• A joint DOJ–FBI memo reaffirmed that no “client list” of high-profile individuals existed and found no evidence Epstein blackmailed anyone.
  • MAGA hardliners (e.g., Alex Jones) and some Trump allies lash out at AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, demanding disclosures.
  • President Trump urged supporters to stop attacking his team over “Epstein Files,” calling Epstein “somebody nobody cares about” and insisting his administration is “PERFECT.”
  • Internal friction reportedly flared between Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino (who threatened to quit) and Bondi, though Trump insists DOJ/FBI are united.
  • Trump wants the FBI to refocus on his unproven 2020 election–fraud claims rather than “the same old…documents on Jeffrey Epstein.”
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    Wow, this sure is some in-depth reporting…

    Although Trump appears in at least one video alongside Epstein at a party, the president has denied allegations that his name was in the files or that he had any direct connection to the disgraced financier.

    “At least” one video, numerous photos, Trump describing Epstein as a ‘Terrific guy who he had known for 15 years’ and “He’s a lot of fun to be with, It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Epstein saying he was “Donald’s closest friend for ten years”…

    But sure, let’s just characterize it as ‘They both attended the same party once.’

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      Sorry, it’s the best article I could find on this topic on the internet. If you can find a better one - feel free to share though

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        It wasn’t a dig at you, it was at the people who wrote the article.

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    Well pack it in boys. The convicted criminal thats most likely implicated in a high profile child sex trafficking ring says “stop worrying about this list, there is no list and im certainly not on it”

    I for one think we should believe this lying, cheating, gas lighting criminal. Biggest “trust me bro” in history

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        It’s some sort of an older client list but it is Epstein’s. Lots of ppl on it incl. Trump. 🤷🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

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    It’s funny watching rapey getting ratioed on his own echo chamber platform.

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      conservative podcast dipshits (conpodshits for short) have been bringing up 1984 for years and are short circuiting as their guy does the thing because they think george orwell was talking about communists

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        I said this elsewhere Orwell applies just as well to any type of ideology because they all ask you to accept the agenda and to walk in lockstep with everyone else in the “movement”. So when right wing podcasters use it they are as correct as when left wingers do. Failure to see this means being completely consumed by ideology.

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          george orwell if he met a modern republican “forget what I said, 1984 is now exclusively about these freaks” and then he does a kickflip on his skateboad

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    What maga people don’t understand is that, when you’re rich, they just let you do it. That is literally the ethos of their patron saint on every level, for his entire life.

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    What’s so funny about this is that Pam Bondi and Trump paraded conservative influencers all around and made them hold up pieces of paper labeled “THE EPSTEIN FILES” and had them all go on their social medias and claim that they read it.

    And now they’re saying that they don’t exist and never existed.

    I actually feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are

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      I would feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are if the admin were actually wrong about that. So far the base has proven them right over and over and over again- they truly are as stupid as the admin thinks they are.

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        It’s almost worse than that. I swear, some of them take a perverse pride in being led all around the political landscape like a dog with a shiny red ball. The discussions I’ve had where people happily and excitedly admit that Trump was completely lying to them and just hungrily accept the new story as undeniable fact is wild and impossible for me to wrap my head around.

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    This is what’s amazing to me.

    He went on the Howard Stern show and boasted about barging into the dressing rooms of the Miss Teen USA pageant, talked about how hot his teenage daughter was, and pushed his way into a softcore Playboy video and none of his voters thought there might be a problem.

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        Every single time their accusations are admissions of guilt. How many of these Bible thumping cunts frothing about gays and pedos and rapists have turned out to be gay pedo rapists?

        I grew up around psychotic narcissists- that’s their whole fucking thing, deflect and accuse others of the things they’re guilty of.

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          45 was there for my friend’s naturalization ceremony. he said he loved her and they were family now. today, as 47, he seeks to denaturalize her and to ship her off, probably to one of the death camps. this is abusive relationship behavior. because that’s who the president is.

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        He also does the things that many of them do. Trump isn’t the only (child) rapist predator, he’s just the most powerful one.

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      hes been saying this sort of stuff for a long ass time. a bunch of the people supporting him accept and like this.

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    Has anyone from Biden’s admin come out and refuted Trump’s DoJ’s statements? They need to be on every conservative outlet that will give them a second of time talking how the documents existed before.