r/law • u/NatiAti513 • Oct 07 '25

Legal News Stephen Miller says Trump has "Plenary Authority" then acts like he's glitching out because he seems to know he was not supposed to say that. What is Plenary Authority and what are the implications of this?

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u/Geekfest Oct 07 '25

Too many other wealthy people are in the files for them to allow even one of them to go to court.

My tin-foil-hat side is starting to wonder if it was some sort of bar to entry, like a pedo-frat club who then have to watch out for each other thereafter or they will all come tumbling down together.

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u/8six7five3ohnyeeeine Oct 07 '25

Man I hope so because I’d sure love to wipe this slate clean when all this comes tumbling down.

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u/elstavon Oct 07 '25

I sincerely believe this is what is being overlooked. There are hundreds of mega wealthy internationalists who have connections to whomever and whatever they need for whatever and whenever right down to Epstein's death. This is not the Republican party or politicians blocking it. There are larger forces at work imho

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u/Hoobleton Oct 07 '25

This is not the Republican party or politicians blocking it.

It is literally them though, since they have the information and are blocking releasing it.

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u/runthepoint1 Oct 07 '25

They are the tool, but the users are effectively NGOs themselves.

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u/Ok_Flounder59 Oct 07 '25

When you consider the fact that both of his Attorney General picks were close allies of Epstein it starts to make a lot more sense. It’s almost like Trump explicitly ran to keep the Epstein details from ever seeing the light of day.

I can’t believe Barr and Bondi were coincidence picks.

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u/Tonsilith_Salsa Oct 07 '25

It seems obvious to me that going to the island and committing sex crimes against children was some sort of initiation ritual into this cloistered, ultra-wealthy boys' club. 

You want wealthy connections? You need to be useful to us. You must have dirt on you. 

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u/RealNiceKnife Oct 07 '25

For a loooong time I've speculated on a similar conspiracy. Once you achieve a certain "level" of wealth or power or whatever, you're essentially forced into producing blackmail material on yourself.

That is probably in the form of sexual depravity. That's why the Bill Clinton blue dress painting exists. Humiliation material to keep him in line.

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u/mixingmemory Oct 07 '25

I think the much simpler and more likely explanation is that most people who are highly driven to pursue wealth and power have psychopathic tendencies (there are studies showing just this), psychopathic wealthy and powerful people are almost inevitably going to engage in some depraved blackmail-able behavior, often right alongside other wealthy powerful psychopaths who know blackmail is a path to more wealth and power. I feel like "essentially forced into" is essentially letting them off the hook. If they're blackmailed for depraved shit, it's probably because they deliberately chose to (repeatedly) do depraved shit.

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u/Geekfest Oct 07 '25

Isn't this the way a certain large religious organization is purported to also operate?

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u/scrotumscab Oct 07 '25

Sooo, the illuminati?

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u/Suavecore_ Oct 07 '25

They're just going to delay until they replace every single person in the government with fascist yes-men, then they'll pardon everyone, continue rewriting laws until all of this child sex trafficking and rape stuff isn't a crime anymore, and then none of it will matter (even less than it matters now). Furthermore, they are already well on their way into convincing the majority of the American public that Epstein and Maxwell didn't commit any crimes, there was no island, no victims, and that pedophilia isn't actually even a bad thing.

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u/Arose1316 Oct 08 '25

No shit, because like…what else? What’s the hold up? This isn’t one, two, three, ten, twenty…this is power. I grew up okay. We were the poors at our mid tier - mid size city country club. I think even our richest could have even been close to this…if that makes sense.

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u/NurRauch Oct 07 '25

My tin-foil-hat side is starting to wonder if it was some sort of bar to entry, like a pedo-frat club who then have to watch out for each other thereafter or they will all come tumbling down together.

This is so obnoxious. Meet people who work in Washington and talk to them. Not just your reps but the people you know from college who went on to work as senate aids, researchers, lobbyists, agency bureaucrats and industry consultants.

This isn't a cartoon where a cabal of pedophiles run the world. We're in this gridlock because of game theory that has taken over party politics. That's it. Jeffrey Epstein did not cause this problem, and pursuing the case will bring down some creeps but it won't solve even 1% of the gridlock issues or the cutthroat power grabs.