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Jude's avatar

Trump lets us know that, of all the distasteful and damnable trail of conduct by Mr. Epstein, the very worst thing he did to Trump, the breaking point in their relationship, came when he lured employees away from the Trump workplace.

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Glennis Waterman's avatar

If Epstein was recruiting girls like Virginia from Trump's spa in 2000, and they had a serious falling out as he claimed, why would he have said famously, in 2002, "He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Gary. Everyone knows what broke up the Epstein-Drumpf "friendship" was Trump fucking a 13-year-old virgin Epstein was saving for himself. Last week, I was told that after he did the dirty deed, Trump told Epstein it was "because you're a Jew," but for that I have only the one source. That did not make it into Miami Herald's excellent reporting.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

I am certain that these 'wonderful secrets' Sir shared with Epstein must also be Sir's most wonderful and cherished memories. Ethically, are we right to hound and degrade Our Favorite President for fully embracing what are clearly the most profound pleasures of Sir's spectacular life -- especially as Sir now limps through his final few days?

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diogenez's avatar

I wonder what Trump's brain more resembles: a tiny Vienna Sausage, or a half-cup of watery porridge.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Experts agree -- a tiny Vienna Sausage, but in a hardened crust of spoilt dijon.

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Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

"And it’s a sign of Trump’s disordered thinking that his take on this is not that pervert abuser Epstein was using my spa to try and recruit girls into his global sex trafficking ring, but rather, He was stealing my employees. To Trump, the latter is a way bigger sin than the former."

You all think it is all about the young woman, but do you think Trump thinks of them as humans? Of course not. They are just things to him.

Think about it. Do you know how hard it is to find a professional fluffer with the skill set to achieve any results with Trump? If Epstein stole him away, that explains everything. That would be unforgivable.

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Mr blob's avatar

In “Donald Trump can’t stop confessing crimes news, no none of it will matter”

One of the employees stolen by Epstein was ……..Virginia Giuffre

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lv4q5ebnkk2l

Who would have been 17 in 2000

https://i.imgur.com/7PrjLvW.png

So what he’s really saying is “he stole my trafficked child bride girlfriends for himself”

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werecat's avatar

I have to tell one on myself. I feel very stupid for not having considered what I'm about to say, far sooner. (Yesterday vs six years ago, to be exact.)

Donald Trump makes the perfect mastermind behind all this because he possesses the required skill set, which is not intellectual, but predatory and exploitative.

I'm absolutely chilled by the possibility that he may have been the architect of the child-trafficking enterprise, providing unique access to financing, international sources of victims, and the infrastructure of hotels, pageants, and casinos needed to fuel it.

In my mind, the more I consider it, not only does it seem plausible, it explains a LOT of the loose ends we see running around and the absolute panic from camp Trump to squelch the topic. (if it was just a matter of Trump being mentioned in a file or two, that is a completely different creature than being the CEO of the enterprise.)

In this thesis, Jeffrey Epstein was not a partner but a deeply compromised operational manager, tasked with running the machinery. The operation's true product wasn't just abuse, but the acquisition of kompromat which is the ultimate currency of power and leverage that aligns perfectly with Trump's ambitions. His chaotic public persona would serve as the perfect camouflage, making people dismiss the possibility of such a diabolically disciplined plan. His oafishness is his most effective weapon.

The real question in my mind is this: if Trump was CEO, who was on The Board?

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Michael Cano's avatar

Sea/.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

All he had to do was stick to the “I cut him off because I found out he’s a creep” story. But apparently it’s asking too much of his syphilitic Swiss cheese brain to stay on topic.

Side note: after his visit to Scotland, I’ve decided America needs to use the word “Bawbag” more often. So I’m going to be working it into conversations more.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Bawbag was my favorite Scottish word the moment I heard it.

An empty scrotum. There are so many in the world.

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NH is for 🦡🍄🐍's avatar

I think it more likely if Assmouth and Epstein were in a place crash together they’d fall out over which of them got eaten first.

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Open Letters by Mersault's avatar

MAGA HAS CHOSEN THE RAPIST OVER THE CHILD

The GOP isn’t covering up abuse anymore. It’s redefining it—justifying it—glorifying it.

Donald Trump could rape a child on Fifth Avenue, and his base would say she was “asking for it.” That’s not a provocation. It’s a statement of fact about where we are.

In recent weeks, prominent MAGA figures have escalated their defense of child sexual abuse—not by denying it, but by reframing it as acceptable. When Trump’s 2003 birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein resurfaced—“May every day be another wonderful secret”—the outrage from the GOP base wasn’t directed at Trump. It was directed at the press.

Across right-wing platforms and podcasts, MAGA influencers dismissed Epstein’s victims as anything but. Some insisted teenage girls were “willing participants.” Others mocked the age of consent as a “liberal invention.” A wave of viral posts framed the abuse as exaggerated, transactional, or even deserved. Several high-engagement accounts claimed 13- and 14-year-old girls “knew what they were doing” and had “seduced powerful men.”

This is not fringe rhetoric. These messages are coming from GOP operatives, right-wing media figures, and influencers tightly woven into the Trump machine.

This is their ideology: one that treats power as entitlement, and treats women—and especially girls—as rightful prizes to be claimed.

The signs have been flashing for years:

Roy Moore’s predatory stalking of teenage girls was shrugged off as “old-fashioned courtship.”

Matt Gaetz’s child sex trafficking investigation was waved away as partisan noise.

Jim Jordan looked the other way while athletes were sexually abused under his watch at Ohio State—then built his career pretending to protect children.

Dennis Hastert, once the highest-ranking Republican in the country, was exposed as a serial child molester who paid hush money to his victims. The party’s response? Silence and erasure.

GOP legislators have repeatedly blocked efforts to ban child marriage. As of 2025, thirteen Republican-controlled states still allow it—with parental or judicial approval—some with no minimum age at all.

Several red states block reforms that would bring basic protections to minors, framing child exploitation as a matter of “parental rights” or “religious freedom.” And when the federal government tries to intervene, they scream about tyranny—because in their world, stopping a grown man from marrying a 14-year-old is somehow government overreach.

The pattern is no longer subtle.

Trump was found liable for sexual assault. He bragged on tape about grabbing women by the genitals. More than two dozen women have accused him of groping or assaulting them without consent—on airplanes, in dressing rooms, at Mar-a-Lago. One woman said he raped her when she was 13, at a party hosted by Jeffrey Epstein. She dropped the case after receiving death threats, but never recanted—and two witnesses filed sworn statements backing her story. He once joked he’d date his own daughter. He spent years cavorting with Epstein, praising him as “a lot of fun” and admiring his taste in young women. And at every step, the GOP base hasn’t drifted—they’ve drawn closer.

Because this is not a liability to them. It’s a proof point. An example of the domination they crave.

The Christian right laid the groundwork. Conservative theologians have exalted male authority as divine order. Pastors have welcomed convicted abusers back into their pulpits—and officiated their marriages to teenage girls. In this worldview, sex is not mutual. It is taken. Justified by birthright. Backed by scripture.

The GOP is not waging a war on child abuse. It is waging a war on the definition of abuse.

They ban books that depict healthy queer relationships, while excusing the real-world abuse of children by powerful men. They scream “groomer” at drag performers, while defending early teen marriages and forced births for girls raped by relatives. And they do all of it while crowning themselves the guardians of morality.

The Republican Party of 2025 is not embarrassed by sexual abuse. It is structured to protect it. To normalize it. To sanctify it.

Because in their world, if the abuser has status, power, or loyalty to the tribe—the victim is the one who must be punished.

There is no more neutral ground. No more excuses about economic anxiety or cultural alienation. The mask is off. And the child is on the altar.

@Open Letters by Mersault

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

I saw a comment a day or two ago to the effect that, well, those 14-year-old girls were probably banging their boyfriends anyway, so they probably came on to the older guys for money.

Gee, how would one respond to that?

How about: If you're a grown-ass man, if a 14-year-old is naked and in your bed when you get home, or something, she's still a fucking minor. It's rape, even if she initiates it. Because she is a fucking minor.

The same people who are OK with that are the same people who all-caps absolutely revel in the arrests of immigrants on misdeameanor charges BECAUSE THEY BROKE THE LAW, LIBTARD!"

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Shallow state's avatar

One of the things that makes me all SMH is that nearly everyone, including MAGAs, has had the experience of interacting with some dirtbag asshole who is flamboyantly lying, and so can easily recognize when it's happening. And in this current Epstein episode, that is Donald Trump - just implausible, transparent, extravagant, flamboyant lies. And the MAGA just swallow it whole. If Trump were their plumber he'd be "you're fired" instantaneously. But he has the nuclear codes. SMH

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VwllssWndr's avatar

They believe nothing bad about their "side" and only the worst about everyone else.

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Davis's avatar

"...he did something that was inappropriate." OK, what the first thing you thought of when you heard that? He could have said it was sex trafficking. A lie, of course, but so what?

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Ward From Cali's avatar

"Maybe you were both on a plane that crashed in the Canadian Rockies and one of you became the leader of a band of survivors struggling to find enough food to get you through the brutal winter while the other turned into a weirdo who thought she could commune with the evil forest spirits."

Gary, you got all the way to a plane crash in the mountains and DIDN'T go with a cannibalism joke? In a post that also veers into African Heart of Darkness territory? I haz disappoint!

OTOH, I did learn just now that "Zulu Cannibal Giants" was the name of a real Negro League baseball team, so there's that.

Anyway, I'll just quietly mourn all of the missed Coyote Ugly and "Trump gnawing off his leg" gags that might have been.

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NH is for 🦡🍄🐍's avatar

Having to eat any part of Assmouth’s anatomy would gag a maggot.

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Chuck Dickens's avatar

Again, testimony says that it was the club event planner that threw out Epstein. Drumpf and Melania kept partying with Epstein for quite some time afterwards.

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