{"id":14160,"date":"2025-10-07T10:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrat-accuses-mike-johnson-of-suspicious-delay-of-swearing-in-to-avoid-epstein-vote-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:20:30","slug":"democrat-accuses-mike-johnson-of-suspicious-delay-of-swearing-in-to-avoid-epstein-vote-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrat-accuses-mike-johnson-of-suspicious-delay-of-swearing-in-to-avoid-epstein-vote-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat accuses Mike Johnson of \u2018suspicious\u2019 delay of swearing-in to avoid Epstein vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nearly two weeks after her election, Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva<\/a>D-Ariz., has yet to be sworn into office. On Sunday, Grijalva spoke with the co-hosts of “The Weekend: Primetime<\/a>” to discuss the “suspicious” reason she believes could be behind the delay.<\/p>\n

Grijalva told Ayman Mohyeldin, Elise Jordan and Antonia Hylton that she had heard “absolutely nothing” from House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a>R-La., about a timeline to be sworn in. “It is very suspicious, the timing,” the Democrat said. “The majority doesn’t change because I get sworn in.”<\/p>\n

Asked what she believed the hold-up could be, Grijalva said, “The only thing that I can point to that is different, that one, I’m a woman — a woman of color — but also that I’m going to be signing the discharge petition for the Epstein files<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

For months, the House has been inching closer to passing a discharge petition that would force the full chamber to vote on releasing files relating to the federal government’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>. The bipartisan petition needs 218 signatures to succeed. Once she is sworn in, Grijalva would be that 218th vote.<\/p>\n

“You know, I really am not a conspiracy theorist–type of person in general,” Grijalva said. “I try to come up with, like, ‘What is the most plausible reason why this would be happening?’ And respectfully, I can come up with nothing else.”<\/p>\n

The newly elected Democrat said she believed this situation “had nothing to do with the shutdown<\/a>” and explained she was in Washington, D.C., one day before funding lapsed, “I could have easily been sworn in.”<\/p>\n

Grijalva said that because of the delay, her constituents are being left without representation at this critical time. “It is important to this community to have a voice and to have constituent services when the government is in a shutdown, to explain things about what is happening and to provide support and services to those who need it,” she said. “And I can do none of those things.”<\/p>\n

You can watch Grijalva’s full conversation on “The Weekend: Primetime” in the clip at the top of the page.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nearly two weeks after her election, Rep.-elect Adelita GrijalvaD-Ariz., has yet to be sworn into office. On Sunday, Grijalva spoke with the co-hosts of “The Weekend: Primetime” to discuss the “suspicious” reason she believes could be behind the delay. Grijalva told Ayman Mohyeldin, Elise Jordan and Antonia Hylton that she had heard “absolutely nothing” from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}