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[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

Here’s the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

—————————other Epstein Information

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Epstein and Israel both hired lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who says he’s building ‘legal dream team’ to defend Israel in court and on internationally | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

Epstein Docs: https://ia600705.us.archive.org/21/items/epsteindocs/

Epstein Bribes/Payments: 1 BILLION+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7IrEi-ybzs

—————————other Trump information:

Here’s trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY

Trump’s promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

Trump’s modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

A good summary of Trump-Epstein timeline: https://thepresidential.medium.com/we-have-been-gaslit-about-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-for-four-years-fbda67c20f75

• ⁠Much of this info can also be found on: https://theepsteindocs.com/

Feel free to do your part and spread this info around so it is never “lost”.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

even if he does not release the Epstein files, his remaining three and a half years should be riddled with videos and evidence of him having a sexual predator mindset until this connection becomes a reflex in everyone's mind. I am sure there are ample material for this.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Donal Trump fucked children with his small penis.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*raped is a bit more rhetorically significant and accurate

[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can we split the difference and just say he fucking raped children?

I think that's just doing both but I agree it's a solid improvement

[–] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago

Trump isn't going to read this but people with small penises will. There's no need to use conservative language here.

[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, he has a tiny dick, so it's the only way for him to feel anything . . .

[–] Steve@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Q: [...What] does Tiffany have of yours and what does Tiffany have of Marla's?

DJT: Well I think that she's got a lot of Marla, and she's [a] really beautiful baby and she's got Marla's legs; we don't know whether or not she's got [motions to his chest] this part yet, but time will tell.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Know how the Bible depicts God committing mass murder and genocide but Christians somehow justify it? They think if God did it, it is automatically good. Yeah, Trump's supporters literally think he's God. Moral rules don't apply to him.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bingo. The main body of the cult truly bought into the idea that Trump is either God's handpicked man, a prophet, or Jesus Christ Himself. Morality doesn't apply to the Selected.

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bad people always look for ways to make their bad actions feel like they are still the good guys. God is an easy crutch because he’s made up so can’t argue to the contrary.

[–] e461h@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

People are good a justifying things to themselves. And when your invisible-friend-for-adults backs you up, well now you’re infallible.

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

I have a theory that men wrote the Bible when they realize the battle of the sexes with something that they felt they needed to win, you can just look how fucking awful is in pretty much the entire thing to women and I think the only restriction that is mentioned involving men specifically is not to spill your seed foolishly

[–] throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world 187 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The president is a pedophile

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 135 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If it's true - and it increasingly looks like it is - then I'm really glad that people get all worked up about the prez being a fucking pedo.

But I'm utterly dismayed that they aren't at least ten times more worked up that he's a fucking Nazi actively trying to destroy the republic and install himself as a dictator.

People have a strange set of priorities...

[–] throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a rational human being capable of independent thought I agree with you. Unfortunately, the average American doesn't fall under this category, and there's an alarmingly significant portion of our populace who are very much okay with the Nazi shit. They voted for the Nazi shit.

For whatever reason, pedophilia (yet not rape, misogyny, or non-sexual child abuse of any other flavor) appears to be the line for these people. So, yes, he's very much all the other things you mentioned, but for the good of public discourse, it's my patriotic duty to shout as loudly as I can for all to hear:

The president is a pedophile

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ll take what I can get at this point.

The thing that scares me is Vance. He’s not going to be distracted by jangling keys.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The thing that scares me is Vance

Yes, Vance is a much more dangerous Nazi than Trump, because he's intelligent.

But Vance has the charisma of a wet mop, and at the moment, the Trump regime isn't quite entrenched enough to survive on fear alone - which is the only way Vance could take over and stay in power. For the moment, the regime still needs Trumps' populism, whatever remains of it.

If Trump falls tomorrow, there's a very good chance that the entire fascist shitshow will collapse and Vance will be flushed with it. But it won't take long for the regime to be in a position to survive without Trump. So hopefully the Epstein thing will be his undoing sooner rather than later.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Right, Vance is a charisma black hole.

What he has going for him is that he can be an off-ramp for Trump supporters. He could fill the void left by Trump and Trump supporters won’t have to do any introspection, change sides to democrats.

And he has the backing of the billionaires.

And, you know, he’s VP, so inertia’s on his side.

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[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If it’s true!? This shit has been known and ignored for the past 2 decades. Nothing is gonna change shit for that shit bag. We are stuck with a multi felon pedophile president for the next 3 years and he has the backing to do whatever he wants. We are fucked. Not apocalyptic fucked, but it will take a decade or two to fix fucked. The next 10 years are not gonna be glorious, think of the Great Depression…. More like that.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

We still haven't fixed Reagan, and this is far worse.

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

POTUS
Paedophile of the united states.

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 113 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This was all public in 2016 and Republicans voted for Trump anyway.

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[–] frunch@lemmy.world 121 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

“He’s a lot of fun to be with,” Trump said of Epstein in a 2002 New York Magazine interview.

“It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

🤢

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 78 points 1 day ago (9 children)

and many of them are on the younger side

It’s that very last part. It was completely unprompted and had he kept it to himself, it wouldn’t have raised such a flag.

But his dumb ass probably thought it was a flex and felt compelled to say it to look more… shit, I can’t even come up with a reason.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

Honestly I think rubbing his privilege in people's face like that is part of the fun, in an obviously evil narcissistic way. He can allude to the horrors he uses to entertain himself, then he and his criminal buddies can laugh that nothing will happen. It's a feature.

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[–] jabeez@lemmy.today 76 points 1 day ago (4 children)

"Resurfaced", ie, we knew about this shit, but chose to basically completely ignore it, and instead laser-focus on another President's age and mental faculties.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A lot of people, Fox News and Truth Social people, just never saw this shit in the first place. The bubble is very strong. Now we're doing Trump the Pedo King's Greatest Hits as a whole new group of fans tunes in.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Jesus, that's an accurate statement. I finally got my mom to admit that Israel is committing genocide.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No one likes an early season clip show.

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 2 points 1 day ago

True but it does help new viewers catch up so maybe we put up with it for the greater good.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

This was known long before the 2024 election.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But don't worry once people relearn he is in the Epstein files, facism will crumble. Trust me bro.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

I am taking this as sarcasm but I hope you are right.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I've heard a few sketchy things in regards to his comments about his daughter, but this particular one is new to me (though not particularly surprising)

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 95 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Father of 4 daughters here. If someone would ask me this question, there is no way I would go to physical sexual characteristics.

A normal parent has zero sexual thoughts about their own child. Even in comparing their mother and body characteristics.

MAGA should know this, but I suspect most have had these thoughts. I mean, they ate fine with their priests doing it, their uncles, boyfriends, and of course their political leaders.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 20 points 1 day ago

Normal people who aren't pedophiles will comment on the facial features and say something like "she has her mom's nose".

[–] zarniwoop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Pedocon theory states it’s an inevitable outcome of conservative ideology and thought patterns. See patriarchal systems, purity culture, blind obedience, obsessions with the “innocence” of youth, valuing youth for the purposes of breeding. It’s basically a foregone conclusion that these political sects end up full of pedophiles.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Complete sick sack of shit.

[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago

It is so insane to watch an idiot/misogynist/pedo try to ‘think fast’ to the question of what characteristics a 1-year old baby has of its parents.

Idiot: bEtTeR tALk fAsT—sMurt pEoPLE tALk fAsT…

Misogynist: What did the baby get from her? What do women even have??? They don’t have personalities or any sort of mental capacity—the only worth they have is derived from physical qualities, like ‘legs and tits’. I’ll talk about that.

Pedo: sexy baby…

[–] pezhore@infosec.pub 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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