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Blames Hillary, Obama and Biden for the Epstein Files, which also don't exist.

I love that he's getting torched by his own.

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[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 hours ago

No he doesn't.

He's kinda up against the foundational myth of Q-Anon here, so there's a chunk of true believers who are extremely vocal about this. But the vast majority of the people that voted for him are conservative hypocrites to whom this was never more than another narrative, to be strategically leveraged to attack the enemy and distract from their crimes while claiming moral superiority.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

I’ll take things I don’t give two fucks about for a thousand, Alex.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 16 points 7 hours ago

💯

On a completely unrelated topic, check out this cool picture.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 49 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Narrator: No he doesn’t.

[–] TehWorld@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Came here to say this. Little else matters in this thread.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

It'll be a thing for a few days (this might last a week or two) and then it'll be over

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah there have been many times already where it's been "they have to get that he's scamming them now, right?"

But they always go back and say "please sir, can we have some more?"

They're already trying to work out that it's all Pam Bondi's fault. Trump is just getting bad advice, etc.

[–] Plurrbear@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Wait… wasn’t Drumpf the president when Epstein was charged?!? So why the fuck is this helmet haired douche trying to blame Hilary (always- it’s his scapegoat), Obama, and Biden?!? None of them were in any position at that point to “help the case” so SHOW US THE DAMN CLIENT LIST where Drumpf was named (we have all seen the pics of him and Epstein together so stop denying it! It’s embarrassing!!) and then we can move the fuck on! And realize that Drumpf is the wet toilet paper of trash and the voters of America who voted for him are basic AF and need to open a fucking damn book!! It’s probs because his cult has only one brain cell rolling around up there reminding them to breathe! 😂😂 stupid MAGATS!

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

The underlying purpose of the whole Qanon movement was basically to give Trump supporters a way to explain why he wasn't delivering on his promises during his first term.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

So why the fuck is this helmet haired douche trying to blame Hilary, Obama, and Biden?!?

Because he's never accepted responsibility for anything he's ever done in his entire life?

Because deflecting the blame to others is his go to move when called out?

Because a large number of his base will believe that his deflections are true?

Because he is a spineless, gutless, nutless, mushroom-dicked, pedophile asshole, and blaming others for his failings is the only thing he can do short of owning it?

All of the above?

Edit:

“Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden administration.” -Trump

So that if the files somehow get leaked, he's already "discredited" them. I guess the FBI took a nap during his first term in office, which isn't suspicious in any way whatsoever.

[–] Plurrbear@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

You win best comment for the day! Amazing!!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It'll pass in ten minutes. These cultists do not have the same values as people we would consider 'normal'. This will not sway them any more than the past five dozen fucking times some fundamentally undeniable issue of hypocrisy in ultra-vile evil shite has come up.

Not a Republican but a lot of notable right wing figureheads are speaking up about it publicly. People with actual power are making noise. Turning point USA which is basically the nonprofit PAC that the runs their local and national media circus has spoken against it. I think they're all realizing the idea is bigger than the leadership. They might be ready to cut ties

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 24 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Even reddit's /r/conservative is up in arms about it, it's great

The mods there are working overtime trying to ban everyone who questions the pedodent

[–] Zink@programming.dev 11 points 12 hours ago

pedodent

Holy shit, lol. I really hope that term is becoming a thing.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 28 points 15 hours ago (18 children)

I tried to engage with a devout trumper about his. They REFUSED to admit that trump was in any way involved with Epstein, despite photographic & video evidence. They ALWAYS furnished some excuse or deflection. Mostly involving Biden “sniffing little girls hair.”

Seriously. These people are deranged. There’s no breaking them from the cult.

[–] Plurrbear@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

That’s because they only have one brain cell up there and it’s telling them to keep breathing! They have nothing else up there but cobwebs and space!

[–] MosesDarkly@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Trump, his administration, and the Heritage Foundation are mentioned alongside "Epsttein memorabilia" in the videos from the Playground dark web forum leak:

recording: https://archive.org/details/dark-web-playground-child-abuse-forum-leak-censored-posted-endchan-03.18.2025

screenshots: https://postimg.cc/gallery/4KZ0Jzk/c85de9af

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

I really don't want to know what qualifies as "Epstein memorabilia".

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[–] Unlocking_Freedom@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (10 children)

Department of Justice release the Epstein Surveillance video:

https://www.justice.gov/video-files/video2.mp4

August 9, 2019 released in July 2025, the Federal Bureau of Prisons release an 11 hour surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein's upper atrium corridor, except it contains this sudden cut and minute removed from it.

The one minute cut is here:

https://odysee.com/@UnlockingFreedom:d/Epstein-Prison-Video-7.5-whole-minutes-cut:c?src=embed&t=0.283513

The footage has been transformed on the X axis and scaled about 3.5% on X axis so, again, there's no way to check frame by frame for repeat use frames. The timestamp at the beginning is 7:40:00pm and the last timestamp is 6:40:00am, but the video is 10:52:23 in length, meaning there's almost 7.5 minutes missing, not just this one minute, which is seen in the cut. The initial report tells us that Jeffrey Epstein (Jewish) was allowed to make an unscheduled, unrecorded phone call (unmonitored). Using a non inmate telephone system line to a local 646 area code, at 6:58pm, contrary to BOP policy but with the permission of a Unit Manager, which lasted until 7:19pm then Epstein was taken back to his cell, without a cellmate.

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago

“I think that these people — and I don’t know, for whatever reason, there could be reasons — but I don’t think they’re telling us the truth about Epstein,” podcaster Brandon Tatum told the assembled crowd at the Tampa Convention Center.

The reason is that the Glorious Leader is a pedophile and well know serial sexual harasser and rapist and releasing the Epstein files would conform what everyone other than the MAGAzi fascist bootlickers already know.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Trump is now claiming that Biden and Obama created the Epstein files. The only reason for him to do this is that the files aren't damaging to Democrats and confirm that Trump is a serial pedophile rapist.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that openly expressing a desire to fuck his daughter is a dead giveaway.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Definitely. I hope the full truth comes out.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago

Shocking allegations about the guy that used to creep around in the Miss Teen USA changing room!

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[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

My guess, he's got people typing out documents that say

EPSTEIN FILES

  1. Hillary
  2. Obama
  3. DEFINITELY NOT TRUMP!!

They'll release it in a couple days.

[–] derry@midwest.social 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

More likely a black sharpie

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

Front page on ONN:

EPSTEIN FILES

  1. Hillary

  2. Obama

  3. ~~TRUMP!!~~
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[–] MosesDarkly@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

And yet, the Playground Forum leaked video suggests that it's almost entirely far-right ideologies who run america's internal human slave trade and child abuse groups.

recording: https://archive.org/details/dark-web-playground-child-abuse-forum-leak-censored-posted-endchan-03.18.2025

screenshots: https://postimg.cc/gallery/4KZ0Jzk/c85de9af

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago
[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 38 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

We been eaten good this summer fam.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Funny, but no.

We are trapped in our own cultivated echo-chambers. You are a victim of the same cognitive control mechanisms as the right if you think there is at all a large enough wave of regret and "realization" going through the general conservative or even median voting population to effectively produce change.

This is still not enough. If you want to understand why, spend a day watching FOX or even CNN or MSNBC. Right-wing news is already moving onto other bullshit topics like trade and trans athletes and immigration successes. The other networks are using this latest drama to squeeze the last traces of pus from the emotional pimple from a population that wants to read a feel-good, satisfying "We got 'em!" story so they can get back to their comfortable lives.

The only way this will turn into anything with actual political action is if enough people actively serving in politics right now organize and use this to affect actual political decisions. Investigations, evidence, articles and coalitions. We were led to believe that the Democratic establishment was supposed to be doing this, as there really isn't any other sizeable organization working in politics who can, but the sad truth is that most dems are just working as cover for the fact that the entire establishment, republican and democrat, has been bought or is actively being attacked and dragged out of the picture for not being bought. (See: Mamdani)

You want this to mean something? Go get involved in your local political groups and work on getting rid of the foundation of this pyramid of slime that supports our congress and senate.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 59 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine being so stupid as to think the RAPIST was going to do something about sex trafficking pedos?

🤣 🤣

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 24 points 18 hours ago

One of his followers did try to shoot him for it. Strange, the shooter’s reasons were not well publicized.

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