cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43334510
The Department of Justice spoke four separate times to a woman who credibly accused Donald Trump of having sex with a minor he met through Jeffrey Epstein—but most accusations against the president appear to have been removed from the government’s documents on the alleged sex trafficker.
A 21-page slideshow buried in the massive trove of Epstein-related documents included allegations that sometime between 1983 and 1985, Trump forced a woman to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens. When the woman bit down on Trump’s exposed penis, he allegedly punched her in the head and kicked her out. That same woman told the DOJ that Epstein had introduced her to Trump in 1984.
Yet last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi insisted that there was “no evidence” that Trump had committed any crime—adding to the growing pile of denials from Trump officials that constitute a sweeping cover-up of the president’s alleged wrongdoing.
Justice Department records indicate that the FBI spoke to this woman not once but at least four separate times, according to independent journalist Roger Sollenberger. Now those records appear to have been removed from public viewing—despite the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires all documents relating to the alleged sex trafficker to be made public.
Sollenberger discovered a record of four separate interviews, which took place in the summer of 2019, in a separate database of documents downloaded from the government’s public files on Epstein. That document indicated that the first of the four interviews was conducted on July 24, 2019, and the last conducted on October 16, 2019. That document was given to Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers as part of her trial, though the specific allegations predated Maxwell’s involvement with Epstein, Sollenberger wrote.
The woman’s first interview was entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, 2019, just one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell. FBI agents typically have a deadline of five working days to file interview write-ups, indicating an abnormal 16-day gap, Sollenberger noted.
Welcome to fascism. Just couldn't vote for Harris? You did this.
I voted for Harris but you have to be very bad at your job to loose that election.
The capitalist class did this to us. Blame the people who allowed fascism to rise...which absolutely includes Biden and Harris!
The people still voted for trump in greater numbers than Harris. No ifs or buts about that fact. It is the people's responsibility to stay educated and to actually go vote. It's been shown that nations with compulsory voting gain more support for the left. Yes, there is a problem with the Epstein class and capitalism, but that doesn't absolve non-voters and those who voted for fascism from blame.
It is the media's responsibility to be unbiased and not run propaganda. And yet, Fox News exists.
It is a systemic issue, not a personal one. You can not educate the person who feels they know everything. Someone does not feel like they know everything unless they have that affirmed to them daily. Fox News pushes this shit, daily.
Bro the people that didn't vote for harris ain't here. Not enough of them to realistically blame, anyway.
But how else do people like this feel superior without having an under class to constantly shit on? By the merit of their own achievements? Hah!
Its mostly people that are too "individualism pilled" to realize that trump and maga are a fabricated phenomena by wealthy individuals who have been given too much power by society.
And realistically its not that people are wholly misinformed, just a mix of optimistic, detached, isolated, and understandably angry.
The vast majority of people didn't foresee what is happening now but its clear the DNC did and saw a lot of acceptable risks in the way they dealt with biden and harris.
I'd call the real issue the "Chuck Schumer worldview"
But Harris didn’t say she was going to solve all the world’s problems immediately! She wanted to personally murder every single Palestinian person. Or something.
She had a funny laugh.
But realistically she had a vagina and voters aren't super fond of that. If she'd have been a man, she'd have won. I'll get downvoted and accused of being misogynist but it's voters who are, especially women.
And now she's running again and god help us if the party makes the same mistake in 2028, if we have real elections.
Are we just going to ignore that the DOJ had all of these documents while Biden was president and just twiddled their thumbs apparently?
Like they released the JFK files after JFK was killed? Or how they arrested arrested Reagan for illegally selling arms to Iran to fund death squads in the americas? Idk man there's a long history of presidents just sitting on this kind of shit and Biden is not exactly brave.
I don’t really disagree. My point is more that if Biden or his AG had actually pursued this with the degree of seriousness it deserves, Trump would likely not be president. People need better options than to vote for a pedophile rapist or someone who let pedophile rapists go free.
I would go on a step further and say, we should remember some norms suck and we should be asking candidates if they will prosecute previous administrations and what for.
Like the norm of not prosecuting presidents is possibly the most destructive and vile norm and has lead exclusively to terrible outcomes, from the contras, to jan 6th, to the Iraq war, to epstein secrecy.
President's used to let the justice department carry out justice as it saw fit. Now it's a legal apparatus for the president to weaponize.
What are you talking about? Presidents have directed the DOJ to look into specific crimes and even have created special investigatory tasks forces all the time. Obama did exactly that after 2008 in order to investigate financial fraud. Don’t you think that a child sex trafficking ring involving some of the US’s most rich and powerful people, including former presidents, deserves to be prioritized in the same way?
At the very least Biden is responsible for appointing Merrick Garland of all people. Remember this was after Epstein’s apparent “suicide”.
That’s a pretty strong claim.
Trump should never have been on the ticket.
America still hates women too much for that.
Really tired of you pathetic embarassed republicans blaming leftists for the election loss. Leftists overwhelmingly voted for Harris. Your "centrists" hated her.