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This is most definitely #USPol. If that doesn't interest you, scroll on.

First, a note: too many people writing about the House committee's release of emails yesterday are calling them "the #Epstein files". They aren't! This is just a bunch of emails the committee got access to. The actual Epstein files are much larger, and much worse, for this administration, for the #pedophile-in-chief, for the #wealthy elite that coddled and supported Epstein, and for Republicans in general.

But the main thing that stands out to me so far is the sheer #incompetence of the #GOP about the release. They have known this was coming, for months. They either did, or should have, obtained the services of the best #crisis #communications consultants in the country to try to minimize the #fallout from this.

And yet the timeline goes like this:

1. The Democratic-party minority members of the committee released three (3!) emails. These may show legal #jeopardy for Trump, but they're not terribly #salacious.
2. The #Republican-party majority members of the committee quickly released the whole 20,000+ emails. Presumably they were trying to "flood the zone" and dilute the attention to those 3 #emails.
3. #Journalists and citizens perusing this huge document dump are now finding things with #optics that are FAR, FAR worse for #Trump & Co. than anything the Democrats released.

This is an absolute unforced error, the #Republicans stepping on their dicks. #Incompetents.

#SplashDamage