Bondi Blasted After Adding Elvis and Marilyn Monroe to Epstein List
By: Hafiz Rashid (The New Republic)
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Attorney General Pam Bondi added just about every name to the email list.
Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to pacify critics of the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files by sending Congress a letter Saturday with a list of 130 names—which for some reason, included dead celebrities.
The list contains some absurd names, including people whom Epstein had merely mentioned but never met, such as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Janis Joplin. Monroe passed away when Epstein was only 9. While the list does include the names of known Epstein associates, such as President Trump, Les Wexner, and Steve Bannon, it also includes Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, who have pushed for the files' release.
Also named on the list are Trump enemies like George Clooney and former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is also mentioned with her name spelled incorrectly.
Arguably the most egregious part of the letter, however, is the assertion from Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that the DOJ had fulfilled its legal requirements and considers the legal matters of Epstein and his associates and accomplices settled. Khanna called out Bondi's antics on X.
The DOJ has yet to release all six million files relating to Epstein, and this list of names looks like an attempt to placate critics. But the end result is the opposite, with Bondi exposed for avoiding the information that would be damaging to Trump and his friends. It's obvious that the Trump administration is trying in vain to pacify the public about Epstein but is failing blatantly.
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John Fetterman Bends Reality in Desperate Attempt to Defend Trump
The turncoat senator thinks Donald Trump is a paragon of respect for the courts.
Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesSenator John Fetterman
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat turned Donald Trump sympathizer, falsely claimed that the president has never violated a court order.
Speaking to Dasha Burns on Politico's The Conversation, Fetterman launched into a fantastical defense of Trump when pressed on how he felt about the president calling him "the most sensible Democrat."
"I know and I love a lot of people that voted for Trump, and that's part of why I refuse to call these people Nazis or they're brown shirts or they're trying to destroy our democracy," Fetterman said. "Now I'm not defending the president, but I will say he hasn't defied a single court order yet. He hasn't."
To defend Trump's rule as—of all things—lawful is preposterous. Let's lay out just a few violations, shall we?
In April, the Trump administration illegally deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, even though he had received a judge's protective order—and when the government eventually brought him back, it just tried to deport him again. That same month, Trump also defied a court order requiring his administration to allow the journalists from the Associated Press to report presidential events.
In May, a federal judge found that the Trump administration had "unquestionably" violated a court order requiring the government to provide written notice and an opportunity for detainees to apply for protection before deporting them to a third country.
In October, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration had flouted a judge's order by requiring states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive emergency management funding.
In November, the Trump administration continued to sign criminal indictments with Trump's improperly appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan's name, even after a judge ruled that "all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment … constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside."
U.S. courts have ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcemnt has illegally detained people 4,400 times since October, and yet Trump's sweeping immigration crackdown continues undeterred. But this isn't the kind of thing that bothers Fetterman—the only member of his party who voted to keep funding the Department of Homeland Security.
In total, the Trump administration has been sued more than 650 times—a sure sign of a lawful reign worthy of Fetterman's staunch defense.
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Billionaire Trump Donor Closing U.S. Plant and Moving Work to China
"They're not answering or returning anyone's calls," said the local union leader.
Alon Skuy/Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Melania Trump arrive at the home of John Paulson with Alina de Almeida on April 6, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida.
One of President Trump's oldest donors is closing a manufacturing plant in Ohio and moving it to China, a slap in the face to the American workers he claimed to be fighting for.
Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson plans to offshore the East Lake, Ohio, plant of Conn Selmer, the largest U.S. manufacturer of brass and orchestra instruments.
"We can't have American producers closing American factories and offshoring. We need to protect American jobs and protect American manufacturing," Paulson said just last year.
"We came in with a full proposal, fully prepared to bargain, and they started off with a presentation of telling us how bad we were doing," said UAW Local 2359 president and plant worker Robert Hines. "To go publicly on CNBC to support the Trump administration's positive views on tariffs and all that stuff, and then you turn around and [say you] want to go send the work right over to China … it's a slap in our face."
Paulson raised $50.5 million for Trump during his 2024 presidential campaign. And like Trump, he's pushed pro-domestic worker rhetoric while leaving those same workers out to dry.
"It's going to take a lot of money out of East Lake," Hines said. "We've had people come out [and] show love to try to keep the place open, and the company just isn't open to it. They're not answering or returning anyone's calls."
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New Evidence Torpedoes Pam Bondi's Claim About Trump and Epstein
A DOJ slideshow suggests that the FBI spoke with an Epstein victim who accused President Trump of assault.
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty ImagesAttorney General Pam Bondi testifies during the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled "Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice," on February 11.
Newly uncovered details in the Epstein files reveal that the FBI spoke with a victim who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, despite Attorney General Pam Bondi's vehement denial that the Justice Department had any such evidence, as of last week.
Agents apparently spoke with a victim of Jeffrey Epstein who also accused Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her. It is unclear what happened with the investigation, though the government deemed her to be a "credible accuser," according to independent journalist Roger Sollenberger. A woman with identical biological details sued Epstein's estate and won a settlement in 2021.
The investigation into the accuser is made apparent on a page titled "prominent names" in an internal, 21-page slideshow cataloguing the Justice Department's various investigations into Epstein and his longtime criminal associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump's name is listed in the document, along with two allegations against the sitting president.
"[REDACTED] stated Epstein introduced her to Trump who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out," reads the first entry, noting that the victim would have been between 13 and 15 years old and that the incident took place sometime between 1983 and 1985.
But the second accusation against the president, which involves Trump agreeing with Epstein that a 14-year-old victim was a "good one," carries a different kind of credibility inside the DOJ, since the person who provided the statement was also used as a key government witness to convict Maxwell, according to the files.
"[REDACTED] remembered Epstein introduced her to Trump saying 'This is a good one, huh' and Trump responded 'Yes'. (date range roughly 1984, [REDACTED] would have been 14)," the slide reads.
Trump was mentioned more than 38,000 times in the latest batch of Epstein files, and was flagged in more than 5,300 files in the document cache.
Yet the White House has continued to vehemently deny that Trump did anything wrong while he was close pals with the child sex trafficker—even as evidence emerges to the contrary.
On Wednesday, Bondi went so far as to claim the Justice Department had no evidence that underage girls were at parties attended by the president. California Representative Ted Lieu then accused Bondi of lying under oath, referring to a document from the FBI's National Threat Operation Center that illustrated a witness had called the bureau to report such a case in 1995.
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ICE Is Gearing Up to Build "Mega" Jails
ICE is planning on spending $38 billion on the project.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars on mega-prisons where the agency can disappear thousands of people.
In a memo shared with New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte, ICE outlined its $38.3 billion plan to launch a "new detention center model" that would expand the agency's detention capacity by 92,600 beds by the end of FY26.
"This effort aims to meet the growing demand for bedspace and streamline the detention and removal process, focusing on non-traditional facilities built specifically to support ICE's needs," the memo said. "This model includes the acquisition and renovation of eight large-scale detention centers and 16 processing sites, as well as the acquisition of 10 existing 'turnkey' facilities where ICE ERO already operates."
The large-scale processing centers, also called "mega-centers," would house between 7,000 and 10,000 detainees for "periods averaging less than 60 days," and serve as the site of international removals. Other processing facilities would house between 1,000 and 1,500 detainees for between three and seven days.
Currently, the country's largest immigration detention facility is Camp East Montana, a 5,000-bed short-term tent facility built at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. Within the first 50 days of operation, the facility had already racked up 60 federal code violations. The facility had failed to provide detainees with regular access to working toilets and showers, substantive meals, or legal assistance, and failed to take mandatory and proper health screenings.
Now Donald Trump wants to build eight more Camp East Montanas—and make them even bigger.
The number of immigrants in U.S. detention has already reached record high levels, surpassing 73,000 detainees in January as a result of the government targeting children, families, immigrants without criminal records, and lawful asylum-seekers. The Trump administration has said it aims to detain 100,000 people at any given time.
More prisons wouldn't solve the problem of disappearing detainees, address the horrific conditions and lack of health care access at many of these facilities, or ease the steadily climbing number of detainee deaths—they would only provide ICE more cover to move immigrants from state to state in order to skirt legal challenges. An attorney in Minnesota would have to act quickly to stop the deportation of their client from Texas or Florida or someplace else—if they could even figure out where their client got sent.
The memo was sent to Ayotte as part of ongoing talks to open one of these mega prisons in Merrimack, New Hampshire—sparking concerns from state and local leaders.
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Alex Pretti Died Defending an EMT. ICE Wouldn't Let Her Treat Him.
The woman Alex Pretti defended from ICE reveals heartbreaking new details about his killing.
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ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by a swarm of ICE agents in Minneapolis moments after he assisted a couple of women. One of them, according to new reports, was also a health care professional—who was denied the chance to help Pretti in his final moments.
In an exclusive interview with The Intercept, the emergency medical technician—whose credentials were reviewed by the outlet but who remained unidentified due to fear of retaliation by the government—claimed she tried to perform CPR on Pretti but was thwarted by a masked ICE agent who restrained her.
"I could tell the second that I laid eyes on him that he was horrifically injured," the EMT said. "I immediately said, 'I'm an EMT! He has a brain injury! He has a serious brain injury! I need to help him right now.'"
Moments before Pretti's death, video captured from onlookers at multiple angles depicted the 37-year-old filming ICE activity before intervening between another protester and an agent who had violently shoved her to the ground. The two protesters were then sprayed with a chemical irritant, and Pretti was ripped away from the other demonstrator while she continued to slip on a mound of snow.
At least seven officers were on top of Pretti, wrestling him to the ground, when one of them, standing above the situation and seemingly supporting the other agents, grabbed his gun and shot Pretti. Video footage captured the sound of 10 gunshots ringing out.
Footage of the seconds that followed capture the EMT's voice on audio, ringing out that Pretti was suffering "decorticate posturing," a phenomenon in which the hands and legs curl into the body as a result of brain trauma.
"I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR," she recalled. "Because I knew that if he wasn't pulseless at that point already, he was going to become pulseless very, very soon."
Then Pretti died. His death was later ruled a homicide by the Hennepin County medical examiner.
The government is constitutionally required to keep people safe once they are in custody. The legal principle is tied to due process, outlined in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Parameters established by the Department of Justice also stipulate that officers are not allowed to ignore serious medical conditions or risk of harm, such as assault, that could jeopardize an individual's life. Unfortunately, in Pretti's case, agents appeared to ignore both of those tenets.
"The responsibility of the government is to make sure that the person in their custody is cared for and alive," Xavier de Janon, the director of mass defense at the National Lawyers Guild, told The Intercept. "If government agencies fail to keep someone alive and there is proof that it's their fault, they could be liable for their actions."
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Trump Is Totally Unbothered by El Paso Airspace Closing for a Balloon
Multiple federal departments have lied about why the airspace closed.
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President Donald Trump doesn't seem the slightest bit bothered by the buffoonery that closed the airspace over El Paso, Texas, earlier this week.
CNN's DJ Judd asked Trump if he was "pleased" with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's handling of a humiliating incident, in which the Federal Aviation Administration briefly closed the airspace near the southern U.S. border because the military used a high-powered laser to shoot down what ultimately turned out to be a party balloon.
"You mean the way it happened?" Trump pressed, and then splayed out his hands in a wide shrug.
"People learn," the president sighed. "People learn."
On Tuesday, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford closed El Paso's airspace "for special security reasons" without telling the White House, the Department of Defense, or the Department of Homeland Security—causing chaos in the surrounding area.
Duffy, along with White House and Pentagon officials, claimed Wednesday that drones dispatched by a Mexican cartel had breached U.S. airspace. The same day, two officials briefed by the Trump administration said the airport had been shut down over security concerns related to DOD's use of counter-drone technology.
As it turned out, the Pentagon had sought to expedite testing for an anti-drone laser at Fort Bliss, which is next to El Paso International Airport—and reportedly ended up targeting a rogue balloon instead of an unmanned aircraft. After initially saying that airspace would be closed for 10 days, the agency reversed the decision and reopened the next day.
"The FAA and DOW acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion. The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region," Duffy wrote on X Wednesday. "The restrictions have been lifted and normal flights are resuming."
Duffy has yet to acknowledge that this statement was not actually true. But Trump's laissez-faire attitude seemed to say it all: He messed up.
What could Duffy possibly have learned from this incident? I guess he learned not to do it again—if he even knows what he did.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Appears to Have Lied on Her Citizenship Application
The revelation could put her citizenship status at risk.
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Ghislaine Maxwell is in another legal bind.
The longtime girlfriend and sex-trafficking associate of Jeffrey Epstein was revealed Friday to have lied on her naturalization documents, potentially compromising her U.S. citizenship.
The documents were uncovered in the Justice Department's latest Epstein files document dump and first reported by Migrant Insider. They show that Maxwell ticked "no" on paperwork that required her to admit if she had ever committed a crime or if she had ever procured anyone for prostitution.
The N-400 application that Maxwell submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York asked:
- "Have you EVER committed a crime or offense for which you were NOT arrested?"
- "Have you EVER been a prostitute, or procured anyone for prostitution?"
For both queries, Maxwell indicated on the form that she had not. In truth, the covert criminal had recruited and trafficked underage girls to Epstein's operation as early as 1994.
But despite her wide-ranging crimes, Maxwell's application was approved, and she became a U.S. citizen on November 27, 2002.
Legal experts argue that could bode poorly for Maxwell, as false statements can delegitimize a naturalized citizenship, even if the offense is discovered decades later. The catch could also extend Maxwell's prison sentence by up to 25 years under 18 U.S. Code § 1425.
"Lying on an N-400 form is a serious federal offense," an unidentified immigration law expert told Migrant Insider. "Material misrepresentations—especially about criminal conduct—can be grounds for revocation of citizenship and potential criminal prosecution for immigration fraud."
Maxwell was sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in jail for playing an active role in Epstein's crimes. Her attorneys have pressed the White House for a pardon for several months now, though the White House has not indicated it will grant one.
But a July interview between Maxwell and the DOJ still proved incredibly fruitful for the convict, sparking concerns that she had been offered a quid pro quo in exchange for a revised "Epstein list." At the time, the Trump administration was floundering to redirect public fury over the files.
Shortly after she spoke with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell—one of the worst sex criminals of the century—received an extremely cushy transfer, shipping her from a Florida prison to a low-security prison camp in Texas where she has been granted many privileges not typically afforded to inmates.
Her time behind bars has since included meal service in her cell, unlimited toilet paper, puppy access, and access to private visitations in a chaplain's office outside standard visiting hours. Her requests to be separated from other inmates have also been granted, with tables and cellmates reportedly being relocated at her whim.
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ICE Chief Admits Agents Seem to Have Lied About Why They Shot Someone
The Department of Justice has opened a criminal probe to investigate the ICE officers who claimed they shot a Venezuelan man out of self-defense.
Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesObservers film ICE agents as they hold a perimeter after one of their vehicles got a flat tire in Minneapolis, on February 5.
On January 14, two ICE officers were involved in a confrontation with two Venezuelan immigrants in Minneapolis that ended with one of the agents shooting one of the men in the leg. The officers claimed that the immigrants were assaulting them with a broom and a shovel, justifying their use of force. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called it an "attempted murder of federal law enforcement," and the men were charged with assault.
Today, that case has been dismissed and those officers are under investigation for lying under oath—according to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons.
"A joint review by ICE and the Department of Justice (DOJ) of video evidence has revealed that sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements," Lyons said in a statement Friday. "Both officers have been immediately placed on administrative leave pending the completion of a thorough internal investigation.… The U.S. Attorney's Office is actively investigating these false statements."
Federal prosecutors dropped the charges against the Venezuelan men one day earlier. "The charges against them were based on lies by an ICE agent who recklessly shot into their home through a closed door," said attorney Brian D. Clark, the men's lawyer. "They are so happy justice is being served."
This is absolutely egregious. Two men were accosted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and one took a bullet to the leg. Then the federal government called them murderers and hit them with heavy charges, all for ICE's own head to admit that his agents appear to have been lying under oath—a crime that this administration doesn't seem to take very seriously.
This shooting happened one week after Renee Good was killed, and just over a week before Alex Pretti was killed. The Trump administration lied to us about both of those events, as well. Only time will tell just how many more of these ICE shootings were offensive rather than defensive.
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Trump Dodges When Asked About Land Strikes: "Don't Worry About It"
Well, that's reassuring.
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After kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, threatening to cut off aid to Colombia, and calling for U.S. troops in Mexico all within the last few months, President Trump's message to people concerned with further escalation is simply, "Don't worry about it."
"Are you considering land strikes on Mexico, Columbia, and Venezuela?" a reporter asked Trump outside the White House as he departed for Joint Base Andrews in North Carolina on Friday afternoon.
"What about it?" Trump said, unable to hear over the aircraft noise.
"Land strikes, are you planning them?" the reporter repeated.
"Don't worry about it."
Q: "Are you considering land strikes on Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela?"
Trump: "Don't worry about it."
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— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) February 13, 2026
Virtually every action Trump has taken in the region—from the "drug boat" bombings in the Caribbean Sea to the midnight abduction of Maduro—would suggest that land strikes on Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela are very much something to worry about.
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Errol Flynn, Buster Keaton, and Flo Ziegfield are offended that they were left off.
And what about Benjamin Franklin? (Rumor has it that he was quite the womanizer!)
You guys said you wanted everything, right?
Now you got it. Go to town now.
Trump is all over the files...but I am sure you think it's totally ok.
Show us what he did.
Numerous reports of trump abusing children... Go look it up.
PROVE IT.
He pimped out underage girls to filthy rich pigs like himself. It’s in the files that he won’t allow to be released.
As I said I hate those who smear others.
Prove he isn't.
It’s not a smear until it is proven to be a smear. A smear would be something like claiming he wasn’t born in the United States, which would be easily disproven by presenting his birth certificate like the best POTUS of our generation did to resolve the smear from this piece of shit POTUS. The POTUS can fix this right now by releasing all that exculpatory evidence that terrifies him so badly.
People who believe Trump was part of some pedo ring with Epstein make birthers look like Sherlock Holmes parsing evidence. It's combines a complete lack of basic reasoning with confirmation bias so huge I imagine it must be visible on a CT scan. Good lord, they are reduced to relying on "mentions" and demanding Trump prove a negative.
Self-loathing must be strong in you grasshopper.
And yet it could all be resolved so easily if the innocent DJT would just release the evidence that makes your assertions true. Hmph. Instead, he continues to shake his tiny fists at the sky and take actions that only make him look guiltier, while you and the rest of his dwindling support system cheer on the so-called owning of the libs. It’s hard to look smart while defending someone who is so clearly attempting to hide his guilt as a conspirator in a pedophile prostitution operation.
Lol. Prove a negative to relieve me of any burden of substantiating the allegations.
smart while defending someone who is so clearly attempting to hide his guilt as a conspirator
Lol. Keep believing in the magical conspiracy involving the Bush, Biden and Obama DOJs to protect Trump from allegations that no victim will actually come forward and make.....It's makes QANON look reality based in comparison.
The only people with "evidence" are the victims. They've had access to the best lawyers for decades. They've been able to sue anyone who molested them. And yet they don't come forward and name Trump, or anyone else really other than Epstein.
The realty remains that no amount of pontificating and desperate whataboutisms can explain three million documents being hidden away. What’s your rationalization for that? [deleted][✘]
Why do you think the Obama and Biden dojs sat on evidence to arrest trump and all the others? [deleted]
[✘] The fbi already published documents with too much information relating to the victims and innocent parties. You had fuck nuts like congressmen ro Khanna identifying innocent people brought in to to appear in police line ups as rapists.
How about I don’t give a fuck about anyone’s motivations for letting pedophiles go unpunished, I care about justice for victims of this disgusting crime. You on the other hand seem to be very concerned about continuing the protection of pedophiles. Donald Trump will be dead and gone before the truth comes out, and you will get a medal for being such a loyal soldier.
Now. But for 12 years when you believe Democrats covered it up, not so much.....
I care about justice for victims of this disgusting crime
Which victims? All these lawyers have spent 15 years with the victimes. Why don't they come forward and denounce their rapists? Why are they and their lawyers protecting the rapists?
hand seem to be very concerned about continuing the protection of pedophiles.
Ah,yes,says the man who ignored the issue until he thinks he can "get Trump"
See. I'm actually a classic liberal who believes in the rule of law and due process. I don't believe in succumbing to moral panics.
Crazy how you believe requiring actual accusations and evidence is "protecting pedophiles" You should read about the Salem witch trials, although it might hit a little too close to home. .
I think there is an elephant in the room question involved in all this - if Trump threw Epstein out of Maralago as soon as he found out what "he was doing", why does Trump object to releasing all the files? If he has nothing to hide why is he hiding it? If he told Bondi to release everything right now it would be done by tomorrow morning.
Why do you think Bush, Biden and Obama's DOJ all protected Trump? Not to mention the NY prosecutors who demonstrated they'd go to every extreme to find Trump guilty of any crime? Seriously, why would all of these law enforcement agencies led by Democrats protect Trump for over a decade?
Also, why wont' any of his supposed victims, or their lawyers, make accusations against him on the record (or anyone else for that matter?) They control the most important evidence and there's nothing to stop them from speaking.
y - if Trump threw Epstein out of Maralago as soon as he found out what "he was doing", why does Trump object to releasing all the files
Because he knew he was mentioned and that his opponents acting in bad faith would equate those mentions with guilt just like he would do to his opponents.
Trump thinks like a Ted Leiu, Jaime Raskin, Eric Swalwell, AOC, Dan Goldman etc so he knows how they'll react. and he was proven right...
Neither Bush nor Obama had any reason to single Trump out until he became the Republican nominee in 2016 , but by then singling him out may have been seen as persecution by uninformed undecided voters
I notice you didn't emention Biden or the state of New York.
Putting them aside, why would Bush and Obama give Trump a pass before he was a legit candidate for president? DO you think they protected any other predators?
The rules here is if you make the claim, you provide the proof
Your rationalization for Trump's present behavior is that he's no worse than anyone else involved over the past 20 years. We won't know that until we know what's in the files right now we have to assume that he is hiding something otherwise he would release them. I have never said that I thought Trump raped young teenage girls but I do think that he knew about it and stayed silent.
Trying to have a rational exchange with these pedophile protectors is useless.
We know what's in the files. We know what the FBI/DOJ under Obama, Biden, Trump etc and local law enforcement all concluded.
You have nothing other than blind faith in a massive conspiracy involving 4 presidential administrations to sustain your belief and need for trump to be guilty of something. Oh, and all the victims are in on the conspiracy too. .
Thing is, the corrupt Trump administration is playing games and not releasing all the files per the law. Thus we do not know what, if anything, the serial womanizing ‘grab em by the pussy’ good buddy of Epstein who also likes them on the ‘younger side’ did.
But just a shred of rational thought (grounded in reality) would suggest that Trump was no Boy Scout during his Epstein days.
Prove trmp isn't a pedo...
How many files are there?
Thus we do not know what, if anything, the serial womanizing ‘grab em by the pussy’ good buddy of Epstein who also likes them on the ‘younger side’ did.
Be careful with the smearing. George Stephanopoulos called him a rapist, and it cost ABC about $15 million.
But just a shred of rational thought (grounded in reality) would suggest that Trump was no Boy Scout during his Epstein days.
I doubt that neither Trump nor many people who knew Epstein got involved the scheme that Epstein pulled on the foolish. As I have said over and over, if there was anything incriminating Trump in those files, Merrick Garland would have made it public, and a prosecutor would have been named.
‘Prove trmp isn't a pedo...’
I don’t try and prove something I never claimed.
Now, again……the rule here is if you make a claim, you show the proof.
YOU made a claim. Let’s see the proof
what smearing? trmp actually said those things IN PUBLIC!
Google AI:
Why are you asking me to do basic research for you?
We do not know what, if anything, the serial womanizing ‘grab em by the pussy’ good buddy of Epstein who also likes them on the ‘younger side’ did.
Your Garland reasoning is fundamentally flawed. Merrick Garland was ultra conservative. He demonstrably attempted to avoid political issues. Garland dragging his feet on the Trump indictments gave Trump the opportunity to run out the clock and justice was denied.
BONDI is a sick WITCH! Fuzazi, this disease!
I don't think John Fettermen has a right to call himself a Democrat anymore.
You're right, he is a cut above them.
then why is he still a democrat? Shouldn't he cross over to the repub party?
Vic, you must be standing on your head. Fetterman is Upside Down, as well. Is it a fade?
He hasn't been right in the head since his stroke. He probably should step down
Maybe he’s just sympathetic towards men who rape children.
She followed the law...
Did Ronald Reagan make the list?
The only thing they're looking for is the guy they hate.
Let's see what they can come up with.
I hate all pedophiles. Don't you?
I sure do.
I hate people who smear others more though.
No,
Supposedly one of his staff members created it.
Then you hate all those who routinely smear all ‘leftists’?
I don't hear many people accusing AOC or Bernie Sanders of being pedophiles or incompetents, despite the fact that AOC only a few days ago said that Venezuela was below the equator.
When I attack the American left it is for the things they have done to the detriment of the country. I happen to think they are the source of most of the nation's problems.
wow...pedophiles are way, way worse. They actually hurt people physically
Why would those two be accused of being pedophiles?
I have heard Rs make fun of AOC and imply she is incompetent. Of course, you will not find many Ds doing so. Does that surprise you?
What a strange/confused point.
Based on your comment history, I am confident we all know what you have imagined as truth.
What remains bizarre is that you still support an abysmal human being — a psychopath — whom you helped elevate to the most powerful position on the planet.
And to my point, from which you deflected, if you "hate people who smear others" then you hate those who routinely smear 'leftists'. You must then hate yourself and most Rs on this site. And, of course, you must then hate Trump more than anyone else.
You might want to rethink your position and priorities.
That's right. You don't accuse people of things simply because you don't like them.
I have heard Rs make fun of AOC and imply she is incompetent.
In my opinion she is incredibly ignorant for someone with a BU degree. When one doesn't know that Venezuela is above the ecuator or cannot answer simple questions, the charge of ignorance is not a smear, it is a factual evaluation.
What remains bizarre is that you still support an abysmal human being — a psychopath — whom you helped elevate to the most powerful position on the planet.
What is really disgusting is how so many on the left define everything by their hatred of him. For many it is their only reason for voting. The Mayor of Boston runs for reelection and she runs against Trump. The Governor does the same.
And to my point, from which you deflected, if you "hate people who smear others" then you hate those who routinely smear 'leftists'. You must then hate yourself and most Rs on this site. And, of course, you must then hate Trump more than anyone else.
What I say about leftists is not smearing. They are guilty as charged. They did let millions enter the country illegally. They did promote hoaxes and use lawfare. They did riot for months and murder two dozen people. etc, etc, etc.
Problem many leftists have is if a left wing "news" source did not report on the above facts, they did not happen.
This is another fabricated claim from you to try to excuse Trump. You just claim that people criticize Trump out of hatred ... implying that the criticism is unjustified. A feeble tactic by you to try to defend Trump.
Who cares? Trump is the problem, not AOC.
There you go again with your bullshit tactic. Criticism of Trump is based on fact. It is well justified. You are working overtime pretending that the criticism is unfounded.
The left and the right both have people that do bad things. You categorically blame the entire 'left' for anything that someone left of you does. That is irrational. You never see me blaming 'the right' categorically just because someone on the 'right' does something bad.
I asked ChatGPT fact check your vague, sweeping claims about 'the left':
Yet another post of emotional content from you.
How so?
No, she didn't, she is nothing more than a lying, worthless, bitch.
Amen, Mr. Frost!
HELL HAS A PLACE FOR BONI & "The Donald", go with great haste!
Sean:
What LAW did Bondi follow? The LAW to snub the abused, and cover up for the CHILD RAPIST?
Janis Joplin made the list. What about Grace Slick? What about Joni Mitchell or Joan Baez?
Is Bondi on the list?
What about Grace Slick? What about Joni Mitchell or Joan Baez?
Attorney General Pam Bondi added just about every name to the email list.
So what about Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavorotti?
(What are they, Chopped Liver?)
And let's not forget Sleepy, Grumpy, and Froggy!
The Three Tenors
Chopped liver sandwich, with a side of cole slaw.
Bondi.
James Bondi!
(But all his friends on The Island call him Double Ohhhhh Seven!)
Somewhere in the Epstein Files, she and "Dirty Diaper Donnie" are hooked up, according to my "sauces" Ghouliani & The Man That Never Bathes, Steve Bunnions, known as "Stincky Feet-Smelly Breathe-Still an ARSE"!
How about Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, and King Kong? Why didn't BONDI add their names to the Epstein Files?
You do realize that their names are actually in the files right?
Or these:
A fool and his search engine arent easily parted . . . .
Why are you people worried about whose names made / didn't make the list?!?! The DOW was at 50,000
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Fifty Thousand FOOL. The Big Fiddy!!!!