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      Right? Headline should really read “Trump admits Epstein list is real, defends some of the people on it.”

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        He is really worried about it - for sure. The amount of cover fire insanity has increased dramatically. I just can’t believe that out of all those FBI guys no one yet has leaked anything.

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        I think the list was really the fly log, and black notebook.

        Those already were published.

        But FBI has 700GB of files that trump promised to make available. Now that he closed the investigation workout charging anytime (Maxwell had trial during Biden) then there shouldn’t be problem to release it, shouldn’t it?

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        Trump admits Epstein list is real

        1. List or files?
        2. How will we know when they are released? Is the claim they haven’t been released falsifiable?
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        No, he’s projecting that he shouldn’t be in them but is… even though they don’t exist…

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      Few weeks back the GOP led house oversight committee voted to subpoena the Epstein files. DNC members won the vote with GOP members who had publicly demanded the files release. The POS GOP chairman tried his slimiest to ignore the rest of the committe but was eventually brow beaten into submission -like the pathetic worm he is.

      This week they received the first batch of files and are reviewing them.

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        Thanks for the synopsis, my fellow lemming.

        I wonder if them knowing the list of names makes this less likely to come out. If they see some big donor on there, it could be they start pretending there isn’t a list, too.

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      They appear file-like.

      It’s a matter of interpretation.

      I was helping at a restaurant when I asked “What does C.C. mean on this order?”

      The waitress said, “Coca-Cola.”

      The hostess said, “Credit Card.”

      The cook said, “Chocolate cake.”

      The bartender said, Canadian Club."

      The accountant said, “Carbon Copy.”

      I always thought it meant cubic centimeters.

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    That didn’t happen.

    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

    And if it is, that’s not my fault.

    And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

    And if I did, you deserved it.

    His statement mixes lines 1 and 4 in the poem.

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    So the files that don’t exist now have names that don’t belong in there? These people can’t even keep their lies straight.

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      Other communities are temp banning you until you find a new schtick.

      Nobody on Lemmy has any power to do ANYTHING about the Pedo-Files. You can stop harping on it.

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      When you consider that includes the Fourteen Words, he’s only got 23.5 words left which include hoax, witchhunt, and bigly.

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    Is MAGA buying this?

    I mean, I’m sure plenty are, but what about the ones who were up in arms a few weeks ago when he said the files wouldn’t be released? Have they all shut up and gotten back in the clown car?

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      Is MAGA buying this?

      Yes, completely. He’s going to walk and people in power will use the legal system to put down any pushback.

      All of this was obvious from the get-go. He was running to keep himself out of prison and to enrich himself. The country fell for it, and we have no idea how bad it’s going to get.

      As always, I hope I am completely insane and a stark raving conspiracist.

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      They’ve been manipulated and have allowed it to be made a part of their core identity - so yes, from sunk cost fallacy, to stockholm syndrome, to abusive relationship, to personality cult, to just plain ignorance and proud of it, profiled by Big Data and fed and cordoned off to their particular slaughterhouse of a social network bubble, they will be increasingly easy to manipulate the more distance there is between reality and their perception of it.

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        Wait… “Stockholm syndrome” was really just caused by the fact that the criminals were more empathic to the hostages than the cops themselves. There was no special psychological phenomenon involved.

        Otherwise, I agree with your comment!

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      As someone who is in a Discord with some MAGA tards … Yes, yes they are. They’re cucked so hard by Trump it’s sad.

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    Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island supposedly 28 times. I don’t want to bring that up frankly,” Trump said while bringing it up.

    Ok, that is just top notch comedic journalism.

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      If the list doesn’t exist and it’s a hoax then how can Bill Clinton go to the island 28 times let alone for Trump to know of it, if he knows then there must be some kind of document/data that Trump has seen, even if there is none either way Trump is a liar, I have no clue how his supporters at this point with so much proof Trump is a liar how they can keep supporting him, they have to plain crazy at this point 😞

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    trumps-Epstein prayer:

    Im not in the Epstein files.

    And if I was in the Epstein files, it wasn’t that bad.

    And if being in the Epstein files is bad, its no big deal.

    If it is a big deal that I was in the Epstein files, it’s democrats fault. <— We are here

    And if it’s my fault I was in the Epstein files, I didn’t mean to rape children.

    If i did mean to rape children, it’s all of your faults.

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      If i did mean to rape children, it’s all of your faults their fault for “dressing that way” or whatever

      FTFY. 100% think he’ll go the “asking for it” route like most rapists.

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        When you’re rich and powerful, it’s all their fault because they want you to grab them by the pussy.

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        “Very mature for their age”

        “It’s legal in some places.”

        “All throughout history…”

        They’ll lap it up, too. I’ve seen footage of the H man so geeked out on pervitin (legal methamphetamine in Nazi Germany) he was shaking like a leaf and chewing his mustache. While viewing one of his military parades. Fascist leaders can do no wrong. It’s just interpreted as proof of his power and that he can do whatever he wants and can get away with anything.

        Fortunately for the US, there is not as homogeneous of a population as in the European fascist countries of history. He is still vulnerable to being ousted until the whole project 2025 is enacted.

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    so trump just admitted he was there and knew everything? Because the only way to know who isnt in the epstein files, is to know who DO deserve to be in the Epstein Files, because trump witnessed, saw and knew everything that happened on Epstein island apparently and even took part in it probably, why else would he not turn to the police with that knowledge tf

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      “Wait, no, no list. Well there is an Epstein list but it’s a hoax list. A huge tremendous hoax by the crooked evil Demogorgons. No, the democrats.
      I watched stranger things.
      My uncle, who was a script writer at Yale, great guy, best scripts, he said the strangest thing was to trust anything that a democrat would say.
      No hoax, no Epstein. No list. There is a hoax. Fake news. MAGA. Thank you for your attention to this muttered!!”

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        There’s no list, and it was made by the democrats, and some of the people on it don’t deserve to be on it, but Bill Clinton is on it too, so that’s why I won’t release the list that doesn’t exist.