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Claudia A's avatar

DonOld Trump lied about not speaking with Epstein as well! Epstein was meeting with Trump and Russian leaders in 2019 ! Trump always lies, and the reporters asked good questions but didn’t follow up on his lies

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Ann Sharon's avatar

He also said he had nothing to do with him after dispute over a real estate deal - coincidentally about the time Epstein was being investigated the first time. But Epstein didn’t leave Mar a Lago until 2011 which was a few yrs later. Leavitt loves to say DJT kicked him out bc he was a creep without the date.

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Greg Kapphahn's avatar

"Lyin' Leavitt" lies. She is Trump's "propaganda princess." If she offered me $100 cash, I wouldn't take it because it would very likely be counterfeit. She is completely incapable of acting honestly or speaking truth.

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Joseph Mangano's avatar

I'm still mad about how Senate Democrats caved on the shutdown without any meaningful concessions from Republicans, but if we could finally reveal how depraved Donald Trump truly is to an international audience, I'll take it. The bar's pretty low at this point.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Let's face it, with Trump, the bar is always low. It is somewhere at the level of the scum on his loafers.

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B. Wells's avatar

I believe they were right to act to open the government.

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Ed Nuhfer's avatar

A real damage-control comment. If opening government after NOTHING was accomplished was "right," they should never have disrupted the lives of citizens by shutting it down.

It felt REALLY cleansing to chuck the CHUCKY Party in my voter registration after the gang of eight elephants in donkey suits and a Schumer pretense stunt revealed the Democratic Party as nothing more than a cartel sucking up to a wealthy ruling class. I'll continue to vote and support ethical candidates, but I am done supporting the MAGA auxiliary club mouthing the vote blooey no matter hooey mantra.

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A Sarcastic Prophet's avatar

I am not a cock eyed optimist looking at the world through rose colored glasses, but I still believe that most of us are decent people who want to see pedophiles and sexual predators in jail. Across cultural lines we can agree that sex with a minor, pedophilia, and sex with a relative, incest, are universal taboos. Will these emails move our hearts and minds to justice?

When I am in conversation with a loyal follower of the Queens real estate mob boss posturing as President and the Epstein files enter the conversation I ask if that person has a child or a young relative that they love beyond all reason. What would they do, I ask, if that young person they love was sexually molested? If that young person named the pedophile, the rapist, as an adult in power, known and loved by millions, would they be believed? What if all the evidence pointed toward several powerful adults gathered together to harm them? These are questions the Epstein files answer; years of investigation by our Department of Justice to bring justice and jail time to these pedophiles and predators known and documented in these files.

And if the Queens real estate mob boss presently sundowning as president is in these files, participated in the crimes, can we agree that he should be prosecuted?

Most people agree.

Sadly, not everyone.

We live in a broken world, yes, but most people want to be decent and just.

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B. Wells's avatar

What about those women with grab my pussy t-shirts? They would offer their daughters up.

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A Sarcastic Prophet's avatar

Like I said, most, not everyone.

Now you are getting into the generational dysfunction systems that some families live in, what is expected and what is sanctioned as normal. It is dysfunction because it is not normal. That’s humanity for you.

Not most.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Case in point: Virginia Guiffre's father (who raped the 6-year-old Virginia), was paid off by Jeffrey Epstein once he had taken his daughter for illicit purposes. Who was there to save Virginia? Her mother should have but was mentally incapable of doing so. One must wonder why a mom would not stop the incest in her own house. As a HS teacher, I can tell you I have come up against this question. I have no fn answer because an answer is an excuse.

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A Sarcastic Prophet's avatar

My gut response without any evidence is that Virginias mom either came from a family system of dysfunction or married into it. Perhaps the cause of her mental illness? This is not an excuse but rather a move toward understanding and breaking the cycle. I can hold individuals responsible and still be compassionate. We all have too many friends and family members in situations of sexual abuse. Listening to their stories is the first step to understanding. Giving them a lifeline of a safe place to live to process this dysfunction is also a start. As a teacher (I substitute frequently) you know that school is sometimes the only safe place for these kids.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

I don't know the answers to any of this. We always seem to be helping those who have been hurt rather than finding ways to save them from being hurt in the first place. Virginia's mom, as I recall from her book, was from a fractured family, had stepdads (never a good sign) and was uprooted several times in her life. Let's face it, shit rolls downhill and Florida seems to be the place lots of turds land. (Apologies to the good people of Florida.) The scenes in the book of her father's abuse and her mother's deliberate blindness and denial are familiar to me. I had a student whose story was so similar it punched my gut to read Guiffre's story. It all makes me wanna scream.

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A Sarcastic Prophet's avatar

I hear you. As I describe it it’s the kind of hurt that rips your heart out through your ass. Humanity is broken. We are each broken. Just some brokenness isn’t as heinous as raping children. Early intervention once a situation comes to light and prosecution for the perps after the fact is sometimes all we can do to prevent further harm. But I know that doesn’t change what’s happened. But there are reparations and healing for victims. I have a roommate who at age 40 is making headway against the absolute sickness that is family sexual and physical abuse. They give me hope and I am helping in their recovery by giving them a safe place. We can only do what we do with what we know. I know it feels hopeless and one feels helpless but remember it is dysfunction because it isn’t normal. May you continue to be a blessing in your work with our most precious resource.

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Christy's avatar

“We always seem to be helping those who have been hurt”

The current crop of Republicans are 300% against doing any of this and are why we don’t do nearly enough of it. Helping them very much helps to prevent that kind of trauma from continuing!!

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Christy's avatar

Right? or just plain survival? Fear of how she’ll feed them if he goes to jail. Once you listen to the people living thru these situations it will change you drastically forever. Judging folks when you haven’t walked in their shoes needs to be saved for the trumps and their ilk of the world. As you say, mom may have lived thru and survived a similar situation which left her very scarred. It’s why it’s up to those of us born with the privilege of being solidly loved and protected to create safety within our institutions and cultures and not expect that traumatized people should have to save themselves.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Right on.

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JerryBier's avatar

This is SO not a both-sides thing. There may be some on the left (center) whose names are in it, but that means nothing -- and when, and if, they get exposed fairly to the much larger culpability of members of the GOP and associates of Trump himself, we must not let them confuse the issue; they certainly will be desperate to do so.

This should be the end of Trump and all his fellow conspirators and pedophiles. Still, we should also be aware that too many of his cult members, no matter how disgusting they may find this, might not realize the gravity and reality of how felonious this behavior is; it still might not be enough to get them to jump ship.

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B. Wells's avatar

some are jumping and that's a start, if not a bandwagon. Sorry mixing metaphors.

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JerryBier's avatar

I like metaphors... :-)

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David Shible's avatar

See Penn State admins and football fans during the Sandusky dreck. Wagons will be circling. No doubt.

It was all mea culpas until they realized that they can get away with it.

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Claudia A's avatar

It’s wild that the cushy accommodations that Ghislaine has are similar is comfort as Jeff Epstein’s accommodations except for not leaving regularly

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B. Wells's avatar

Epstein had cushy accommodations?

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Katy Bolger's avatar

For an understanding of how Epstein got the cushy treatment and its details, go back to the OG of Epstein reporting: Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald in 2017 blew the lid off.

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NubbyShober's avatar

Yup, reading the original Epstein expose by Julie Brown--that blew the lid off his up until then obscure GOP-enabled crimes--will totally blow your mind.

Because the Epstein coverup was and is an entirely GOP phenomenon, carried out by GOP politicians, and ex-GOP politicians turned high price lawyers. One of the crucial players, Alex Acosta, was even elevated by Trump1 to be his Sec'y of Labor.

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Christy's avatar

1st time around, most definitely!!

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B. Wells's avatar

I was thinking of the 2nd time.

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Claudia A's avatar

Republicans in charge of federal and state prisons sure take care of their pedofile friends probably because their equal pedofile friends took care of them with getting little girls - my god I’m never eating again, my stomach is turning at this thought

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Katy Bolger's avatar

"I didn't have no idea." Pretty much sums up Trump's knowledge, aye?

Virginia Guiffre, Jeffrey Epstein and ESPECIALLY Ghislaine Maxwell are all unreliable witnesses. First, Guiffre was in a world of dissonance and denial. And she was a powerless person at the time of her abuse by Epstein and Maxwell which occurred over a two year period, and pretty much up until her death. Second, Jeffrey Epstein, because let's face it, with 200 girls already identified, and many more silent or dead, and with multiple girls at the houses at any given time, and many who had moved from solely sexual abuse to working at the house and in procurement of girls, can Epstein really pinpoint which girl was with Trump for hours? Also, and not for nothing, Michael Wolff has never identified Guiffre as one the girls in the photos with Trump. Then again, Wolff has not, to my knowledge, ever been questioned by law enforcement. Third and most egregious, really, is Maxwell. For her dossier, read Guiffre's book. It is horrible, triggering and will make you lose faith, but if you are interested in the truth about the criminally abusive Maxwell, pick it up. You have been warned, however, for those who would be mentally harmed by her stories of incest and rape. I read it and I am devastated.

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Susan Day's avatar

Regardless, I am confused why the Access Hollywood video and other videos about grabbing women as his right and being a peeping tom at the Miss America pageants aren’t being used to show consistent amoral behavior with regards to women. Epstein wasn’t his only incident

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B. Wells's avatar

Epstein is more than an incident.

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NubbyShober's avatar

There was a 13- or 14-year old Jane Doe who alleged Trump raped her at on of Jeffrey's NYC parties. But she later withdrew her testimony and disappeared.

Read Julie K Brown's original Miami Herald expose on Epstein to understand why.

Epstein hired a high-powered GOP law firm, that hired teams of big, ex-cop PI''s to follow these girls, their family members. Park outside their homes, follow them to school and back. 24/7 surveillance. Even the Palm Beach *detectives* investigating the case were treated this way. And *their* kids.

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JD Ridgley's avatar

Nobody’s Girl” by Virginia Roberts Giuffre gives a very clear picture of the Epstein/Maxwell Sex Traficking operation. There was an unbelievable amount of money involved. Where did it come from?

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Katy Bolger's avatar

The recent expose in the NYT tells the story of how Epstein's money was worshipped at this bank, JPMorgan, and how even with the red flags and loud alarms Epstein's actions caused inside the bank, his bank bro, Jes Staley, and other co-conspirators, fronted for him. Where the money came from is still a mystery, but look no further than Les Wexner, a man who made billions exploiting girls and women with oversexualization. Boy has a big wall been built behind which he cowers. At 88 years old, he will never face the music of prison but he has been shamed. WE NEED A WALL OF SHAME, let their shame be generational.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/magazine/jeffrey-epstein-jp-morgan.html

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Angie's avatar

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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

Time to brush up on your knowledge of Epstein's extensive network of victims, banks, politicians, global leaders, intelligence agencies, schools, billionaires, etc.

Every post I'm linking has verifiable sources. Zev Shalev’s articles on The Greatest Heist are a must-read, as are The Alpha and the Omega of Epstein and the Unlimited Hangout articles by Whitney Webb. Ellie Leonard is extensively covering the sex trafficking and the victims in particular.

This is all publicly available information. Every name and every thread are connected. In most cases the details of these posts and articles are corroborated by each other.

https://pc93.substack.com/p/the-alpha-and-omega-of-the-epstein

https://open.substack.com/pub/narativ/p/the-greatest-heist-part-1-recap

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahkendzior/p/red-lines

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahkendzior/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/redacted-the-real-epstein-list

https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-didnt-evade-justice

https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/why-epsteins-network-looks-like-intelligence

https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/what-putin-has-on-trump

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/third-whistleblower-the-epstein-files

https://thewestpointhistoryprofessor.substack.com/p/epstein-lives-out-his-last-days-is

https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/what-massie-said-in-the-epstein-hearing

https://open.substack.com/pub/craigunger/p/from-both-sides-now

https://open.substack.com/pub/heidicuda/p/letters-to-bette-epstein-money-laundering

https://open.substack.com/pub/katemanne/p/the-actual-conspiracy-theory-surrounding

https://open.substack.com/pub/olgalautman/p/active-measures-how-the-kremlin-penetrated

https://substack.com/home/post/p-167884099

https://open.substack.com/pub/ellieleonard/p/i-was-13-years-old-the-story-of-katie

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-jeffrey-epstein-emails-ghislaine-maxwell/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/business/jeffrey-epstein-peter-thiel-estate.html (Use archive.is to bypass paywall)

https://www.finance.senate.gov/download/letter-from-senator-wyden-to-secretary-bessent-on-epstein-documentspdf

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article238237729.html

https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-peter-mandelson-asked-jeffrey-epstein-for-israel-advice/

https://electronicintifada.net/content/us-media-barely-touches-epstein-links-israeli-intelligence/50822

https://www.timesofisrael.com/antisemitic-conspiracies-about-jeffrey-epstein-go-mainstream-as-he-returns-to-headlines/

https://open.substack.com/pub/tarapalmeri/p/sen-murkowskis-ghislaine-maxwell

https://open.substack.com/pub/kirbysommers/p/karen-mulder-tried-to-tell-the-world

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/125027862.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_J._Spence

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2019/07/investigative-series/hidden-in-plain-sight-the-shocking-origins-of-the-jeffrey-epstein-case/

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2019/07/investigative-series/government-by-blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trumps-mentor-and-the-dark-secrets-of-the-reagan-era/

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/04/investigative-series/one-label-under-blackmail-the-early-intersections-of-diddy-and-the-epstein-network/

Note: in the many years since Ms. Webb (Unlimited Hangout links) published her extensive articles about the Epstein network (I think in 2019), no one has been able to debunk her work or her sources.

Also check out the documentary Filthy Rich: Jeffrey Epstein on Netflix.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Thank you for this. I had wanted a trove, rather than search out myself, and you gave it to us. Appreciate it.

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Angie's avatar

NOW, if you want your mind well and truly blown, look up u/backcountrydrifter on Reddit. He was a prolific commenter up until the election last year when he completely disappeared. The things he talks about sound absolutely wild but again, you're supposed to be completely incredulous. THAT is the con. A very, very long game. He links news articles that corroborate a lot of his claims. A lot of the links I just posted skirt the edges of most of it.

Happy Rabbit Hole Day!

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NubbyShober's avatar

Katy, the real stalking horse in the original Epstein prosecution is Palm Beach DA Barry Krischer. It was he who prosecuted Epstein for a *single* count of soliciting an underage prostitute, despite the accumulated testimony of *dozens* of underage girls compiled by PB PD. The girl ultimately ID'd as the prostitute was 17--despite there being 14- and 15-year-olds who'd provided testimony. Many of these girls apparently withdrew their testimony after Krischer told them that their actions also made them prostitutes, who could be prosecuted under the law.

Why did Krischer go so light on such a dangerous serial pedophile? Did Epstein pay him off?

Krischer is the key to unraveling the Epstein coverup.

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B. Wells's avatar

Thank you for the info you share, Katy. Blessed be.

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Claudia A's avatar

If the redacted name was guiffre’s, then Trump slept with his employee that Epstein stole for the purpose of trafficking and raping her. Yuck 🤮

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Read her book. Epstein paid off her father, a sumbag who worked at Mar-a-lago. Her story simply does not get better, only worse.

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Claudia A's avatar

I purchased it. My heart is going to take horrible hits of anger if I go through this to quickly. I absolutely feel for her.

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Claudia A's avatar

It makes my head melt thinking how the guy took that money and didn’t cross his mind that it might be used as favor money on a child

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Eric Dashman's avatar

Oh, the emails...back to that again. We're talking about the tip of the iceberg. Epstein had video cameras everywhere at all of his residences/brothels. The FBI collected all sorts of CDs and DVDs. Does anyone believe that Epstein recorded stuff for his how private viewing pleasure? How many of the people named in the Black Book of phone and email contacts were on those recordings doing unspeakable things to children? Early in Trump's first run for the presidency, a young woman reported that Trump raped her at age 13. That woman and her account quickly disappeared. Why didn't Merrick Garland and the Democrats chase this information in 2021? Because very likely their own would have also been implicated. Clinton, a man who went through life with an open fly, was close to Epstein. There's a whole world of influential people, the so-called elite, who stand to be implicated. This guy was a procurer for 20 plus years for his rich cronies. It's the horrific videos they're all worried about, not a few emails.

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Jackras's avatar

I appreciate your reporting of the facts. Unfortunately, I have little hope that anyone in congress has the moral fortitude and courage to act on any additional information that may be revealed. This horrific man walks away from every successive scandal. Sadly, his claim that he could "walk down the street and shoot someone and get off free." is likely true.

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Ann Sharon's avatar

The House is only the first obstacle. A After being discharged from committee & passing the House, the bill to release the Epstein Files doesn’t become law until it passes the Senate.

Regardless, things are being revealed and the WH is freaking out.

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Ann Sharon's avatar

Oh, and that pesky problem of going to the WH for the president’s signature.

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Adam's avatar

What did Trump know about Epstein?

EVERYTHING!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTN TO THIS MATTER

- djt will soon die in infamy!

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Anne Hammond-Meyer's avatar

“He knew about the girls.” Decoded:He knew about the objects we collected. Notice their objectification of these young humans and the callousness in even how they discuss them. As horrific as slave trading. I reject this world.

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Christy's avatar

“Trump had spent “hours at my house” with one of the victims, which Republicans on the committee later revealed was Giuffre”

No one has mentioned this being in her book. Curious why she left it out. Fear of POTUS, but not of failed Prince?

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Ann Sharon's avatar

It is hard to say. Anna Wallace, a journalist, helped her write the memoir. There is a photo of her with the former prince. None have been found with trump. Photos in general said to exist were a topic when Sen Whitehouse questioned Bondi whether she had seen them / DOJ had found them. She tried to deflect and then stopped answering altogether.

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Christy's avatar

Perhaps afraid for her life. Perhaps more of us should be questioning her so called death by suicide. What’s the chances her suicide was more like Epstein’s??

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Ann Sharon's avatar

She may have not wanted to poke the bear. There are accounts from survivors and those connected to law enforcement that during Epstein’s first investigation they were followed and harassed.

I doubt her death was not by suicide. She moved to Australia with her husband before Epstein was arrested in 2019. Her family does not question it. She suffered sexual abuse beginning as a small child and later as a teen.

Reviews indicate she wrote in her memoir about her long history of mental & emotional health struggles including struggling with self-harm. Those are not unusual after such abuse especially when it continues for a long period of time.

https://vimeo.com/139998006

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Stephen S. Power's avatar

Look, what's going to come out is that Trump was using Mar a Lago as a training stable for Epstein, if not himself. That's why Trump called losing an underage girl "stealing." Also the pic a congressperson referenced when questioning Bondi, in which Trump had naked underage girls on his lap, will come because that is way too specific a description for something unless you know it exists.

Then he'll flee to Argentina, which is why he's been paying them off.

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David Shible's avatar

The funny(not funny) thing is if Hillary won in 2016, it would be Republicans in Congress and Conservative media that would be demanding information.

I can’t get my head around all the powerful people being pedophiles. But, and just as insidious, they all wanted Epstein’s power, connections and access to money.

If we can’t get convictions, at the very least, regardless of political affiliations, I want these people to squirm in front of their friends and families when being interrogated at the dinner table.

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