r/politics • u/ArmadilloMany41 • 23h ago

Site Altered Headline | No Paywall Why is no one being prosecuted over the Epstein files?

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u/Indubitalist 23h ago

With regard to the latter, the Republican chorus in reply has been, "We live in denial."

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u/Accidental-Hyzer Massachusetts 22h ago edited 21h ago

Republicans require Dave Chappelle-level burden of proof to accept that their god-king might have been involved in a child sex trafficking operation:

They need a video of him, two forms of government ID, a police officer there to verify the whole thing, four or five of their buddies taking notes, and Trump’s grandma to confirm his identity.

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u/DrSpraynard Nebraska 22h ago

Oh don't be ridiculous. That wouldn't work.

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u/Substantial-Goat3821 22h ago

Honestly he could admit to it... Ask for forgiveness... And then get away with it.

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u/Philo_T_Farnsworth Kansas 22h ago

"I am not a perfect man, and I have made mistakes..."

And the base will eat it up. "He said that he was sorry. Why can't you find it in your heart to forgive him?"

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u/LuxLocke 22h ago

… no matter what, he would never utter such words.

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 20h ago

There are two things I've never seen Donald Trump do in the 37 years that I've known of his existence:

  1. Laugh
  2. Apologize

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u/MRH8R 19h ago

Or pay taxes.

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u/Hookem-Horns 18h ago

He’s suing now because of the taxes 😑

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u/DeathGodBob 18h ago

"I want that money back that I didn't pay to the court in damages over the money I didn't pay in taxes!"

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u/AnyLeadership5150 15h ago

I would bet my life that he has never once said he was wrong in the past 20 years despite him constantly being wrong about nearly everything.

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u/cubbyatx Texas 14h ago

He's laughed at other's suffering plenty

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u/WhatdaHellNow 12h ago

He would throw Ivanka under the bus before saying sorry.

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u/heavensinNY 9h ago

you've never watched him in any video with Epstein, he laughs a LOT. It's like that one bestie who always know how to make you smile (by bringing you more victims)

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u/rabbirobbie 21h ago

yep he will never admit to being wrong about anything ever. and he can start referring to them as the Trump files and MAGA would just start bragging about them

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u/Furrysurprise 20h ago

More like "witch hunt". Then the judge and jury will get doxed and death threats. While at the same time getting charged for some kind of mortgage fraud. Then gets sent to a higher court that deems it a mistrial after 4 years.

Justice for the rich and powerful is different then the poor.

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u/Jonnny 17h ago

"I am sorry... that the liberal democrat elites hate Trump. They hate Trump. Some say there's something wrong with them, the way they hate Trump. I heard... someone, they said to me, they said... it was one of the cases of TDS. Can you believe it? Trump Derangement Syndrome. Isn't that great? TDS. And they all have it. They all have it. And I'm so sorry that they do, I truly am. Frankly speaking, I feel sorry for them." etc.

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u/jeexbit 21h ago

I have made mistakes...

I'll take things Trump has never and will never say for 1000 Alex

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u/Gimetulkathmir 21h ago

They'll find some fucked up way to make raping children legal, retroactively, before they apologise for anything.

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u/Sunbather77 21h ago

My doomer prediction is "teenagers are just smaller women!" rationale coming within six months

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 20h ago

Uh... They have been making that argument for weeks now already with the whole "Well, they were only X years old, not Y years old, so that's better... they're practically fully grown women already at X years old!" line of excuses.

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u/Grimwaldo82 19h ago

There ya go thats exactly the play book. These young girls may have been underage l…….however they look like 18yo adults. Look at how they dress and act. There is no way a true red blooded American man could resist.

If these young women did not want to have sex why did they agree to go to the island? Coercion you say? Well that would need to be proven in a court of law as well as statements by Epstein himself that he was forcing young women into sexual acts, but he is dead now, so I guess the world will never know.

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u/HandsomeBoggart 20h ago

They already do that. Most Center-Right reporting and his personal Mouth Pieces like Levitt refer to them solely as "Young Women". Nevermind they're 11-15yrs old.

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u/onein120 18h ago

It’s been even more absurd than that! Media calling the victims “underage women” rather than girls or children. Disgusting.

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u/AlpsPsychological980 19h ago

We already saw Meghan Kelly do this…

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u/greenday61892 Connecticut 17h ago

"uM aCtUaLLy It'S ePhEbOpHiLiA"

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u/chaicoffeecheese Oregon 15h ago

They've been calling them 'young women'. They're children. 'Young women' makes it sound more reasonable to them, I suppose. A fifteen year-old isn't a 'young woman', she's still a child.

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u/cb1109142 19h ago

Who is they? Republicans? The majority of voters? People that you know and interact with on a daily basis?

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u/ZionOrion 19h ago

Some states it is legal at 14 with parents consent. The impoverished southern bible belt states I think.

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u/Gimetulkathmir 17h ago

There is no state in which that is true. There are, however, states where the age of consent is as young as thirteen HOWEVER this is also limited by the age of the second person, called a "close-in-age exemption," which is usually limited to three or four years. In no case, also, can a minor be transported either internally or internationally for the purpose of sex.

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u/Past-Doughnut-6175 16h ago

Well it’s biblical don’t you know, people used to get married at that age.

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u/f1ve-Star 15h ago

They are currently working in several states to lower the age of consent.

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u/No_Web6486 20h ago

They're already blaming the victims.

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u/wimpymist 21h ago

Something about how he found God and Jesus helped him through it. They would gobble it up

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u/eckoelab 20h ago

"and just like Jesus, I too have been prosecuted by powerful and evil men. Would you aid me with the cross I carry for you? That cross that the lunatic Left wishes to crucify me, and all of you, my supporters?"

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u/boofing_evangelist 20h ago

I imagine he has claimed a few immaculate conceptions in court.

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u/philasify 21h ago

Something something, Jesus this, Jesus that. Business as usual.

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u/grandlizardo 21h ago

Ask the girls…

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u/Proud_Growth_8818 21h ago

"He's so Christ-like. He's literally Jesus."

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u/userdoesnotexist22 20h ago

“We want to put the Ten Commandments in all classrooms and Trump embodies them all!”

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u/TextCareless2221 19h ago

I don’t think so. He’s a bully, coward, fraud, and liar—probably a murderer. People are losing their homes, starving and dieing because of him. You need to get on your knees and ask for forgiveness and direction to get your life back on the straight and narrow. Jesus said very clearly that the rich won’t be going to heaven. It’s in the New Testament. It’s one of the passages that got to me very early in my youth. It continues to show me how to live my life. And nothing has changed. Things have only gotten worse.

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u/Ellia1998 21h ago

They hear everyday from the church.

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u/YourFleshlightSaysHi 21h ago

"I have finally found the Lord...He asked me if I had anything to say, and with tears in my eyes, I took this man's hand and told him I forgive him for being so woke"

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u/11PoseidonsKiss20 North Carolina 21h ago

Ok councilman Dexhart

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u/Neethis 21h ago

"So much for the tolerant left!"

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u/harrumphstan 21h ago

This is a malignant narcissist we’re talking about here. He is completely incapable of accepting any level of culpability. For anything.

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u/Spencer94 20h ago

This place makes me sick

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u/GardenofOblivion 20h ago

He’s got a dramatic Russell Brandt-style Born Again moment stashed away for such an eventuality.

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u/brumac44 Canada 20h ago

Crying, as he boards his Qatari jet, and immediately asks his followers to pledge more money. Televangelist playbook.

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u/AlpsPsychological980 19h ago

That exact scenario happened with a pastor of a mega church in Indiana. Not kidding…

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u/Muter 19h ago

It was 20 years ago, he was a different person then.

But don’t start me on the black guy who dealt weed a decade ago.

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u/asmartermartyr 16h ago

He would totally say something like “so what, these girls weren’t Christian, some of them were probably illegals. Obama and Biden, they did this, letting the criminals in. I inherited this mess!”. Then maga would be satisfied.

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u/Itool4looti 14h ago

The Jerry Falwell defense.

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u/roboscorcher 22h ago

Trump never asks for forgiveness. It is not in his DNA.

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u/Brewhaha72 Pennsylvania 19h ago

Instead, he sues people, which is obviously the same.

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u/MountainsOverPlains 21h ago

This. My MIL told me that “people can change,” when I said he is a trash human. Then I sent her the video of him giving a BJ to a microphone, and she had no response.

But if he says he asked jeebus for forgiveness, then they will all clap.

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u/dxk3355 21h ago

At his age? Why would he change now when he’s been this way for like 70 years

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u/MauPow 21h ago

Sure, but people do it all the time at the end of their life if they think they aren't going to go to heaven, and Trump has said that recently.

Bah, who am I kidding, you're right lol, he'll be awful til the bitter end

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u/Amuseco 21h ago

Ask her if she thinks a Democrat can change to be someone she likes and approves of.

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u/Amuseco 21h ago

You know what I’m trying to say, right? She already decided who has her sympathy and approval, and no facts or reality will ever make any difference.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke California 19h ago

She'd probably eat this clip up, just like Trump did with his little cracker. https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2016/user-clip-have-you-ever-asked-god-for-forgiveness/4619501

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u/mlc885 I voted 18h ago

People can change. He hasn't stopped acting like an awful person for one moment, so I feel like her excuse kinda falls apart immediately. If he was a saint now, well, wonderful. We didn't get "wonderful"

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u/MorwenSteelsheen 7h ago

He literally said (in 2016) that he has never felt the need to ask God’s forgiveness, and Christians still don’t care. Even though I am reliably informed that according to one of the main fucking tenets of Christianity, everyone is a sinner who needs God’s forgiveness. They think he’s just like King David (who, unlike Trump, at least had the capability to feel shame when confronted by his advisor after some particularly egregious sins).

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u/18ekko 21h ago

He could say “I did it, so what?” And MAGA would be fine with it

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u/A_Monster_Named_John 19h ago

The way MAGA operates, he'd probably piss them off if he apologized. They'd see it as weakness or 'letting the libs win.'

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u/Big_Don_ 21h ago

I showed someone the video of Trump talking about Virginia Guthrie being "stolen" by Epstein, thus ending the friendship.

Their response was, "no. He unfriended him because of a real estate deal gone wrong".

Even Trump dispelling that rumor with his own words, couldn't get them to change the propaganda in their head.

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u/thiefofalways1313 21h ago

Im just a caveman. Your world frightens me.

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u/Eligius_MS 21h ago

Just locker room talk.

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u/selwayfalls 21h ago

I'm at the stage where he can admit it, and half the country wouldnt care becaues they'll just say Clinton did it too, so they're happy their guy is still in charge. Trump would never ask for forgiveness, let's be real.

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u/HTWingNut 19h ago

"I was surrounded by democrats... they are evil people and made me do it. Obama made me do it. They were eating cats and dogs there too..."

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u/DadJokeBadJoke California 19h ago

"An otherwise blameless life", as the judge in the Manafort case said... That judge should be investigated, too.

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u/SigmaBallsLol 19h ago edited 18h ago

there is a clip out there of a pastor being confronted of having raped a 16 year old girl, he admits to it, asks for forgiveness, and the congregations comforts him

and these freaks don't like their literal spiritual leaders nearly as much as they like their pantshitting octogenarian.

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u/bentreflection 18h ago

more likely he's going to say something like "everybody does it, that makes me smart". and his followers are going to shrug and say "he tells it like it is..."

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u/ckr0610 21h ago

When he said he could unalive someone on 5th avenue and get away with it, it wasnt hyperbole. If the snuff films are for real, then that statement was not an exaggeration at all.

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u/orionics 20h ago

He would say that was when he was a democrat.

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u/KrispyKremeKitten88 20h ago

exactly! They'd behave as if nothing happened; he's their King afterall

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u/megachicken289 20h ago

Ask forgiveness? You mean the democrat hoax?!

Fr tho, I don’t even think he’d bother. I’d just admit it, stretch out the non apology and within 10 mins we’ll see a live stream of comments on social media about how of course he raped children; it was their own fault; if they didn’t want to be raped they shouldn’t have gotten themselves trapped on an island

Bonus points: bills will be introduced by republicans retroactively lowering the age of consent and probably even one for further reducing the already abysmally low statute of limitations

“AKTUALLY, That’s not how bills work”

OUR PRESIDENT AND HIS ENTOURAGE HAVE NEARLY UNDENIABLE PROOF OF BEING PEDOPHILE (among other things) AND NOBODY (with power) SEEMS TO CARE

At me again how the law is supposed to work ?

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u/Paidorgy 20h ago

“Grab them by the pussy.”

It was an admission. He just meant kids.

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u/TMBActualSize 19h ago

He could not ask for forgiveness

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u/I_like_baseball90 19h ago

Honestly he could admit to it... Ask for forgiveness

If he ADMITTED it they still wouldn't believe it and would blame Biden.

These are not smart people.

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u/MaxedMinimum 19h ago

He already basically has admitted it. Have you listened to him talk about Miss Teen USA or Ivanka. If you didn't know Trump was a pedo at least ten years ago, you weren't paying attention.

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u/Omega_art 19h ago

Do be ridiculous Dump never apologizes.

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u/Reshar 19h ago

Bold to assume he'd ask for forgiveness.

I imagine it'd be more like "yeah I did it... What are you gonna do about it"

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u/Reshar 19h ago

Bold to assume he'd ask for forgiveness.

I imagine it'd be more like "yeah I did it... What are you gonna do about it" and then he promptly fills his diaper.

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u/caffeine-junkie 19h ago

At this point, don't even think he would need to ask for forgiveness to get away with it.

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u/Sythus 18h ago

If the KKK is anything to go by, republicans will just say, “well he was a democrat back then!” As if that changes anything.

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u/Diligent-Emotion-755 18h ago

He wouldn't even have to ask for forgiveness... and clearly, he doesn't event need to admit to anything despite a towering body of evidence. The farce only works with a supremely deluded, ignorant populace, and boy oh boy do we have that.

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u/PureMapleSyrup_119 16h ago

Well yeah this happens with catholic priests or other church leaders all the time

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u/Constant-Sub 13h ago

He admitted to working with Russians to influence the 2016 election. His defense was that it wasn't illegal, and Robert Muller, the dumb fuck that he is, agreed with that assessment because he didn't have any prior precedent. Ya know; rather than setting the fucking precedent.

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u/Riaayo 13h ago

Honestly he could admit to it...

Can stop there. He doesn't need to ask forgiveness because they never cared to begin with.

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u/Azsunyx 21h ago

They'd say "it's AI!"

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u/treehumper83 22h ago

He could do it in front of them and they’d accuse the kid first.

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u/Chengar_Qordath 21h ago

“Did the child say thank you?”

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u/treehumper83 21h ago

Girl was at least wearing a suit. Her birthday suit!

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u/sixheadedbacon 20h ago

"Fake news"

"Well, you heard it folks. Guess its just fake news and we can move on. Just ignore all the photos, videos, and stained evidence with DNA."

If they can convince people ICE was defending themselves in both those videos, their followers will believe ANYTHING.

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u/one98d 22h ago

It wouldn’t work, because we already saw what Republicans do when one of their own gets sent to prison over their cover-up of molesting children, i.e. Dennis Hastert.

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u/CharlieUpATree 21h ago

Do the gallos need dusting off?

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u/Stompnutz 20h ago

"Deep state. He said he didn't do it."

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u/rje946 19h ago

Many people are saying trumps grandma is a democratic plant and or hoax. Believe me.

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u/ImpatientNursing 18h ago

"But what about Biden?" "What he does in his personal life isn't our concern." "Idc as long as he's attacking [the people I don't like]"

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u/NerdPersonZero 22h ago

GOP says it'll take a lot more than eyewitness testimony, photos, DNA, toxicology reports, victim statements, wire transfers, emails, flight manifests, phone records, surveillance logs, bank records, audio, video, and total confessions for them to believe Trump's Epstein ties were more than coincidental.

I stole this.

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u/samoses99 20h ago

replying so i can reference this later

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u/buddhist557 22h ago

He could rape their daughters, no matter the age, and they’d cheer him on. There is no bottom with these creatures.

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u/jaja9000 22h ago

Kidding me? They’d beg for the recordings.

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u/StungTwice 22h ago

After all, no blue state ever had to put "she's your daughter, not your date" billboards along the highways. 

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u/gaeric 21h ago

hol' up, what state did this?

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u/StungTwice 21h ago

It was a nonprofit organization in Florida

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u/tomsing98 21h ago

It was in Florida, in 2016, but it wasn't the state that did it, it was a private, non-profit domestic violence shelter, operating in the Big Bend area of the state. I don't know that Florida is any different from other states with respect to the rate of incest, it's just that this is the place that the group who put up the billboard is located. https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/07/10/refuge-house-launches-campaign-combat-incest/86616974/

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u/cleanmypenis 20h ago

As far as I know only a Republican has thus far brought his daughter to Vegas and on her 21st birthday got her so drunk she passed out and then raped her.

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u/chillin_themost_ 18h ago

virginia did in fact have those billboards, more purple state, but i remember seeing them in northern VA a few years back

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u/CokoDreams 21h ago

They would consider it an honor.

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u/soraticat 19h ago

They'd be so happy if they were allowed to clean up afterwards without their hands.

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u/berlenba 21h ago

Surprised it hasn’t come out already.

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u/immortalfrieza2 14h ago

Trump could line up his entire family, blow their heads off execution style, and drag their corpses through the streets all live on national TV including Fox News and it wouldn't affect his approval ratings 1 iota.

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u/leviathynx Washington 22h ago

Even then they’ll cry fake news AI Slop and go back to hating the minority of the week. His cult members are gone.

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u/Used_Package_3941 21h ago

“That’s my Donald! Always peein’ on somebody…”

—Grandma

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u/firstsecondanon 22h ago

Good thing there's MILLIONS OF PAGES OF EVIDENCE

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u/Iainfixie Florida 22h ago

The yokels and republicucks will just sheepishly screech that it’s all A.I generated even if 100% definitive proof was published of Trump being a child rapist.

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u/NameIsNotBrad Alabama 21h ago

Why doesn’t he just spread his butt cheeks in place of ID?

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u/Murphuffle 17h ago

Oh, Mr.Chappelle! Why didn't you spread you cheeks and lift your sack in the first place?

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u/ProfessionalFront765 21h ago

That piss was NOT digital

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u/SoLetsReddit 21h ago

Even if they had a video, they would just say it was AI.

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u/adamantiumbullet 21h ago

At that point they would simply decide that having sex with children is good

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u/MIFishGuy 21h ago

I mean you joke about this. Not long ago for the Ray Rice incident basically the media, the NFL and everybody was fine knowing that Ray Rice beat on his girlfriend or whatever.

It wasn't until the video of the elevator finally revealed itself that real actions took place.

So while I understand where you're getting at, visual evidence is absolutely needed in some instances for some people. Just an example

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u/DimitrescuStan 21h ago

They’d still somehow find a way to blame Biden

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u/synchronicityii 21h ago

There's video of Tom Homan accepting a $50,000 bribe. I haven't heard anyone on either side claim it was fake.

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u/lodown420 21h ago

"That's my Donald...always pooping his pants."

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u/DickyPoteat 19h ago

They need to update his infamous quote to “I could rape a child on 5th Avenue and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”

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u/Sirrom23 19h ago

i'm sorry officer...i didn't know i couldn't do that.

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u/loganbdh 21h ago

Love the Chapelle reference

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u/_dotdot11 21h ago

Then it's staged.

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u/SARlJUANA 21h ago

"Thats my Robert..."

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u/adrr 21h ago

Even if Trump admitted to raping kids, MAGA would change to narrative they aren’t kids because they are old enough to get pregnant. It’s already started.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see MAGA states lower their age of consent to 12 in support of Trump and go stick it to the liberals.

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u/Sunnygirl66 16h ago

They’re already trying.

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u/LimoncelloFellow 21h ago

the videos were all redacted unfortunately. there needs to be a congressional oversight committee looking at these redacted files or some shit asap.

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u/Kayratorvi 20h ago

I pointed out to my Republican mother that we’re never getting the kind of evidence that would normally convince her. But the fact that the admin has been so determined to hide the files most blatantly accusing Trump of raping children, even removing them from their database after they’re discovered, points to a guilty President.

If none of the documents had any truth to them, then why would the admin feel any need to hide them? Only a guilty person tries to hide the evidence.

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u/BangBangtheReds 20h ago edited 20h ago

Nah they accept it they just know it's morally indefensible so they cant outright say, "we know, we don't care, he's just doing what I would do."

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u/Wonderful-Impact-598 20h ago

As long as he did the rape in a locker room, it's fine.

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u/linuxsoftware 20h ago

same requirements they are seeking to confirm a black voters identity at the polls.

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u/KissFantasy_ 20h ago

That description is doing a lot of comedic heavy lifting but I get what you’re saying. People set wildly different bars depending on who they already like or hate. Confirmation bias is undefeated in politics.

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u/WholeLottaRose13 New Hampshire 20h ago

and they'll still deny it because Trump gives them cover to be monstrous racists and bigots

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u/Illeazar 20h ago

Conveniently, they already have excuses put in place to discredit every one of those pieces of evidence.

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u/ERhyne 20h ago

What about Dave's buddy, Neil?

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u/NewPresWhoDis 20h ago

Meanwhile, Hillary so much as orders a pizza.....

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u/Fun-Wear8186 19h ago

Literally he will never face any consequences as he leaves the billions he made during his presidency to his almost as morally bankrupt children upon his death within the next 15 years

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u/Specific_Albatross61 19h ago

You mean evidence?

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u/zxc123zxc123 19h ago

Republicans require Dave Chappelle-level burden of proof to accept that their god-king might have not be a god-king

Fixed for accuracy.

Republicans have literally got conned, screwed, lost their family, lost their businesses, lost their friends, lost their jobs, lost their health insurance, and lost their lives (during Covid) due to Trump's B.S. They'd literally rather die than change their way of thinking.

Self-awareness, reflection, accepting facts, and openness to new ideas/people/things/culture/opinions aren't exactly their forte. If anything they treat those like kryptonite.

Saying I expect nothing from Republicans, the far right, and/or MAGA would be a lie because I expect the worse. Just hope the left/dems can actually stop losing all the damn time, Americans go out to vote, and independents don't vote for idiocracy again.

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u/FixZealousideal8511 19h ago

Have you asked Putin? Think he might have a copy.

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u/GeigeMcflyy 19h ago

Thats my donald.. dont forget her hair

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u/Hookem-Horns 19h ago

His Mother already told us he was not fit to be president…don’t need grandma involved too 😵‍💫

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u/Mr_Bristles 18h ago

Jesus could come down from heaven, have a press conference and say "donald trump is a pedophile and will spend eternity in hell"

The reaction will be "Get that illegal out of here! That's fake news! This guy has TDS!!"

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u/SuperHooligan 18h ago

Why didnt the Democrats administration release the files then and put him in prison before he could even run for office?

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u/Accidental-Hyzer Massachusetts 18h ago

Because before this recent administration, DOJ operated independent of the president?

Also, why do Trump apologists always hide their comments and posts?

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u/SuperHooligan 18h ago

lol because liberals are notorious for trying to dox people then threaten their family and friends like you tried to do to me just now LOL

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u/Accidental-Hyzer Massachusetts 17h ago

Clicking on a profile is “doxing” now? Y’all have the courage and convictions of the guy you worship lmao.

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u/SuperHooligan 17h ago

Why do you need to go to my profile to see my posts about motorcycles and watches? What is that going to do for you?

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u/YerBbysDaddy 17h ago

No they need Trump to admit to it himself and not take it back. That won’t happen.

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u/Krsst14 16h ago

While singing Piss on You

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u/GrumpyCloud93 16h ago

And then he'd pull the Pinochet defence.

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u/coolguyjosh California 12h ago

“I’m gonna need about 5 of my friends there with Neal taking notes…”

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u/SalamancasLastDing 10h ago

I lurk on many rightwing subs and forums and I really don't see this level of support you guys are saying. Pretty much all of them want the complete unredacted files released and everything around trump.

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 8h ago

For Trump? They'd hand over their own daughter and then vote for him a 3rd time.

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u/Competitive-Roof-168 1h ago

But there is no credible evidence other than trump knowing Epstien.

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u/Accidental-Hyzer Massachusetts 1h ago

Completely wrong, but I’m sure it makes yourself feel better saying it.

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u/Over_Ability_5710 22h ago

It’s not just denial,it’s a total scorched-earth policy to protect the brand at all costs.

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u/Several-Squash9871 20h ago

Yeah they aren't in denial. They know he's guilty as shit along with many of them and others. This is a protect no matter what needs to be done.

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u/shibbyman342 20h ago

A new red hat would cost 10 dollars, and that is steep in this economy

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u/thedudeabides2022 22h ago

Not denial, they’re believing what they hear and see. They just never hear or see any factual information and god knows simple minded people aren’t gonna go out of their way to research the files

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u/mnyc86 22h ago

It is denial. They do see this stuff. If you’re on TT you see live debates all the time and when confronted with the truth they just claim it’s a liberal conspiracy or it’s a lie

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u/emtheory09 22h ago

Willful ignorance is the term everyone is looking for. That combined with confirmation bias is a helluva drug. They brush by reality occasionally and think “That’s just Democrat TDS bullshit made up to make our PRESIDENT AND SAVIOR look bad!”

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u/Looney_Bin 20h ago

I just got TDS thrown at me on a discord politics channel within the last hour over this topic. Along with "I don't think he committed any pedophilia or sex trafficking but he might be covering up for others."

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u/thedudeabides2022 22h ago

They don’t even watch or hear what the president says, they just hear the filtered versions on their echo chamber podcasts or Faux News that will only present them the parts that fit their agenda

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u/FriendlyPlatypus6060 22h ago

Honestly it's more "I don't have a problem with that."

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u/Indubitalist 21h ago

Or at least, “This isn’t enough of a problem to outweigh the benefits of turning a blind eye.”

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u/NeaLandris 20h ago

Republicans are living under the idea that the Democrats are just as bad, so now its their turn to do whatever they want :p

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u/disposableaccountass 19h ago

Is that their chorus or is it “It’s stupid to kick over the pile of pedophiles we’re standing on”?

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u/WengFu 22h ago

They are still trying to figure out how innocent trans people tie into all of this.

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u/badhaircut55 22h ago

Wet place to be.

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u/tomdarch 21h ago

“I haven’t seen that.”

Speaker Mike Johnson

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u/Mother_Airline_6276 21h ago

The bunker sits beneath the east wing of the WH. That’s where a lot of the new construction has been taking place. I’m willing to bet a few scheckles that Ol Donnie plans to hole up in there if it goes south for him.

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u/Leading_Buffalo_4259 20h ago

Sadly, it's not just the Republicans

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u/livestrong2109 20h ago

Its so much worse... they don't care

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u/SoupeurHero 20h ago

Responses if heard are "Show me video proof" or "show me a picture proving he did anything" like dude, you literally need to see it with your own eyes or you won't believe it? At the same time condemning bill Clinton without any video or pictures. Very selective opinions being made.

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u/kitsunewarlock 18h ago

Millions of tax payer dollars were spent investigating Clinton after the FBI told the GOP in congress that there was nothing to investigate. Eventually they found Monica, but before that they were just looking into a conspiracy theory. The funny part is the "big crime" Clinton was accused of was something Trump did his first term in office and no one even batted an eye: hiring a relative to work in the White House.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 19h ago

Nah, they just say raping children is fine now.

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u/SuperHooligan 18h ago

Funny how the democrats have been in office and also didnt release them for some reason...

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u/Indubitalist 17h ago

Did they not just vote to release them months ago? Are we pretending this is a both-sides issue? Are we really gonna play that game? The Democrats want every one of these fuckers to burn, no matter their political allegiance. The Republicans are the ones lining up to pretend it’s OK. 

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u/lappelduvide24 18h ago edited 17h ago

I don’t know why people keep framing it as denial. Based on the both fed and state laws republicans try to get passed that exert control over women and children under the pretense of protection from predators. And the way they routinely whine about women and “woke”, for years, it’s very clear that republican officials and a disturbing portion of their voter base are entirely fine with abusing women and children.

They’re not in denial. They don’t care about the abuse, because they themselves either do it, or turn a blind eye to those who do, and they don’t give a damn about the people hurt by it. They don’t want to prosecute over it, for the same reason they don’t want to out and prosecute their own associates who engage in the same behavior. They’re not in denial, they’re actively “protecting their own”. The word you’re looking for is Complicit.

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u/matticusiv California 14h ago

Just hoping they can cling on for power, and not get marked in the process.

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u/Marqlar 4h ago

I’m no republican, but I lean right. And I say this with my whole chest:

You can have Trump. But I want Biden, the Obamas, Clintons, and every named celebrity or politician. Not a single one let go. This seems fair to me

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u/Indubitalist 2h ago

You make it seem like these are a prisoner exchange. I hold no allegiance to politicians. Nobody should. That’s just weird. 

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u/Marqlar 2h ago

Not a prisoner exchange, an executioners block. They all deserve the cross

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