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On the contrary, the plan is to distract us from the Epstein files.
Btw... all of the names released to date? We doing anything about any of them?
Is Brett Ratner going to jail? No? He's making Rush Hour 4 now?
You have to look at the context too. There's nothing in the released files that implies Clinton did anything illegal. Ratner, that's another story, and same goes for Wexler. And the correspondence with Larry Summer looked incriminating, too.
I gotta wonder how you resolve a game of Clue if you've got the suspect, the room, and the murder weapon, but you still can't figure out who done it.
Clinton has been credibly accused of sexual assault on multiple occasions. "I didn't do the sex crimes on the sex island with the other rapists" is a "I smoked but I didn't inhale" ass defense.
If you believe it...
Nobody will be prosecuted as a result of the Epstein Files. The chain of custody has been irretrievably compromised. Nothing in them can be trusted as evidence in court, and any lawyer can get the evidence tossed, or at least mistrusted enough by the jury to not convict. This is all just salacious gossip.
The better track to prosecution will be the investigations into the money trails. It's boring, but the evidence is much stronger, and will hold up in court.
I don't know why you're down voted. You are 1000 percent correct. No one will ever see a jail cell. Or if they do it will be a scapegoat. Only social justice is going to happen through shame and horrible reputations.
The files are not the only evidence. A DoJ not involved in a coverup would interview victims, for one thing, and also interview potential suspects.
That'll show flows of money, but not their purpose. Necessary, but not sufficient.
Follow The Money. That's always where the crime is.
I mean, I don't think that's the reason why.
But that also won't happen, for obvious reasons. Nobody is going to prosecute Jamie fucking Dimon for anything, even though he's closer to the center of this web than even Epstein himself.
Next week, they'll trickle out another bunch of Epstein Files, to distract from whatever atrocities they're committing in Iran.
I think the plan is “do whatever it takes to remain in power and escape consequences for all of the heinous things that he’s done”. I firmly believe that he couldn’t care less about any real issues, since he has no ability to think critically about them or empathize with the people they affect.
I tend to agree. Nothing seems to touch trump…on top of that there’s no move to prosecute him for anything. He has no fear of prosecution thanks to the captured judicial branch and spineless authorities. So this whole “war to distract from the files” idea really falls flat. War to keep escalating and look for reasons to not step down as president or cancel midterms? Absolutely.
But Epstein…? Probably not even on the radar. His family dgaf, his supporters barely twitched, and trump just keeps going.
Trump is just swinging blindly like those dementia-afflicted old people that are angry and lash out at everything who see conspiracies everywhere. The imagined “The nurse’s aid in the care home stole my socks” is now “The Iranians are threatening my ego” or some other imagined momentary fit of pique.
Yeah honestly I'm gonna go further, holy fuck y'all shut the fuck up about Epstein already! They don't care! Of course Trump is a pedophile and he should be in jail forever but I cannot imagine there is a single person on the planet who doesn't already know about the connection. If they're stupid enough to still be calling it fake news, they're not gonna care about the 8,000,000th fed thread talking about it!
I should not have to think about this worthless pedo so often. Fuckface died, he's not the problem anymore, call Trump a pedo and if someone asks why, please explain, but also please please please understand that Iran has absolutely fucking nothing to do with Epstein! Trump needs to manufacture as many emergencies as quickly as possible (without boiling the pot) so he can get away with declaring some sort of state of emergency where he gets to control the election. There may be more to it than that, but that IS the big idea, and it's what we need to deal with, and it's what no one seems to be talking about.
If this is a plan to distract from the Epstein files I would consider that a successful plan because what is happening is fucking insane. This distraction would literally be hiding child rapists by killing children.
this needs to be how this is communicated: "Trump starts war to hide child rape"
"Trump kills children to hide trafficking and raping children."
We can go even shorter "Trump kills children to distract from raping them".
We should call it the Epstein war just to prevent this.
Saw this elsewhere on Lemmy
That's perfect it's the natural thing to call the war. Hopefully this becomes the mainstream thing to call it.
Exactly, no one said it was a good plan