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Vance Tries to Convince Americans That Trump Wants 'Full Transparency' in Epstein Case
(www.rollingstone.com)
Normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
Yes. Someone more creative than me should make a funny Richard Stallman copy pasta out of this.
That's not just a likely lie - it's an entirely self-evident and certain lie.
There's nothing - not one single thing - that's standing in Trump's way. If he actually wanted full transparency, that's what we'd have, immediately and effortlessly. So it can only be the case that that's a lie - it's literally impossible for it to actually be the truth.
Ironically, it was Trump himself set precedent when he released the JFK and MLK files.
“The people in power don’t want you to know these things!”
“Sir, you are literally the president and have control over, or have proven you can ignore, most branches of the government.”
“Shhhhhhhhhhhh”
He alone can solve this problem
There would be many manila folders, and this time they could be filled with things other than blank paper!
"I was elected to lead, not to read."
Is that why the FBI redacted Donnie's name from the list?
Yes, but—full transparency—they didn’t hide the redaction.
They don't need to hide the redaction, they just need a global Search Replace with "Bill Clinton" for "Donald Trump"....
One thousand FBI agents covering one mighty felon’s butt
To be fair, it's not a small butt.
They only had 1000+ agents working on the redactions...
Full transparency, now say thank you!
Does his head grow every time he lies?
Nah it gets bigger.
Do you know what, "grow" means?
Listen, we're all trying to find the guy who did this.
If the glove doesn't fit you must acquit
I sincerely believe this means that they're going to release Epstein documents very soon. I also think they're going to claim everything is unedited and totally transparent. And I think that every single inch of every single document will have been fucked with beyond recognition.
Get ready for Epstein to have been incredibly close friends with all of Trump's enemies.
It could be a stall tactic. Keep saying the right things but never do anything and hope that people get distracted or bored. They can hope that people have limited tolerance for the same subject being brought up again and again.
Like his tax returns.
And they'll produce the phony documents in such a shoddy way that it'll take under a day to detect that they're fake. And then they'll double down.
Disbelievers and heretics get their city a visit from Marshalla.
The guy who complains when anyone even TALKS about it... the one that said that the stuff in the case files (produced under his administration) was mostly phony... the one who tried to keep the Wall Street Journal from releasing the fact that he had a creepy cryptically worded birthday letter with a drawn named woman on it given to Epstein, and then punitively sued them after they published anyway... the one who instructed his fixer to have a closed door, private meeting with Epstein's assistant who is convicted for the same crimes Epstein committed, who has perjured herself to avoid trouble before, who clearly got better accommodations in a lower security prison as a result of some undisclosed deal with this fixer and Trump, and who needs only to please Trump, who is heavily implicated in her crimes, to get herself a full pardon... HE wants full transparency... yeah... that makes sense.
The only transparency FatDonnie wants is the transparency of little girls underwear. Human trafficking and abuse need to be exposed.
Release the Epstein files
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Oh, he wants "full transparency" on the files he pretended didn't exist, and then pretended that nobody cared about and that everyone should stop talking about, and that he had the FBI scramble to flag every paper that contained his name, and had congress shut down early to avoid a vote on the release of the files, and that he claims that his name was planted in, and that he had people redact his name from it, and had tampered with a key witness on the case, and that he's STILL NOT RELEASING AFTER ALL THAT TIME OF HIS OWN SUPPORTERS DEMANDING IT?
He doesn't need his supporters anymore. If he stays President past his term end he won't need their votes to do it.
Fucking hell they really are going all in on the große Lüge
He is apsolutly right, Full transparency means invisibility, so it's not visible and there's nothing to talk about, it doesn't exist.
They’re blaming Biden for not releasing them. Do they think people forgot trump is currently president? Who cares why Biden didn’t, he’s not president anymore and if he’s shady for not releasing them? Release the files and Prove it.
"My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the workings of his lie"
Full transparency would be releasing the Epstein Report. Uncensored.
Vance is trying to distract from the fact that trumps name graces nearly every page of the Epstein files?
Is Trump trying to use Vance’s complete and utter lack of charisma to kill the Epstein story? Make every response as dry as trying to fuck a couch cushion.
Interesting strategy from Trump, but I wonder if Vance’s handlers like making him the face of the Epstein coverup.
Hilarious! Good one, Vance!
He is a true student of his orange god. Likely never be the consummate liar the master is but he approaches closer with each utterance
We all know he just oils satans asshole up to ready it for trumps baby dick