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Swede

(38,261 posts)
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 12:56 AM 11 hrs ago

"Trump saying that the Epstein files will hurt his friends...He's protecting the perpetrators of this horrific abuse."




Sarah Matthews: "Trump saying that the Epstein files will hurt his friends flies in the face of everything that his movement has stood for. When he says that he would drain the swamp, that was a lie...He's protecting the perpetrators of this horrific abuse."

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"Trump saying that the Epstein files will hurt his friends...He's protecting the perpetrators of this horrific abuse." (Original Post) Swede 11 hrs ago OP
Trump has no friends. RandySF 11 hrs ago #1
he does have people over whom these files give him leverage rampartd 10 hrs ago #3
I have thought that for a while now. johnnyfins 9 hrs ago #9
By friends he means himself Buckeyeblue 5 hrs ago #10
Well, DUUUUHAAA! Enter stage left 11 hrs ago #2
TY & Sarah Matthews... Cha 10 hrs ago #4
We have become so debased belpejic 10 hrs ago #5
"Drain The Swamp" sheshe2 10 hrs ago #6
Since the republicans in Congress refuse to impeach and remove pedo the felon: Justice matters. 10 hrs ago #7
Epstein's Victims vs Trump's Friends GregGilman 9 hrs ago #8
Because he DOESN'T SEE IT AS HORRIFIC ABUSE!!!!!!!! maxrandb 4 hrs ago #11

rampartd

(3,700 posts)
3. he does have people over whom these files give him leverage
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 02:02 AM
10 hrs ago

and there are plenty of those.

johnnyfins

(3,404 posts)
9. I have thought that for a while now.
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 03:02 AM
9 hrs ago

If EVERYTHING is released, he loses power. I wonder how much power?

belpejic

(778 posts)
5. We have become so debased
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 02:07 AM
10 hrs ago

Trump basically admitted that he is protecting pedophiles. Marjorie Taylor Greene heard it, as did at least one member of her staff. That's a massively damning admission. Yet our media, and apparently most Americans, just shrug their shoulders and chalk it up to another day in Trump world. I may be crazy, but this is the kind of admission that would end most politicians careers.

I think we have collectively developed Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to Trump and his flunkies.

sheshe2

(95,701 posts)
6. "Drain The Swamp"
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 02:20 AM
10 hrs ago

It is not a swamp it is a cesspool and the turds, all of them INCLUDING TRUMP need to be flushed.

Justice matters.

(9,315 posts)
7. Since the republicans in Congress refuse to impeach and remove pedo the felon:
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 02:21 AM
10 hrs ago
GOP is short for Guardians Of Pedophiles.

Spread the word on all platforms over and over again!

pedo the felon wants to protect his "friends" he met with epstein.

For once, he told the truth.

GregGilman

(18 posts)
8. Epstein's Victims vs Trump's Friends
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 02:58 AM
9 hrs ago

Release the files about the Epstein pervert!
Trump, “No way! My friends will get hurt!”
Getting justice for the victims is what’s fair.
Hurting Trump’s friends — does anyone care?

maxrandb

(17,152 posts)
11. Because he DOESN'T SEE IT AS HORRIFIC ABUSE!!!!!!!!
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 08:21 AM
4 hrs ago

He just sees it as normal.

Fuck people! He has Megan Kelly, who BTW has a 14 year old daughter, declaring that "it's not really pedophilia, because some of the 14 year old girls, looked 17!! I mean, seriously, it's not like the girls were 8.

In the MAGAt world mindset, including the majority of white mothers that vote for the fuckstick, this is what girls do. It's just fucking normal...hell. some will even tell you "it's God's will" that their daughters be pursued by creepy, rich white men.

Is there ANY fucking example in Donnie Dipshits life, where he doesn't treat women as a fucking commodity to be traded like pork futures?

If you asked the MAGAts, and they were telling the truth, they would say; "yes. I would gladly send my 14 year old daughter to a sleepover at Epstein Island, if it meant she could land a millionaire, get a tryout for Faux News, or generate clicks on her monetized social media platform."

In the MAGAt world, these girls aren't "victims" of horrific abuse, they are casting couch fodder.

See, we convinced ourselves that the casting couch was a disgusting symbol of a past America. MAGAts see it as just one more opportunity for advancement, power and sex that "woke people" want to take away from them.

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