A new report notes several patterns of conduct that Trump and Epstein shared in recruiting victims.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/88742

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a trove of evidence regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Donald Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the Department of Justice. The 50-page report, released Monday, contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of…

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  • GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    He’s been pushing AI hoping it will get good enough that by the time anything DOES come out he’ll claim it’s AI and his supporters will shovel that shit directly into their skulls.

    • shartgargle@lemmy.zip
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      10 days ago

      That’s what he wants to do, is change the narrative. Super intelligence vs artificial intelligence. One is smarter than anything else and you’re to accept that. The other is fake news.

  • Nobody@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I normally don’t get surprised by these things, but the fact that Trump and Epstein ran the same exact script on these kids, down to promises of admission to the same university, is eye-opening.

    Same methods, same promises. All to get them to go into a room alone.

    • aramis87@fedia.io
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      10 days ago

      And it really makes you wonder about the people running the university / doing admissions for the university at the time as well. I wonder if they show up in the Epstein files …

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    9 days ago

    former miss switzerland accuses trump of brutal rape recently. which gaffe will trump pull out of his behind this time.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      9 days ago

      God is going to invade Canada isn’t he. That’s what he does whenever there’s bad news, start another unwinnable war.

      • ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml
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        9 days ago

        God is going to invade Canada isn’t he.

        I’m really not comfortable with you calling Trump God. Hopefully you just think the biblical apocalypse will soon be upon us, and your lord’s wrath will begin with Canada.

        That’s what he does whenever there’s bad news, start another unwinnable war.

        And I guess you also think god’s legion of angels are doomed to fail against Canada’s might.

      • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
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        9 days ago

        On the world scale, God has a majority government, while dj has a minority government. Do not confuse the two.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I mean, life happens independent of politics. Americans will want to move to Norway. Nords will want to move to America.

          People get new jobs, they meet each other and get married, they travel and fall in love with new places, they experience strife and decide to leave.

          Trump’s hissyfit over falling to win a fake award for mass murderers mostly just ruins the lives of an uncountable number of other people.

  • darkmarx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Interesting timing. Not that I’m doubting the validity, and agree with others who are questioning that it’s only 11. A week before the election, it’s obvious that it’s to give people enough time to hear it as to sway as many votes as possible.

    But, is it 11 that are the most compelling? Are the dems planning for if they retake the house and senate? Planning on a fast impeachment? If so, do they really think they will have enough senate votes to find him guilty? Doubtful.

    However, if the evidence for the 11 is compelling enough to satisfy most people, are there enough republicans to support it as a way to get their failing leader out of office, implanting the vp in his stead? Compelling enough to satisfy the majority of their base, as a way for them to rebuild their base, crumbling due to his actions? If the republicans lose both houses, are they going to use the opportunity to salvage the situation, attempt to stabilize things for 2 years, and try again in 28?

    Long shot assumptions, and too many open questions. Probably giving too much credit to the possibility of forward thinking politicians. Also the fact that he has his claws so far into the republican party, it’s probably not going to survive him.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      A lot of us already voted. The kind of people that most need to hear this probably won’t and they may also have voted. I watched The Good Liars ask people attending his rallies if they knew his name was in the Epstein files thousands of times, and they at least claimed they had no idea.

      Same thing when they were asking them if they knew he made billions since starting his second term. Again, utterly clueless.

      I suppose for the low-info “independents”, it may break through and some of them may vote in the next week. I hope it has an effect on that sort. The true believers are unreachable and seem to be ensconced in an airtight media bubble that fills their head with nonsense. The low-info/swing voter/“independents”…probably anyone’s guess what makes an impression on them.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        Wouldn’t it be some shit if atheists who were good moral people also had to burn forever with Trump by their side. The injustice of that is too much to even consider…

        There cannot be a hell.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          Or, if there was, it might be that idiot monsters that think “just accept Jesus into your heart” is the path to a heaven, and they got it all wrong.

          Wouldn’t that be quite the irony for those people - thinking that their complete immorality, papered over with a “I’m not perfect, I’m just forgiven” platitude - to find out that it was not sufficient?

          Meanwhile, finding out that atheists, pagans, Muslims, and so on that led good lives went to heaven instead?

          • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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            9 days ago

            it might be that idiot monsters that think “just accept Jesus into your heart” is the path to a heaven, and they got it all wrong

            It says right in the New Testament that faith without works is death, and repentance requires change in behavior.

  • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
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    10 days ago

    How would we know? Republicans are currently helping Trump (illegally) keep the Epstein files secret and sealed.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I love how this statement still gets downvoted, all these years later. Pure denialism, even in a community full of die-hard Trump haters.

    • BigMacHole@thelemmy.club
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      9 days ago

      Which is EXACTLY why he was Voted back in JUST like how we KNEW Trump was in the Files so DIDNT vote for Him again!

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      9 days ago

      shouldve replaced garland the moment he wouldnt do anything, but he knows garland wouldnt do anything about it though. there is more than likely plenty of Dems in the files too.

        • Taldan@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          I don’t know if I buy it was all a honeypot. I expect at least one state actor got their hands on compromising materials, but it doesn’t seem planed out enough to be a honeypot the entire time

          It’ll be fascinating when the world can honestly review the facts to learn what all happened. Sad that can’t happen until Trump and everyone around him is long gone from power

          • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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            9 days ago

            Epstein was the person running the honeypot. You don’t have cameras set up all around your mansion and private island and safest full of CDs and hard drives with labels like {name + “young” name} for a one off job. He also had 2 official passports from different countries and no source of income to become a billionaire. He was state sponsored. His girlfriends dad was an obvious mossad agent.

    • Freeposity@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Making a Federalist Society member the Attorney General was a very bad idea.

      I want Jack Smith or Vanita Gupta to be the next AG.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      The worst thing Biden ever did was refuse to push harder on Trump. He had four years to get one of the prosecutions (plural) settled, including the one where we have publicly released phone call recordings of Trump committing the crime. Yeah, the Georgia prosecutor fucked up, but they slow rolled it before the fuck up meaning there wasn’t time to recover from the fuck up.

      Biden also had four years to release the Epstein files, but he didn’t. Even if he knew the prosecutions would not have been successful and was playing a political game of “we’re doing this the right way and not doing a knee-jerk witch hunt,” releasing the files in their full would have gotten this ball rolling in a very different DOJ and FBI environment. It also would have given the public more time to see the connections.

  • FiredFloridaCop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I would be surprised if anyone was on the fence about Trump’s sex crimes.

    You either have people who realize that he looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and are willing to treat him like a duck…

    …or you have people for whom no amount of evidence could ever convince them.

    • reksas@sopuli.xyz
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      9 days ago

      people who “are not convinced” are ones who would do the same themselves given opportunity

    • Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      He bragged about grabbing women which is assault, and we know he did worse than that, but lots of guys think they should be able to do what they want and brag about it, they’re abusers and worse. It’s part of their old boys’ club and hide crimes of each other, frats, sports, military, supernatural groups, all hide crimes of sex and others.

      • FiredFloridaCop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        A lot of people are attracted to trustworthy positions of power because of the opportunity to commit crime and the low odds of being caught and prosecuted.

      • Stormy@thelemmy.club
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        9 days ago

        In a gta5 online lobby last week this like 18-20 year old man was talking to his friends saying, Trump was just being a man, a rich man that’s what they do, and kept talking him up like he was so great. And the other men didn’t stop him or correct him, so it seemed like they agreed too.

        So yeah youre right