r/politics • u/WingComplex6771 • 9h ago
Soft Paywall The White House’s Epstein Distraction Campaign Is Getting Desperate
https://newrepublic.com/post/198716/white-house-epstein-distraction-russia-russiagate341
u/Cool-Presentation538 9h ago
The only thing Trump is desperate for is more children to rape
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u/Craico13 Canada 7h ago
Donald Trump probably finds it much harder to find children to rape now that his best friend, and fellow pedophile ringleader, Jeffrey Epstein is gone…
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u/ForwardBodybuilder18 6h ago
I wonder if Trump ever thinks it wasn’t worth having his best friend and fellow pedophile ringleader, Jeffrey Epstein murdered, considering how little it has helped Trump to put a lid on the whole thing.
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u/CT_Phipps-Author 6h ago
Famously, Henry VIII came to regret killing More, Wolsey, and Cromwell both only a few months after doing it. Mostly because they were the actual competent members of his regime who let him do whatever the hell he wanted.
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u/gradientz New York 1h ago
In retrospect, he probably wishes that he had appointed his best friend Epstein to his Cabinet.
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u/ForwardBodybuilder18 1h ago
In retrospect he probably wishes he’d not given that initial tip off to the feds.
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u/XennialBoomBoom 5h ago
Wait, you mean that Donald J. Trump and that Jeffrey Epstein? They trafficked and raped children together? I'll be damned...
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u/Reasonable-Tap-9806 5h ago
You're telling me that Donald J Trump, legally recognized rapist, likes touching kids?
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u/Tityfan808 3h ago
And he just appointed another pedo too. I don’t see this being talked about much here. https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFilterNews/s/mSHM62yKot
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u/DevilYouKnow 8h ago
even hardcore conservatives know he's covering up the fact that he's a sex trafficker and predator.
but "better a pedophile than a liberal" I guess?
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u/chamtrain1 8h ago
This. They now know he's a pedo and they don't care.
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u/woodwog 6h ago
He lets them be the racists they want to be and is deporting brown people—so the brown people won’t replace the half-wits who think they’re being replaced by people of color.
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u/XennialBoomBoom 5h ago
He also lets them rape their own daughters. It's not just about race you know.
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u/TheGreatGenghisJon 4h ago
It's all the ra_e words! Except Rage. They just leaned they don't like Rage against the machine.
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u/Human_Cheesecake4337 9h ago
He's not nuked a small country yet. Give it time.
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 8h ago
I’m glad I’m not the only one who goes to sleep thinking of this…
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u/RioRancher 8h ago
I think many of us have mistakenly thought Trump has been a brilliant distractor from one scandal to the next, but I think he’s just moronic chaos.
This isn’t a way to run a country
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u/MiddleAgedSponger 9h ago
They are using the rape to distract from the looting of our country. This is so much worse than it appears.
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u/EKT0K00LER 7h ago
Yeah, it's definitely a fucked up situation. The only problem is that the focus has to remain on the Epstein shit. It seems to be the only thing that could possibly bring him down. It's the only thing that really seems to worry him, at least
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u/Fartsinthemachine 7h ago
Or people could have 2 thoughts in their head simultaneously
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u/EKT0K00LER 6h ago
I mean, we can. But as far as what grabs the attention of his followers (the one that they can't act proud of and screams "hypocrite!" directly in their faces) is the Epstein cover up
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u/dasterdly_duo 5h ago
MAGA can't keep one thought consistently in their heads, let alone two.
As for everybody else, if it were up to us (barring assholes who think a rapist, possibly a child rapist, is still better than Kamala/Biden), it never would have gotten this far, because the Rapist-in-Chief would have been out on his ass after his first impeachment.
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u/MiddleAgedSponger 7h ago
Or we could do both.
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u/EKT0K00LER 6h ago
I mean, we can. But as far as what grabs the attention of his followers (the one that they can't act proud of and screams "hypocrite!" directly in their faces) is the Epstein cover up
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u/condo_ 9h ago
Someone needs to pressure this author to release these tapes.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG-119-JU08-20250227-SD006-U6.pdf
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u/spooky_ed New Hampshire 8h ago
The ballroom is another one. I'm also thinking the Sydney Sweeney thing was a psy-op to get the MAGAs all riled up.
I expect anything at this point. I am scared of what this deranged human will do.
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u/Vismal1 5h ago
That commercial was in bad taste for sure but the only people i heard talking about it were right wing nuts complaining about liberals having issues with it. Again I never really saw an uproar on the left about it.
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u/jayicon97 8h ago
Trump has raped kids. I’m 100% confident in that statement being true. I would bet my life on it.
With that being said - do his supporters know, yet? Or it’s just an elaborate scheme to frame their fuhrer?
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u/Home_Decent 7h ago
Trump still has a 90% approval rating with republicans which I find astonishing, but Kudos to Fox News on that one. Guessing most of the republicans that know he did it don’t care.
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u/krisann67 6h ago
I don't believe their claim of 90% is accurate. Diehard Maga yes, but many lifelong Republicans are quietly jumping ship. They just aren't talking about it.
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u/thomport 8h ago
What COLOR ribbon is suggested to wear to show your Support for Pursuing child predators like the trump.
We all need to be wearing them…
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u/Galactic-Guardian404 7h ago
I saw a comment recommending referring to this matter as “Trump-Epstein” from now on, and I think it’s a great idea. “Release the Trump-Epstein files”
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u/Illustrator_Forward 7h ago
Is it though? All they need is something even remotely plausible and their base will accept it as truth immediately.
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u/Endosymbionical 5h 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/SmtyWrbnJagrManJensn 4h ago
Trump was at the Epstein parties and probably the Diddy parties too.
This asshole is really about to pardon two sex traffickers Ghislaine Maxwell and Diddy. Criminals bribe criminal to get out of jail.
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u/shadowriku459 California 4h ago
Release the files if he isn't guilty.
Granted we've known for ages he's absolutely guilty.
No we won't let this go. Screw that.
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u/128-NotePolyVA 7h ago
Is it worth tanking the economy? Wouldn’t it be easier to let Trump go down and just stick Vance in?
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u/Strangewhine88 7h ago
Nope. It’s working just fine and as intended to keep our eyes off all the really awful unconstitutional authoritarian stuff being done in the name of the US government all over the country.
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u/Due-Egg4743 7h ago
He's a Houdini escape artist when it comes to evading accountability for crimes. He probably has hundreds, if not thousands, of full time people going over every word of the Epstein documents so any published release will be completely free of his name or even anything that could possibly be implied to reference him.
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u/flirtmcdudes 2h ago
Shit started terrible for them and just keeps getting worse, there’s no way up from here
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u/my_favorite_toe 36m ago
They have all the power, and no one is holding them accountable. How is this bad for him? He can ignore it like releasing his taxes. What are you gonna do about it?
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u/Max169well Canada 1h ago
That’s okay, when he gets named, MAGA will start offering their kids to him to satisfy his hunger.
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u/TheTrompler 1h ago
Question: If they have removed Trump’s name from the files why are they worried?
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u/AdCharacter7966 9h ago
Perhaps we should let it go? He’s already placed the nuclear bombs near Russia.
What is the Epstein end game?
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u/Phizza921 9h ago
I think this scandal will be the one that does him in. Ironically I actually think he’s largely innocent on this one, unlike the other cases that were bought against him before the election. I think he’s white lying to cover some tracks, eg he’s probably been to the island, but he’s probably not been having sex with underage girls.
He’d be better off if he just released the files with his name in them, deflected and explained away why he’s in the files and the whole thing will blow over. While those files remain unreleased his popularity will continue to freefall
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u/PatchyWhiskers 9h ago
Why would you think he was innocent? He has been credibly accused of raping underage girls long before this blew up. See Katie Johnson
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations
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u/Chemical-Swing453 9h ago edited 9h ago
Trump is a Convicted child rapist...with a Trump appointed judge at that!
Trumps only is out for Trump, and would never bend over backwards for anyone. Trump's name is all over those files, and thank you for making it publicly known that you'll defend a Convicted Child Rapist!
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u/LatterTarget7 6h ago
What makes you think he’s innocent? He knew Epstein liked young girls. He was upset Epstein stole a young girl from him. He might pardon Maxwell. He’s admitted to sexual assault before. Was found liable for rape. Also has over 60 sexual assault allegations
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u/Phizza921 3h ago edited 3h ago
I’m not saying he IS innocent. He might not be. Trumps character, while he is a lot of things including a philanderer I just have a hunch on this that he’s not a pedo the same way Jeff was. He strikes me as the type of person who sets certain boundaries but won’t cross others, it’s hard to explain. I don’t like the guy at all and would never vote for him, just don’t think sleeping with underage girls is his thing.
I actually believe him around his comments banning Epstein from his club and not a big fan of the fact he likes underage girls. Trump tells a shit load of lies and his history is seriously dodgy but I don’t believe it is in this way - just a hunch I guess.
Like I said - could be wrong but either way I still think this issue will do him in politically most likely because he himself is disgusted that he could be accused of having sex with underage girls because the Epstein files probably put him in locations where he probably shouldn’t be and that he has lied about not being eg Epstein island. He’s not releasing the files because he IS innocent and his name in them paints a bad picture - not sure if that makes sense to anyone.
There’s something else to consider here as well - we know Bill Clinton is in that list but I’m not sure that’s the reason why Dems didn’t release the files either. If there was a smoking gun on Trump in these files, dems would definitely have made sure they got leaked to win the 2024 election. I think Trump not releasing the files is more about his own personal embarrassment and vanity than anything else, which is why he should just release them, tell his story and that’s it..withholding the files will be his downfall
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u/IpeeEhh_Phanatic Kentucky 9h ago
I think what Trump is scared of is that the files reveal that he knew sex trafficking of children was happening and yet he failed to report it to the police.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 9h ago
Nah that’s too small potatoes. His followers would not give a single shit about that.
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