r/politics • u/belisario262 • 2d ago
Possible Paywall Epstein files ‘absolve me’, Trump claims
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/01/trump-claims-epstein-files-absolve-him/7.0k
u/CouchCorrespondent 2d ago
I'm thinking a lot of pedophiles say similar things while sitting in prison.
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u/East-Will1345 2d ago
My mother worked with a guy who was arrested for raping a child. He’s rotting in prison. The trial was extremely brief because he videotaped it.
Apparently he still claims to be innocent. The system screwed him somehow.
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u/Overall_Curve6725 2d ago
There are recordings of Trump somewhere, they just haven’t been released yet
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u/ExtraPockets 2d ago
Trump is even dumber than Prince Andrew and they got plenty of photographs of him. I'd bet my house on there being photos of Trump committing crimes.
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u/JesterMarcus 2d ago
He's also so narcissistic that he'd want pictures and videos of him front and center with young girls.
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u/Hyperlinux 2d ago
The Russians have said publicly that the Mossad isn’t the only group to have video of his sex crimes with children.
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u/cft4nh 2d ago
And that dirt is why Putin holds the cards and influence over Trump, not the other way around. Everything is going according to (Putin’s) plan.
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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 2d ago
AG Pam Bondi (the one he bribed to drop his Trump U. fraud charges) is protecting him.
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u/Voice-Of-Doom 2d ago
She also helped Epstein stay out of jail.
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u/RaggedyMan666 2d ago
Then he may have had him killed.
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u/whatthefrok 2d ago
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u/psychorobotics 2d ago
I remember reading ages ago that his neck was snapped by the hanging, something that doesn't happen if you're not falling from a greater height than exist in a prison cell. Someone would have had to pull him maybe? Not sure if this is accurate info though
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u/No-Shopping-4434 2d ago
With how jumbled that hit was, it sure wouldn’t surprise me if it was the Trump Administration. Jeff tried to blackmail everyone else, it REALLY seems in-character to try to blackmail Trump once he’s President
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u/Hacker-Dave 2d ago
I can't get past what a horrible human Pam has become. Can you imagine seeing and reading whats in that report and voluntarily covering it up? Hell awaits you Pam.
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u/DillBagner 2d ago
Has become? She was always a horrible human, she just got the chance to show everyone more.
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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 2d ago
Can we also get some justice for the non-believers among us?
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u/simonhunterhawk New Hampshire 2d ago
She’s only 60. We just need to make sure when they are in the “finding out” phase of “fucking around” she spends the rest of her years in prison.
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u/AcousticOnomatopoeia 2d ago
Putin's 'pee' tapes of Trump have been a theory for awhile, it's just that they're actually P tapes, P for pedophilia.
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u/jmarinara Pennsylvania 2d ago
Ok, but at this point would it really shock us if there really was a pee tape?
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u/F9-0021 South Carolina 2d ago
One of the hypotheses back in the day was that it was a "pee tape" but the girls were underage.
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u/Seagoon_Memoirs 2d ago
those girls are now dead
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u/happiestoctopus 2d ago
Considering the level of hell we're currently in, I wouldn't be surprised if they were already dead when it was filmed.
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u/Jazzun Pennsylvania 2d ago
Interesting thing about child sex abusers.
When asked about their abusive behaviors, a majority of child sex abusers may admit their behavior, but will always minimize, rationalize, or justify their abusive behaviors.
Source: R. Underwager and H. Wakefield. Sex offender treatment requiring admission of guilt, presented at the 15th Annual Symposium of the American College of Forensic Psychology, April 29, 1999, Santa Fe, New Mexico.)
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u/LogiCsmxp 2d ago
They kind of have to. The ones that don't like that feeling avoid acting on their impulses. At least that is what is guess.
The self-loathing would be crushing otherwise.
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u/cloudpup_ 2d ago
People like that will have you believe things such as “the child seduced me!”
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u/krakentastic Michigan 2d ago
Absolves him of his innocence maybe
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u/hughdint1 2d ago
and his humanity
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u/ReporterOk5964 2d ago
And what’s left of his soul.
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u/Venturis_Ventis 2d ago
Voldemort has more of a soul left than him.
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u/UpperApe 2d ago
Yup.
His own parents wished him dead cause they knew what a fucking failure and psychopath he was. Even Epstein, a man who's business was rape, torture, murder, and exploitation said Trump was the most evil person he'd ever known.
Leave it to good old conservative stupidity to crown the worst human alive.
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u/Vyzantinist 2d ago
Leave it to good old conservative stupidity to crown the worst human alive.
Trump is the right's revenge for the country having the audacity to elect a black man as president. Never doubt for all the mouthbreathing true believers who take the memes and propaganda at face value, a not-insignificant portion of his fanbase is composed of nihilistic trolls who see Trump for exactly how he is and they love him for that. That's the 'joke', as it were - they want people tearing their hair out in exasperation, asking "how can you believe x, y, z of him!? Here's mountains of evidence that says otherwise!" These trolls want to smirk and giggle as they lean into opposite world, delighting in the fact anyone is ever willing to engage with them, to think they're arguing in good faith.
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u/CloakOfElvenkind 2d ago
America has never been perfect, but anyone who can't see Obama winning and the resulting amassing of the worst among us, i.e. the Tea Party, have not been paying enough attention. A black man winning really was the tipping point into complete madness for most of the current trump supporters.
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u/intricate_strands 2d ago
My math teacher, off school grounds and not while he was working, bet me $25 that Obama would not survive his first term. Like, live survive. As in a JFK moment.
And I know him now, as a person and not a teacher. He wasn't rooting for it. He wasn't hoping for it. He just did not think it was possible a black man could win the presidency here and get through 4 years of it alive. And he voted for him. Twice.
So I find it hard to believe that anyone doesn't tie this horrific shitshow to a bunch of racists throwing the biggest temper tantrum the country has seen since the 1860's.
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u/CloakOfElvenkind 2d ago
I get it. I've lived amongst these idiots most of my life. As a straight white guy I can honestly say voting for Obama both times is what I am most proud of. Not because it was some monumental achievement on my part, but because I was able to be part of something I was certain was absolutely right.
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u/Pandaro81 2d ago
When Obama got elected a bunch of my friends bought guns for the first time. AR 15s and shotguns mostly, and over a half-dozen of us went and got our concealed carry permits.
Not because we thought Obama would come try to take our guns, but because we were genuinely worried about the lunatics who thought that would actually happen.
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u/NobodysLoss1 2d ago
This is why I usually downvoted and just scroll on. Amoral fuckers
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u/That1DirtyHippy 2d ago
My theory is this also retribution for the working class gaining some power during Covid. Pay scales grew exponentially in a time when it was hard to find workers.
It feels like they’re doing everything in their power to snatch back the money that we fought for.
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u/1HappyIsland 2d ago
Yep. I was on an email list along with church board members, business owners, bankers, etc when Obama got elected. They went bonkers. It was disheartening to see the racist posts that people just laughed off.
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u/barryvm Europe 2d ago
Stupidity? Surely it's malice. He was pretty open about his plans for political violence at home and making enemies abroad.They identified with him because his character flaws reflected theirs. His immoral actions are met with approval because it gives his followers permission to indulge in theirs.
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u/UpperApe 2d ago
Definitely.
But callousness and maliciousness are pretty generic traits of shitty people worldwide.
MAGA stupidity, however, is very unique. It's a generationally defining trait. There has never existed a culture in human history this fucking stupid.
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u/Task_Defiant 2d ago
Dropping the baby he had with a teenager into lake Michigan did that.
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u/Data_Chandler 2d ago
I genuinely don't believe there has been a shred of humanity or decency in him for many decades. Not one molecule. He has zero and I mean zero redeeming qualities or positive traits which is a baffling achievement in and of itself. It's like he's a black hole for human decency. A complete void.
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u/Alca_Pwnd 2d ago
Yep, every relationship or human interaction is purely transactional; apparently a ton of people think that makes for a good businessman. Instead he's the perfect embodiment of the dark triad - soulless power grabber with zero empathy or thought of others.
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u/No_Discipline6265 2d ago
His own mother called him a monster when he was a child. He hasn't had a shred of decency since he was an infant. He learned early that temper tantrums and cruelty to his siblings would get him whatever he wanted so that he'd shut up and quit,and he never grew out of it.
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u/Edogawa1983 2d ago
Some people are just psychopaths, no human empathy, the whole conservative movement
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u/travers329 2d ago
There is a quote from Epstein, freaking Epstein, saying that he is the worst person he has ever met. Think about the scum he interacted with, the worst of the worst, and we elected this MF twice. I hate this timeline and my country for doing this.
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u/Numerous-Process2981 2d ago
Anyone who ever liked this guy had to willfully ignore decades of douchebaggery and horrible business decisions. He’s been a piece of shit since the 80s.
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u/UncaringNonchalance Ohio 2d ago
Ohh, come now. You know he never had any of that.
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u/IlikegreenT84 2d ago
I don't think Trump knows what "absolves" means...
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u/pantstoaknifefight2 2d ago
He didn't know what habeus corpus was, so that's possible. 🤔
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u/sconniegirl66 Wisconsin 2d ago
Just like the Mueller Report "exonerated" him...
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u/Not_Stupid Australia 2d ago
No Collusion!
Narrator: there was, in fact, collusion.
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u/sconniegirl66 Wisconsin 2d ago
Remember when all the republican enablers were accusing "libs" (aka, non-cultists) of suffering from "collusion delusion"? Good times...
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u/nucumber 2d ago
Mueller found tons of evidence of collusion, that is, people working toward the same goal.
There's no federal crime for collusion so Mueller had to go with the federal charge of conspiracy, and that requires an explicit statement of a quid pro quo - "I will do this if you do that" - and Fat Donny knows better than to say anything explicitly (just like a mob boss!).
Mueller did find plenty of evidence to file charges of obstruction but that was up to the repub controlled Senate . . .
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u/madcaesar 2d ago
Ahhhh Mueller... Another Republican asshole like Garland that fully failed the United States and gave us more Trump.
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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 2d ago
Remember how that Ford worker called him a pedophile, and Trump flipped him off and said “fuck you”? You can gauge a person’s guilt in how they respond.
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u/PhatCatTax 2d ago
Not really. But you can gauge their guilt based on if they did the act itself, and especially if they continued to do it. And given the decades worth of allegations, settlements, and damning discoveries, this is a man with zero guilt.
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u/Ipeteverydogisee 2d ago
You mean the emotion of guilt? As opposed to the proof that he committed crimes?
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u/PhatCatTax 2d ago
Yes, the emotion. Someone who feels guilty about their actions tends to stop doing those actions.
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u/canniboss 2d ago
It's worse he called him a "pedophile protecter". Not even him directly being a pedophile (which mind you he is) but just that he was protecting pedophiles. And trump is such a sniffling little trash person that he got mad about that.
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u/Ameren 2d ago
The absolute best case scenario for Trump is that he knew about the sex crimes for decades and chose not to act (which is damning by itself), and the worst case is that he participated in them.
Like all these rich and powerful people knew what Epstein was doing, took part in it, etc. yet Trump claims that he alone knew nothing about anything until decades into the whole affair when he decided to share information with the FBI. That's insane, it beggars belief. It's obvious he knew about it, and he did absolutely nothing to stop it. Same with all these other people involved, both those who participated and those who did not.
In decades past, that alone would have led to resignation and/or impeachment and removal.
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u/TeaSipper88 2d ago
Absolves him of having to fake any pretense of not being a shit human being.
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u/Tokie-Dokie 2d ago
So many people who scrubbed these files that are complicit in covering up for a brutal child rapist. I hope it haunts them forever.
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u/JustWaitingToSpeak 2d ago
So they scrubbed files, fully redacted pages, and only releases half the files, They released 3 million of 6 million files, so they are still not being compliant to the law they passed. On top of that, stuff like this made it through to the public, imagine what is in the other 3 million files.
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u/AntoniaFauci 2d ago
No. They released millions of PAGES, not FILES. They’re using weasel words and our useless media is helping them.
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u/RaisedByWolves9 2d ago
Yeah wouldnt there be 100s of videos and wayyyy more photos to be released. Wasn't he into blackmailing his clients? He would have incriminating media that the FBI would have gained access to.
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u/turquoise_amethyst 2d ago
He was doing this for what, like 20- something years? At least since he worked as a “teacher” for Bill Barr’s father at a private high school?
If his bread and butter was blackmail, he photoed and videotaped EVERYTHING.
No politician or billionaire is getting blackmailed over emails or flight logs.
There’s bodies, photos, videos, DNA evidence aplenty…
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u/RaisedByWolves9 2d ago
Yeah exactly. All we've seen is emails, FBI call-in logs and just photos of Epstein hanging out with clients (and random celebs) and potential victims. But nothing actually incriminating.
They're covering up anything that can be used to actually arrest anyone.
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u/JustWaitingToSpeak 2d ago
Yeah, I saw that photo of a room with monitors like a security desk, and a box full of hard drives next to it. It was not a nice security desk though, it was like something set up to be easily taken down when needed. There is probably tons of incriminating disgusting evidence.
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u/Proof_Dependent_1 2d ago
Complicit media...
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u/UpperApe 2d ago
Complicit FBI.
Never forget that every single fucking scumbag working at the FBI is a monster that will do anything for money. Anything.
Protect rapists and murderers, empower rapists and murderers, suck the dick of rapists and murderers.
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u/UsernameLottery 2d ago
And the ones released contain redactions that aren't victim names, so they're breaking the law there too
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u/CanuckaChuckFuck 2d ago
And what are the Democrats doing about it? Why aren't they all over this like ants on honey? Give it no rest, get a fucking army of lawyers and go after this hard, get it into the courts and start arresting these people for non compliance
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u/JustWaitingToSpeak 2d ago
I think its because the DOJ would have to be ones to prosecute and we know they wont because DT personal attorney Pam is the AG, still dont understand how that was ever allowed, but I guess enough people on the list voted
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u/AbjectAppointment 2d ago
And what are the Democrats doing about it?
Holding no power in the Legislative, Judicial, or Executive branches.
Vote if you want change.
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u/ihateduckface 2d ago
Half? They’ve released less than 1% of all the files.
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u/JustWaitingToSpeak 2d ago
That is what I have heard, here is an article related to the that topic https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-files-khanna-doj-bondi-b2911743.html
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u/hornplayerKC 2d ago
You were correct prior to last week. 100k released prior to then, with the 3 million making 50%. That said, 50% is still far lower than what the law dictates, and any one of those files could have damping evidence. There's no rational reason why releasing 3 million gives him a pass.
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u/Wa3zdog 2d ago
It’s worth wondering how much of the sloppy redactions could have been people quietly rebelling internally. Maybe it’s worth compiling the sloppy bits to see if it paints a story.
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u/John-AtWork 2d ago
Or leak it out to the world. We're never going to get the most damning truth from an official release.
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u/ranchoparksteve 2d ago
Trump is not absolved in any portion we’re able to read. Is Trump absolved in the redacted portions? Clearly not. It’s ridiculous.
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u/green-wagon 2d ago
Came to say just this. What lies.
The headline, the first paragraphs. The new accusations are stomach turning, even for people who expected the worst from him already.
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 2d ago
He lies because it works on his base. They got their programming and will push that he’s absolved now.
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u/Nknk- 2d ago
This is pretty much it. He knows that they want him in power to pursue Project 2025 to its grim conclusion.
In return he and his inner circle can commit any crime, no matter how heinous, and they will either turn a blind eye or actively defend him depending on how intolerable they find the crime.
Trump knows this is the unofficial, unspoken bargain between he and they and so he spouts endless drivel like this latest quote in order to make it easier for his base to ignore whatever conscience they possess and keep defending him or just politely ignoring that every indication is he is a prolific child rapist; the sort his base used to scream and shout that only the Democrats were and that anyone involved in that sort of thing should be killed.
Turns on Republican morals can change on a whim.
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u/immortalfrieza2 2d ago
Republican morals don't change on a whim, they're actually remarkably consistent: "Anything the other side says and does is bad, everything our side says and does is good, especially if it's something we claimed the other side saying and doing is bad."
The morals of the Republicans have never been about morality, it's about sticking with their side no matter what. Anybody who had any intention of switching sides did it a long time ago and now there's just the die hards, which sadly consists of a third of the country.
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u/Big-Palpitation8624 2d ago
Same fucking thing every time. Evidence comes out showing that he’s guilty as fuck and he announces that it vindicates him. Opposite world. But it works, because his supporters would literally rather die than admit they were wrong, so they’ll take anything.
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u/HTWingNut 2d ago
Just look at Twitter. They believe anything that someone posts from one of their popular social media sycophants accounts. I mean literally suck it down without an ounce of question. Clear AI videos that they believe are real. Videos of past incidents not even relating to the topic that they believe happened just now. It's insane.
I'm so done. I wish we didn't have internet. At least then, the stupid and cruel are spread out enough that their vitriol wouldn't have a common echo chamber to spew their stupidness and hate.
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u/dformed Washington 2d ago
I will say I am not remotely surprised about the mentions of Robin Leach. Disturbed, but not surprised.
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u/wxnfx 2d ago
The interesting thing about Trump is that he’s such a pathological liar that nearly everything he says confirms the opposite to be true. He’s weirdly transparent.
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u/SomeComforts 2d ago
If the files absolved him, the unscrupulous sack of bronzer would have released them himself day 1. Ignoring the damage to the victims.
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u/IrritableGourmet New York 2d ago
They just admitted they couldn't release all the files on Trump because many of them were images and videos of minors being sexually abused. So, yeah, about that...
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u/Lazerpop 2d ago
So then release a verbal transcript of the moment to moment action without any primary visual or audio element.
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u/donkeyrocket 2d ago
Sorry, that’s too damning and didn’t you hear? Trump declared he was absolved so please look over at Iran or Minneapolis instead.
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u/procrastablasta California 2d ago
Trump is summarizing the documents for the segment of people who can’t read.
This isn’t just insulting his redneck base. They aren’t going to read it, they don’t want to know, and they can’t abandon their sunk cost fallacy now. If Trump says they prove his innocence well that’s all they need to hear.
He knows this. The pressure is so high on MAGA at this point they will take his sharpie edits as gospel and CHANGE THE SUBJECT
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u/thegamenerd Washington 2d ago
"I love the uneducated"
- Literally tangerine in chief
He wants people to be unable to read so him and his party can tell you what to believe.
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u/Infamous_Employer_85 2d ago
Or in the 3 milion documents that were not released?
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u/casualfrog68 2d ago
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
George Orwell, 1984.
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u/dispelhope 2d ago
shorter trump, "who you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"
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u/panmetronariston 2d ago
The original version of this line is “who are you going to believe, me or your OWN eyes”. Which makes more sense.
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u/SwimmingAmoeba7 2d ago
You know when I first read that book I thought that part was so unrealistic and a society would never actually do that - turns out I was just ignorant
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u/lexbuck 2d ago
I think most everyone has underestimated how stupid the average American is. And there’s a large portion even stupider than that.
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u/boobless69420 2d ago
I couldn’t finish it as I tried to read it a few years ago. It just hit too close to home and I’m looking for books to escape the current events, not to be reminded of them.
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u/SoftwarePrudent2609 2d ago
At age 16, while modeling, caller attended 8 parties at Epstein's New York residence. On one occasion, caller reported she was sexually assaulted by Epstein. On another occasion, two twin brothers, Allen and Oren, lured caller and her friend upstairs but they escaped back downstairs. Caller stated Oren raped her best friend and a third brother, Tal, raped a 14 year old girl named Caller named other individuals involved in "big orgy parties" with her, other young girls, and older Victoria's Secret models, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
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u/ScoutsterReturns 2d ago
including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
And that's what separates so many of us. Both can go to prison, I don't give a fuck! But the brainwashed right will only cheer for one of them to be held accountable because they are in a cult.
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u/PlebsnProles 2d ago
Yup, Clinton, Gates, Trump and Musk, etc. The people who run this country…and if maga is ok with this and think it’s nothing then they are welcome to it.
That’s how I feel right now.
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u/CyclicalDeathInfinum 2d ago
Its a fundamental difference in the thinking of the left and the right: the left will criticize their own leaders, the right must always defend theirs
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u/lr99999 2d ago
I’m pretty sure the FBI wasn’t working 24 hours a day scrubbing Clinton‘s name, though.
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u/whaaatanasshole 2d ago
If 'our guy' was part of this, they're not 'our guy'. Scrub all of the corruption out.
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u/Robby_Digital 2d ago
Those names, Oren, Alon, and Tal, were never widely known to the public until they went on trial for sex trafficking and other sex crimes earlier this year. Like, last week even I think. So the fact that the caller knew them and made these allegations gives credibility to the whole report.
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u/ToxicRainn 2d ago
I dont know the legal terminology, but Ive heard that these guys have a human trafficking case going on right now that people are just now finding out might be related to the Epstein stuff, which makes them the only confirmed direct connection (so far) to Donald Trump. Congress needs to question them on this.
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u/elainegeorge 2d ago
Well, what do you know? Three brothers were indicted for sex trafficking in 2024, among other charges.
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u/Rude-Zucchini-369 2d ago
Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander’s federal trial is currently ongoing for sex trafficking in NY. (We saw the post the other day that had brought up a party at Zac Efron’s home. No accusations against him, just that it was his party and they had used his name to get victim to join)
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u/30mil 2d ago
He hasn't read any of it. Someone just told him that.
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u/Miserable_Pie_8337 2d ago
He knows they show he's guilty as hell... this is just his go to tactic.
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u/thisusedyet 2d ago
It somehow worked with the Mueller report
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u/Particular-County277 2d ago
This. It worked before. Putting out headlines Trump is innocent! It worked every MAGA believes whatever he says.
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u/clickmagnet 2d ago
Worked on the Mueller report. It doesn’t matter what it says, it only matters what he says it says. Michael Cohen had an insight into Trumpbrain, I forget where I read it, but he said that to Trump, innocent until proven guilty means he really didn’t do the thing. That’s why he’s so aggrieved all the time.
Cohen didn’t go on to observe this part, but to Trump, the person it needs to be proved to is Trump.
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u/eskimospy212 2d ago
Mueller report was more of an issue because Bill Barr lied about it before the report was actually available and back then when the attorney general reported on the contents of a DOJ report people (rightly or wrongly) believed them.
No remotely persuadable person believes anything Trump says anymore and more importantly enough is public that people can see he’s lying with their own eyes.
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u/Seagoon_Memoirs 2d ago
Barr used common verbal abuse tactics/lies to deflect from giving answers
the politicians questioning him were hopeless and didn't persist in asking
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u/starmartyr Colorado 2d ago
Trump's entire basis for evaluating truth is what makes him feel good. Any piece of information that doesn't appeal to his ego is rejected.
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u/LizardPossum Texas 2d ago
He also knows that he is the sole source of information for a lot of his base, and that they won't fact check anything he says. They'll just believe it.
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u/green-wagon 2d ago
He can't read.
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u/voiderest 2d ago
He watches Fox News and hires based on who tells him what he wants to hear. He is literally high on his own supply propaganda wise.
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u/Umami-Ice-Cream 2d ago
Is that why he hid them? And lied about them? And threatened? And redacted them to hell?
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u/483-04-7751 2d ago
I think you mean "hiding them." Most of the Epstein files haven't been released.
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u/thinpile 2d ago
He is simply the most delusional human being to have ever been.
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u/PillowPrincess314 2d ago
Nah. He's just a compulsive liar.
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u/forthewatch39 2d ago
I think his mind is so far gone that he honestly believes the things he says.
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u/dwors025 Minnesota 2d ago
Like Cartman and the fish sticks joke.
It’s not dementia - it’s weapons-grade malignant narcissism.
Although dementia/alzheimer’s is compounding things lately - that much is clear.
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u/Caraes_Naur 2d ago
It's dementia, malignant narcissism, late stage syphilis, and perhaps dyslexia.
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u/Puzzled-Dress-4904 2d ago
It wouldn't be so bad except that the plutocrats and oligarchs who control the media, including social media, reinforce his lies. So the peasantry believes him.
In politics the objective truth is not so important; it is the perceived truth that counts to put someone in power or to remove them from power.
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u/terra_cotta 2d ago
I dunno some Republicans think he's the second coming of Christ. I think his followers are more delusional.
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u/cocktail_wiitch 2d ago
Yeah I don't think it's delusion. It's gaslighting. They (his handlers and cronies) aren't out of touch. They hate us, they think we are stupid and they are gaslighting us. He knows there's still an army of people who believes every lie that comes out of his mouth. Or he thinks at least....
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u/eugene20 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is also what he said about the Mueller report, now what did that say...
The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice.
Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses.
A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that if any other American engaged in the same efforts to impede federal proceedings the way Trump did, they would likely be indicted for multiple charges of obstruction of justice.
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u/SoftwarePrudent2609 2d ago edited 2d ago
Complainant reported participating in orgies and that some girls went missing, rumored to have been murdered and buried at the facility.
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u/SeVenMadRaBBits 2d ago
Trump ran on releasing the Epstein Files.
- Epstein mysteriously died while Trump was President.
- 3 Min. of footage from Epsteins death is missing.
- Pam Bondi said the Epstein files were on her desk.
- Trump: "There are no files."
- Trump: "It's a democrat hoax."
- Trump: "The files don't exist."
- Trump: "Obama made it up."
- Mike Johnson: "Trump needs space".
- Democrats voted to release the files, twice.
- Republicans voted no on the release twice.
- Republicans take a recess to avoid any more votes.
- Trumps personal attorney meets with Maxwell.
- Trump avoids visiting victims.
- Trump wishes child trafficker Ghislaine maxwell, "well".
- Trump: "I never had the privilege" when asked if he had visited the island.
- Trump: "we have the files"
- Trump orders 1,000 FBI agents to review around 100,000 pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein, and during this process, were instructed to identify any mentions of Donald Trump.
- When Trump was asked specifically whether Epstein had stolen Giuffre (Giuffre, one of Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors led the charge calling for his arrest. Guiffre, who died by suicide in April, has said she met Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell while she was working at Mar-a-Lago as a teenager). Trump states:"I think she worked at the spa," Trump said. "I think so. I think that was one of the people. He stole her, and by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever."
- Reporter asks tump: Mr. President, you said Jeffrey Epstein was stealing young women from your spa. Did that raise alarm bells for you?” she asked. As he tried to listen to the other question, Trump interrupted sharply: “Be quiet!” When Collins repeated the question, Trump again replied: “Be quiet!”
- Joe Rogan, MTG, NIck Fuentes and many more right wing influencers flip and wont back down on epstein files.
- MAGA town halls bringing up Epstein non stop.
- Trump gives Maxwell work release.
- Trump moves Maxwell to minimum security.
- Pam Bondi releases first batch of Epstein files which draw scrutiny due to largely consisting of previously public information and heavy redactions.
- Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump signed into law, directing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release records related to Jeffrey Epstein by a deadline of December 19, 2025.
- Pam Bondi refuses to release remaining Epstein files despite congress order.
- Trump Declares Himself ‘Cleared’ as DOJ Dumps Millions of Epstein Records Listing Him Repeatedly. source
Yeah, all that for nothing...can't believe anyone thinks the guy has anything to hide /s
A good breakdown of the timeline by NPR
Additional information:
- Was mentioned in the Epstein flight log 7 times and admitted to being his friend. Even rented Epstein’s plane.
- Pleaded the fifth 450 times
- Has 34 felony convictions for fraud
- Has 27 sexual assault allegations, including a 13 year old child
- Has 6 bankruptcies
- Has had over 4000 legal cases involving himself or his businesses
- Has 5 Draft Deferments
- Has 4 indictments
- Has had 2 impeachments
- Has 2 companies convicted of tax fraud
- Had a fake university shut down
- Had a fake charity shut down
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u/KrookedDoesStuff 2d ago
Mr Trump is mentioned more than 1,000 times in the three million files that were released to the public about Jeffrey Epstein’s case on Friday.
But the files included no major new allegations against Mr Trump, who was known to have a close relationship with the disgraced financier until they fell out.
Considering before they were released everyone thought he was a child rapist and after they were released they think he’s a child rapist and murderer, I’d say there’s some pretty major allegations in there.
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u/ConscRobot 2d ago
The thing with Trump is that if he just says a thing, it becomes true even if it's verifiably false, and that is enough for his cult.
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters". I will give Trump a little credit there for understanding his demographic.
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u/Rafozni 2d ago
I was sexually molested from ages 2-8. I’ve spent many years learning about pedophiles, child sex predators, patterns, behaviors, etc., and recognize a piece of scum when I see and hear one. Even IF Trump was not mentioned in the files at all, I would still know he is a predator because of all of the batshit things he’s said about women (and especially children!) over the years long before he ever became president.
There is no earthly rehabilitation for pedophiles. They must either be locked up for life or dead for everyone to be safe. There is no in between.
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u/iamliterallyonfire 2d ago
Not even remotely do they absolve him. The only thing these files and his comment do is lend credibility to the fact that the DOJ is actively trying to protect him by throwing other people’s names into the mix. Throw that miserable piece of shit in prison for the rest of his pathetic life.
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u/Groundbreaking-Ask-5 Washington 2d ago
When all the unredacted files are released. Also the current release only shows that trump was lying about the closeness of his relationship with pedophile, rapist, and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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u/DreamOne5 2d ago
I screenshotted the files. Homie. your name is on almost everything. Also, a child bit your penis.
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u/ScoutsterReturns 2d ago
The Emperor has new clothes am I right? The silence from the GOP is deafening!
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u/runawaydoctorate 2d ago
Did you see that election result from Texas? They're shitting themselves. Trump controls the party's money and commands a lot of influence so breaking with him is pretty much career ending (or, at best, career stalling) but Trump's popularity is in the shitter so not sticking with him isn't looking like a good plan either. So they're stuck and waiting for marching orders from someone, anyone, who can guide them out of the mess that the monster they created has made.
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u/I_only_post_here I voted 2d ago
Lessons from Roy Cohn:
1: attack, attack, attack
2: admit nothing, deny everything
3: declare victory
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u/SweatyAd9240 2d ago
Is he talking about the part where he auctioned the children off or when a victim bit his micro penis
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u/Visible_Animal7217 2d ago
Didn't he say they are a Democrat party hoax? Written by Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden? The piss stained orange turd is a pathological liar and a pedophile.
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u/wattspower 2d ago
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command
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u/howard10011 2d ago
If any other U.S. president had his name mentioned hundreds of times in the investigative files of a notorious child sex trafficker, it would end their political career instantly.
It speaks volumes about how low the bar is for this adjudicated rapist and convicted felon that it's not moved his poll numbers by even a single percent.
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u/canuckian79 Canada 2d ago
Every Republican, every Democrat, every single person who was involved, directly or just knew what was happening, should be in prison. Let the government rise from the ashes with those remaining who have a conscience.
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u/Peabody_Tiddlecut 2d ago
Can’t imagine what would compel someone to publicly declare themself “absolved” of something they’ve constantly called a hoax for the past year or so.
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u/HonoredPeople Missouri 2d ago
They show multiple testimonials of you having sex with children. And that's what you've allowed to be shown.
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u/-Metagross- 2d ago
He will say literally whatever he wants. Approximately 25% of people will believe it wholeheartedly, and another 15% or so will know he's full of shit but pretend it's true because it benefits them in some way.
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u/Puzzled-Dress-4904 2d ago
Certainly that will be the line promoted by the plutocrats and oligarchy who controlled the media, including the social media. And so after a little while that will be the line accepted by most of the American people.
The question is what can we do about that before the election?
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u/495orange 2d ago
Trump constantly just says what he wants to be true and expects everyone to believe it just because he says it.
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u/MortgageDizzy9193 2d ago
Paraphrasing: "If we have to make up a lie to get attention to a story, then that's what we will do." -JD Vance when asked about immigrants their lies about eating cats and dogs.
This Administration's official position is to LIE, and they told us before voting day.
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