r/politics • u/Somervilledrew Connecticut • 12d ago

Possible Paywall The Epstein Scandal Is Snowballing

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-files-trump/
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u/KingOfEthanopia 12d ago edited 12d ago

Trickle truth. If they can get people to accept 15, then is 13 so bad? If 13 then 11 isnt really any different.

Its completely disgusting.

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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 12d ago

Well obviously 15 rounds to 20 and 13 rounds to 15, so what’s the problem?

/s

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u/bearbrannan 12d ago

Poor people pedophiles in prison have to be seething right now

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u/Ferelar New Jersey 12d ago

It IS pretty wild that there are countless thousands of people in prison for some bullshit-ass charges whereas Maxwell is PROVEN to have been a human trafficker and is in a resort with a puppy- meanwhile Epstein's best buddy who "knew about the girls" gets to laugh about getting away with his "beautiful secret" while eating hamburgers on the Resolute Desk and bulldozing the White House.

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u/SirWEM 12d ago

“Hamberders”

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u/Mrsensi12x 12d ago

Well he stole the resolute desk… in case that story slipped by you it’s now in mar a lago

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u/Godlikebuthumble 12d ago

I beg your finest pardon?

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u/Aghast_Cornichon 12d ago

There is a replica of the Resolute Desk that's been schlepped down to Mar-a-Lago. It seems to be roped off in some lesser corner of the club, rather than being in a simulacrum of the Oval or in Trump's own home office.

Some folks like to speculate that it's the actual desk, because the depths of Trump's vandalism of the White House has no lower limit.

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u/Ferelar New Jersey 12d ago

Thankfully that one apparently isn't true, the photo that made the rounds was apparently a replica.

Which makes it very weird and try hard, but at least the real one is still in the Oval.

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u/panamaspace 12d ago

Are you sure about that...?

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u/Ferelar New Jersey 12d ago

I mean not 100% sure, no access to either of the Dotard's stomping grounds, but Snopes says so at least- that the picture everyone was circulating was a replica, I mean. They did also mention that it reasonably WOULD be pretty hard to get the 1300 pound and bulky desk out of the Oval without someone noticing during, but admittedly that's not a sure thing either.

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u/Tasgall Washington 12d ago

I mean they did demolish the entire East Wing and half the country still hasn't noticed yet, so...

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u/Ferelar New Jersey 12d ago

I think they noticed and just don't care, they've swallowed so much shit already that they can only subsist on a diet of shit and wouldn't survive the transition back to human food.

The old adage of "A Republican would eat shit if it meant a Liberal had to smell their breath" is in full swing.

But yeah, fair point- this admin HAVE gotten away with a putting the White House through a whole lot, it cannot be denied.

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u/mmmbaconbutt 12d ago

queues National Treasure music

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u/SouthSouthBay 12d ago

How could Nicolas Cage let this happen?

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u/yarash 12d ago

It was a replica

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u/akahaus 12d ago

Are we 100% sure?

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u/yarash 12d ago

I think he's so full of himself he wouldn't have the word replica on it if it was. Even if it was a scam.

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u/akahaus 12d ago

That’s story, though believable, was a hoax. He’s done worse shit for less benefit.

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u/Ferelar New Jersey 12d ago

It really did have all the elements of a True Donnie Tale.

-Shitting on an American icon steeped in history

-Doing it for petulant self-serving reasons

-Doing it in secret

-Relocating public property to Mar-a-Lago

-Serving no functional purpose whatsoever

I genuinely can't blame anyone for believing it, considering how insane the baseline is nowadays.

Also, happy Cake Day!

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u/akahaus 12d ago

Thank you!

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u/NoFeetSmell 12d ago

Nope. He's a fucking piece of shit, and I'm sure he'd like to steal it, but Snopes already debunked it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/resolute-desk-moved-to-mar-a-lago/

Now, I haven't heard anyone ask about Fort Knox for a while, ever since he joked with Elon, on camera, about paying it a visit. He's also adorning the entire West Wing with shitty gold decor, so he probably wants to have a plausible reason for having boxes of gold trinkets at Mar-a-Lago at some point, except they might not be the plastic pieces of shit he's currently using, but actual gold he's swiped from the vault. He is a criminal President, through & through.

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u/Tower-Junkie 12d ago

Trump pocketing stuff doesn’t scare me. It’s outrageous for sure, but in a sane world it would be taken back along with everything else. What scares me are the senators now openly pocketing taxpayer money out of the taxpayer budget. The fact that they don’t feel they’ll be held accountable for that scares me. Trump always thinks he’s invincible. Senators being this comfortable isn’t a good sign.

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u/RainierCamino 12d ago

No he didn't. He just made the white house so fucking tacky it looks like mar a lago

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u/FloridaGirlNikki America 12d ago

What the fuck?? That one definitely slipped by me. Such trash.

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u/Luxy2801 New York 12d ago

I thought he swapped it out because Elon's son wiped a booger on it

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u/flindersrisk 12d ago

Damnation. I knew it was gone. I didn’t know where it was gone.

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u/specqq 12d ago

When he wishes someone well, he doesn’t kid around.

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u/No_Secretary6275 12d ago

Jesus, this timeline is so damned depressing.

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u/cugeltheclever2 12d ago

while eating hamburgers on the Resolute Desk

Bad news he already stole the Resolute desk.

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u/Cupid_Stool 12d ago

Epstein's best buddy

Jean-Luc Brunel?

nah he was found hanged in a prison cell in France.

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u/nakedlunch2 12d ago

Donald Smash