*rapes

I believe that he possibly also helped facilitate and/or finance Epstein's child rape and blackmail operation.

I don't have any evidence, but I feel it in my bones.

He does exactly that half a minute earlier though. Was basically asked "did you socialize with Donald Trump" which he confirms after clarification. He just plead the fifth after the question was amended with "with females under the age of 18" or whatever the wording was.

I’m really confused why this is all of the sudden a big deal. Everyone is rehashing things that we already know/knew.

My current conspiracy theory is that Trump's owners have decided that he's become more of a liability than an asset, and are throwing him under the bus to replace him with someone more under their control.

My "evidence" is that this steady daily trickle of new evidence tying Trump to Epstein didn't just miraculously spawn into existence this week. It's been in people's filing cabinets and video/photo archives for years

I just find it really hard to believe none of this was "found" earlier. Instead it's being "found" now, but not all at once. It's being "found" at a rate that keeps the story at the top of the news cycle.

This is beginning to feel like the Swedish penis pump scene in Austin Powers

How about the MSM? They're fucking bulldogs when they want to be, a bad debate sends them into weeks of non-stop reporting and questioning mental faculties, but somehow they just never give two shits about the dozens of scandals and so much worse from this POSOTUS. All of this could have, and should have, been dug up years ago, they just didn't bother to for some reason until now, assuming it is because ruling class wants him gone before he completely fucks the economy beyond recognition.

None of it would have mattered back then. It took the entire Administration to form a phalanx against any demands for release of the files, in a complete reversal of their explicit campaign promises. Many MAGAs based their allegiance on those promises.

Now it turns out that he was bluffing all along, and they are calling his hand, and everyone knows he doesn't have the cards.

There is no “left” in American politics, this is just the people who put him into power handling their liabilities. Trump is just an externality to them.

While technically true, it is indubitably terrible optics for Trump. Specially since he was answering questions freely and then seemed to abruptly swerve that specific question.

Except there's a clip of Trump saying something along the lines of 'nobody pleads the fifth because they're innocent'.

Live by the court of public opinion, die by it.

It's really just because of this:

https://youtu.be/hMyh7ko9L2g

This is not true!!! unless in the very specific context of a criminal court proceeding. In every other context, refusal to answer a question can be used as evidence against you. For a government job application, divorce/civil proceedings, and any other conversation happening outside of a court, it is fair game to consider non answers as incriminating. In some cases you can even force a defendant to answer questions if they enjoy some kind of immunity, and hold them in contempt otherwise.

*raped

You think this is a distraction? The most damaging scandal for the billionaires' president is actually a secret plot so we should just ignore it and focus on an unspecified not-damaging story?

These memes about media manipulation by mastermind powers puppetting everything often just seem like an excuse for perpetual inaction. It's the lefty version of the liberal "keeping our powder dry", where no current conflict is ever worth engaging in because somehow action is always playing into the opponents' hands and the savvy move is either inaction or refocusing on something else without traction.

“Doesn’t sit right with me?” Just say what you mean. Do you need it spelled out instead of posting some vague conspiratorial insinuation? We all know that Epstein’s clientele list was pushed to the back burner when dems were trying to hold on to their seats in a tight election. They know they have members on the list too. There absolutely were calls to dig into the Epstein connections because it would have put trump under even more pressure while out of office, but they were ignored because Dems chose self-protection instead of pursuing the list to bury trump in an effort to maintain their grip on seats they were desperate to not lose. Combined with a shamelessly spineless judiciary, and lackluster candidates, it cost them everything.

The point is that you have pedophile narcissist elitist racists running your country.

And from what I see the democrats might be also capitalism junkies, but at least they seem more human and caring when compared to the bullshit Americans voted in.

Of course it is odd that those files were never released. Most likely reason: too many very rich and powerful are on it. Perhaps even from other countries which would likely open a huge diplomatic shitshow.

Though with Trump fucking up the US and the world with his racist and sociopathicly drenched dementia I say fuck the consequences if it means that dude gets what he deserves: the rest of his wrinkly life in prison.

i plead the second 🔫BLAM BLAM BLAM