The Epstein Scandal Is Snowballing

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-files-trump/

29 comments
  1. Believe it when I see it. They’re still making excuses for the pedophile they voted for three times and waiting for updated talking points.

    Not that I expect anything less from his stupid fucking MAGA cult.

    > Epstein was renowned for his intellect, financial savvy, and patronage of science and higher education;

    Haven’t most folks that are experts in similar fields said he was just a great bullshitter? It was the money/blackmail/power, not his “intellect” that granted him access. Everything was given to him.

  2. That look on Johnsons face is not very happy. I get the feeling he regrets taking the job

  3. Which is why Trump is going to invade Venezuela as a distraction

  4. Senate will block full release. Need to hope for some other solution. I hope some one in the GOP finds their spine though.

  5. >*One individual should not be able to unilaterally obstruct the swearing-in of a duly elected member of Congress for political reasons.*

    I like Grijalva already

  6. >Committee Republicans replied by releasing tens of thousands later in the day. Nobody knows whether they did that thinking they would exonerate Trump, or whether they were too stupid to know how incriminating they were. They only contributed to the toxic fumes of scandal around Trump and his allies.

    This has been bugging me. What were they thinking? Was it a total miscalculation, or are Republicans finally starting to turn on him? Or maybe they just never read them and didn’t realize how bad they would be for Trump. So weird.

  7. It is so cool that it seems like the rich, powerful, and often (but not always) conservative people in this country are pedophiles/pedophile apologists. God bless America!

    /s

  8. Conservatives will just downplay pedophilia and sexual assault on women. I even heard one say it was OK for Trump to walk into women’s dressing rooms because he was paying them.

  9. I bet the oversight committee has thousands upon thousands of documents in their possession from his estate, a lifetime of correspondence and pictures.  And they will control a steady drip of information to keep the public outrage and to keep pressure on congress. I don’t like Massie, but this is one situation he doing the right thing to bring justice to the victims, probably for selfish political reasons but it will expose things needed to be exposed. 

  10. I learned about snowballing from the movie Clerks, is that what Trump is in trouble for? I thought he raped children

  11. let it fucking roll because I AM SICK TO DEATH OF THE CON. of the hate. of the destruction. Lets GOOOO

  12. Who could have guessed the guy who was buddy/buddy with Epstein and have many pictures with Epstein partying together and who LIVES IN THE PLACE WHERE EPSTEIN RECRUITED AT LEAST ONE VICTIM could have been involved in the Epstein scandal?

    Fucking morons who voted for this guy.

  13. Not so sure it is MAGA seems to just be excusing it all. If you see Trumps approval fall below 30% then maybe i will buy he is in trouble.

  14. Trump spent THANKSGIVING with Epstein in 2017 and we’re just now learning about it?

    I thought he hardly knew the guy? I thought Trump kicked him out when he knew Epstein was trafficking and raping kids?

    And then decides he’s gonna spend his holiday with the guy.

    Trump was raping kids.

  15. A lot of people think this is because Republican Senators and Representatives have turned against Trump. They’re opportunistic, but they’ve also stuck by Trump’s side against the odds when bad news has broken before.

    I’m personally convinced that the shutdown cost America a lot more money than anyone’s willing to admit (the Administration won’t even release recent economic data) and that this ‘snowballing’ is due to the oligarchs who boosted Trump finally realizing he’s a net negative for their fortunes.

    So now the businessmen and mainstream media moguls who shielded Trump during his three campaigns are finally encouraging their underlings to turn on him before the damage gets even worse.

    I also suspect it’s these billionaires who have nudged the Supreme Court conservatives to finally play hardball with Trump on tariffs.

  16. The pedophile scandal is bad enough. But the confirmation that all the Russia “hoax” accusations are real should burn down the entire GOP.

  17. Megyn Kelly : Democrats are pedophiles , they wanna make it acceptable

    After files released : Oh oh I ment if a girl’s parents ok with older man sleeping with their kids it’s their preference , we shouldn’t interfere with people’s life . Also , girls knew what kind of people Epstein was .. it’s their fault

  18. “The dog that hasn’t barked” isn’t as likely a “clumsy metaphor” as it is a reference the author didn’t catch. The phrase comes from the Sherlock Holmes mysteries; Sherlock identifies that the killer was someone known to the victim because the victim’s dog didn’t bark at them.

    More broadly, the phrase implies not just someone who isn’t sounding the alarm, but someone who is complicit in the crime, if only for looking the other way so that they themselves can be “fed.” The implication is far darker.

  19. Imagine if you had a daughter, regardless of age, that was raped. Now imagine that grown man who raped your child was elected as president and his team is trying to convince America that raping children is acceptable. This is Trump’s America.

  20. As a foreigner in America, to me it’s absolutely wild that the FBI has a list of child predators, probably even videos, and other proof and they don’t just go tomorrow morning and detain then ALL.

    In most western countries if a police officer (or a public servant) refuses to observe the law, or willingly hides a crime, the public servant is fined, loses his/her job and if it’s big, probably even goes to jail.

    As a principle nobody should get to decide when law is applied and when it’s not. Not district attorneys, not FBI agents, not congressmen, not even the f*cking president.

  21. “Barely legal” is a porno term. For Christ’s sake, if we’re at this point, we certainly have had “moral degeneration” and it ain’t because of the communists.

    You are either a minor, or not. You are legal, or not.

    Anyone arguing a weird blurry line is strictly arguing against age of consent laws, which is within their right.

    Just as it’s within our rights to laugh at those people. Hell, I know 30 year olds too mentally immature for sex. That isn’t the question, Megyn. It’s a question of law, not feels, vibes, or other creepy apologist crap.

  22. Good.

    And lemme just say this. If this also hits the Clintons, or other Democrats, too:

    Good.

    You can tell things are getting scary because now they’re lying about Democrats trying to cover it up, just a day after they accused Democrats of promoting a hoax to hurt Trump.

  23. Pretty clear that if there was any obviously exculpatory evidence in the files Trump would have not only released them immediately but petitioned to add them to the US constitution.

    While there may also not be information that specifically implicates Trump to the standard of criminal prosecution, outright, the information will almost certainly showcase that Trump’s relationship with Epstein was much deeper and more involved than we know and that Trump was effectively inseparable from Epstein and his activities.

  24. So much so that they are trying to actively excuse and downplay Child Molestation and Rape.

    Come on MAGA. I knew you would support low but Jesus Freaking Christ how low are you willing to go?

    I thought you were Christians. Where are your values?

    I thought you loved children.

    Where’s the line?

  25. Hmm… the “Epstein didn’t kill himself” crowd on the right is going to be real silent when multiple email conversations suggest Epstein knew he had dirt on Trump and even said he was the guy that could make him fall when the Democrats were first investigating the Trump Epstein ties.

  26. No, it isn’t.

    He’ll never have them release any files. Even if they did, he’ll claim they are fake or something. Nothing, even if there is literal video of him raping a child while looking right in the camera with his ID in one hand and him saying “I am Donald Trump and I love raping kids” will anything ever happen.

    – He was on video saying he liked to sexually assault women
    – He has been on video saying he liked to walk in on pageant women and teenagers while they were naked to “inspect” them
    – He has been proven to say racist things about POC and referred to countries with brown or black people in them as “shithole countries.”
    – He has targetted millions of people based soley on if they “look” Latino and scooped them up with a faceless army of jackbooted thugs
    – He has with-held federal aid to states that didn’t vote for him baed SOLELY on that criteria
    – He has jacked up the prices on almost everything, resulting in the closing of businesses and tens of thousands of Americans losing their jobs, then given away tax payer money to other countries to CONTINUE to screw over those people that voted for him
    – He has literally said he’s probably going to hell when he dies
    – He has incited violence on camera multiple times from Jan 6 to his rallies where he tells people to beat up opposition and protestors
    – He has pardoned people who attacked and injured Capitol Police
    – He has grown his wealth by selling pardons out to billionaires to assist with his Crypto business
    – He has been caught cheating on every single wife he’s had with hookers and porn stars
    – He has mocked handicapped people on camera
    – He has literally called for Russia to hack US government and private officials and citizens to get dirt on his opponents
    – His family has taken meetings with Russians to get more of that dirt
    – He has bent over for Putin on camera to say he diesn’t believe our own US Intelligence
    – He has killed people without due process or any evidence of their wrongdoing
    – He is poised to now invade a country that in his first term said he wanted to invade so we could take their oil
    – He dry humped a widow on TV at her husband’s funeral
    – He has demanded tribute be brought to him by rich and business leaders on TV
    – He has destroyed centuries of history in the White House by him and his trophy wife gutting everything they can find
    – He has sold out the country so he can get a free airplane from a country that has supported terrorists that have killed American soldiers
    – He has appointed pedophiles and sexual predators to multiple cabinet and other national posts

    Despite all of this, he still maintains support from Evangelicals, Farmers, etc etc. Anything bad that happens he just says it is some Democrat Con Job or Hoax, and nothing sticks to him.

    He has literally been convicted of crimes but still got on the ticket, still won and got away scott free with it. I said WAY back then when people said he’d never be on the ballot that relying on the regular levers of power and justice will not work with him. The only way to defeat him is at the ballot box. They didn’t listen and now here we are.

    He isn’t going to die any time soon. Odds are he will live out the remainder of his term. The ONLY way to beat him is to first take back both the House and Senate in 2026, and then toss out him or JD or whatever lickspittle comes up in 2028. Then and ONLY then once Democrats have control of both branches, can they then fix the third branch and bring back some normalcy to all of this.

    We had our chance to defeat him in 2024 and we dropped the ball because people didn’t want to vote for a Black Woman after Biden dropped out and the Democrats panicked and didn’t run an actual primary. Now we have a shit economy, hundreds of thousands of people even poorer, a ballroom and probably some statues or arches coming too. Just hope that his track record of not getting things done on time stands and none of it is complete before 2028 so whoever is next can put a stop to this shit.

    Stop hoping that someone is going to come save us. They won’t. Only we can.

Comments are closed.