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"This is significant because Kash Patel testified to Congress that FBI had no evidence of other sex traffickers," Massie added. "This is FBI’s own 2019 document listing [Les] Wexner as coconspirator in child sex trafficking. It wasn’t unredacted until tonight."
Wait . . . So he was lying when he said that???
Well don’t that beat all.
While we all knew he was lying. Now there's documented evidence proving that he did, and that's much more actionable.
Trump was a trafficker. Trump Model Management was started years before Epstein's MC2 modeling.
Trump probably taught Jeff everything he needed to know.
They both learned from John Casablancas.
At age 42, Casablancas began dating 14 year old Stephanie Seymour while he was married to model Jeanette Christiansen. In 1993, the 50-year-old Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonça de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil, who he had met as a schoolgirl. He would also be friends with Donald Trump, Elite Model Management represented his daughter Ivankawhen she became a fashion model at age 15.
Jesus.
The Republican is Thomas Massie, as expected. It seems that he is one of a few Republicans who will act ethically as long as the topic is Epstein.
He also defended Alex Pretti carrying a gun, saying it’s not a death sentence but a right.
Would he have said that if Alex was a legal US Citizen carrying a gun legally but instead he was a brown man? Probably not, just because Massie argues against his own team he's still a leopard with the same spots. GOP, always assume ulterior motives.
There used to be some Republicans that I respected to some degree, even if I disagreed with their policies. John McCain, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney are examples.
Now the only hope I have for current Republican politicians is that some of them are secretly opposing Trump because of their own ambitions. I don't think a good person could have kept quiet about Trump.
The ones you respected have done some terrible shit in the name of status quo. Some of it has flown under the radar.
The politicians I mentioned stood out because they didn't always toe the party line. They actually represented their constituents, and that's the bare minimum I think you need to be an elected representative. Whatever else they've done, the fact that they actually served as representatives makes them stand head and shoulders above the usual throngs of spineless losers who serve as our congresspersons.
When you give the party as much power as our politicians do, it violates the most basic principles that this country was founded upon.
The ones you mentioned are all despicable people, maybe do some research. They literally just acted somewhat reserved and dignified in public while performing their atrocities. I'd argue that's actually worse.
That Bible they're always thumping has a term for people like them: "whitewashed tomb"
Only because he's gone after November. After that, we won't have his help. There are a lot of other outgoing MAGAs that aren't speaking up, hoping to slip out of this with nobody remembering that they were part of it. That's why carving a Swastika into their foreheads is so important.
Here's a sobering thought: You think all these predators suddenly stopped trafficking and raping girls once Epstein was dead? This shit is still happening in other dark places more likely than not.
The Franklin incident happened in the 80s and may be the precursor to Epstein. It's very similar, never resolved and the cover up ended with a dosen "suicides" and "found shot in the head"s, a plane crash that killed the lead investigator and his son, and victim Alisha Owens in prison for 15 years for perjury because she refused to recant.
Also Epstein's xbox account has been active since he died but before it leaked. Kids play xbox. I haven't seen login locations just times but certainly an interesting lead for someone
Some of the victims say they have been to at least 3 different islands. It is much bigger than Epstein.
And it wasn't just islands. He had the girls on palm beach in Florida, there's tons of evidence of that. Seems he used his NY home the same way. Probably why both were wired with cameras like the little saint james island.
I've thought of this. Trump is in a perfect position to steal young girls from one of his Concentration Camps, and nobody knows more about Epstein's operation than him.
We can't count on him being too moral to operate such a business, and he finds any avarice too tempting to resist, and he doesn't have the impulse control to resist anyway.
And on top of it, he thinks he's immune from prosecution for it. He could literally run TV ads to fuck 12 year olds, and nothing would happen to him, or at least he thinks so.
I wouldn't be surprised if Trump is working on exploiting that business opportunity right now.
And surely they've learned to use more secure communication methods, so the likelihood of there ever being more files like this are slim.
That may be true, but governments' and agencies spying apparatus have become infinitely more advanced.
If we could elect people who actually care for the law, justice and children we could clean up the FBI / CIA and cripple the pedophile network.
But step one is literarily NOT electing fucking child rapists.... But apparently that's too hard for Americans
Fuck Trump, this entire pedophile administration and any piece of shit that voted for this pile of human garbage
They've learned to have confidence in their current choice of encryption and storage. Their arrogance is always their downfall.
Make no mistake, these republicans seemingly coming forward having a conscience is not a come to Jesus moment. They're posturing because they are fucking scared of impending doom.
And they may have been 'given permission' because of the strategy regarding the upcoming election.
Please elaborate
If that's what it takes for them to do their jobs, I'm fine with it.
Smoke and mirrors my friend. This will not lead to them doing a job, just them attempting to keep their job and their freedom.
Fox news: "Who is this Patel anyway? He's just a low level coffee boy FBI Director. As usual the Democrats (shut up I know its a Republican) lie about who has what information! Coffee boy FBI Directors wouldn't have access to unredacted information! It was Joseph Stalin Hussien Biden who did it!"
The plausibility of your comment saddens me.
I had to look up to make sure this was indeed made up... thats how much stupid shit Faux news Infotainment says
Bro lookin like he took a fat dookie again
Is “fat dookie” what we’re calling an eight ball these days?
Sometimes gotta work hard at that dookie.
Also famously cut with baby laxative.
Torture porn? Fuuuuck. This keeps getting worse and worse. All of these sick fucks need to hang in the streets. Both, the ones that committed the crimes and the ones that helped cover them up.
But will it have consequences? The whole structure of the current US government is built on and around the notion that laws and consequences are not applicable to the "in-people".
If it’s significant, do something about it.
Until something actually happens, this is nothing. We're very long past the point of words and outrage being effective. Until people GO TO JAIL, all of this is roleplay.
What would really be significant is some consequences.
Is it abnormal for Thomas Massie to speak up? If so that's significant. If he's retiring, not so much. They always attempt to grow a spine when they know they will be away from danger.
Massie teamed up with Dem Khanna(sp?) to get the Epstein file bill snuck into a House vote. Whatever else he's done wrong, he's been solidly focused on getting this shit public for a while.
While it is absolutely true what you're saying about the miraculous post-retirement regenerative power of vestigial Republican spines, strangely enough Massie's on the right side of Epstein and has been all along.
Is it abnormal for Thomas Massie to speak up?
Not on Epstein. I don't know anything about Massie's other voting history, but on Epstein the orange chancre has threatened him directly more than once, and he has never backed down. Without Massie and the other Rs who crossed the aisle, EFTA would not have passed.
bug eyed fascist geek
When the Dems take back the House in November, they should bring up Kameleon Kash on perjury charges.
If I was this Patel guy I'd be looking out for bus wheels...
He's got his eyes wide open watching for those wheels.
Bet on it: for the FBI under Trump it is more important to protect the guilty wealthy and influential criminals than protecting and providing justice to the victims.
But he seems so trustworthy and doesn't look at all like he needs to end a press conference immediately to scuttle off with the boss's diaper bag (a.k.a. "Football #2").
For once, the admin might have found an issue that its base won't let go.