cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/88742

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a trove of evidence regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Donald Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the Department of Justice. The 50-page report, released Monday, contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of…

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    Shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

    Someone who was listed over thirty thousand times in the trumpstein files-- I mean the Epstein files-- and who was proven in court to be a rapist, raped more than just one person??? Shocked…

    These people need justice.

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      Notice to the timing. The GOP is tired of trumps shit and no longer willing to protect him. The wagons are circling.

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        That’s the idea.

        Sacrifice Trump to save their billionaire pedo deep state. Get us back to 2014 so that nothing will change or be addressed.

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        It is a matter of when, not if. They don’t need him any more, as he’s not allowed to run again. I figure they’re only hesitant in case they can rig a third term somehow, otherwise it’s only a matter of time before they leave a stray rollerskate at the top of the stairs and let nature take its course.

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          And ruin their chances to move up a rank? No way would a third term fly. On other things, you hear sycophants echoing what he says, tariffs, ice… Hell some even say the war in Iran is necessary, though more and more you hear them splitting from that. What you don’t hear is congressional representatives talking about third term bullshit. Only trump and his aides. But people who think they have a shot at 2028? Hell no. Hegseth and Vance both expect to be next in line.

          I expect him to get through November. Then they’ll start showing more of the tics he’s got going on, on red media. I would then expect to see them putting him in more stressful situations. Not just standing in front of a crowd with politicians, he loves that shit. But say at NATO, he starts getting grilled by Fox News, or one news or whatever that’s called, or other news outlets that have always been friendly, start calling him out. Publicly ask him about his record bad polling, all the proof of Epstein. Hell maybe they even just straight up release the files so it looks bad on him, but not the party as a whole. They don’t even need to give him a heart attack. Just enough to make him break down with a tic or dementia episode so bad that even his cult will ask for the 25th, out of “compassion”. That’s the best out for Republicans. And really the only way this whole thing goes down without more fascism and a revolution.

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        This is not the time for finger pointing or litigation. Thoughts and prayers are what the victims need. They are clearly confused by their trauma.

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      They said that about the impeachment, they said that about the stolen government documents, they said that about a million things he’s done

      But everyone forgets, the GOP believe in “the rules are for thee, not for me”, so he will get away with it

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      We joke but the timing on this couldn’t be worse. It read more like the dems firing a warning shot.

      “This is happening wether you like it or not. Anyone who survives these midterms will fall in line.”

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    Donald was mentioned in the files more times than Jesus was mentioned in the Bible. Yeah, I’m not surprised that they managed to find testimony from 11 different women.

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      That’s one thing, second things is that his name was 3rd most mentioned name in the released files after Maxwell and of course Epstein.

      He clearly wasn’t just a customer but part of the conspiracy. His whole modeling business was likely providing young girls to be exploited.

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        The fbi had it titled the trump-epstein trafficking case at least twice in the files before the big wave of redaction post release.

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      Trump is mentioned in the (released) Epstein files more times than Harry Potter was mentioned in all seven Harry Potter books.

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    the question is NOT whether he is guilty or not. it’s how many Americans can work together to stop MAGA, it’s like a foreign invading army, but it’s just other Americans who DONT give af about the constitution or playing fair.

    However: Trump is not the cause, do NOT focus on only Trump or His Family, though they also deserve scrutiny.

    Trump/Maga are symptoms of something much more toxic and cancerous and indecent lurking with every American. Trail of Tears, The Mylai Massacre all was ordinary soldiers, same with Abu Grahib. Every century since it’s inception the USA: rape rape rape, century in century out. cant even say the word on youtube to speak openly about it. Americans like to JOKE about "dont drop the soap" in the shower in prison, like prison rape is supposed to be funny or PART of the punishment!?!? the fuck is that shit. .

    A lot of Americans are really sick. they pretend this stuff is normal… Prove me wrong America.

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      American here, and while somebody could righteously and pointlessly make a “not all americans” argument, you are spot on about the culture as a whole.

      The rape history is valid but even that is a subset of the larger cultural issue where helping others is seen as weak and for suckers, while shameless greed and punching down are what the smart and the strong do. Look at none other than the president. He’s a rapist and a scammer, sure, but he also brags about how he doesn’t pay taxes because he’s smart and his supporters eat it up.

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      Keep in mind that while the USA makes up 2% of the world’s population, it has 25% of the world’s prison population.

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      MAGA is a Domestic Terrorist Organization, by their own admission at that CPAC convention where they actually displayed it above their stage: “We are all Domestic Terrorists.”

      1000008649

      Theyre PROUD of it.

      In addition, MAGA is a confirmed, ongoing, ENTHUSIASTIC National Security Threat. As such, MAGA should be prohibited from existing, and any politician aligned with MAGA should be prohibited from holding office. We wouldn’t let an active member of Al-Qaeda or ISIS hold office, and MAGA is EXACTLY the same as them.

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      Rape of Nanking

      That was Japanese soldiers in China. Maybe you knew and intended it that way as a further example, but just clarifying for anyone not familiar.

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        you are correct and the post has been update with the mylai massacre.

        crazy how i could just find one to replace it: JUST LIKE THAT

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      Don’t stop there. You’re describing culture toward atrocity. A culture of stuplimity, ignorance, false exceptionalism, Christian nationalism, and liberalist imperialism.

      Where did those cultural practices come from?

      Why are these the qualities of American leaders?

      Why do Americans seem blind to it all?

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        What do you expect from a country founded by puritan zealots?

        [EDITED: grammar for clarity]

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    Things that have frequently harmed children

    • drag shows
    • giant-ass pickup trucks
    • trans rights
    • pedophiles
    • gay marriage
    • missile strikes
    • banned books
    • firearms
    • birth control access
    • churches
    • racism
    • education
    • ignorance

    Who is fighting to protect what here?

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      It’s unsatisfyingly ironic that the right is virtue signalling caring for children.

      Anytime they hey outraged in defence of something. Children, women’s sports, racism (when supposedly black people were constantly attacking Asian people over covid or people are mean to Israel), it’s never actually that they give a shit about what they so vakiantly defending. It’s just that they can use it as a tool to further shit on/stomp on a different group they already did, and want to more.

      And by pretending to care about group, or cause, X it gives them, at least in their eyes, a “get out of bigotry free” card.

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      No. For the sake of all his rapes survivors, he should be prosecuted for each and every assault he committed.

      Let him be ashamed again and again, let the world knnw he’s punished for each of them.

      Don’t let any of his victims believe they are insignificant. None of them is.

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        Let him be ashamed again and again

        Do you think this man has ever been ashamed of anything? He would sit in the court and think all these witnesses are tearfully praising how strong and powerful he is because they were all unable to stop him.

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          Again: it’s not for him. He’s a piece of shit beyond any possible redemption.

          It’s for the victims. They deserve that.

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        let the world knnw he’s punished for each of them

        That’s as important as anything.

        Yes, justice has to be done, but it also has to be seen to be done.

        Anything less further erodes the legitimacy of the legal system.

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      “life” sentence for an 80yr old billionaire child rapist…

      Really keeping those stakes high arent you 😆

      C’mon we can do better. They did better even with Hitler to the point even his own family abandoned the name. We got room to grow on goals here.

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    I would be surprised if anyone was on the fence about Trump’s sex crimes.

    You either have people who realize that he looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and are willing to treat him like a duck…

    …or you have people for whom no amount of evidence could ever convince them.

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      He bragged about grabbing women which is assault, and we know he did worse than that, but lots of guys think they should be able to do what they want and brag about it, they’re abusers and worse. It’s part of their old boys’ club and hide crimes of each other, frats, sports, military, supernatural groups, all hide crimes of sex and others.

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      people who “are not convinced” are ones who would do the same themselves given opportunity

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    Holiday season coming up. Remember to let your traitorous family members know they willingly supported a felon rapist pedophile just to piss off half of their fellow Americans because they can’t peel their dipshit eyes off of propaganda networks.

    Never let them live this down. Or at least not for as long as we’ll all be paying for their stupid fucking decisions.

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    Biden had four years to deal with this guy and just didn’t.

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      shouldve replaced garland the moment he wouldnt do anything, but he knows garland wouldnt do anything about it though. there is more than likely plenty of Dems in the files too.

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      The worst thing Biden ever did was refuse to push harder on Trump. He had four years to get one of the prosecutions (plural) settled, including the one where we have publicly released phone call recordings of Trump committing the crime. Yeah, the Georgia prosecutor fucked up, but they slow rolled it before the fuck up meaning there wasn’t time to recover from the fuck up.

      Biden also had four years to release the Epstein files, but he didn’t. Even if he knew the prosecutions would not have been successful and was playing a political game of “we’re doing this the right way and not doing a knee-jerk witch hunt,” releasing the files in their full would have gotten this ball rolling in a very different DOJ and FBI environment. It also would have given the public more time to see the connections.

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          I don’t know if I buy it was all a honeypot. I expect at least one state actor got their hands on compromising materials, but it doesn’t seem planed out enough to be a honeypot the entire time

          It’ll be fascinating when the world can honestly review the facts to learn what all happened. Sad that can’t happen until Trump and everyone around him is long gone from power

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            Epstein was the person running the honeypot. You don’t have cameras set up all around your mansion and private island and safe full of CDs and hard drives with labels like {name + “young” name} for a one off job. He also had 2 official passports from different countries and no source of income to become a billionaire. He was state sponsored. His girlfriends dad was an obvious mossad agent.

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      I love how this statement still gets downvoted, all these years later. Pure denialism, even in a community full of die-hard Trump haters.

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      Making a Federalist Society member the Attorney General was a very bad idea.

      I want Jack Smith or Vanita Gupta to be the next AG.

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      Which is EXACTLY why he was Voted back in JUST like how we KNEW Trump was in the Files so DIDNT vote for Him again!

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    That is the tip of the iceberg. Wait until we find out how compromised he is because of people who know this fact and is blackmailing him with it.

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    former miss switzerland accuses trump of brutal rape recently. which gaffe will trump pull out of his behind this time.

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      God is going to invade Canada isn’t he. That’s what he does whenever there’s bad news, start another unwinnable war.

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        God is going to invade Canada isn’t he.

        I’m really not comfortable with you calling Trump “God.” Hopefully you just think the biblical apocalypse will soon be upon us, and your lord’s wrath will begin with Canada.

        That’s what he does whenever there’s bad news, start another unwinnable war.

        And I guess you also think god’s legion of angels are doomed to fail against Canada’s might.

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          I mean, life happens independent of politics. Americans will want to move to Norway. Nords will want to move to America.

          People get new jobs, they meet each other and get married, they travel and fall in love with new places, they experience strife and decide to leave.

          Trump’s hissyfit over falling to win a fake award for mass murderers mostly just ruins the lives of an uncountable number of other people.

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      I read it as either 11 more, or more evidence for 11 that are already known about.

      At least the victims haven’t given up in the face of a game that is rigged against them.