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I don't know who this guy us but now I know he's in the files.
I wasn't there
Okay, I was there but I didn't do it
okay, I did do it, but it wasn't a bad thing
Why are you still talking about this?
Wow, that's really interesting. Why don't you face that wall and tell me more?
My shirt that says "it is not a crime to party with Jeffrey Epstein" has people asking a LOT of questions already answered by my shirt.
He's in the remaining files.
ctrl-f this guy in the files pls
What frustrates me is that in these releases some of these outlandish stories of Trump and co. murdering girls and burying them might actually be true, but they leaked them along with unfounded claims to muddy the water, thus making people look hysterical when they bring this up 
Kinda like with the JFK files where they just released a ton of unrelated bullshit so everyone just forgot. Fortunately, they’ve pissed off nearly everyone from nearly every political spectrum (except libertarian$) who enjoy data analysis. Plenty of them were likely rioting during Jan 6th and are now feeling pretty fucking betrayed by their golden wetboy. The release of this amount of sensitive data gives us a chance to deprogram a lot of people who despise us.
Like a shaman going “wooawooawoo” in front of a detachment of low-level enemy soldiers.
people need to be posting the ones that weren't just FBI anonymous tips then because I'm not going to reddit to read this stuff if y'all ain't postin' it i don't know it
I had grown a little cynical/detached on the subject until I perused the trauma/art journals that came out of this latest batch. bloodthirst for these ghouls renewed
What like from the victims?
There's a set of documents sourced from a 15-16-year old victim's journals, including transcriptions. you can find it on r/Epstein or elsewhere but obviously every CW imaginable.