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  • A joint DOJ–FBI memo reaffirmed that no “client list” of high-profile individuals existed and found no evidence Epstein blackmailed anyone.
  • MAGA hardliners (e.g., Alex Jones) and some Trump allies lash out at AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, demanding disclosures.
  • President Trump urged supporters to stop attacking his team over “Epstein Files,” calling Epstein “somebody nobody cares about” and insisting his administration is “PERFECT.”
  • Internal friction reportedly flared between Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino (who threatened to quit) and Bondi, though Trump insists DOJ/FBI are united.
  • Trump wants the FBI to refocus on his unproven 2020 election–fraud claims rather than “the same old…documents on Jeffrey Epstein.”
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[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, this sure is some in-depth reporting...

Although Trump appears in at least one video alongside Epstein at a party, the president has denied allegations that his name was in the files or that he had any direct connection to the disgraced financier.

"At least" one video, numerous photos, Trump describing Epstein as a 'Terrific guy who he had known for 15 years' and “He’s a lot of fun to be with, It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Epstein saying he was “Donald’s closest friend for ten years”....

But sure, let's just characterize it as 'They both attended the same party once.'

[–] kebab@endlesstalk.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry, it’s the best article I could find on this topic on the internet. If you can find a better one - feel free to share though

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 14 points 23 hours ago

It wasn't a dig at you, it was at the people who wrote the article.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Well pack it in boys. The convicted criminal thats most likely implicated in a high profile child sex trafficking ring says "stop worrying about this list, there is no list and im certainly not on it"

I for one think we should believe this lying, cheating, gas lighting criminal. Biggest "trust me bro" in history

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Even if MAGA forgets, perhaps we shouldn't.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] LucidLyes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't get it, if this is the list, what are people complaining about?

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

It’s some sort of an older client list but it is Epstein’s. Lots of ppl on it incl. Trump. 🤷🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Can’t wait for Nuremberg trials #2

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

conservative podcast dipshits (conpodshits for short) have been bringing up 1984 for years and are short circuiting as their guy does the thing because they think george orwell was talking about communists

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I said this elsewhere Orwell applies just as well to any type of ideology because they all ask you to accept the agenda and to walk in lockstep with everyone else in the “movement”. So when right wing podcasters use it they are as correct as when left wingers do. Failure to see this means being completely consumed by ideology.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

george orwell if he met a modern republican "forget what I said, 1984 is now exclusively about these freaks" and then he does a kickflip on his skateboad

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It's funny watching rapey getting ratioed on his own echo chamber platform.

How can he say nobody cares about the Epstein thing when literally everyone is clamouring for it? Gaslighting fail

[–] oliver@lemmy.pifferi.io 17 points 1 day ago
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

LOL that'll work. Streisand effect, motherfucker.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Funny thing is that, apart from recognising the name, most people forgot what the streisand situation was about.

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 198 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is what's amazing to me.

He went on the Howard Stern show and boasted about barging into the dressing rooms of the Miss Teen USA pageant, talked about how hot his teenage daughter was, and pushed his way into a softcore Playboy video and none of his voters thought there might be a problem.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 105 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He does all the things they want to do as well.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Every single time their accusations are admissions of guilt. How many of these Bible thumping cunts frothing about gays and pedos and rapists have turned out to be gay pedo rapists?

I grew up around psychotic narcissists- that's their whole fucking thing, deflect and accuse others of the things they're guilty of.

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 158 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

If conservatives gave a damn about kids and sex crimes, these lists should have caused enough public rage to burn the party to the ground.

It didn't. So republican are unassailably the party of sex offenders and those who support sex offenders.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 88 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

The civil war never ended. The South just kept waging it through other means.

And now they're in control of the government and do what they always wanted- destroy it. That has been the outspoken agenda of the right wing conservatives for the better part of a century.

Starve the beast, small government, all that shit is them saying: we don't want democracy, we want to rule as colonial lords, own slaves, and to hell with elections.

How people still don't realize this is fucking mind boggling.

There is no "two party state", there is only one party that believes in democracy and rule of law at all, the other is a christofascist-anarchist terrorist cell hellbent on unraveling society where might is right, so that they can rule with impunity like feudal lords.

That's it.

Lincoln should have had every single one of them rounded up and shot after the war. You don't skip the last dose of penicillin or you might as well not have taken it at all.

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Add to that nine years of daily posts on r/PastorArrested.

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 89 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

What's so funny about this is that Pam Bondi and Trump paraded conservative influencers all around and made them hold up pieces of paper labeled "THE EPSTEIN FILES" and had them all go on their social medias and claim that they read it.

And now they're saying that they don't exist and never existed.

I actually feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are if the admin were actually wrong about that. So far the base has proven them right over and over and over again- they truly are as stupid as the admin thinks they are.

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[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

Their base hasn't done anything to make me think they're not that stupid.

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago

What maga people don’t understand is that, when you’re rich, they just let you do it. That is literally the ethos of their patron saint on every level, for his entire life.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

"These are not the files you are looking for..."

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

Rich pedophiles vs deluded fascists, enabled by ideological genociders. USA 2025.

[–] Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world 76 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Because Trump is a child fucker.

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[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Love that as soon as his name got attached to Epstein, that he's shifted to damage control and trying to push this narrative that it's been a "radical Left" issue this whole time. And trying to get all his conspiracy people to move on to an election that at this point doesn't matter either way is just full panic.

They filled lawsuits all over the country that they had to withdraw because they had no evidence, yet continue to claim to be ready to release all the "evidence" they have anytime now for years. I think even his Supreme Court is going to find it hard to invent constitution law to back up their conspiracy theories. I would love to see them try though, make it televised, since they are just pissing away tax dollars anyway.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I just want to see reporters hound him with questions beginning with, "So when you raped those kids..."

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

They don't need to invent law and Roberts et al know it. See, the thing about being on the Supreme Court is that aside from Congress impeaching you, there is no other recourse. Your entire decision could be written as "lol no" and unless Congress decides to impeach you, there's nothing anyone can do about the decision.

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[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.snekerpimp.space 90 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Crying like a little bitch about it on social media makes me believe the exact opposite of what he says. He was probably customer 0.

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[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 61 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Considering neither party seemed to want this info shared I believe we all need to know what was in it.

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 day ago

Rapist tells group of mentally challenged people to forget about list of paedophiles.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Has anyone from Biden's admin come out and refuted Trump's DoJ's statements? They need to be on every conservative outlet that will give them a second of time talking how the documents existed before.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

world@world - still all US defaultism.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On the upside, it's like going to the circus every time when you open Lemmy and this circus doesn't have firebreathers, trapeze artists or lion tamers, it has clowns, only clowns.

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[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

I urge them to fuck off and die.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Trump is a pedo...

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (7 children)

that would be a spicy leak, if someone did it

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[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought conservatives loved the war on pedophiles. Why isn’t Trump doing anything about that? Send ICE to get pedophiles. Of course we all know the answer is because he and all his friends will go to jail.

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[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

PEDOnald will jingle his keys in a week and all the MAGAts will have forgotten about this.

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