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Despite all the distractions and detours, we know that Donald Trump could release all of the Epstein files today. Everything else is just a diversion.
Obviously, he doesn't want to release the files. Only he knows the full reasons why?
Bondi and all the DOJ are following the orders of their Boss. They dare not cross his path. They dare not dispute a word of his lies.
It is easy to get diverted with all the stories, such as putting Senators to death, when all the people want is to know the names of the sexual child abusers and the human traffickers. They are not asking for anything that is impossible to get.
Trump just needs to turn loose his grip on these files.
in2herbs
(4,091 posts)bucolic_frolic
(53,503 posts)These files are the tip of the iceberg. Release will uncover unstoppable tentacles.
kentuck
(115,005 posts)...on everything from Wall Street to foreign affairs.
bucolic_frolic
(53,503 posts)usonian
(22,804 posts)Trump was in this up to his (foreshortened) ears and eyes and disgusting hairdo.
And a long discussion on Trumps possible fit in the global scheme.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220735608
Just hear me out, what if he's not just in the Epstein files
But actually a part of the trafficking ring. He ran the Rump Modeling Agency and owned the Miss Teen America Pagent.
Here's a map of his known contacts.
We mapped Jeffrey Epstein's social network. Here's what we found.
https://america2.news/we-mapped-jeffrey-epsteins-social-network-heres-what-we-found/
Sample:

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AZJonnie
(2,452 posts)I'm fundamentally not a fan of the concept of "Trump Releasing the Epstein Evidence". This "file release" is half-assery of the highest order, and irresponsible both for it's lack of safeguards against wrongful accusations, and because NOBODY KNOWS whether the public is getting "everything", how it may have been cherry-picked, redacted, etc. More importantly, this "release" could fundamentally undermine REAL investigations (the kind Democrats might do, I mean) that could result in actual justice.
I prefer to wait until Democrats win either House back, and conduct a proper investigation, with subpoena power, and/or for the DoJ to continue their earlier investigation under a Democratic POTUS. If there are perpetrators outside the fairly known, established set (Epstein, Maxwell, Andrew, Brunel, and probably Wexner & Staley) I want them held accountable, but not solely because they had innocuous conversations with Epstein after the point at which the public has decided it became a criminal act to speak to the guy. And frankly, that type of thing is the most incriminating stuff we've seen, despite 10's of 1000's of emails and files and whatnot released in recent weeks.
If more people are going to be added to that list, I'd prefer that comes to pass carefully and methodically, in the form of a formal investigation, either by a Dem-controlled Congress, or a DoJ under a Democratic POTUS, and one with teeth beyond reputation damage.
MHO, fwiw
kentuck
(115,005 posts)..that they will cherry pick names and information, mostly from political enemies or the "other" Party.
All the information needs to be released at one time. It does need to be released in the form of a formal investigation. We cannot accept piecemeal information from either side.