Trump’s “Epstein hoax” remark firmly rejected in Republican’s online poll

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-epstein-hoax-remark-rejected-republican-online-poll-2125709

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  1. Thank goodness it’s firmly rejected. If it was regular rejected, might not have mattered.

  2. First, they say it’s a Democratic hoax. Then they say Trump was an informant on Epstein for FBI.

    So much bullshit from his enablers, but good to read that some Republicans do have brains.

  3. The only silver lining in any of this is that Trump was stupid enough to campaign on the files and all the claims about protecting women and children that go along with it.

    *However*, I’m not really convinced by this alone the respondents are really answering what we want to believe they’re answering. This simply asks if we think it is a hoax, of which most of them seem to disagree, from this poll anyway. For as useful as polls ever are. That doesn’t mean they also think it might implicate Republicans, for all we know the majority are still on the “this will condemn Democrats” narrative.

  4. a new low – politicizing pedophilia and child sex trafficking

  5. C’mon everybody, the GOP is the party of family values. So it’s impossible that any of them would have been friends with Epstein.

  6. Wait till his base figures out his entire presidency is a hoax.

  7. Online polls don’t mean shit. Newsweek is not a credible source.

  8. Making up a lie and then perpetuating it to the american public as an elected government official is stunningly sickening.

    Shun this sinner ! Knowingly lying to protect child rapists while pretending to be a christian and sworn to protect the constitution. Not one duty carried out.

  9. He’s like a little kid telling lies to mom to avoid getting caught. Perfect photo to illustrate that point.

  10. They would all vote for him for an illegal third term.

    Guaranteed.

    They would be persuaded by talk of, say … a single trans athlete in Idaho who wanted to use the same locker room as their gender. Or whatever.

    America gave up everything, including its deepest principles of equality—fought for with blood—so that a two-bit reality-TV conman could turn the Rose Garden into another concrete golf club varanda for his rich asshole friends.

  11. But fully endorsed by Mike Johnson and the rest of the Republican Congress.

  13. If Trump were an informant for the FBI, would that make him a rat?

  14. Trump is desperately trying to sweep this Epstein scandal under the rug. His administration has been resorting to political stunts that divert attention away from this cover up.

    They’re still hell bent on manufacturing a separate scandal that accuses Obama of “treason,” while Trump’s deputy AG (and former personal lawyer) is orchestrating a cover up with Ghislaine Maxwell by offering her limited immunity/clemency to facilitate her cooperation with the government.

    Trump even sued the WSJ for releasing the infamous birthday letter to Epstein:

    > The letter reportedly concludes: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

    Trump’s supporters are refusing to acknowledge his involvement and instead are either shrugging their shoulders or rationalizing why the most obvious conclusion is the least likely.

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

    Trump’s initial response:

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

    Fox left 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.”

    Outside of this Epstein controversy, Trump has been accused of sexual abuse, harassment or rape by dozens of women dating back to the 70s—particularly women on the “younger side.”

    A book published in 2019 titled “All the President’s Women” speaks of at least 43 allegations—one of them from Trump’s first wife.

    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 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:

    > 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.”

    One woman claimed that Trump tried to rape her in his daughters bedroom at Mar-A-Lago.

    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.'”* She was interviewing Trump for a story about his marriage to Melania.

    There’s always the Stormy Daniels case and the “Hollywood access tape,” scandals that should have ended his political career. But 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. In response, Trump called them “horrible, horrible liars.”

    Judge Kaplan clarified recently that the jury’s findings in the E Jean Carroll case align with the common understanding of rape. In other words, Trump was found by a jury to have raped E Jean Carroll.

    Then there’s the case involving the plaintiff “Katie Johnson”, filed multiple times in 2016—all suspiciously dismissed.

    The accuser was set to appear at a news conference later that year, but her attorney said 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.

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

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

    Virginia Guiffre, one of Epstein’s most vocal accusers, claimed that she was recruited into Epstein’s sex trafficking ring while working at Mar-a-Lago. Giuffre sadly “died by suicide” back in April.

    Maria Farmer, another reported Epstein victim, went to police twice back in the 90s to complain about Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls and young women. She brought up Trump’s name both times because of their close friendship and an encounter she had with Trump at Epstein’s New York office:

    > She told the authorities that late one night, Mr. Epstein unexpectedly called her to his offices in a luxury building in Manhattan, and she arrived in running shorts.

    > Mr. Trump then arrived, wearing a business suit, and started to hover over her.

    > Ms. Farmer said she recalled feeling scared as Mr. Trump stared at her bare legs. Then Mr. Epstein entered the room, and she recalled him saying to Mr. Trump: “No, no. She’s not here for you.”

    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 during Maxwell’s trial, Trump has flown on the “Lolita Express” at least seven times.

    Then there’s Michael Wolff, a journalist who 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 worried that she might “spill secrets.”

    Wolff obtained audio recordings in 2017 of Epstein claiming that Trump and Melania’s first sexual encounter took place aboard his private jet.

    On his podcast, Fire and Fury, Wolff stated that Epstein once showed him several photographs of Trump at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, sitting around the pool with topless young girls, some reportedly sitting in Trump’s lap.

    Wolff described Trump and Epstein as “joined at the hip” for nearly 15 years. Both men have confirmed their close friendship together, they even shared the same women.

    This is a cover up, plain and simple.

  16. I’d love for the strength of that sentiment to be real, but I’m not gonna put much stock in an unscientific social media poll. As morally repugnant as this whole fiasco has been, I don’t think 94% of people agree on literally anything.

  17. they know it’s a hoax because Trump’s justice department were the ones who fucking arrested the guy to begin with. They know the R team were the ones who arrested, charged and killed Epstein. Ya can’t just pretend now that it was all the democrats, even republican voters aren’t _that_ stupid. And the party of Pizzagate’s (and PizzaGaetz) voters are not going to let outing pedos slide by, think of the children and whatnot.

  18. Whatever Trump dislikes is a Democratic hoax. Remember when Covid was just a hoax, according to him?? Till tens of thousands of people died, then it became a Chinese conspiracy. His lack of preparedness was never the issue.

  19. Trump is slipping. So out of touch even with his own base

  22. So Trump was an undercover informant disguised as a what?

  24. I’ll never understand how this orange-haired clown dodged jail with 34 felonies hanging over his head. Any regular person would be buried under the system, but somehow he floats above it all, mouthing off like he’s untouchable.

    It’s embarrassing that someone this corrupt and incompetent ever got to call himself president. History won’t remember him as some strongman — it’ll remember him as a disgrace, a con artist who divided the country and ran from accountability every step of the way.

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