sin_free_for_00_days comments on Epstein files

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We just finished 4 years of a Democrat in the White House and the files weren't released under him either. As Bo Burnham sang:

And every politician, every cop on the street
Protects the interests of the pedophilic corporate elite

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[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago*

Because it was an active investigation. If they released the investigation files, it would have fucked over the court case to convict them. It wasn't until recently that the Trump-controlled DoJ said "okay, we're done. Nothing to see here." Now that there's no longer an investigation, there's no longer a reason to withhold the files.

And before you say that they deliberately took too long to avoid releasing them, remember that the Democrats believed they had time to finish the investigation properly, but Trump's elections screwed that; and that when dealing with people with this much power, you need a case that is more than air tight, and that takes a lot of time given who is involved. Unless you believe the Democrats could have stalled though a second term (obviously Trump couldn't).

Oh, and if the Dems actually wanted to avoid this whole thing, they could have much more believably said "nope, nothing here," but instead they chose to push forward.

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[–] null@slrpnk.net -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Did he mention "the files" ever? Campaign on releasing them?

Why are you taking for granted that there is some material thing that exists and constitutes "the files"? How is it not just yet another thing MAGA fabricated and paraded around as a boogeyman?

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[–] ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Dude when they raided epstien’s manhattan townhouse they had to cut into a safe that was filled with hard drives cds and thumb drives. All this digital media then conveniently disappeared from chain of command custody, but there were pinhole surveillance cameras and microphones in every room even the bathrooms and computer control room for the equipment in the basements of all his properties. A defacto list doesn’t exist but one can be extrapolated from the loads of digital media they found at his residence.