Submitted 18 hours ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to [deleted]
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It’s also in large part Trump’s fault that any attention is on the files. He was the one pushing the conspiracy theory, and running on the promise of releasing them. So anyone who’s name is in the files can blame Trump for them not getting away with it.
I don’t like that line of logic, but it works out
He was the one pushing the conspiracy theory, and running on the promise of releasing them.
He was on the gravy train of Pizzagate from way back in 2016 and he’s been dining out on it ever since. But to say he was pushing it? No, he was just echoing all the talk radio goons who wanted to smuggle in transphobia under the banner of “Save The Children”.
So anyone who’s name is in the files can blame Trump for them not getting away with it.
Name one person who hasn’t gotten away with it, other than Epstein himself and Maxwell if you’re being generous.
Larry Summers didn’t even quit his day job teaching at Harvard. This is a freak who has been dining out lavishly as Economics Svengali since Mark Zuckerberg was in college. He’s been nailed dead-to-rights getting PUA advice from Epstein as recently as months before Jeff unalived himself. He’s “stepping away from public life for a little while”. Dude’s set his social media to mute and hoping this will all blow over in a few months. And he’s probably right. Good chance he gets bookings on MSNBC and CNN to denounce Zohran Mamdani’s far-left socialist mayoralty right alongside Steve Bannon before the end of next year.
The joke of the “Epstein Files” is that you absolutely could put up names, addresses, and lurid details about each and every one of his friends and nothing would happen to any of them.
Amazingly, it was also the kind of thing he could’ve vaporwared away, just by (mostly) following policy. All he had to do was claim (from the beginning) that there are ongoing investigations, agency policy is to not release info about those investigations, and then lie that there are going to be arrests really soon.
I’m kind of amazed that they weren’t leaked a long time ago already. But I guess potential whistleblowers are aware it could literally be their death if they got found out.
Why would the trump admin give a plea deal for snitching on the trump admin?
That works under the assumption that Trump falls and crumbles
Plea deals are made beforehand, so you’d negotiate that with Trump admin. Pardons may be given after, but the likely candidates in the line of succession are appointed by the Trump admin, or in the case of an (extra) election you have no clue who it will be.
The better idea is to probably to suck up to Trump even more and hope he or one of his successors pardon you.
Or just flee to a country that does not extradite to the US.
If you’re about to get taken down by the release of the Epstein files it serves you right. Burn.
M.A.D. Mutual assured destruction…
DegenerateSupreme@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Like, there’s no way in hell these files haven’t been doctored, right? Months of obfuscation and deflection, and then suddenly Trump’s fine to sign their release? There’s no way.
Sarothazrom@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You are correct.