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The Trump-Epstein Files

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 177 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I don't understand, does Elon think we all forget that he was begging to go too?

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago

In another email later that same month, Epstein mentioned he “had dinner with zuckerburg, mu=k, thiel hoffman, wild”

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 75 points 2 days ago

Remember, he's a piece of shit. People like that are often very motivated witch hunters.

[–] pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

but you forgot, Elon didn't diddle little kids because Jeff was out of town that weekend, so he's in the clear! (sarcasm if its not obvious)

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

He did, but I un-redacted one of the documents, and it was Epstein's response to Musk:

Dear Elon,

You have been relentless in your requests, and I have run out of excuses, so I'm just going to be straight with you - you are never visiting my island. To be brutally honest, you look like a Goblin, and you are hideous on a good day. I can't imagine what you look like naked.

Frankly, you will frighten the girls, who are really just little kids, after all. It's hard enough to pressure them into sex with ugly fat old men, nobody needs you prancing around naked like an obese Gollum with a bad haircut.

Please, forget my name.

Warmest Regards,

Jeff

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Not all, maybe, but just enough.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 88 points 2 days ago

Lmao rich idiots flinging shit at each other in their digital zoo

[–] scoobford@piefed.blahaj.zone 49 points 2 days ago
[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just like when a girl tells you she has a pierced nipple, the correct response is "I don't believe you"

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I had a friend in high school start a rumor that I had gross nipples, because he wanted me to prove him wrong.

It didn’t work, we each lost a friend, and I had people making shitty digs at me about my supposedly gross nipples.

(FYI, if anyone is going to make the obvious joke here, advanced warning that I’ll just block you)

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ok, I'll take one for the team. Obvious joke incoming!!

My dog has no nose!
How does it smell?
...
AWFUL!

[–] narp@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Harsh but fair.

[–] SaneMartigan@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You never wanted that person as a friend anyway. That's bullshit.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Oh, yeah. I’m glad I found out, but it blew up my high school friend group up a little right as we were leaving, so as a result, I have two friends from high school, both women, less than twenty years out. I suspect that if it hadn’t happened, the shittiness of some of the guys who spread the rumor would have gone unnoticed by us long enough for them to grow out of it. That’s still not ideal, but again, I did graduate during Obama’s first term.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Damn, I can't imagine how much that must've got into your psyche. It must've really worn you down, even knowing that the rumour was complete bullshit. It's hard enough being a teenager without supposed friends creating new things to feel insecure about. I'm sorry that happened to you

[–] Headofthebored@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm trying to figure out what "gross nipples" would even mean. I have a suspicion you weren't dealing with intellectuals there.

[–] Monument 5 points 2 days ago

They were implying they had 144 nipples.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah that's fucked. Like negging mixed with bullying to sexually harass a friend…

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 49 points 2 days ago

The emails I read say that they caved and sent Musk a helicopter to the island at least once. Why is the rhetoric so quickly changed to “he was never on the island even though he wanted to go”? His PR team is underrated.

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You know who isn’t in the Epstein files?

Me! W00T!

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago
[–] v321@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I don’t believe you.

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sort of inclined to believe anybody who Elmo calls a liar.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Reid Hoffman: Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

There's definitely worse folks in the Files, but...

In February 2026, newly released Epstein files revealed an email sent on Christmas Eve 2014 from Hoffman, noting "ice-cream...for the girls" and another item to "strike your funny bone for the island."

:-/

Pretty safe to say at this point that if you're a Silicon Valley billionaire, you've fucked a kid.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

think they'll take out elon? nobody likes a snitch is elon is a squeeler for sure

or are we not that lucky.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 2 days ago

I watch hockey to see the fights, not who will win.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Elon Musk apparently doesn't. Otherwise he would learn some bit of it.

Anyway, let them fight :)

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought this guy was supposed to be some l33t gamer.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He got addicted to "Battle of Polytopia," a shallow mobile civ knock-off which he claims to address the fundamental problems of chess.

(Also I know, ewww SubStack)

What Elon Musk's favorite game tells us about him - https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-elon-musks-favorite-game-tells

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The "fundamental problem(s) of chess" to him is simply that it's not fun to his mental stump of a cortical half-step.

[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

And… nothing happens. The us has abandoned justice. Immunity ty from everything for the rich

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

The federal US government is trying to make you believe that. There is still accountability in Europe and the individual states in the US.

The “nothing happens” comments on help one side of this battle and it isn’t the side who needs help.

[–] Billy_fuccboi@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago
[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

May the odds ever be in your favour.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 5 points 2 days ago

Oh, do keep this up.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Oh no how unfortunate.

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ketamine is a hell of a drug.

[–] SaneMartigan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ol' Musky giving Ket a bad name.

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

He gives a lot of things a bad name.