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Rolf Kvalvik's avatar

in case anyone needs a refresher: Epstein was publicly investigated by 2005, indicted in 2006, and given a sweetheart deal in 2008, all under George W. Bush, with Jeb Bush as Florida's governor. Trump called him a "terrific guy" in a national magazine in 2002 and told police in 2006 that "everyone knew." When a 53-page federal indictment threatened to expose the full scope of Epstein's network, former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, the same man who had spent years pursuing Bill Clinton over a consensual affair in the name of truth and justice, launched a scorched-earth campaign using his relationships with the highest levels of the Justice Department to strangle the prosecution, ultimately securing Epstein 13 months in county jail with daily work release while dozens of underage victims were secretly cut out of the process entirely. Obama inherited a closed case and lacked the will to reopen it. Biden's judges unsealed the civil documents that actually advanced public knowledge. Trump's own DOJ shut down the document release in 2025, calling the files a hoax, and his first-term Labor Secretary Acosta was the man who negotiated the original cover-up. And without Julie Brown's investigative reporting for the Miami Herald in 2018, a single reporter at a regional newspaper pursuing a decade-old story no one else would touch, the name Jeffrey Epstein may never have entered the mainstream consciousness at all, the protection architecture having successfully buried it through two administrations and counting. The claim that nobody knew until Trump started talking about it recently isn't just wrong. It's the precise inversion of the documented record.

GrannysKnitting's avatar

so now i think about it, they fired bondi to try and keep those epstein files out of the public didn't they?

Will's avatar
Apr 12Edited

Is Ghislaine (sp?) about to throw her Sweet Pea under the bus?

Common Lib's avatar

Are we rock solid confident that Rump is really Baron’s daddy?

Gypsy Queen's avatar

No, but she did have sex with someone else… This author has receipts that she had a baby in 1990 with Zampolli:

https://markcharles29.substack.com/p/the-bombshell-that-melania-trump?r=2azui0&utm_medium=ios

lordpnut's avatar

Minivan? Pshaw! That's a full-sized B van to you.

Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfRLKsFRFIk

Bless The Woman Who Called Donald A Pedophile In Front Of Melania

tegrat's avatar

Not sure how piling on Epstein helps their case, overall. This will probably not turn out well, Melon.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. Wow, the Kit Kat Club. That's where I saw Sonic Youth in 1987 while tripping on blotter I was tasked to taste. Both were great. Pussy Galore opened. Guess the place was all washed up a decade later, renting out for "model" parties.

Tessie's avatar

::a la Tommy Wiseau in The Room:: " I did not know him, it's not true! It's bullschidt! I did not know him! Oh, hai, Dunalt."

Tessie's avatar

But, hey -- good job returning him to the center of attention.

Hank Napkin's avatar

Further evidence that DOGE fired all the government translators...

Goonemeritus's avatar

Well I guess that settled, Melania probably never heard of that Epstein fellow.

mzf's avatar

Isn't Zampoli that machine that cleans and repairs the ice at Half Time at hockey games?

Pexas Teat's avatar

No, hockey doesn't have half time.

Peter MacMonagle's avatar

To be clear: She said she was not a victim. However....sex on a plane with Epstein is more believable.

Dialectic.Detective's avatar

Melania is the latest person in Trump's orbit to showcase the "hang gliding over hell" look.