Wait....now there are files again?
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Right? Headline should really read "Trump admits Epstein list is real, defends some of the people on it."
...also raped kids
He is really worried about it - for sure. The amount of cover fire insanity has increased dramatically. I just can't believe that out of all those FBI guys no one yet has leaked anything.
I think the list was really the fly log, and black notebook.
Those already were published.
But FBI has 700GB of files that trump promised to make available. Now that he closed the investigation workout charging anytime (Maxwell had trial during Biden) then there shouldn't be problem to release it, shouldn't it?
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Few weeks back the GOP led house oversight committee voted to subpoena the Epstein files. DNC members won the vote with GOP members who had publicly demanded the files release. The POS GOP chairman tried his slimiest to ignore the rest of the committe but was eventually brow beaten into submission -like the pathetic worm he is.
This week they received the first batch of files and are reviewing them.
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That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
His statement mixes lines 1 and 4 in the poem.
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Every picture I see of Trump looks like his mouth is a butthole. Does anyone else see this?
Considering what comes out of it...
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trumps-Epstein prayer:
Im not in the Epstein files.
And if I was in the Epstein files, it wasn't that bad.
And if being in the Epstein files is bad, its no big deal.
If it is a big deal that I was in the Epstein files, it's democrats fault. <--- We are here
And if it's my fault I was in the Epstein files, I didn't mean to rape children.
If i did mean to rape children, it's all of your faults.
If i did mean to rape children, it's ~~all of your faults~~ their fault for "dressing that way" or whatever
FTFY. 100% think he'll go the "asking for it" route like most rapists.
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Is MAGA buying this?
I mean, I'm sure plenty are, but what about the ones who were up in arms a few weeks ago when he said the files wouldn't be released? Have they all shut up and gotten back in the clown car?
Is MAGA buying this?
Yes, completely. He’s going to walk and people in power will use the legal system to put down any pushback.
All of this was obvious from the get-go. He was running to keep himself out of prison and to enrich himself. The country fell for it, and we have no idea how bad it’s going to get.
As always, I hope I am completely insane and a stark raving conspiracist.
They've been manipulated and have allowed it to be made a part of their core identity - so yes, from sunk cost fallacy, to stockholm syndrome, to abusive relationship, to personality cult, to just plain ignorance and proud of it, profiled by Big Data and fed and cordoned off to their particular slaughterhouse of a social network bubble, they will be increasingly easy to manipulate the more distance there is between reality and their perception of it.
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Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island supposedly 28 times. I don’t want to bring that up frankly,” Trump said while bringing it up.
Ok, that is just top notch comedic journalism.
A democratic hoax to throw bill under the bus
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So there is a list with names, after all.
Let's see!
"Wait, no, no list. Well there is an Epstein list but it's a hoax list. A huge tremendous hoax by the crooked evil Demogorgons. No, the democrats.
I watched stranger things.
My uncle, who was a script writer at Yale, great guy, best scripts, he said the strangest thing was to trust anything that a democrat would say.
No hoax, no Epstein. No list. There is a hoax. Fake news. MAGA. Thank you for your attention to this muttered!!"
There's no list, and it was made by the democrats, and some of the people on it don't deserve to be on it, but Bill Clinton is on it too, so that's why I won't release the list that doesn't exist.
so trump just admitted he was there and knew everything? Because the only way to know who isnt in the epstein files, is to know who DO deserve to be in the Epstein Files, because trump witnessed, saw and knew everything that happened on Epstein island apparently and even took part in it probably, why else would he not turn to the police with that knowledge tf
people are in Epstein files who ‘don’t deserve to be’: ‘It’s a Democratic hoax’
You don't need to be a detective to read between those lines: the Epstein files are fucking STUFFED with republicans and the type of human trash Trump associates with.
We all know the list is bipartisan, but this tell me they're worried about the ratio.
...if only we had a criminal justice system.
...if only we had a criminal justice system.
Yea, we've just got a criminal system.
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All they did was rape children, they don’t deserve to have their reputations damaged!
Does anyone on this entire planet actually, truly believe this guy isn't a pedophile that raped kids?
Like, we all know. Shut the fuck up, Trump. Even your own base knows, and some of them are mad about it (the rest are cowards, or perhaps pedophiles themselves.)
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So he sees the Epstein files as a way to go after his political enemies?
Funny how he wasn't saying anything about it being a Dem hoax when he was pandering for votes.
Epstein's Child Raping friends are GOOD PEOPLE!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
You could prove that if you'd release the files, Don...
Telling his MAGAt morons that he's on the list and they should just get over it...
I mean haven't they decided that maybe 14 years old is ok?
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That stupid hat is like a modern Dunce Cap from a hundred years ago to let everyone know who the idiot is.
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Here's how that works...my cousin doesn't deserve to be in those files, because my cousin wasn't there! Epstein and the other people in those sex parties were there, so they should deserve to be in the files. That's how "deserve to be" works in this context.
Trumps in the list! This needs to be continually posted and said everywhere. Till his dying breath it needs to be told, even after this POS is gone it will be said, Trump is on the list!
Release the Epstein files.
I commented then went to read the article annnnnd Holy fuck. Any cunt who wears a hat that says "I was right about everything" unironically needs to have their hands chopped off.
Christ, a 7 foot sack of flesh eating cockroaches is more useful than that fucking cunt.
Fucks sake, america, do something about him.
So the files that don't exist now have names that don't belong in there? These people can't even keep their lies straight.
Yeah he really wants to get out in front of the eventual revelation that he's shockingly on the list. We definitely already know that though so one again taco don has shit more than his pants.
Whatever, at this point he will be dead in 6 months and they will be leaked, or the other way around, either way this pile of shit is getting flushed by congestive heart disease and kidney failure.
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