WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - A dinner for senior administration officials at Vice President JD Vance's residence to discuss topics including the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case has been canceled after news of it leaked, a source familiar with the matter said.

A spokesman for Vance said the dinner, first reported by CNN, had not been planned.

"There was never a supposed meeting scheduled at the Vice President's residence to discuss Epstein strategy," said Vance spokesman William Martin.

The Trump administration has struggled for weeks to mitigate the political fallout from the Epstein investigation, amid public pressure for more transparency over its handling of files related to the convicted sex offender's case.

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[–] 39 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The Epstein Files: Trump, Trafficking, and the Unraveling Cover-Up

https://lemmyverse.link/sh.itjust.works/post/42440815 created by auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Given that we know that Epstein recruited from Trump properties or events at least twice: I'd say not only is Trump on the list, he's probably a critical front end to the entire thing.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I suspect sometimes that the power-brokers are preparing to dump Trump.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    That was always the plan, it was just a matter of when. They probably thought they could ride his popularity long enough to do more damage first. Maybe even into the next election cycle to help remove pesky term limits, or until some kind of martial law is in effect.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The only way trump is leaving the whitehouse is suicide by hanging and ten bullets to the back of the head.

    If they are planning on dumping him it is into a ditch.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Going to be a zoom meeting instead.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Pwesadent Vance dwands a fwee dinnew

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Doubletree Landscaping booked up again?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'mma just say it:

    Believe me, I get how hard it can be to organize large meetings. But "So... the world remembered our candidate rapes children. How can we work through this?" doesn't really seem like dinner table conversation? Like, you would hope people wouldn't want to admit that talking about children being raped doesn't hurt their appetites.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm sorry I don't recall OP to credit them for this, if anyone knows, please link me and I'll add the link here

    https://media.kbin.earth/8b/fc/8bfcb2da7b7a5ed3d0dc6d6b3420a343534f527bea183edad5501c2dc95df680.jpg

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    A letter to an unknown recipient, written by Woody Allen, apparently.

    ETA: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/news@lemmy.world/t/1106709/-/comment/8660525

    Letter in Epstein's birthday book, per @Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    it was to jeffrey for his 50th bday. it was among the trove of others including the orange stain...who is totally on the list.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They're just gonna take a plane to a private island they all know of close to St Thomas

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They probably cancelled the meeting because they've got their talking points straightened out and they're going to blame Democrats.
    That's why you saw the subpoenas for Bill and Hillary Clinton. I suspect we'll also see Obama, Hunter Biden, Stephen Colbert, the Meiselas brothers, and anyone else who publicly spoke out against the Trump regime being subpoenaed for the Epstein files regardless of whether or not their names actually appear on any of the documents.

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