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Well-known MAGA influencers who once championed the release of the files associated with the government’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein remained unusually quiet about the latest release of documents that included multiple mentions of Donald Trump.

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[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 171 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"multiple" = over 600 in just recent copy/paste trick. There will be more mentions. This is basically trumps pedophile sex trafficker ring, epstein was just the fall guy.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 111 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

No way Trump was running the show.

He's the guy who bankrupted two casinos and lost a billion trying to buy the Plaza Hotel.

Moreover, look at Trump's record. He hasn't got any long time associates besides Michael Cohen [who got arrested. ] Trump wouldn't have had any one at his side.

Trump was Epstien's client.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 65 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Trump ran his own trafficking ring. Trump Model Management.

Epstein ran a separate trafficking ring. MC2 Model Management. (in partnership with a French pedo named Jean-Luc Brunel, founded almost 6 years after Trump's agency.)

They then traded trafficked girls back and forth, while hosting sex parties that they invited rich and famous people to.

Epstein most likely collected blackmail for Israel, while Trump likely collected for Russia.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/welcome-to-trumps-teenybopper-model

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1

https://archive.is/An3VM#selection-719.76-719.115

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 47 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

His best client though. Probably the only time he ever paid for services received

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago

He paid by trading girls.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

maybe someone else was paying his way

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 21 points 21 hours ago

The hotel and casinos were almost for sure money laundering and skipping out on paying vendors/contractors etc

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago

Epstein was actually smart. Unfortunately he used his brains for worse things than just run of the mill financial gain. Trump just tries to associate with people who know what they’re doing, just preferentially chooses people good at shitty things.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 10 points 18 hours ago

you can be very successful financially in bankrupting businesses, especially ones that are very easy to get millions upon millions in dirty money and laundering rackets... like casinos.

[–] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Although I understand your argument. Epstien got arrested and is currently dead.

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago

I am not sure why you use currently in this context. If you expect him to rise from the dead, he probably would have done so after 3 days, right?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 54 minutes ago

Also, Trump may have invested in Epstein's trafficking/extortion business.

He hasn’t got any long time associates besides Michael Cohen [who got arrested. ]

Allen Weisselberg was even longer-term and probably more essential to Trump Org operations and its various frauds.

[–] Restaldt@lemmy.world 101 points 21 hours ago

Silent?

They are just waiting on their orders on what to believe in.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 80 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

they didn't stop slurping his incontinent asshole after "grab'em by the pussy," nor after "suckers and losers," or "covid is a hoax"-- in fact they became more rabidly obsessed with heaping praise and pasting his head onto rambo

something tells me this latest embarrassment for the human species will be no different

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 53 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

"He tells it like it is".

Cunts

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 33 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

every time he speaks he spews laughably absurd lies from his face anus like explosive diarrhea, and his cult followers scramble over each other to lick up and swallow every last chunk

remember "mexico's gonna pay for the wall," and then when--fucking obviously--mexico didn't pay for the wall, you had these fucking lemmings volunteering to drive to the border and work on building the wall for free

"cunts" isn't nearly a strong enough word. i don't know that one exists

[–] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 12 hours ago

People say Republicans/MAGA will "look the other way" on the bigotry and hate; but you highlighted the unspoken. They'd pay, their own time and money, for the chance to feel powerful by depriving the needy.

When I think of the MAGA base I always envision a disgruntled working-class white man who is certain there will never be a better future, and just wants to beat down marginalized populations. Maybe he does it so there's more for him; maybe because he's misdirected and hate hurts less than disappointment.

Forgive me for not believing that there will be some ground-breaking reaction to this reminder that Trump and the powerful elites are actually self-serving predators. They were voted in to be ruthless predators. DOGE was about destroying the government employees. ICE is about terrorizing brown and black people, and the "libs" that back them. Sure, some of Epstein's victims were white girls... some of the "woke feminists" MAGA mocks incessantly are white women. The attacks on SNAP and criminalization of the homeless are going to destroy all skin tones alike. Banning abortion sure screwed white women (and that one happened pre-reelection).

These people don't vote MAGA to protect kids ; most vote MAGA because they want to feel like KKKlansmen tyrants with as little effort as it takes to cast a ballot; and the rest are just plain gullible.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 41 minutes ago

Rubes. Suckers. Marks.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Also, "You can't take him literally, but you have to take him seriously."

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 20 hours ago

Also, "That's just locker room talk."

These statements are often made in the same breath.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

I don't know. Pedo shit hits people on a different level. He's not bringing everyone along for this ride.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 44 minutes ago

If facts mattered to them, they wouldn't be MAGA. It's about rooting for the home team, not about reason. Endless tribal loyalty displays. They want to be told what to think and do. They have no ideas of their own.

The only people who struggle to craft a semi-coherent narrative are their propagandists. The rest would follow their Dear Leader to catch a ride on a passing comet if he told them to.

[–] quantumharsh@sh.itjust.works 52 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They're waiting to be told what to say by the think tanks.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And the think tanks are spinning their wheels going "uhhhhhhh"

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I can almost hear that in Tina Belchers voice.

Difference is, Tina would NEVER defend pedophilia.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

That is exactly what it sounded like in my head, well done.

[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 36 points 22 hours ago

They’re just waiting for new programming instructions. Don’t worry.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 26 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Nah. They busy crying fake news and trying to say Clinton is in them.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

He might be. I don't know. I haven't read them.

But if he IS in there, that's not the gotcha moment they think it is.

Trump is in the files.

throws trump in the fire

Fuck trump.

Now, if Clinton is in there too as a guilty party?

throws clinton in the fire

Fuck clinton.

Any other questions?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 38 minutes ago

Like anyone would shed a tear if Clinton were implicated. That's just a "yeah, so? Now back to the subject of Trump's involvement. How many mentions of each name?"

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Numerous? It mention over 800 times. That a lot more than the vague title suggests.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

Technically 800 IS numerous! It certainly isn't singular....

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 15 hours ago

Just catching their breath before gobbling orange chode again

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 15 points 22 hours ago

Unfortunately, they won't stay silent.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

Waiting for marching orders. They're still downloading.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

They go into hiatus to somehow find a way to defend pedophilia. Because it can't be bad if Trump does it.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Good lord.....I am not looking forward to being called a woke libtard for my refusal to rape kids....

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Who cares what those morons call you?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Well, they've already started with the "it's only light pedophilia: ackshually it's epebophilia." And even if that mattered, avoid the subject of the trafficking, the rape and the extortion.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 10 points 11 hours ago

President’s name was mentioned in some documents part of Tuesday’s release but did not implicate him in any crimes.

He was present while they drowned a baby.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 22 hours ago

“It’s more important that we got fake documents released to us that had no new information than actually doing anything.”

Way to go, dumbasses.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

You will wear that for the rest of your lives you fascist pukes.

[–] rossman@lemmy.zip 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I have right skewing family and they can't be swayed. their only source is a news station, and they refuse to listen to anything else. They'll just act surprised when anything hits the news. This is like "ignorance is bliss' but ruins it for everyone else.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 12 hours ago

It's willful ignorance because they never listen when you try to inform them. They don't want to know, because deep down they know he's absolute scum.

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

The Friday News Dump: Xmas Edition 🎁

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So now Trump will be investigated and prosecuted for his crimes, right? .......right?

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Go silent? Lol right. They’re not silent. Right now they’re simply in full-on denial.

It’s like that scene from “What about Bob.”

Me: “You think they’re gone?! They’re not gone! That’s the whole point! They’re never gone!”
opens comments on news story about Epstein
MAGA Influencers: “is this some kind of radical new fake news?”
Me: “SEE?!”

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

Good little sheep….

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