• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    Does it even matter at this point?

    He could release the Epstein files, be in there with video evidence of him raping a hundred little girls and nothing would happen anyway

    Fox news would claim that these girls had it coming

    Republican senators would say that they received Trump’s blessings and openly wonder where they could bless young boys and girls themselves

    Democrats would say that Bernie Sanders is evil

    Americans will organize exactly one protest against all this shit and then forget it was an issue

    Seriously, whatever would happen it won’t be far from this.

    • kingofras@lemmy.worldOPM
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      7 hours ago

      I get why people say this, especially after all he’s gotten away with. I’ve seen other highly visible paedophile cases play out, and I think if that information came out, it would be a serious noose around his neck (or ankles — his poor ankles).

      Don’t underestimate how he rallied on this. How he was going to drain the swamp, how the deep state was after him. This is a rare unifying issue in a world of divisive politics.

      Fucking around with children is a serious line for a vast majority of people.

      Also remember the files don’t have to be fully released, nor do they have to be released by him. All we need is one of his highly sycophantic new intelligence officers whistleblower to leak a crucial part of it to the press.

      And even if it doesn’t matter to some people, I believe this, together with the 2024 election tampering investigations are the only two attack vectors we have left to get him out, as it is abundantly clear he will never leave, nor will the SC, Congress, the media or the Democrats ever hold him accountable.

      That or his ankles will need to swell a lot more and faster.

      Donald Trump raped children and fantasised on television in front of his teenage daughter about her.

      Letting this go would be a significant capitulation to a darker immoral future.

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    2 days ago

    He could rape their granddaughters live on CSPAN and they’d line up to lick his asshole in gratitude.

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    2 days ago

    This headline is rather misleading. Later in the article they give more context for what Georgia Rep. Mike Collins said. From the article:

    Collins said he believed Trump was in the documents because the president “was the one that was telling the FBI about it.”

    “He’s the one that kicked [Epstein] out of Mar-a-Lago and then called the FBI,” the lawmaker continued, repeating his claim: “Yeah, yeah he’s in there.”

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      I swear, if they try to spin him being in the files as him being a good guy in all of this I’m gonna have an aneurysm. On the plus side, he’d never actually go for it, as every time he gets asked about it, he just gets mad and says he stole her from me, which is obviously not something a whistleblower is gonna say.

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      2 days ago

      “He’s the one that kicked [Epstein] out of Mar-a-Lago and then called the FBI,”

      He kicked Epstein out because Epstein was poaching his sex workers. And he never called the FBI, that’s horseshit.

      Also, gotta say, Virginia Giuffre originally working at Mar-a-Lago is absolutely wild. Talk about a damning indictment.