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While the official narrative of why the U.S. Government has been shut down so long follows typical partisan political fighting with each side blaming the other, the real truth appears to be that Mike Johnson, the GOP Speaker of the House, refuses to swear in the newly elected representative from Arizona, Adelita Grijalva, who would become the 218th person to support Congressman Thomas Massie and Congressman Ro Khann's discharge petition to force a vote on the House floor to release the Epstein files. Johnson has used the excuse of the Government shutdown as the reason he will not swear in Grijalva, even though he swore in two Republicans earlier this year when the House was not in session after they won their elections in Florida. As a result, the Attorney General for Arizona has now sued Mike Johnson over his refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva after winning the election to represent her constituents in Arizona. Besides the Massie/Khann discharge petition in Congress which seems to be panicking many in DC, others are continuing to investigate the scandal, and it was published earlier this week that Prince Andrew is being pressured to relinquish all of his royal titles, and is being asked to testify in Congress in DC. Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre who died earlier this year had her biography published this week which also revealed new information on Prince Andrew, which is allegedly prompting a police investigation in the UK. But perhaps the biggest news event of the week on the Epstein scandal, one that I never even saw in my news feed this week but only stumbled upon it in my research for this article today, is that author Michael Wolff, who spent hours interviewing Jeffrey Epstein and has published much of his knowledge about Epstein, has sued Melania Trump in New York, because Melania was threatening Wolf with a defamation lawsuit and trying to silence him. Michael Wolff was just interviewed by Ben Meiselas of MeidasTouch to talk about this unprecedented lawsuit against the First Lady. If this lawsuit goes forward in New York, the discovery process will do more to reveal what is hidden in the Epstein files than even the discharge petition that Massie and Khann are trying to get to the House floor for a vote!