Most Americans think Trump administration is covering up Epstein files: poll

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-administration-epstein-files-poll-cover-up-b2790444.html

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  2. On one hand, sure. But on the other hand, i don’t think this will change anything about his followers and their views of him. He may as well release it because they don’t actually care about him being there.

    I’m sure it would take them a mere 15 seconds of cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics to explain how Joe Biden, Obama, and George Washington have the fault of trump being on it. Then they’ll move on.

  4. Oh man! Good luck to Trump trying to wiggle out of accountability! /s

  6. There is decades worth of evidence that implicates Trump in these heinous crimes, and now Trump is desperately trying to sweep this scandal under the rug while some of his supporters—who have been obsessed with this conspiracy for years—are either choosing to hold Trump’s subordinates responsible, or are backpedaling and trying to rationalize why the most obvious conclusion is the least conspicuous—Fox News viewers especially:

    Fox News deliberately edited out a portion of Trump’s response during an interview when he was asked if he would release the “Epstein client list.”

    Trump’s initial response was:

    > “Yeah, I think we should release it. People deserve to know.”

    Fox News edited out his follow up:

    > “But you have to understand, there’s a lot of lies in that list. A lot of names that shouldn’t be there. You don’t want to ruin innocent lives.”

    Even outside of this whole Epstein controversy, Trump has been accused of sexual abuse, harassment or rape by dozens of women dating back to the 70s.

    Trump’s depravity knows no bounds and his supporters have always overlooked his history of sexual misconduct—particularly towards women on the “younger side.”

    A book published in 2019 titled *All the President’s Women* spoke of at least 43 allegations—one of them from Trump’s first wife, Ivana, who describes in a deposition how Trump raped her in a fit of rage.

    [This Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations?wprov=sfla1) goes into greater detail about these incidents.

    Many of these women have described Trump forcibly groping them, grabbing them inappropriately and kissing them without consent.

    Former Miss ***TEEN*** USA contestants claimed that Trump would unexpectedly walk into their dressing rooms. One of the girls alleges that she remembers Trump saying, “*Don’t worry ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”* The youngest girl was 15 at the time.

    > In an April 2005 interview on The Howard Stern Show, when asked about Miss USA and Miss Universe, Trump said he would go backstage before beauty pageant shows, the only man in the room while the women were “standing there with no clothes.” As the owner, “I sort of get away with things like that,” he added.

    > Samantha Holvey, a former Miss USA contestant, told CNN in 2016 that when she competed in 2006, Trump personally inspected each contestant, looking at them from head to toe like “sexual objects,” which made her feel “the dirtiest I felt in my entire life.”

    Other incidents include, but are not limited to:

    > Jessica Leeds, [who] told The New York Times in 2016 that, in the late 1970s, Trump, who was a stranger to her, reached his hand up her skirt and grabbed her breasts on a flight to New York. She said he “was like an octopus” and his “hands were everywhere” before she fled to the back of the plane.

    One woman who worked with Trump in the 90s claimed that Trump tried to rape her in his daughters bedroom at Mar-A-Lago.

    Another woman said she attended a dinner with Trump in the 90s where “*several women were forced to walk across a table while Trump looked up their skirts and commented on their underwear and bodies.”*

    This list goes on and on of women all describing similar encounters with Trump.

    Reporter Natasha Stoynoff describes an incident when she was alone with Trump where he *”closed the door and pushed her against the wall before ‘forcing his tongue down [her] throat.'”* This was while she was interviewing Trump for a story about his marriage to Melania…

    Several women also describe Trump confronting them with offers to pay them for sex.

    Of course there’s always controversies like the Stormy Daniels case and the “Hollywood access tape.”

    It’s appalling that these scandals didn’t immediately end his political career. In fact, in a desperate move after the hot mic incident, Trump staged a surprise press conference where he paraded four women around in front of reporters, each of them alleging that Bill Clinton abused them. Trump had the audacity to “praise their courage.”

    That same year, multiple women came forward speaking out against Trump’s history of sexual misconduct. In response, Trump called them “horrible, horrible liars.”

    As most know, Trump was found liable in civil court for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll.

    Judge Kaplan clarified recently that the jury’s findings in the case align with the common understanding of rape. Meaning that—as most people understand it—Trump was found by a jury to have raped E Jean Carroll.

    Then there’s the case involving the plaintiff “Katie Johnson”, which was filed in April, 2016 in federal court in California, but then was dismissed a month later.

    Another incarnation of the case was filed in June of that same year, but was dismissed months later. The case was then again filed by “Jane Doe” in September 2016, but was also eventually dropped.

    The accuser was expected to appear at a news conference later that year, but her attorney claimed that she had been receiving death threats and was too afraid to attend.

    The case alleges that both Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein made the plaintiff into a “sex slave” at the age of 13 and forced her to perform sexual and depraved acts.

    Trump and Epstein had a friendly, social relationship starting in the late 80s/early 90s. They were both prominent figures in Palm Beach, Florida, where they were often seen together at social events and parties. Photos and videos even show the two together at Mar-a-Lago, laughing and ogling at women.

    In an interview with New York Magazine in 2002, Trump said of Epstein:

    > “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

    In 2005, the police searched Epstein’s Palm Beach Mansion and found message books that contained the names and numbers of high profile people, including Trump.

    Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most vocal accusers, claimed that she was initiated into Epstein’s sex trafficking ring while working at Mar-a-Lago.

    It wasn’t until Epstein’s arrest and death in 2019 that Trump publicly stated that he wasn’t “a fan” of Epstein.

    After Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest in 2020, Trump appeared to show sympathy for her at a press briefing:

    > “I just wish her well, frankly. I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is.”

    According to flight logs released as evidence during Maxwell’s trial, Donald Trump has flown on the “Lolita Express” at least seven times.

    Then there’s Michael Wolff…

    As a journalist, Michael Wolff has interviewed Trump and had insider access to him and the White House.

    Wolff claims that Trump once considered a pardon for Maxwell because he was concerned that Maxwell might “spill secrets” about Trump’s long-standing and friendly relationship with Epstein.

    Wolff described Trump and Epstein as “joined at the hip” for nearly 15 years. Their close friendship has been corroborated by both of them. They also belonged to the same social circles and even shared women.

  7. I have no faith that MAGA will revolt longer than a few weeks. The utter lack of emotional intelligence and critical thinking will prevent a complete break in the fever.

  10. “A new poll finds 67 percent of Americans believe the government is hiding evidence related to the convicted sex offender, Trump, and his deceased friend Epstein.” I fixed your byline for you.

  12. I’ll bet Trump will announce some kind of investigatory commission… you know like with other serious conspiracy theories… a few admissions are made, but the coverup generally stands (often called white wash committees, but very formal and silencing to much of the mainstream)

  15. Think? We think? If I never ever knew anything in my life, I KNOW that they’re covering up the truth.

  16. Dude sounds exqcrlt.like you would sound if get caught. Reminds me if the guy Beetlejuice when rhey ask him waht he’s doing .

  17. Covering for powerful people who are really pulling the strings. My bet is someone like Peter Theil.

  20. Now I don’t know what to think, because it’s been proven that most Americans as dumb as shit.

  21. Hasn’t he *literally* been charged with felonies for *covering up something else*!?

  25. This is a pretty good indicator of the overall level of competence this administration has. At no point have they represented themselves as intelligent. It’s an insult to allow it to continue.

  27. I can’t imagine Trump would allow the release of any files if he’s featured anywhere in them. And if they are released, will they be doctored to remove any mention of him? It just seems like he’ll go along with a narrative that they were destroyed by Biden or that “Biden is storing them in his garage with classified docs next to his Corvette” as Trump ignores his own issues.

  28. Yeah, obviously. I expected it to be shady if they released the files, but I didn’t expect him to outright backtrack and say they don’t exist. Really banking on that patented MAGA stupidity, huh, Don?

  30. Because he is. It’s obvious. This isn’t some weird “5-D chess move” the right loves to credit him with for no reason. He’s lying. He’s covering for himself and who knows how many of his fellow aristocratic kiddy-diddlers.

  32. Ab. So. Fucking. Loutely.

    Growing up, I was always told you are the company you keep. Friends of a feather flock together. Etc etc

  33. They voted not to release it, they literally covered it up

  35. https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/tr91zKkfBp

    https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/cjKX0BCWrd

    Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.

    https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

    https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

    Here’s the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

    Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

    —————————other Epstein Information

    https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

    Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

    Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Jeffrey Epstein and Israel both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Dershowitz says he’s building ‘legal dream team’ to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

    —————————other Trump information:

    Here’s trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY

    Trump’s promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

    Trump’s modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

  36. Donald Trump raped a 13 year old child, and chose her because she resembled his daughter.

    This man deserves heinous things.

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