People will believe that which makes their notion of how things are hold together. And they will be unable to even conceive of it being otherwise.
People forget that for all the bitching Trump did about the “weaponization” of the DOJ, it didn’t actually start happening until Trump 2.0. And Merrick Garland was deathly afraid of anything that would look even the slightest bit “political”, giving Trump 100% immunity on this case in particular because digging up Trump’s sexual misdeeds from the 1990s would not be seen any other way, especially with news outlets hanging on Trump’s every word and giving him endless opportunities to fight it out in the news cycle.
Trump is playing his typical gotcha game with his Epstein connection. Because Biden didn’t get him when he could have, these charges are no longer valid and Trump didn’t do anything. You only have one single opportunity to prosecute someone and if you don’t do it at this exact time in this exact way it never counts. That’s how Trump thinks it works because that is how he needs it to work. He needs to be able to redefine any rule that he has run afoul of. America keeps letting him get away with it.
Trump has admitted that one of the people that Epstein poached from Mar-A-Lago was Virginia Giuffre, who was underage and working in the Mar-A-Lago spa at the time.
Evidence of what? this is a conspiracy thread that implies there is suppressed evidence. If there was any evidence to use against Trump during the election it would have been on the news. If there were any big name Democrats they would have been added to the list of 1000 pardons from Biden.
So you acknowledge there is nothing to make a reasonable person believe Biden sat on any of this since it was a closed case. It’s just “conspiracy theory” talk. Got it.
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And who, pray tell, would bring such charges? Trump’s DOJ? If Maxwell does as she’s asked, you can bet the farm Trump will pardon her (or maybe commute her sentence) before all is said and done. Not mention everyone else who could possibly face criminal charges for anything they ever did in support of Trump.
Are you saying that Biden would have pardoned Democrats involved with Epstein? If so, that’s pretty funny.
Biden’s last name isn’t Trump. Imagining that Biden might protect left-wing pedos doesn’t give Trump the right to protect left-wing pedos (like himself), and especially not after promising to out them.
But, anyways, it’s interesting that Trump is coming out with the, “He was stealing employees”, story.
To-date, Trump’s crew and everyone around Trump has given variations of statements that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for being a creep:
“I kicked him out of the clubs when this stuff became public,” Trump said, according to Nunberg. “And I made sure NBC knew.”
My sense is that he’s trying to walk back any statements that make it seem like he knew what was going on.
In Stone’s 2016 book, The Clintons’ War on Women, he wrote that Trump noted to a Mar-a-Lago member after a visit to Epstein’s home that a crowd of girls in the financier’s pool appeared to be underage.
“The swimming pool was filled with beautiful young girls,” Trump said, according to Stone. The book said Trump then jokingly added: “‘How nice,’ I thought, ‘he let the neighborhood kids use his pool.’”
Stone reportedly said in a later appearance on Lindell TV that Trump left Epstein’s place after just 15 minutes because he was “uncomfortable with the mix of younger women and the limited number of men.” It’s unclear when Trump’s supposed visit to Epstein’s home took place.
And, of course:
“It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do,” Trump said, “And many of them are on the younger side.”
It is (or it used to be) astounding that the people that say “It is o.k. to do it because the Democrats do it!” are the same people that will condemn Democrats for supposedly doing it.
This time we have “It is o.k. to do because I imagine Democrats would do it!”
The same Democrats who booted Al Franken for unwanted kisses and touching.
Also, court cases can go on and on. He wants this out of the media, now. He said as much.
I’ve been thinking about Franken recently.
And if they didn’t do it, it’s because they’re dumb and they should’ve been doing it.
Obviously, the Republicans are planning on staying in power forever by stealing elections but I don’t think we can assume they will automatically succeed. They were planning the same thing back in 2020. They’re criminals but they’re not really competent ones.
There’s also various state court systems which the Republicans haven’t taken over yet.
As for a Trump pardon, would you want to base your future on a Trump promise? Look what happened to the guys who tried to overthrow the government on Trump’s behalf back in in 2021. Trump didn’t bother pardoning any of them before leaving office. Or look at George Santos going off to prison.
The Republican Party has the same problem as the Mafia. It’s hard to get any loyalty out of a group of people who are all looking out for themselves.
Epstein was trying to kidnap what Trump had rightfully stolen.
Inconceivable!
Al Franken resigned and he was never prosecuted.
Yes, he was pushed out by the Democrats, unlike Republicans who do not practice what they preach.
He was never prosecuted for…
What were the charges, again?
Being creepy. Totally prosecutable if you are a Dem, completely legal and expected of you are a Repub.