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President Donald Trump says he has ordered the justice department to produce additional documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

"Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval," he said.

It's unclear if Trump is authorising the public release of these documents. Such action would typically require court approval.

Yeah Bondi, slap together some more doctored BS to tell whatever story you need to tell. Maybe more "raw unedited footage" pasted together and missing 3 minutes.

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[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 128 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Cue the news conference where she pulls out a 2000 page binder that she claims are the documents, only to just be blank pages.

[–] quinceyBones@lemmy.zip 74 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I heard Trump has binders full of children.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

It's an old reference, but it checks out.

[–] bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Binder? I don't even know her!

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

Never stopped Trump before!

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[–] Gaylactus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm sure they will somehow, implicate Joe Binder in it.

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[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago

Nah they will inexplicably only name Democrats, there won’t be a single Republican name in there

[–] lemjukes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Can’t pull the same gag twice, surely?

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Please let this backfire spectacularly

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I don't see how it could possibly help him. It's just going to keep the story in the media, longer it stays in the news cycle the bigger it snowballs.

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[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It won't, they'll produce a bunch of falsified documents implicating everybody but TACO, and half the country will accept it as gospel.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, this sounds like "make me a list that I can use to target the rich people that don't like me".

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Wait, didn't they say there are NO files? What files are they gonna release? The inconsistencies here will blow some people's minds.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is no Excel spreadsheet named Epsteins_Client_List.xslx

Ergo, no files.

[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

These seem like the kind of people who use spaces, not underscores, in their file names.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

And it's still .xls

also i bet they don't use spreadsheets... more like pdf files 🥁

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[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The key word is pertinent:

Pertinent

n. Anything that doesn’t portray Trump in a bad light while simultaneously harming his perceived foes, as determined by Donald J. Trump and/or Pam Bondi at the formers discretion.

Plus, the Grand Jury testimony is only a small fraction of the ‘files’

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago
[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago

“Produce”, as in “fabricate” or “forge”

[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sounds like the Dumbass-in-Chief wants that twat to throw together a list of names and claim it's the Epstein list. Bet all the names will be Democrats.

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Made this joke at work. It'll be

  • Colin Kaepernick
  • Obama's wife(not even Michelle it'll just say Obama's wife)
  • Greta Thunberg
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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (5 children)

that twat

I once used the word "twat" around my then-girlfriend. She said "you're pronouncing that wrong." WTF? "It's pronounced twah." Turns out she thought I and everybody else who used that word were trying to say the French word toit. No idea why she thought people were trying to use "roof" as an insult.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 11 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

If democratic personnel are thrown under the bus, they'll drag everyone else down with them.

If there was anything worth seeing surely Ghislane would've used it to get out of jail

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

List aside, did I miss why we aren't still talking about the 3 missing minutes and Adobe edited surveillance footage of the prison?

[–] sh00g@piefed.zip 12 points 1 day ago

Because "flood the zone" is an incredibly effective tactic against Americans who can't stay focused on something longer than one day. Each time something horrific comes out in the news they can just tell people to look at Trump's ankles instead. Oh and then we get a very professional doctor's opinion that Trump is the greatest, healthiest president we've ever had with the physique of a college athlete.

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

I don't think there is a more direct way of saying "you want epstein files? Fine I will produce some fake files and release them. You will eat those files like eating shit all the while knowing they are fake, because that is what you are. You are my little shit eaters."

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Springtime for Hitler

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it exist today or not? I lose track sometimes. Is there an easy way to remember?

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[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Prepare for fake documents. Finally People can read this moron like a book. Lies and fake shit.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Or, more likely, heavily cherry picked.

See, there's nothing incriminating in THESE documents, so you can trust when we say that there's nothing incriminating in the rest of them, either.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate to say this, but Epstein/Trump stories feel like the real distraction. It's long been known that Trump is connected with Epstein, that he's a certified sex pest, and that he's creepy about kids (including his own daughter). It's been default knowledge that Trump is a pedo creep, yet people seem to think that even smoking gun evidence will make some sort of difference.

Almost nobody will seriously change where that stand based on anything that could possibly revealed. On the other hand, the economy is in shambles, the government in shreds, and there are actual fucking concentration camps that people are getting disappeared to.

There is too much horror in the moment for me to fret so much about these horrors from the past. Epstein will not harm anyone else, but unknown high level child sex rings will. Everyone around Epstein getting revealed will not bring retribution to many culprits, nor will it change the root causes of such unaccountable abuse.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I could see it being a distraction but also feel like this should just be added to the growing list of things people should not let go as midterms approach and the administration tries to redirect the narrative of reality. Don't let them.

Its a lot to keep up with, but in no particular order, as a direct result of this administration and Republicans in the House and Senate:

•Rich pedophiles are now an officially protected species

•Trump tried to insult and neg his own supporters into dropping the Epstein list

•Economy is in shambles and projected to get worse

•Over 100 Americans suddenly dead in Texas due to severe flooding and cuts to warning systems that were in place until Trump took office (Republicans are seriously trying to blame this on "weather manipulation"). Similar disasters very likely to follow.

•After other disasters in other loyalist red states, emergency funding was withheld or delayed due to a lack of coordination between the white house and FEMA (with Trump's own pick leading things, last I heard he was on vacation and MIA following the TX floods)

•Energy grids and local water supplies are being strained all over the country by the very stupid and very expensive AI data factories being rolled out across the U.S.

•Giant Palantir surveillance database being created to keep tabs on all Americans. Don't forget that over the last 6 months: -ICE has been given the greenlight to break down doors without a warrant -Trump openly admitting he's not sure he has to follow due process -Trump dismantling the office of Human Rights and Civil Liberties that was created as a direct result of government overreach on behalf of the patriot act -There's a very fine line between what Trump can do to handle immigration and what he can do to any and all American citizens in the name of "domestic safety." That office was in charge of ensuring that line didn't get crossed, and if it did ensuring there would at least be documentation about it available through FOIA.

•Trump knew about Netenyahu's planned bombing of Iran, publicly lied about it, said he didn't want a war with Iran, but then randomly just decided to start kicking the hornet's nest

•Millions of Americans are losing their healthcare (in particular rural Americans and Trump's own voters are being hit especially hard by this) in order to provide tax cuts to wealthy elite

•Even the ultraconservative Cato institute has criticized Trump's planned spending on immigration laid out in the BBB (over $1 trillion dollars on deportation spending seems a kinda ridiculous when you can't find the budget for Americans to have Medicaid)

There's more, but just a few things off the top of my head.

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[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Sounds like the files have been "fixed" so the orange rapist's name won't be found on the new and improved documents. All okay now.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 9 points 13 hours ago

This is like trying to get his tax returns... 😒

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

Page after page of Lorem ipsum...

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stupid choice. Why say anything at all really? Just release whatever you are going to doctor and call them the files. This just makes it look like he is pulling shit out of his ass to satisfy the base.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But if he didn't make a big public announcement how else would Charlie Kirk have something to advertise to all the people at Turning Point U.S.A. who are starting to ask too many questions

Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was critical of the administration's handling of the files in recent days, praised Trump's move. "This is massive, this is something that we've been talking about for quite some time, and really a power to the grassroots," he said.

Wow...

So when the Dems try to force the release of the files after the president promised to release them then tried to go back on that promise, it's "all for political show."

When the Trump administration picks and chooses what breadcrumbs they will toss to the public (after already releasing edited footage and lying about it and insulting his own supporters), it's "power to the grassroots." 👑

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

produce any and all Grand Jury testimony

How specific.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Grok or openai?

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

[cutout of female figure for birthday card]

The letter, according to The Wall Street Journal, allegedly ends with the words: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret."

"These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don't draw pictures," Trump said on social media in response to the story.

“Is that your fucked up scrawly signature in the crotchtal area representing pubic hair?”

“ . . . . . No”

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