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Epstein estate paid Trump settlement to abuse accuser: Accountant
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What I find incredibly interesting is that he HAD to know his name was all over the files, and yet he ran on the whole "we're gonna release the files" platform... when all he had to do was shut up and don't even mention the files AT ALL, and his goldfish-memoried followers would've forgotten about it completely - even though we've had quite a lot of damning things happen during his previous presidency when he tried to swipe it all under the rug by having Epstein arrested then "suicided" in prison (as to whether Epstein was killed, or extracted to a safe location, I won't speculate, what's sure is that he did not kill himself).
But nooooo, he has to loudly claim he will release the files, then fuck around with it so long that Congress has to order the very public release of the files, causing more and more people to jump onto them and start extracting information, and he HAD to know that by allowing Musk to gut public services while putting absolutely feckless idiots in charge of those places, there's no way the files were scrubbed properly of any damning information...
it's like the orange turd is playing a video game and is intentionally choosing the worst-for-him option at every branch of the decision tree...
As you mentioned, his idiotic MAGA followers have the memory of a goldfish, and Trump bet on them forgetting his promise like they forgot all his other promises.
All the orange utan normally had to do is to declare that something will happen in two weeks, then two weeks later, everybody has forgotten.
But not with the Epstein thing. For some reason, the MAGA morons seem to latch onto this pedo thing a lot harder than onto anything else their cult leader threw at them and they don't let go.
They latch onto it because while they're indeed bigoted racist twats, one thing they and we can both agree on is that diddling kids is bad.
Unfortunately at this point comes in their advanced cognitive dissonance, ignoring any and all evidence - things that have been very much in your face since the late 90s, early 2000s really, but especially after 2016 - of cheetoh in chief being a paedo. They'll gladly go after any and all paedos, even ones just randomly accused of it (see the whole Biden sniffing kids thing), except for Dear Leader. Which I find incredibly troubling, but at the very least some of them got disillusioned by how botched the tangerine turd handled the release of the files... Small victories and all.
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
George Orwell, 1984