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  • A joint DOJ–FBI memo reaffirmed that no “client list” of high-profile individuals existed and found no evidence Epstein blackmailed anyone.
  • MAGA hardliners (e.g., Alex Jones) and some Trump allies lash out at AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, demanding disclosures.
  • President Trump urged supporters to stop attacking his team over “Epstein Files,” calling Epstein “somebody nobody cares about” and insisting his administration is “PERFECT.”
  • Internal friction reportedly flared between Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino (who threatened to quit) and Bondi, though Trump insists DOJ/FBI are united.
  • Trump wants the FBI to refocus on his unproven 2020 election–fraud claims rather than “the same old…documents on Jeffrey Epstein.”
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wow, this sure is some in-depth reporting...

Although Trump appears in at least one video alongside Epstein at a party, the president has denied allegations that his name was in the files or that he had any direct connection to the disgraced financier.

"At least" one video, numerous photos, Trump describing Epstein as a 'Terrific guy who he had known for 15 years' and “He’s a lot of fun to be with, It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Epstein saying he was “Donald’s closest friend for ten years”....

But sure, let's just characterize it as 'They both attended the same party once.'

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Even if MAGA forgets, perhaps we shouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Well pack it in boys. The convicted criminal thats most likely implicated in a high profile child sex trafficking ring says "stop worrying about this list, there is no list and im certainly not on it"

I for one think we should believe this lying, cheating, gas lighting criminal. Biggest "trust me bro" in history

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't get it, if this is the list, what are people complaining about?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It’s some sort of an older client list but it is Epstein’s. Lots of ppl on it incl. Trump. 🤷🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

conservative podcast dipshits (conpodshits for short) have been bringing up 1984 for years and are short circuiting as their guy does the thing because they think george orwell was talking about communists

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I said this elsewhere Orwell applies just as well to any type of ideology because they all ask you to accept the agenda and to walk in lockstep with everyone else in the “movement”. So when right wing podcasters use it they are as correct as when left wingers do. Failure to see this means being completely consumed by ideology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

george orwell if he met a modern republican "forget what I said, 1984 is now exclusively about these freaks" and then he does a kickflip on his skateboad

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Can’t wait for Nuremberg trials #2

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 199 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is what's amazing to me.

He went on the Howard Stern show and boasted about barging into the dressing rooms of the Miss Teen USA pageant, talked about how hot his teenage daughter was, and pushed his way into a softcore Playboy video and none of his voters thought there might be a problem.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He does all the things they want to do as well.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Every single time their accusations are admissions of guilt. How many of these Bible thumping cunts frothing about gays and pedos and rapists have turned out to be gay pedo rapists?

I grew up around psychotic narcissists- that's their whole fucking thing, deflect and accuse others of the things they're guilty of.

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

If conservatives gave a damn about kids and sex crimes, these lists should have caused enough public rage to burn the party to the ground.

It didn't. So republican are unassailably the party of sex offenders and those who support sex offenders.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

The civil war never ended. The South just kept waging it through other means.

And now they're in control of the government and do what they always wanted- destroy it. That has been the outspoken agenda of the right wing conservatives for the better part of a century.

Starve the beast, small government, all that shit is them saying: we don't want democracy, we want to rule as colonial lords, own slaves, and to hell with elections.

How people still don't realize this is fucking mind boggling.

There is no "two party state", there is only one party that believes in democracy and rule of law at all, the other is a christofascist-anarchist terrorist cell hellbent on unraveling society where might is right, so that they can rule with impunity like feudal lords.

That's it.

Lincoln should have had every single one of them rounded up and shot after the war. You don't skip the last dose of penicillin or you might as well not have taken it at all.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Add to that nine years of daily posts on r/PastorArrested.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It's funny watching rapey getting ratioed on his own echo chamber platform.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

LOL that'll work. Streisand effect, motherfucker.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Funny thing is that, apart from recognising the name, most people forgot what the streisand situation was about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I remember. It was funny then too.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

What's so funny about this is that Pam Bondi and Trump paraded conservative influencers all around and made them hold up pieces of paper labeled "THE EPSTEIN FILES" and had them all go on their social medias and claim that they read it.

And now they're saying that they don't exist and never existed.

I actually feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are if the admin were actually wrong about that. So far the base has proven them right over and over and over again- they truly are as stupid as the admin thinks they are.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

Their base hasn't done anything to make me think they're not that stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago

What maga people don’t understand is that, when you’re rich, they just let you do it. That is literally the ethos of their patron saint on every level, for his entire life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

How can he say nobody cares about the Epstein thing when literally everyone is clamouring for it? Gaslighting fail

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 days ago

Because Trump is a child fucker.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago

Rich pedophiles vs deluded fascists, enabled by ideological genociders. USA 2025.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Love that as soon as his name got attached to Epstein, that he's shifted to damage control and trying to push this narrative that it's been a "radical Left" issue this whole time. And trying to get all his conspiracy people to move on to an election that at this point doesn't matter either way is just full panic.

They filled lawsuits all over the country that they had to withdraw because they had no evidence, yet continue to claim to be ready to release all the "evidence" they have anytime now for years. I think even his Supreme Court is going to find it hard to invent constitution law to back up their conspiracy theories. I would love to see them try though, make it televised, since they are just pissing away tax dollars anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I just want to see reporters hound him with questions beginning with, "So when you raped those kids..."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

They don't need to invent law and Roberts et al know it. See, the thing about being on the Supreme Court is that aside from Congress impeaching you, there is no other recourse. Your entire decision could be written as "lol no" and unless Congress decides to impeach you, there's nothing anyone can do about the decision.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Crying like a little bitch about it on social media makes me believe the exact opposite of what he says. He was probably customer 0.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Considering neither party seemed to want this info shared I believe we all need to know what was in it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

"These are not the files you are looking for..."

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago

Rapist tells group of mentally challenged people to forget about list of paedophiles.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (7 children)

that would be a spicy leak, if someone did it

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago

Trump is a pedo...

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

I urge them to fuck off and die.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Has anyone from Biden's admin come out and refuted Trump's DoJ's statements? They need to be on every conservative outlet that will give them a second of time talking how the documents existed before.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought conservatives loved the war on pedophiles. Why isn’t Trump doing anything about that? Send ICE to get pedophiles. Of course we all know the answer is because he and all his friends will go to jail.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

PEDOnald will jingle his keys in a week and all the MAGAts will have forgotten about this.

[–] h4x0r 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Conservatives in 2029: I never supported Trump, he is a Soros funded antifa plant.

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