The president has faced pressure from his supporters to release the files about Epstein, which they believe will reveal a cover-up.

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  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    21 hours ago

    Was the mushroom and egg team a fiction made up by Obama and his RussiaRussiaRussia hoax along with his accursed time machine?

    Thanks, Obama.

  • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
    62·
    2 days ago

    That didn’t happen.

    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. <— We are here

    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

    And if it is, that’s not my fault.

    And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

    And if I did, you deserved

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    Trump was asked in Turnberry, Scotland, “You had said you had not been briefed that your name was in the Epstein files, doesn’t the AG have to tell you?”

    The president responded, in part, “Well, I haven’t been overly interested in it. It’s a hoax that’s been built up by those, way beyond proportion. Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They were run by Comey, they were run by Garland, they were run by Biden. Those files were run for four years by those people.”

    “The whole thing is a hoax. They ran the files. I was running against somebody that ran the files. If they had something they would have released.”

    trumps main problem with that defense, is the files isn’t everything.

    Like, they didn’t pick up a physical piece of paper, and now it only exists in “the files”…

    So why it could be plausible someone put Trump’s name in all the places it is in “the files” there’s just so much evidence over so long. He can’t get rid of it all the source, and no one could have planted it all over.

    I mean, obvious main problem with the Epstein list is he spent decades trafficking children so they could be raped…

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      I want someone to ask some follow-up question like “what does ‘they ran the files’ even mean, and please be as specific as possible.”

  • AlexLost@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 days ago

    Weird that his best friend would allow his name to show up on his contact list? That’s super weird and suspect for a best friend to do.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    But somehow they didn’t bother to release them to sink Trump before the election, which would have been easily done in response to his constant rambling about releasing them.

    Dude is treating us like fucking idiots but unfortunately many of us are that stupid

    • watson@sopuli.xyz
      10·
      2 days ago

      A lot of the documents are still sealed, though. The previous administration had no access to them. Shit, I don’t think Trump is supposed to have access to them. They just conveniently forget that he ran on releasing them.

      • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        In this absurd theoretical scenario Obama and his deep state thugs had access to blatant manipulate and sprinkle names all throughout the documents, so certainly they’d have enough access to leak the documents or do the whole “deep state: engage!” thing where they unilaterally and force the release of documents through a loyalist FBI director and attorney general and court system.

        And yet, the “deep state” apparently just sat around fingering its asshole the whole election.

  • CPMSP@midwest.social
    8·
    2 days ago

    He has to realize this makes him look even worse from a credibility standpoint… Right?

    Like someone who starts every other sentence with “Honestly…”. It implies the opposite is the standard.

    But hey, I guess I’m not the PR rep that has to manage the shitstorm, so what do I care?

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    2 days ago

    “I never had the privilege of going to his island, and I did turn it down,” President Trump said. “But a lot of people in Palm Beach were invited to his island. In one of my very good moments, I turned it down. I didn’t want to go to his island.” Source