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Why is Trump covering up the Epistein files and lying to the public?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by astros123, Jul 7, 2025.

  1. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    There was a thread in Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton predates this site

    Trump is the president, yes he's a topic

    Your fascination with black culture or criticizing of it is telling
     
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    Why are you so strange?
     
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  3. astros123

    astros123 Member
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    Why are you calling him strange? He posts good stuff here usually.
     
  4. rimrocker

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    So if 1000+ FBI agents have to screen all the Epstein documents looking for mention of Trump, how many times must he be mentioned? I'm going out on a limb and guessing more than 10.

    At this point, he should just admit everything and start bragging about it: "I was smart in how I set it all up. Many men--big, strong, successful men--have come up to me with tears in the eyes and said, 'Sir, I would have done the same thing if I had your wealth and intelligence.' And Joe Biden could never pull two 14 year-olds at the same time like I did--nothing tighter than a young one I'll tell you that. You men all know what I'm talking about, right? You're not like those loser Dems settling for the 28 year-old four-eyed cat lady from the library like Biden got stuck with that weird looking old doctor lady, the cuck. She's not my type, I'll tell you that."

    MAGA would once again swoon at how manly he is and laugh at how much he triggers the libs.
     
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  5. raining threes

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    I do believe in IQ tests.

    I also believe Ivy League Schools have sold out and have turned into Anti American institutions.
     
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    The fact that you dont think if the Biden administration found out that Trump was a Pedo and wouldn't have brought this out to destroy Trump amazes me. I mean they tried to financially break/jail him on trumped up charges and finally allow him to be assassinated. But they would put out proof Trump was a Pedo, yeah that makes me question the intelligence of people who make posts like this.
     
  7. DaDakota

    DaDakota Balance wins
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    MAGA struggling with a choice.

    1. Support a pedophile
    2. Admit Liberals were right

    Gee, what a tough choice.

    DD
     
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  8. deb4rockets

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    Just because you think any crimes Trump committed were trumped up charges doesn't make it true. I'm not sure which charges you are referring to though, because he committed so many felonies in 3 or 4 different states it's hard to keep track of them all. My guess is that Trump can do anything illegal and you will join in with him screaming that it's a witch hunt though. He's probably committing crimes as I type this.
     
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  9. raining threes

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    The New York trumped up lending charges where banks stated they would do these types of loans again. Valuing Mar Lago at 15 mil. LMAO. Funny thing is James/Swallowell were doing the same things.

    The fact that the FBI raided a former POTUS house while Biden had documents from when he was a senator and they charged Trump which was debatable and didn't charge Biden who obviously did something illegal should tell you all you need to know. I'm happy it happened because this type of FBI shady dealings is why Trump is POTUS today.
     
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    He's a devoted one, of course the first rule of any cult is never question or criticize the leader.
     
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  11. No Worries

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    I like how you pick the facts that make your case, while ignoring the facts that do not.

    if Trump had returned the documents in question instead of actively not doing so, he would have skated too.
     
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    You are leaving out half the story there, but that's no surprise. Did you forget how many times Trump was given to hand over all the classified documents? Did you happen to forget that he was obstructing justice, when he said they had turned them all over? Or, do you just think he just didn't notice those hundreds of other boxes around his house and the bathroom? :eek:

    As for the bank charges and Jan 6th charges, it says a lot when you choose to believe a pathological liar over everyone else, including many of his Republican associates. That's how he's able to still grift and con so many fools. They don't believe he lies pathologically, because the only truth they believe are the words from the liar himself. You'd think by the time you are over 40 years old you would know that a pathological liar doesn't change when he's over 70 years old, but the majority of Trump voters are over 40 and male. Women are smarter I guess, and more perceptive, because most women see him for what he is, a lying con.
     
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    Trump deserves a decision on his fraud-ruling appeal — free of political foot-dragging

    https://nypost.com/2025/07/19/opini...uling-appeal-free-of-political-foot-dragging/

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    It’s been 293 days since appellate judges heard arguments in President Donald Trump’s appeal of a $454 million fraud ruling in a civil case brought by state Attorney General Tish James.

    The average time for an appellate decision from such a point is 30 days.

    Signed decisions can take longer, but almost never this long.

    Why the 10-fold hold-up?

    That’s not 100% clear but the most likely reason is the same one that led James to file the suit in the first place — and led the judge to impose such a ludicrous fine: raw, ugly politics.

    Court observers suspect that Presiding Justice Dianne Renwick — appointed by Gov. Hochul and a political ally — may be sitting on the decision.
    more at the link
     
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    MAGA been going through it the past week
     
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    Yeah, like that dude knows anything about family values. Ritter was caught in a sting when he exchanged explicit messages with a detective posing as a 15-year-old girl, then performed a sex act on himself in front of a webcam.
     
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    #616 astros123, Jul 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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    "Finally allowed him to be assassinated" lmao democrats are responsible for a republican attempting to kill Trump now. Braindead
     
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    Sorry, This Epstein Stuff Isn’t Going to Hurt Trump

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/trump-epstein-list-suicide.html

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    Donald Trump’s political obituary has been written more times than anyone could hope to count without the resources of a large data processing center. The “Access Hollywood” tape in 2016, impeachments in 2019 and 2021, the specter of Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022, a conviction on felony crimes last year: In these and many other instances, reports of Mr. Trump’s political demise have been greatly, perhaps even desperately, exaggerated.

    Now we are being told that Mr. Trump’s conspiracy-deflating about-face on the subject of Jeffrey Epstein — the financier and sexual predator whose suicide in jail and supposed client list Mr. Trump now dismisses as “pretty boring stuff” — presents a grave threat to his support.

    I think this is rather unlikely. Give it a week or a month or a year, and I suspect that all of it, including any unsealed grand jury transcripts, will be forgotten by nearly everyone except his political opponents.

    There are two popular misconceptions about the sort of conspiracy theories that swirl around the MAGA movement, both of which lead people to overestimate the risk Mr. Trump is taking in backing away from these narratives. One mistake is thinking that such theories are the exclusive province of flat-earth kooks, rather than a default rhetorical tool of any political opposition.

    Critics of Bill Clinton accused him of smuggling cocaine through an Arkansas airport when he was governor of the state and insinuated that he and his wife were involved in the death of the White House aide Vince Foster. Opponents of George W. Bush claimed that he stole the 2004 election with the help of rigged electronic voting machines and that he invaded Iraq to benefit Halliburton, the oil services company for which Dick Cheney had served as chief executive. Barack Obama was said to be a Kenyan by birth and ineligible for the presidency. To many of Mr. Trump’s detractors during his first term, he was a Kremlin asset.

    Conspiratorial thinking is popular not because people are credulous or insane but because it is a graspable idiom, comparable to myth, for expressing aspirations, anxieties and feelings of hopelessness in the face of vast structural forces that would otherwise resist deliberation. In the case of Mr. Epstein, these theories — that he used his sex ring to blackmail politicians and other powerful people, that he was an Israeli intelligence operative — reflect a widely shared sense of elite betrayal and institutional inertia. For many Americans, such stories have far more explanatory power than, say, a primer on neoliberalism by Wolfgang Streeck.

    Our public life is hopelessly saturated with these displaced “truths,” but they are more like useful metaphors than factual claims. As a result — and this is the second overlooked feature of conspiracy theories — they can lose their utility and their salience once their purveyors or those who benefit from their dissemination obtain power. They are frictionless fictions, and they can be readily discarded, often without major political cost.

    Most Democrats, for example, did not really believe that Mr. Trump was a Russian agent, and they stopped indulging that fantasy once Joe Biden was in power. They were sophisticated enough to understand, at least implicitly, that such stories are a shorthand for the ill-defined malfeasance of their real or perceived enemies.
    more at the link

     
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  20. Ottomaton

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    The irony of Republicans crying about crocodile tears literally made me guffaw out loud so much that I awakened my wife from slumber. The author apparently wasn't paying attention to every Democratic president since Bill Clinton, or just doesnt care about being a two-faced hypocrite.

    And it is MAGA who was most bent, so I further appreciate the gaslighting of this into a Republican vs Democrat thing to make the Republicans fall back in line. Classic spin tactics.
     
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