She 'captivated millions.' Now Trump wants Amelia Earhart records released.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Donald Trump is wading into one of the country's great unsolved mysteries, promising to release government records about famed aviator Amelia Earhart.

Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.

"Her disappearance, almost 90 years ago, has captivated millions," Trump wrote in a social media post. "I am ordering my Administration to declassify and release all Government Records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her."

Earhart is described by the Smithsonian as "probably the most famous female pilot in aviation history." In 1932 she became the first woman, and the second person, to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. She was attempting to fly around the world when she disappeared.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/she-captivated-millions-now-trump-wants-amelia-earhart-records-released/ar-AA1NnTJA

Are they going to tell us anything we don't already know?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. People are saying she was Epstein's pilot. . . . . nt

[Coldwater]

11. Could be, or

she was captured by the Japanese in 1937, held prisoner and forced to spread Japanese propaganda during WWII as the notorious Tokyo Rose

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. That would be too big to cover up, even in Japan in 1942. She was famous even in Japan. Too many people would know

[Coldwater]

19. And yet

No female has been definitively identified as Tokyo Rose

[canetoad]

20. Pretty sure this theory

Is covered on the TIGHAR website.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. For this thread

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. Nails it. I do have interest in Amelia Earhardt, but not expecting anything of consequence from files of her. . . . nt

[Dave Bowman]

2. Another lame attempt at distraction from the Epstein files, he doesn't give a damn about her or any women.

[D_Master81]

3. Saw someone post

Trump should not be drawing attention to the fact that he can release documents any time he wants

[Igel]

15. Rationale is easy enough.

All those concerned in the testimony/evidence about Earhart's disappearance are dead. Pretty hard to hurt them.

But if you're not into sex with minors and you are listed as an Epstein associate but of the wrong political or economic or class "stripe" you very likely would be vilified and libeled, with accusations that need no proof and that admit of no refutation. Because with heavily polarized issues, it's the self-righteous smearing that matters not the actual factuality of the claims or insinuations. Which is why such documents should be redacted--public trials and character executions are nice populist tools but have little to do with a well-functioning reasonable society.

I have to assume that if Biden's DOJ had the files for 4 years and didn't prosecute men for statutory rape, adult rape, or sex trafficking of minors that there was a reason for it instead of just 'incompetence' or 'we need to protect our own allies'. I mean, James went after a penny ante kind of fraud conviction with no visible victims, Bragg won over a distinction between paying a lawyer 'legal fees' versus knowing that they were payoffs under a legal NDA, why wouldn't they try to nail Trump and his "pervy" friends for something much, much bigger in order to "protect democracy" and prevent authoritarianism if not totalitarianism?

And if DOJers knew that their lifespan in the dept. was limited because the big bad wolf had a key to the front door and freshly sharpened claws, why not just grab some copies of the files (or quickly scan documents or take pix of any document not amenable to scanning) as a kind of protection--if you can't actually protect yourself, at least bring down the big bad wolf with a political car bomb delivered via a substack or Axios? Or maybe do that, say, as an October surprise or drop them on inauguration day?

It's an argument from silence, but I'm not sure given the shear motivation for non-silence in this case doesn't give it some weight.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Better include connection to the future Mrs. Ida Mae Hampton Wassel

an early aviatrix who dodged another doomed flight.

https://www.atlanticcityexperience.org/?view=article&id=22&catid=11.

Surely the truth will come out in Mrs. Wassel's Pies!

[Beartracks]

5. "My friend Jeffrey Epstein's demise, over 6 years ago, has captivated millions."

[The Blue Flower]

6. Hurry before kegsbreath deletes the files

Can't be highlighting a female pilot, can we?

[MiHale]

7. He said he's releasing files...

Alphabec …Alfabetic…Albeticcly…Aceofenta….IN ORDER. Working on the e’s now

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. This made me smile

Link to tweet

[Ping Tung]

8. Is he going to have the salacious parts redacted?

[no_hypocrisy]

9. I'm pretty sure that 98% of students in the U.S. have no idea who

Amelia Earhart is.

(I've known since age 12 as my homeroom teacher had a book about women who accomplished amazing feats in America.)

[IcyPeas]

17. Agree... and I'll go one further.... i bet trump didnt know who she was either

until one of his minions came up with the idea.... lindsey graham probably as he was once in the air force.

[dweller]

10. Pisswig's going to be surprised

When the files show her plane crashed on Epstein Island
😐



✌🏻

[Initech]

13. He's working real hard to lower gas prices!

[Igel]

16. Not something he can do.

They all claim it's their doing when prices decline and beyond their control when they increase. And the opposition always claim the opposite. They're both half-right.

Market, state taxes, state and federal blend requirements, federal taxes matter.

On the other hand, today I got gas at $2.429/gal at my usual stopping place. Last time I got gas it was $2.579 and the time before that $2.599. (I get gas maybe every 2 weeks when I have to report for duty on campus.) Prices are down here north of Houston but it's not his doing.

[Initech]

18. My comment was supposed to be sarcastic, lol.

[Tetrachloride]

14. Summer's here and the time is right --- for Epstein Files

[fujiyamasan]

21. He's playing a brilliant trick

He’s just spelling Epstein differently. After all, both names start with the letter ‘E’ right? We’re all a bunch of dummies and we don’t know that, after all, he’s a stable genius.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. Stop with all the distractions. 😡

[durablend]

24. Epstein also captivated millions

Release. The. Files.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. trump is wrong yet again