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[TW] Buried evidence in Epstein files names Trump Tower as sex recruiter hunting ground (www.rawstory.com)

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TRIGGER WARNING: suicide + intimidation

The whole article is worth a read.

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Bates number is EFTA01245428

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Excerpt:

The student told the FBI that she declined the invitations, both to meet Trump and to go to the party. After that, she started to get threats, she said.

“[She] said that she received death threats when she did not want to go meet Trump. The threats consisted of the men saying that they knew where she worked and could find her. [She] never told the police because she did not think they would believe her.”

She also described watching the same men approach other women in the following six months. “[She] saw girls, usually blondes, approximately 15/16 years old with one of the two men and them get on an escalator. [She] never saw any females meet with Trump.”

In a dark twist, she told FBI agents that she knew a woman who said that her daughter had been waiting to meet her at Trump Tower, and had been persuaded to go upstairs with the recruiters.

“This was in the early 1990s. [The student] recalled sometime later seeing [redacted] at a cocktail party and the woman said something horrible happened to her daughter that day. The daughter had dropped out of school, got into drugs and committed suicide.”

Trump has not been charged with any crime following the woman's interview with the FBI. He has not been formally accused of any wrongdoing in connection with the Epstein Files, in which he is mentioned thousands of times. A DOJ statement at the time the files were released read, "Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already."

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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Realistically, what could even happen to Trump?

Realistically, right now, nothing.

But everything is changing pretty rapidly, so what's important is that people are busy putting facts together and creating cases that can be pursued when he no longer has the legal protection he has right now.

I personally believe that will come instantly when no one is expecting it, if only because I'm old and have seen how these things move very slowly until they don't, and then it's dizzyingly fast, like Watergate over two years and then the sudden resignation of Nixon. He's already lost the House, IMO, I don't think he can push through a majority on anything substantial anymore, and may even lose the Senate, so his protection from the legislative branch is already slipping.

Right now we're all waiting until the midterms, but if something big were to happen prior to tip the scales the start of his reckoning could come even faster. No one wants most of what he is doing now, and the number of people willing to put their careers and livelihood on the line is shrinking.

When that day comes, the knives will be out for him, politically and who knows how else. This protection will not last forever.