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GOP voters are blowing up congressional phone lines over Epstein (newrepublic.com)
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Marjorie Taylor Greene explained just how much demands to release the Epstein files have increased.

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[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 119 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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”.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago

“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.”

Did he ever promise not to rape a girl younger than her? Because that might be an important loophole.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Bill Barr had Epstein killed.

[–] PidgeonHanging@sh.itjust.works 88 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am all for it... but I wish people would get this passionate about healthcare, the environment, education, housing, and all the other things that are suffering in our society.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally anything that actually matters.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A pedophile ring for the 1% in which everyone knows they're doing it and no one does anything to stop it doesn't matter?

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'd argue a pedophile ring isn't as important as stopping an environmental collapse or making sure the entire population has access to Healthcare. The irony being the 1% a responsible for all of them

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know we can do more than one thing, right? Like, it’s not one guy who has to go around arresting the pedophiles, fixing climate change, and establishing wealth equality. In fact, no one person is expert enough in all three to really be the person for the job!

We can do this all at the same time. Take a breath and stop getting in the way of something that is finally starting to see results.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You say that but how well does governments handle multiple problems at once? In a perfect world we could but this world is far from perfect

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Really well? Most governments might show off one at a time but have you ever heard of a thing called a “department” and that there are several of them of them doing different things?

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter what your cause of choice is, someone is always going to say something else is more important. However, saying human trafficking doesn't matter at all? That's a pretty dickish statement.

I agree, it would be nice if Republicans cared about more of these things, but human trafficking is also a major issue.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

No humans to traffic if the ecosystem collapses. There is a scale of what problems are most important. I'd agrue preventing the destruction of our species is more important than any crime committed by a group of individuals. That being said you don't just ignore all the other problems. You just prioritize one over the other

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 hours ago

Yeah funny how those with an excess of wealth and a lack of morals seem to be behind so many terrible things in the world...

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 0 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

It doesn't if the Kingpin of that ring is a king above the law. Literally a waste of time.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Kings are for courts and guillotines.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

So addressing this problem can also help address another problem?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just one dissenting Republican vote would have swung it, Collins and Murkowski.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago

They only vote against GOP bills that are going to pass anyway and for Dem bills that are going to fail anyway.

On all other matters, they follow the party line and at most pretend to be conflicted about it.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was a House vote. They're in the Senate.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 1 day ago

Replace with any name, Dem or Rep

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You really lost me at "MTG explains..."

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

She tried to warn us about the gazpacho space lasers. But we wouldn't listen.

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Guess what all of you sheep republicans…. It’s never gonna happen. Your favorite leader has betrayed you and used you to get in office and it worked. All of this time, you guys thought it was democrats that were sheep. Well baaa baaa mother fuckers

[–] tylerkdurdan@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

when you rise to power through conspiracy theories...your base is partly, perhaps even largely, comprised of conspiracy theorists. I find it interesting to consider the possibility that controlling conspiracy theorists may have limits and we may be seeing those limits at present.

[–] VivianRixia@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago

The problem is that the base was raised on the very conspiracy theory that they are guilty of. The call was coming from inside the house.

[–] Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, the Epstein files may provide glimpses into even more fun things, I think. Like Pentagon and Federal Reserve and CIA stuff. Call me a nut (I am one), but I think Trump, the getting ready to die easy target, is being thrown under the bus. This list may be the juiciest thing in a century. Just my cookoo conspiracy theories.

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think you're very likely correct. My money is on Mar-A-Lago acting as an actual front for international child trafficking under the guise of beauty peagants and adoption through Russian mob agencies. All of which is actually well documented already (I'm not joking.

But a smoking gun in those files of Epstein admitting the Trump owned Miss teen USA pageants were a front for his kidde sex trafficking would be a definite game over.

[–] Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Also, Epstein's girls come from a legacy of Soviet child-prostitution.

Edit: Guys. I just went and checked out r/conservative. They're finally with us on this one. They're either checking out or screaming about money and power as loud as we do.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Just give them time. There's always a bit of a delay before they get their talking points.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yet another headline that I am disappointed to find is a metaphor....

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Time to break out your best impression of your worst neighbors. Give them the impression you have a business and donations on the line.

[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

yeah, my emails and calls to the republican that cruelly rules my district now just use a lot of allcaps and shouting

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago

GOP voters should all stay home and self-immolate.