gerry Connolly, Sylvester Turner, and Raul Grijalva.

Those elections are starting to happen this week. Connolly’s former chief of staff, James Walkinshaw, is expected to win a special election on Tuesday.

On September 23, Adelita Grijalva is expected to win the special election in Arizona to finish the rest of her late father’s term.

All of the posturing and frantic moves by Mike Johnson and Donald Trump to block House Republicans from signing the discharge petition could be meaningless, but the discharge petition is just the beginning as we will discuss below.