I, for one, am shocked. I just thought Epstein and Maxwell were two lone pedos with unrelated connections to teen modeling agencies and other known sex predators. Sure, the FBI found 300gb of data which later turned out to be dozens of terabytes, including video, which were later hacked, but the FBI said the data wasn't compromised, so no foul there. It's a shame he and so many of his clients died of totally natural or self-inflicted causes in such a short time afterward. I bet the discovery phase in court would have confirmed that his associates were blameless and that he was just maintaining a 20-40 terabyte collection of porn for personal use. The whole thing was so unrelated and random that they had to move Ghislaine Maxwell to a low-security prison despite her convictions for some of the worst and highest profile felonies in recent history.

But now there's evidence against another person whose name was all over the files and who has also bragged about inappropriate behavior with minors? Consider me shell shocked. Still, having been born yesterday, this is my first real day on earth, so what do I know.

Exactly

and so do his voters

They know, some enabled, and a lot of them, while not involved in the island, did some diddling themselves

ex-fucking-zaccly.

It's a mix of that and their astounding ability to just ignore things or make themselves believe (and/or be convinced by others) It's "fake news".
It wouldn't even matter if videos were released of Trump being in the act of pedophilia, once people like them have made up their minds about something there is nothing that can change that.

It absolutely will change things

Just not until after Trump, and everyone politically reliant on him, is dead or out of power

Until then the divisive propaganda will continue, and roughly 1/3rd of the population will believe it. Not necessarily because it's actually believable, but because believing Trump did nothing wrong is convenient for them personally

Because the pedo class is protecting him too.

They know what's in that report, they would never bring a libel suit because discovery would include those files and they'd fuck themselves.

Dems were just waiting for the news to have maximal political impact when they announce their conclusion. Right before the midterms hopefully moves some voters and also sets them up to impeach if they win.

I swear I heard this same headline 2 years ago around election time. "Bombshell" then too.

Yeah as soon as I saw the photo I said that's old hat lol

What’s nice about this report is that it puts the slow drip of info over the years together one place, all connected.

known*

AdviceAnimals was so fun in its prime.

its who else is in the files that are not named, thats whats hes hiding.

No other reason ...

He and his buddies make a fortune when the gas prices dip then go up.

Voters have to be reminded of things, constantly. With hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. Otherwise they might do something stupid like vote for a 3rd party.

1-The justice system works off of proof and evidence, not conjecture or presumption, no matter how likely the odds are (ideally speaking that is, different rules may apply depending on your race)

2-Since the President is also in charge of the DOJ, he has the power to tell them to just drop the issue. Now, a super-majority in Congress can bypass that, but currently that just ain't gonna happen

3-Like someone else pointed out, this headline was not written with people like you and me in mind, but rather people who were/are still hesitant to believe what the rest of us know to be true until they have literally no other option, and even then a large number of them will probably just go full-on into denial mode because they can't handle the idea that they were so wrong about something for so long

Agreed. Anything to push dumb fuck swing voters away from fascism

The MSM is complicit, if not a downright accomplice or active participant.

News media in America is completely controlled by literally a handful of very wealthy people who are, if not friends with Trump, then at least close to his circle. MSM delivers the message that those people approved, and nothing more.

Also we should probably coin "MSI" as a term for mainstream internet. Google, Meta, Twitter, Amazon, OpenAI, and yes, even Reddit -- again, handful of very wealthy people who are buddy-buddy with Trump, and we get their curated message.

But, but... Epstein didn't kill himself

It's been pointed out elsewhere, but it wasn't his decision unilaterally. AG would have had to sign off. So, both of them, at minimum.

Probably his bisexual nature.

We have watched him: -Talk about Arnold Palmer's cock -Deepthroat a microphone -Talk about how strong and muscular dudes "hurt his hand" when he taps their shoulder. -Touched an athlete's cock -said he checks out guys' asses.

I mean, he is a soft man that covers himself in makeup and just cares about ballrooms and interior decoration. Normal people have always known he is a QUEEN. Ironically, him coming out would devastate the right, while the rest of us would still just hate him because he is a Nazi pedophile rapist war criminal.

the media wants the conversation to stick to "look what we found" without moving to "what should we do about it," hence the constant headlines about us """discovering""" trump's connections to epstein.

social media included.

There's knowing it and there's knowing it

Plus, it's not like fox news is going to cover this beyond parroting the party line.

Democrats are a bit like Internet Explorer. Slow, painfully behind, only listening to the people's demands when a court orders it to, constantly forcing itself on you when you don't want it, and sometimes it's all you got.

We absolutely did.

I guess it depends on how you define we in that sentence. If you mean you and I yeah we knew that. If you mean the public as a whole? No unfortunately not. Lot of them are not paying attention.

That's why you have to keep saying it over and over and over again. Keep writing the stories. Keep up the investigation. Put it on the news every single night. You can't rely on something being said once and reaching the General Public. It takes a lot to reach them. You got to pound it into their brains until they know it in their bones.

Some people plug their ears when they hear anything unpleasant. This is extremely unpleasant to read about, so it needs to be repeated over and over again.

I have read about it before, but I still can't really understand it. It is difficult to imagine how something like this happens without ever having been in such a situation. It's a natural defense mechanism to downplay the severity of it in an attempt to create the belief that it can be avoided if it should happen to yourself. That's were victim blaming cones from too. "It won't happen to be because I would have done this instead".

The more detailed descriptions help me better grasp the horror of it and how the victims got lured into the situations.

Well yeah, and we also know there's been no consequences.

Yeah, because up until this moment we had no idea that Trump was linked to Epstein.

People are stupid, and unfortunately sometimes political manouvering is a strategic game.

Given the complete lack of consequences for Trump so far, this release timing has a better shot of impacting the elections, thereby having consequences for Trump.

Think not Democrats with this mindset. It's the ruling parties picking and choosing on when it's most convenient for them, the ones who thought finally now it's convenient for them to have their congressional pawn to "motion" to have now be the time.

yes the entire democratic party held onto evidence the president is a pedophile right until ayyy logged into lemmy to get his morning chuckles

So the Republicans do everything in Lock step with him, are in total power of all three branches of government, and aren't doing diddly squat except to empower him even more?

he hasnt been not a pedophile

He could stand on 5th avenue and shoot someone.

They can't be punished (within the system, at least) as long as the president controls the DOJ and enough of congress supports pedorape.

Right before the election - how shocking and what a coincidence. Something something definition of insanity