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This is not being reported in the U.S. news media. Maybe you can argue it’s because it’s July 4th, but if this doesn’t come out in a major way tomorrow, I guess the fix is in.

“Trump’s name appears over and over again on Jeffrey Epstein’s message logs in the grand jury docs released this week. It is also undisputed: Trump’s name appears 7 times on Epstein’s private jet flight logs, that Epstein flew on Trump’s jet with a young girl of indeterminate age, girls who Epstein trafficked worked at Mar-A-Lago, a girl Epstein trafficked mentioned visiting Trump’s casino in a recently released deposition transcript. Trump said Epstein is a great guy who likes girls on the younger side, Trump frequently “partied” with Epstein, Trump wished Ghislaine Maxwell well at her criminal trial, and someone who testified under the pseudonym JANE DOE at the Ghislaine Maxwell criminal trial stated that she was introduced to Trump by Epstein when she was 14 years old,” a user posted on X.

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Since the Heritage Foundation just overtly declared war on American democracy, complete with a thinly veiled threat of violence and bloodshed, it’s just that much more important that news like this is spread as widely as possible.

The fascists riding Trump’s coattails aren’t even hiding their intentions any more. We must not let them succeed in destroying the few remaining vestiges of American democracy, and the first step in that is keeping that loathsome lunatic Trump out of office.

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Watch the major news orgs glaze past it so they can report that a geriatric man is geriatric. At this point they’re all complicit in what is about to happen in November.

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Yep. Corporate news made their choice in 2016. The resulting chaos, dysfunction, and humiliation to the country did nothing to change their minds.

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“Corporate” is the key word there.

Major corporations, including but by no means limited to those that have bought up all of the major news outlets, are, along with a number of destructively insane billionaires, the main financiers of this attempted fascist takeover. They’re the real driving force behind it.

They see this, and accurately, as a significant moment in human history - the point at which modern civilization might just come to broadly recognize the significant harm done by the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few and much more to the point, might take steps to prevent it. And that’s a direct threat to their entirely unearned, undeserved and grotesquely destructive privilege, and in their literally insane lust for wealth and power and the privilege they bring, they’re going to stop at nothing to prevent that.

People talk about a class war - the class war is already well under way. The oligarchs have been actively fighting it for years now. Most of the people just haven’t realized that yet.

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At this point they’re all complicit in what is about to happen in November.

Truer than you might think. Here’s the FACT based analysis to back up your statement.

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There was no thin veil. It was a clear statement.

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thinly veiled

Pretty sure they just said it outright.

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complete with a thinly veiled threat of violence and bloodshed

There wont be any bloodshed if we stop resisting!!!

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Exactly.

Entirely on brand, it’s the classic abusive asshole position - “just do as I say - I don’t want to have to hurt you, but I will.”

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3 points

It’s what rapists say.

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“Massage appointments” are in every conservative’s calendar.

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CSA is very much bipartisan, and occurs from every demographic. It’s not helpful to victims to pretend it’s not.

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Go ahead and compare the list of guilty Ds vs Rs, you will find that it is VERY far from 50/50. D’s actually kick out members that do horrible shit like this, R’s circle the wagons.

I’ll help you out, go ahead and take a look at this list: https://www.dailykos.com/history/user/CajsaLilliehook

I beg you, please, show me an equatable list for Ds. I’ll wait.

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That’s not helpful to CSA victims whose abusers are D/d, but I guess since not as many are known/convicted, those victims don’t matter to some people.

Edit: because Bill Gates and Bill Clinton were never on those flights or call logs or island.

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The article doesn’t really say anything other than phone records and flights. If the implication is that trump participated in sex trafficking, they need to say that and show proof. If they’re just trying to show guilt by association, it’s going to look like a smear job.

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it’s going to look like a smear job.

He said, ignoring that conservative “news” is exclusively smear jobs dressed up as news. If Republicans don’t have to care about decorum then neither do Democrats. If only we could actually learn this lesson.

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If you wrestle igs in the mud, they will win because they have more experience.

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Even if he didn’t directly participate, did he witness it? Turn a blind eye? I hope future reporting is clear what it is and is not evidence of, but I also hope people ask the very reasonable questions that follow from what we do know now.

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Drain the swamp! I mean trumps circulitory system!

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Is this the file?

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That’s not a link … it’s a download.

Blocked.

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It’s a PDF of a court document.

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Thanks. It would have been nice if they would have said that in their post.

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That’s not a link … it’s a download.

Any link is a download… I mean that’s what happens even when the link target is displayed in the browser, the browser downloads a file (actually a collection of files usually) that is then interpreted and displayed in the browser. A download of data still happens though.

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