Is this news? Haven’t we always known that Trump and Epstein were sleazy rapist, but it’s about time Democrats woke up and hammered on it.
House Judiciary Committee Democrats released a 50-page report Monday morning accusing Donald Trump of participating in Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal sex schemes. The caucus also accused the Trump administration of a broad cover-up, designed to shield the president from blowback as it tried to roll out the release of the Epstein files to the general public.
The report cites the experiences of 11 women, FBI records, and documents released through the Epstein Files Transparency Act. At least five women accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein’s company, according to interviews conducted by the committee. Others said there were “apparent attempts” by Epstein and his longtime girlfriend and associate Ghislaine Maxwell to traffic them to the real estate magnate.
Read that 50 page report. Or look at this summary.
We should have known that someone who creates a beauty pageant for 14 year old girls has some slimy predilections and should never have elected him for anything.
Also, take the video where he attacks the SA victim for not liking the mother (who chose the pedophile over her children), and run it on a loop on TV for as long as the childfucker remains in the White House.
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And hold his supporters accountable for this. Force them to go on record dismissing the allegations so you can hang it around their necks for as long as they remain in politics.
Don’t expect justice ever. The Dems dithered, dragged their feet, and straight up pretended to go after Trump when Biden was in office and they’ll do the same if the ever get back into power. They remember Jan 6 and the Oklahoma City Bombing and decided that punishing a senile, pedophile fascist and his cronies isn’t worth right wing terrorist reprisals or another civil war regardless of how horrible Trump behaved. Besides, it would violate “norms” and go against the sacred “Process.”
Vote Blue No Matter Who…’s more craven and backstabbing.
Hey Trump supporting troll “beholder” what do you make of the Epstein files & this OP huh?
“Funny” (not really that humerous)how those who attack the ONLY alternative to them keep ignoring how bad the USoA’s Fascist party are whilst constantly attacking the non-Fascist one instead huh?
Reminder – obligatory since not enough people seem to heed it historically :
If we want to see any progress in the USA and anything good come out of an election in the USoA it is essential that everyone VOTEs BLUE NO MATTER WHO!
This is the way.
The ONLY way. Vote Blue. No matter who.
The 90’s. That’s when I was getting my sex education and lessons in what consent was versus rapist rationalizations. Even then, those lessons didn’t apply to the world of wealth and politics. Rules and laws are for commoners, depravity is the divine right of the elite.
@2. Akira MacKenzie :Huh. That was timing wasn’t it? :-/
What is the alternative?
How will that work or make anything better?
Rushing and messing up becoz they rushed too much would’ve worked better? Dunno.
I wish they’d arrested Trump as a traitor and jailed him for the rest of his life on Jan 6th – but would that have really worked? Dunno.
I don’t think it was pretence on Muller’s or the Democrats part. I think it was caution, going by the book and crossing T’s and dottin eyes and trying to get things right and make sure the case was incontrovertible and strong enough.. I wish that had worked.
I so very much wish things were so very different.
Is that really the Democratic party’s fault?
Did they tho?
I doubt that.
Evidence?
The Democratic party tried to play fair. I guess we can blame them for being ethical and trying to stick by the rules of due process, the law and all that stuff the other side ignores. Guess we can.
Personally, I wouldn’t have been as fair and nice and decent as Biden was as POTUS. But then probly best I wasn’t POTUS not that I could’ve been, anyhow. Couldn’t have done worse than Trump but still.
The alternative? Better? Civil war likely then and still now.
Yay. Millions of deaths including folks posting here and their friends and families and so many. So very many. Individual Human lives. Mass carnage and loss and horror. Too many people seem far too keen for that.
Seems all too likely you’ll get it soon. Enjoy it when it comes?
Would be nice to try and avoid that as hard as we can.
Time the USoA made those norms and processes law. Not conventions and tradition but Law.
Time they changed so many things so much reform so badly needed.
How do we make that happen?
It is worse than that.
They know. They knew a long time ago. They will find out more in the future.
They just don’t care. Or care enough.
You can see that in the right wing reactions to Vivek Ramaswamy’s ads, dragging Dr. Amy Acton’s monster mother out to rehash her 12 year old daughters sexual abuse and subsequent escape from her dysfunctional home.
A few Republicans might not vote for him on that basis.
More side with the mother instead of the victim
The fascists have known about Trump’s rape history for years.
They don’t care.
Fundie xian churches have a long standing child sexual abuse problem.
They’ve never dealt with it.
They cover it up and make excuses and occasionally pay out to victims after lawsuits.
It still happens a lot.
Recursive Rabbit @ 4
“depravity is the divine right of the elite.”
Ahem. I grew up when the Baader-Meinhof Gang and Brigade Rossi were active in Europe. If you need input in how to punish degenerate billionaires I will be happy to oblige, on some medium not routinely scanned by the NSA (and there went my chances of ever getting a US visa!).
(Goes back to watching the wood chipper scene in Fargo)
IOW The irony is the Democratic party tried so carefully to get everything right with prosecuting Trump & cult post Jan 6th that they got everything wrong.
‘Spose they should’ve just gone full brute power & oppresion instead. Ignore restraint, ignore laws & norms & conventions, Ignore whatevs as needed just as Trump does and start that civil war round whatever it is now that you yanks keep jonesing for so much.
Becoz that would’ve been such a better option..
/Sarc tag really needed?
If only Iceland or Denmark or Ireland or (insert your better country of choice) was the leading most powerful superpower and had all the nukes and influence and ran the “free” (LOLsob) world instead huh?
(Expletives deleted. So many of them. Mentally re-insert to suit. Will never be adequate for the situation we now live in.)
Akira MacKenzie : what is your alternative? What do you want them to do now or have done before? How would that work better?
We get it StevoR! Like most center Dems, you’ve had chronic PTSD since 2016 when Hillary–Mommy didn’t get to become president.
Sheesh… The politically traumatized Dem act got old around 2021.
What’s my alternative?
Send a government-sanctioned kill team after every right wing figure in American politics, for starters.
How will that be better?
Duuuh… They’ll be dead. Fascists and capitalists can’t oppress you when they’re a rotting corpse.
Now pardon me, I need to get some lubricating drops for my eyes so I can better roll them after I see your next hysterical response.
birgerjohansson:
As always, the US has much to learn from Europe.