"Transcripts show". We have no idea what really transpired in those meetings, and we never will.
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I mean, the presumption was Ghislaine would come out and name a bunch of Democrats to deflect blame.
But it looks like she's going with the "We were all innocent, nobody did anything, this was a witch hunt by those mean liberal prosecutors" gambit. And it looks like something everyone is willing to play ball. Democrats have clammed up. Republicans are happy to sweep her prosecution under the rug and let her out on "work release" indefinitely.
Democrats don't really seem like they have clammed up. I still see them bringing this up whenever they can, and they look like they are ready to go once Congress is back in session.
and they look like they are ready to go once Congress is back in session.
Epstein was arrested for this way back in 2019 and she was arrested in 2020. What makes you think they're now "ready to go" at some future date when they could have done this at any point in the last half decade?
Have you not been paying attention? They were forcing subpoenas through Congress so Johnson sent everyone home early, they are back in session soon. There's enough Republicans willing to help that its an actual problem for GOP leadership. Its a very obvious wedge issue now, please read the news more if you don't understand the current political context.
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Lifelong appointment federal judges sealed the Epstein case files immediately following the trials, supposedly to protect victims, the time limit of which ran out in 2025.
To overrule the federal judges would take no less than a constitutional amendment.
I think current events demonstrate quite clearly that it doesn't really matter what a single federal judge thinks, but you go ahead and keep finding excuses why high profile pedophiles like our president continue to walk free after all this time.
Federal judges brought back a deportee from another country, rehired the forestry services, will probably reverse more and more Trump decisions as time goes on.
It's certainly true that Trump is trying to overturn rule of law and assign himself as despot, but did you really expect that behavior from the Biden admin?
You know what, I took your previous claim about these case documents being sealed at face value, but thus far, all I can find that was sealed was the grand jury testimony from Maxwell's case. What specifically are you referring to because the FBI and DOJ's investigative documents aren't sealed they're just not being released by this or the prior administration.
Even if your claim does turn out to actually be true, are you really arguing that an administration influencing a judge to unseal documents relating to a high-profile pedophile ring of people working in the highest levels of government is "overturning the rule of law and assigning [one]self as despot?" That's absolutely ridiculous.
This argument has the same energy as "we have to support Israel because they're our ally in the region." There's always some flimsy excuse or justification for why "it's okay for us to do terrible things because look at how bad those other guys are!"
Yes, overturning the laws in every case is despot behavior. That's how laws in a democracy work. When there are any exceptions then there are no rights for anyone.
With that out of the way, you might be right that the DOJ documents weren't a part of the sealed records. Hard to say for sure. The feds were the ones who collected the evidence to use in the prosecution in the first place, so either the evidence was collected and catalogued before the sealing took place or it happened afterwards during the Biden Administration.
Where are all those early MAGAs, the Q Anon- inspired followers for whom it was all about exposing Child Sex Trafficking, and somehow they convinced themselves that Trump was the guy to lead that fight?
Now that he's obviously a leader in it, why aren't we hearing from them?
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Interesting choice, given that the original prosecutor of Epstein was part of Trump's cabinet in term 1
The audio is available on the doj website. I can't say how much they've been altered or if she was coached to give certain answers but the audio is there to listen to.
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What a fucking lie
most definitely coaching her to say things recently, like i dint seen nothing, with trump.
They gave a convicted sex trafficker a sweetheart deal and got... Nothing.
Well, they got "no incriminating evidence on Trump" which was their goal. And that's very obviously corrupt.
They did the same for her boss the first time around. The guy who gave it to him later got a cabinet position in Trump's first term.
"The best people"
It's like they are documenting their Epstein coverup live to distract from their Epstein coverup. Release the fucking files, nobody asked for Maxwell getting interviewed again it's all already in the fucking files.
Says the daughter of an Israeli government spy
She went to prison for sex trafficking no one
Ofc. That’s why they’re releasing the files. Oh wait….
If nothing happened then there’s no harm in releasing those Epstein files. Let’s see them, just to put everything to rest.
(Assuming this is not a psy-op where she says nothing happens, giving time for them to release an AI-generated version of the files that confirms what she said—or some other shady thing they could do…)
how are we sure that the files released would not be tampered with
Weird because Trump definitely claimed to have a list....
“They were just lies to ~~get idiots~~ trick people to vote for him” - Trumpf voters trying to ~~put the square shape into circle~~ make sense of the world
Check the transcripts for em-dashes.
That looks like a very clever comment. Could someone please explain it to me so I can also be clever?
That's what AI generated content does.
Ah. Thank you.
My understanding is that there are two kinds of dashes. We'll call one a regular dash and the other em-dash. The only difference is length. Normal typing generally results in regular dashes. A bunch of em-dashes is likely due to something puting in the extra effort to make those dashes long. If a document is filled with them, it's likely ai generated.
I appreciate the explanation.
There's the hyphen (-), the En-dash, the width of an uppercase N, in the font (–), and the Em-dash, the width of the uppercase M, in the font (—). Most typesetters don't use with the En-dash, as it's virtually indistinguishable from the hyphen in body type.
Seems she's been trained well
she still has krompomat over trump, otherwise he wouldve offed her already. epstein was just too big of a threat to leave alive in '19, that would ruined his chances of a 2nd presidency.
yeah just gonna memory hole all those meetings she had with the kid fucker's lawyer leading up to this.that probably wasn't anything
How do you perjure yourself (again) and get moved to club fed?
Because they wanted her to. She said Trump did nothing wrong. Now she gets a cookie.
She got special treatment and didn't say anything. Trump supporters gotta get a little twinge in the gut even at this one. Little Voice getting louder yet?
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