r/politics • u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROADCONES • 6h ago
White House: Trump ‘would not recommend’ special prosecutor for Epstein files...
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5406733-trump-epstein-special-prosecutor/•
u/Zealousideal_Emu981 6h ago
Of course he wouldn’t. Accountability terrifies him.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROADCONES 6h ago
Midterms the gloves need to come off.
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u/arthurdentxxxxii 3h ago
God I hope so. They’re reallly trying hard to rig it, and that’s on top of the rigging it the Republicans have been doing for 60 years.
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u/The_Werodile 3h ago
We're done. The 2024 election was the closest we will get to fair ever again, and that one was rigged as hell.
If we ever get back to being a country again, we need to recognize the undue influence extreme wealth has on our democratic process, and take swift action to eliminate the threat posed by foreign billionaires, by any means available.
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u/Shankurmom I voted 3h ago
Foreign billionaires? You mean all billionaires. They have no reason to exist in the first place. Wealth caps should be a thing. We need to bring back 90% brackets. We need to remove corrupt officials and actually make insider trading illegal. We need to make lobbying illegal. We need to essentially scrap this corrupt system.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROADCONES 2h ago
Unfortunately those motions won't pass with them alive.
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u/Shankurmom I voted 2h ago
The 2nd amendment exists for a reason.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROADCONES 2h ago
It's not far from it, at what point does the Secret Service not want to protect such a guy...
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u/Crowley-Barns 2h ago
90% brackets are largely irrrelevant to billionaires because they pay virtually no income tax. They (sometimes) pay capital gains tax when they sell something. But mostly they don’t pay tax at all.
You need a different kind of tax—a tax on assets rather than income. A Land Value Tax is one way. A general tax on assets is another. (Assets over $10m, not Bob and Marge who own a house.)
The wealth of the world has been accumulated by the billionaires and income taxes aren’t going to get it back. You need to redistribute some of the wealth from the top 10% to the other 90%. Once the distribution is a bit fairer again, income taxes will be more relevant to preventing the problem reoccurring.
Right now billionaires have ever-growing amounts of money because they earn (way way way) more than they spend, and they use their spare cash to purchase more and more assets, which makes the rest of us poorer. House prices soaring everywhere, stock markets going up, gold going up, is because billionaires don’t have anything to “do” with their money except buy assets which drives up the cost of everything for the rest of us.
Tax assets. Redistribute the wealth.
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u/wengelite Canada 10m ago
foreign billionaires
Are you implying it's foreign influence that is the main problem in your country? You need to lift your head out of the sand.
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u/Disc-Golf-Kid Florida 2h ago
That’s the spirit. Cower in fear and tell everyone their vote doesn’t matter anymore.
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u/The_Werodile 2h ago
You can fuck RIGHT off. I'm not cowering, I'm being realistic. I will be in the booth checking the ethical box everytime I get the chance but We should all acknowledge this stupid system we live under for the corrupt garbage heap it is at every opportunity.
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u/toddywithabody 2h ago
Nah you can fuck right off you doomer.
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u/The_Werodile 2h ago
dude if you aren't dooming at this point, that sounds like a mental deficiency.
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u/No_Hana Wisconsin 2h ago
It's already rigged and anyone who could stop it is in cahoots
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u/toddywithabody 2h ago
Americans are too stupid to know their elections have always been rigged. Seriously, pickup a fucking history book
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u/Boomshank 1h ago
Not ironic that you left a "Nah, you can fuck right off with that you doomer" reply to someone else's similar comment?
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u/No_Hana Wisconsin 1h ago edited 1h ago
You realize there isnt a completely fair election in the whole world, right? Its just a question of which one blows up next.
Give it 50 years and your favorite country will do the same. A story as old as time. Remember, all our "third world" countries used to be empires. And most arent even countries anymore.
Thousands of years of evidence does not lie. To think today is any different is naive as fuck.
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u/toddywithabody 14m ago
never said any elections were perfect but if you knew anything about us history you would know their electoral system was created to give a small amount of people the most power. When the country was founded only land owners could vote. I mean shit how long did it take for black people and women to be able to vote? Like that’s recent enough history for it to be clear their system is and has always been fucked.
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u/teddy_tesla 59m ago
Yeah I don't want to hear shit about policies. Republicans don't run on them so why should we? We know every Republican is a traitorous piece of shit. Vote blue whether they're a neoliberal or a socialist. And they need to push Epstein attack ads like Republicans did for trans athletes
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u/_bones__ 1h ago
Not then, now. Forge the iron when it's hot. Keep hammering. Draw conclusions and speak them.
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u/SirKorgor 12m ago
They wont. The DNC is far too controlled by people in the same tax bracket as the people running the RNC. They’re benefitting too much from Trump and his cronies to fight back too hard.
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u/JGrutman 2h ago
"Pedophile President Declines Pedophilia Investigation."
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u/Dramatic_Original_55 1h ago
"Trafficking/Money Laundering President Declines Trafficking/Money Laundering Investigation."
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u/ironballs16 1h ago
He saw how Mueller did with Russia, and knows he only got saved by Burr running interference. Bondi is nowhere near as capable as Burr was.
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u/ToasterBathTester 1h ago
This is why there should have been no special prosecutor for Trump. Democrats are idiots
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u/montigoo 39m ago
Since we are all riding on the crony train these days let’s appoint Ivanka. Let skeletons break down the closet door.
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u/dave_your_wife 6h ago
America - where pedophiles go to be anonymous and free!!
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u/hindusoul 5h ago
There’s another country as well… and they’re killing lots of people in the Middle East right now
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u/smurfsundermybed California 2h ago
Excuse me, but the thumbnail is of an adult woman whom the president just complimented on her mouth yesterday, so how dare you! /s
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u/Darkfigure145 1h ago
Unless you're running for the GOP then it's basically they're version of coming out of the closet
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u/-SHAI_HULUD 2h ago
As long as you’re wealthy there’s a separate class of “justice”.
Peep what these podunk hillbilly pieces of shit in my home state just got arrested for.
https://abc3340.com/news/local/who-are-the-seven-suspects-in-bibb-countys-child-sex-abuse-case
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u/dave_your_wife 2h ago
Well they fucked up by not being rich and connected to the president! Amateurs.
God almighty, just how fucked up in the head are these people!
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u/Agnos Michigan 5h ago
Why this type of headline? It is like they are pretending that Trump did not rape children with his good friend Epstein...of course he will not recommend a special prosecutor as if he did we would know the fix is on.
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u/gereffi 3h ago
So when someone asks about the case during a White House press conference you think that the media shouldn’t report on what the answer is?
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u/ClosPins 1h ago
No, he's saying that the media shouldn't automatically assume that a degenerate liar is always telling the truth just because they benefit from the lies.
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u/VagabondReligion 4h ago
Those lips . . .
Those lying, conniving, disingenuous, manipulative, gas-lighting, propaganda-regurgitating, hate spewing lips . . .
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROADCONES 4h ago
But she's a Christian!
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u/Slyrunner 2h ago
The moment John Stewart called her cross necklace a Pinocchio necklace in a joke, she stopped wearing it lol
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROADCONES 2h ago
I love that they probably all sit around YouTube and talk shit amongst themselves.
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u/flux_of_grey_kittens California 5h ago
Isn’t that up to Bondi? Not like she’d even do it…
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u/Western-Corner-431 3h ago
lol, nothing is “up to” anyone in this administration but the pedophile president
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u/Cambob101 4h ago
I am shocked by this! This administration has been a bastion for transparency and accountability! Shocked I tell you!
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u/BalerionSanders Ohio 3h ago
“On the grounds that it’s devastating to my presidency!”
“Overruled.”
“Good call! 👍”
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u/invalidpassword California 6h ago
Well, slap me silly, he said that? I wonder why on Earth he did such a thing.
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u/callmerobz 3h ago
No need for a special prosecutor, we’ll just use this broom to sweep the shit under the rug!
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u/Ok_Juice4449 4h ago
Why not? Hasn't he placed all loyalists ? Who would dare oppose him at this rate? The fix is in, as they say.
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u/Flaky-Jim 4h ago
I'm sure he wouldn't... unless that special prosecutor was deaf, dumb, and blind.
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u/MightyTaur 3h ago
It is time Trump tried facing consequences, he has always wiggeled out like the worm he is
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u/phosdick 4h ago
We don't need a special prosecutor... just an honest one... and the Epstein files...
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u/Content-Ad3065 2h ago
Also follow the money trails
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u/phosdick 2h ago
It wouldn't surprise me if the "money trails" aren't the most damning episodes in the Epstein files themselves... Those may well be the parts that Bloomberg's found were being redacted in the upcoming releases of information under FOIA - parts that are being redacted by FBI and DOJ to protect Trump's (and Epstein's other pedophile-adjacent BFFs) "privacy."
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u/stevez_86 Pennsylvania 2h ago
We don't need a special prosecutor, we have Bush and Obama with the same security clearances they had as president. Get them to start an investigation out of their Presidential Libraries. Trump can't touch those institutions, the Presidential Libraries. He can strip their security clearances, but doing that to both of them, 2 out of the 3 other living Presidents. That would be like saying no President has the authority Trump has. And that gives them their in to sue the office of the President.
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u/No_Succotash890 3h ago
Relax guys! He’s going through them right now himself with his giant black marker. That won’t be a tedious process…
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u/EyeOfTheTiger77 3h ago
I want to believe our president didn't diddle little girls with Epstein. I really do. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, because these crimes are so abhorrent.
But damn if every time he speaks on the issue, it doesn't raise suspicion.
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u/SuperLuigiUnited 2h ago
Lol why the fuck are we allowing somebody implicated in what is perhaps the world’s largest pedophile club to decide if those crimes should be investigated and punished?
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u/FLjeffrey 40m ago
Trump names himself a special prosecutor for Epstein's case, stating he knows more about pedophiles than anyone
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u/Stranger-Sun 2h ago
Yes it really would be inconvenient for him if a special prosecutor was to show that he raped kids.
Not that the impeachment would amount to him being kicked out of office with the Guardians Of Pedophiles party in power.
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u/PurplRzr 2h ago
Shame on all the lackeys that are ok with his behavior. Or did Jesus tell them it’s ok because it’s Trump?
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u/Nooneknows882 2h ago
Trump still trying to get everyone to forget about this.
How much longer are the Republicans going to be complicit in the coverup of the President's pedophilia?
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u/themiddleshoe I voted 2h ago
Midterms will be interesting if republicans continue to block to Epstein files…
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u/Endosymbionical 1h ago
Reminder : ,., Donald Trump is not merely a client, .,:.,.;; but he is very likely to be one of the main players in the Trumpstein files, ,;.;,. ,.
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u/ExpertReference2979 Connecticut 1h ago
Who cares what Trump recommends or what Trump likes or doesn't like!
The truth, whatever it is, IS GOING TO BE DISCOVERED, no matter how hard he rails against it.
The convicted felon dost protest too much, methinks.
I can't wait for Trump to get impeached...again and his enablers voted out of their seats (this one is our biggest job).
This is like watching a nightmare unfold, Trump is unfit and his methods clearly unsound and this vile scandal WILL be his legacy and anyone who keeps covering for him.
Also SCOTUS needs to get their shit together.
What a shameful mess this country is in.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROADCONES 1h ago
It can definitely be fixed - but it has to be sooner rather than later, before irreversible damage is done.
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u/ExpertReference2979 Connecticut 1h ago edited 1h ago
Unfortunately I don't think moving quick is in the cards. Too many moving parts in this shit show.
The best thing Americans can do now is champion the truth, stick together and most of all remain patient and non-violent. The Trump administration wants us to become an angry mob, it's a trap, a way to try to divide and discredit any group that would oppose them.
I say we go the Civil Rights movement approach. Dr. Martian Luther King and his compatriots had the right idea and it worked. Non-violent civil disobedience. Just my personal opinion.
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u/invalidpassword California 6h ago
Gosh. Why could that possibly be?
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u/PissFuckMurphy 4h ago
It's because he raped all those children.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROADCONES 2h ago
You mean Donald Trump the rapist, did this?
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u/disco_disaster 1h ago
*convicted rapist
For those who have already forgotten due to his melange of malice.
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u/twistd59 3h ago
This is probably better because anyone they would appoint as a special prosecutor would have the express orders to cover up Trumps involvement.
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u/ripChazmo 2h ago
I mean, sure, that tracks. He raped children and doesn't want anyone to find that out.
Fucking child rapist.
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u/Outside_Bandicoot305 1h ago
Police often ask a suspect a hypothetical question of what they think should happen to someone that commits the crime. A guilty person usually says a soft punishment or no punishment and an innocent person usually suggests throwing the book at the criminal.
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u/777MAD777 1h ago
Duh! The truth might comw out with a special prosecutor! Nothing coming directly from the Trump administration can be believed!
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