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Get this! Mike Johnson is now claiming — with no evidence whatsoever — that Donald Trump once served as an FBI informant to help dismantle sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network. Johnson told reporters Trump “was an FBI informant in an effort to take Epstein down.”

I’M NOT JOKING!!! 🤣🤣

  • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    This is literally an official admission of his guilt. FBI informants do NOT have qualified immunity. They probably brought him in for questioning once.

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    Sadly I have already seen some posts praising him for his “service”

    MAGA should realize they’ve got a real 007 on their hands

    0 Intel Collected

    0 Kids Saved

    7 Children Raped

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    I mean, it is only fair that we apologize for our doubts and cheer for his nobel prize… After they release ALL the files, which would make that work as an FBI informant public info. If true, I am sure it was out of a sense of public duty, and not a way to shield him from prosecution. He is a patriot, not a low level pedo snitch, right?

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    So you’re telling me Trump DID know about all the child-raping all along? And never said anything about it this whole time in the years after he had Epstein killed? The man who takes credit for EVERYTHING never once piped up to say “I turned Epstein in to the FBI”?

    That’s not the slam dunk you seem to think it is, Johnson.

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      Yes, that is what is means. Trump was chummy with Epstein for many years, knew about the child trafficking and took part in it. Epstein “stole” a young girl from Trump’s resort and Trump got mad that Epstein took her out from under him. So, when Epstein wanted to buy a mansion, Trump used a Russian oligarch’s money to outbid him. And Epstein was so pissed that he threatened to expose Trump’s ties to Russia, and as a response, Trump turned Epstein in to the FBI. Alex Acosta was persuaded to give Epstein a sweetheart deal where he was not given Federal charges and got out on work release for up to 16 hours a day, 6 days a week, during his massively shortened sentence. And when Trump and Epstein later made up, Trump returned the favor to Acosta by giving him the Secretary of Labor position in his cabinet. So yeah, Trump “informing on Epstein to the FBI” definitely does not turn him into some kind of hero.

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        Excellent summary. What’s your opinion om the possibility epstein was a honey pot? When confronted about the deal during his confirmation hearings, Acosta claimed that he was told epstein “belonged to intelligence” and that the matter was “above his pay grade.” It could be a convenient and unverifiable excuse, but the fact that the FBI doubtless has mountains of evidence recovered from two raids on epstein and basically zero prosecution has arisen from it, I find it likely to be true.

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          In my opinion, we know enough from the victims of this sex ring to have pretty high confidence that Epstein was taking part in abusive sexual acts even in his own home, alone with the victims. So, if Epstein was acting as some kind of honey pot, it was because he was already doing these things and the government officials were either bribed or threatened, or under pressure from bribed and threatened officials not to go after a wealthy well-connected man like Epstein. And it is plausible they invented a honey pot cover so he could continue to get away with it. But even that I find unlikely, since if there was some kind of honey pot mechanism for this within the FBI, you would expect that some more significant portion of the powerful people we know are implicated would have had some kind of case levied against them. This sounds less like a well-intentioned plan to prosecute crime, and more like yet another glimpse over the crumbling facade of democracy. The more evidence we gather, the more we see how things really work. Rules are enforced often enough on middle-class people to give the impression that things are fair. And those people who believe in the fairness hold the fabric of society together and keep people from getting angry about the truth. That we are cattle and subject to the whims of a ruling class who take anything and anyone they want, whenever they want, and there are no mechanisms left in the system that have any ability to stop them anymore. There is no honey pot - not in any way that would have prevented the worst things from happening. If anything, it enabled further harm because of how broken the system is when it comes to what rich people are allowed to do. We can see the fence now. So, instead of spending too much energy arguing about whether we are fenced in or fenced out, we should start putting more of our energy into figuring out how to gain collective control of the gate.

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            The only way youre going to get a person to honey pot people with child sex is to get some one who is OK with or enjoys child sex. There isn’t some righteous person out there saying, “Im a moral and just person but sure Ill abuse children if it helps the government.”

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      It’s almost as if they’re trying to set up the claim that if he did fuck any kids, it was to protect them from the creeps that wanted to fuck them.
      Sociopaths.

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    And how many times did he sample the product, just to be sure they were really underage?

    Vote with lead.

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    Donald Trump was an FBI Informant for a man who did NO WRONG and also does NOT Appear in the Epstein Files despite being REALLY Close to Epstein to bring him down and had SEX with CHILDREN to bring down Epstein who Continued bringing children to CHILD RAPE ISLAND for DECADES after Trump started Investigating him!

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    This can easily be discarded for just the fact that trump would have bragged about this a long time ago if true.

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      The problem is this is the exact cope that magats have been using since the flight logs were released, maybe even earlier.

      “Trump good guy so if he was close with epstein it was OBVIOUSLY so he could take down the pedo ring!”

      This will cause cognitive dissonance in approximately none of them.

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        He’s a great agent. It was real savy of trump to buy a teen pageant and then publicly brag about molesting pageant girls. Great undercover work, that’d convince anyone he’s a pedophile.

        (/s)

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    This is a Qanon thing my MIL was spouting years ago. Trump was “secretly there to save the children” is not new.

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      I’m sure he only walked into the dressing rooms to watch the children change so that he could assess their risk levels of being trafficked, right?

      These people and their cognitive dissonance.

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    FWIW, apparently they are. I hadn’t peeked to see if we’d hit the high water mark for what /r/conservative will accept from Trump in a couple months. You’ll be happy to know that we have not.

    This is apparently his actual vindication according to the true believers.

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    How many major drug dealers were caught and became “fbi informants” to take down the rest?

    Isn’t this an admission of guilt?

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      Exactly what I came here to say. Many if not most informants are people who cut a deal in order to get out of their own charges because the evidence against them is so strong that they wouldn’t stand a chance in court.

      Now it is possible that the FBI had him on financial crimes and used him to get to Epstein however that’s unlikely the case considering the courts have found Trump liable for one sexual assault (E. Jean Carroll) and he’s been accused of several more including the rape of a 13 year old: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-26b6-dda3-afd8-b6fe46f40000

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      Are you implying that Trump, who is well known for his selflessness generosity and willingness to help others for a good cause, might have been acting out of selfish self interest?!??!

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      Yeah, informants are criminals working off a debt to law enforcement to lower their sentence or avoid prosecution for their own crimes.

      Are they sure this is the angle they want to take?