The Epstein File
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Phony stuff. Hmm. Could be. It rather depends on who amassed the information. A lack of credibility would have been a better explanation than there wasn't one. There may not be a "list' per se, but there IS a quantity of information. I think we can all agree that the FBI/DOJ etc. has been known to be unreliable gatherers and leakers of information.
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil
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At this point who can trust whatever the DOJ or administration releases anyway? Honest question. I'm sure there is a list of people who traveled with Epstein and I'm sure Trump is on the list. Maybe that was already released, what does it even mean? Heck, there could be a video of Trump slamming a 17 year old on a yacht, and most MAGA folks will say it's AI or doesn't matter because it was 30 years ago.
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Phony stuff. Hmm. Could be. It rather depends on who amassed the information. A lack of credibility would have been a better explanation than there wasn't one. There may not be a "list' per se, but there IS a quantity of information. I think we can all agree that the FBI/DOJ etc. has been known to be unreliable gatherers and leakers of information.
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@jon-nyc said in The Epstein File:
He seems pretty confident that there’s “phony” stuff in those files.
Another interesting thing about this is that this edit by FoxNews during the campaign, is a much bigger favor to Trump then the 60 minutes edit was to Harris. You know, the one Trump used to extort 15MM from Paramount.
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And we’re supposed to believe that Obama, Comey, and Biden made them all up and then didn’t even release them.
All while it was Trump’s Labor Secretary that gave Epstein the sweetheart deal in FL when he was US Attorney there, and Trump’s own DoJ who re arrested him and held him while he killed himself during that minute of tape outage.
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"killed himself during the minute of tape outage" is a rhetorical flourish straight out of nutty conspiracy theory land. Well, most of that post is, but that part especially. Granted, Trump's hand wave about what Obama and Comey did was reflexive conspiracy theory stuff too. But the clincher has always been that Biden didn't release anything about Trump. And I don't give any reasonable credence to the notion that there are yet more powerful forces at play which forbid the release, and I don't buy any mutually assured destruction theory, preventing any release of any bit of the files. Occam is still firmly in the camp that there are no juicy, incriminating files, and that the existence of these files is a tribal conspiracy hallucination used mostly by Maga to get Trump elected.
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@jon-nyc said in The Epstein File:
So now they do exist. Schrödinger’s Epstein files.
I know all politicians stretch the truth, or spin, but man what a relief it would be to get back to the pre-Trump days of political spin where it was like 99% truth and cherry-picked facts that were at least... facts. This moron says whatever self-convinced reality is in his head at the time of saying it.
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Word on the street is that Bongino is upset with Bondi because of her posturing that there were so many juicy files that she would be releasing. That put Bongino and the FBI in the awkward position of looking like they’re covering something up, now that the inevitable choice to shut up has been made, lacking the actual files to put up.
Education is extremely important.
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@jon-nyc said in The Epstein File:
So now they do exist. Schrödinger’s Epstein files.
I know all politicians stretch the truth, or spin, but man what a relief it would be to get back to the pre-Trump days of political spin where it was like 99% truth and cherry-picked facts that were at least... facts. This moron says whatever self-convinced reality is in his head at the time of saying it.
This moron says whatever self-convinced reality is in his head at the time of saying it.
Just like yesterday he maintained he had Putin pegged all along. More like Putin had him pegged as a foolish chump from day one and has continued to play him as one to the present. I don’t anticipate that to change.
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Word on the street is that Bongino is upset with Bondi because of her posturing that there were so many juicy files that she would be releasing. That put Bongino and the FBI in the awkward position of looking like they’re covering something up, now that the inevitable choice to shut up has been made, lacking the actual files to put up.
@Horace said in The Epstein File:
Word on the street is that Bongino is upset with Bondi because of her posturing that there were so many juicy files that she would be releasing. That put Bongino and the FBI in the awkward position of looking like they’re covering something up, now that the inevitable choice to shut up has been made, lacking the actual files to put up.
Forgive me if I'm being rather simplistic and superficial, but I'm left with the distinct impression that Trump's cabinet are a bunch of clueless fucking morons.
I was only joking
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@Tom-K said in The Epstein File:
How is all of this not just a heated discussion among 12 year old girls?
Give him a little credit - I'm sure they were at least 15.
I was only joking
