"Chief among them was the Department of Justice's partial release of its files on Jeffrey Epstein. By law, the DOJ was supposed to release all files on Dec. 19, with only victims' names redacted. However, the administration has so far released just some of the files and has redacted the names of people it has deemed politically exposed individuals. The senator then joked that he asked the DOJ to look at his grievances, only to have them redacted."
"Later in the day, Paul took issue with Trump's provocations against Venezuela. In recent months, Trump has bombed a slew of Venezuelan vessels in the Caribbean, killing dozens of people, who the president claims were narcoterrorists. Trump has said that the alleged drugs on board are weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. has also seized two Venezuelan oil tankers. Paul called the administration's saber-rattling a bad remake of Iraq."
An annual Festivus airing of grievances targeted both political parties and the administration's actions. Chief complaint concerned the Department of Justice's partial release of Jeffrey Epstein files, with only some documents disclosed and politically exposed individuals' names redacted rather than victims' names alone. A mocked example imitated the DOJ redacting grievances entirely. Additional grievances called for charges related to pandemic leadership and criticized provocative U.S. military actions against Venezuelan vessels, characterization of alleged narcotics as weapons of mass destruction, and recent seizures of Venezuelan oil tankers as a risky remake of Iraq.
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