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Erica Paul's avatar

Every redacted page is n admission of guilt.

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DMarlene's avatar

"Imagine being accused of a serious crime and appointing the people who investigate you." Hmmm. Sounds like what Israel does all the time. Could they be implicated in the newly renamed "Trump-Epstein files"?

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Rebel Nun's avatar

I’m certain they are. Epstein was a Mossad agent, as was Ghislaine Maxwell’s father. 🔥

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salahuddin c's avatar

Reductio ad absurdum is such a clever idea. Usually works.

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Harry069 🇨🇦's avatar

Ah yes, Trump is another person who thinks being creepy is a personality trait. Bold strategy.

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Dan Henry's avatar

It looks like every other government document dump over the last 100 years - that is if they even agree to make materials available.

Expecting anything else is the height of naivete.

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John Jacob's avatar

Another ridiculous spectacle by this sadly and ridiculously corrupted Presidency 🫡

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Baz's avatar

If only Wikileaks had gotten hold of those files.

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Margaret Stringer's avatar

Call me a Cassandra. Again. I predicted this, and everyone laughed at me.

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Sean Bodhivajra Scanlan's avatar

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The endless obfuscation and denialism of Trump and his handlers about the Epstein files -- and pretty much everything else -- would be getting pretty tedious by now, if Laura from Normal Island were not here to entertain us, along this ghastly journey, by reframing the obsfuscations so imaginatively and amusingly.

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Amaterasu Solar's avatar

What a play, eh? Hide the backstage operations and keep the plot distracting!

What a Play! (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/what-a-play

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Frances Kay's avatar

Ah, you wicked cynic... all you have to do at this festive time is to believe firmly in the Christmas fairy, who comes at night and with her fairy pen erases all unChristmassy thoughts and deeds. The reason Trump keeps falling asleep during top-level meetings is because he stays up real late to help with fairy with her work, so we can all sleep easy in our beds. There is nothing so Christmassy as a page covered in black redactions - have you never heard of Rudolph, the Redacted News Reindeer?

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Christopher Wild's avatar

FRANKLY ANY CREDIBILITY THAT TRUMP MIGHT HAVE ENJOYED UP UNTIL NOW IS LITERALLY IN THE SHREDDER. BY IMPLICATION HIS SUPPORTERS ARE EVERY BIT AS GUILTY OF AIDING AND ABETTING TRUMP’S PEDOPHILIA.

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Lenny Cavallaro's avatar

I expected nothing more. Michael Cohen called this "Fifty Shades of Black Marker," and I cannot think of a more apt description.

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Rebel Nun's avatar

The files are not really necessary; they’ve been a distraction and a delay tactic all along. The evidence is there, is enough to convict, is overwhelming, and is public. Here, for example, is all you need to know, and way more than you ever wanted to; pass it on - everyone with strong nerves should force themselves to hear all of it: (if any idiot claims it’s fake, point out that it’s from 2016 and minutes 12:20 to 16:38 are horrifyingly prophetic of 2025)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZa_cVshcI&pp=ygUha2F0aWUgam9obnNvbiBhZmZpZGF2aXQgZnJvbSAyMDE2

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