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Why does this same thing get reported over and over for months?
Congress should hold the Justice department in contempt.
Honesty asking, to what end?
Even if nothing comes of it, it'd be better than doing nothing. Congress should do what they can, not just roll over.
Congress authorized the release of the Epstein files. Not some of them, but all of them. Congress has authority to hold the executive branch to account. They should exercise those powers to ensure their mandate is fulfilled. Anything less is capitulating to an authoritarian regime.
Well, if they have the power to remove the heads of the organization, that's a good start.
Nothing says guilty like a coverup
No. Noooooo, he's just undercover. That's all. He's trying to take them down from the inside. Just you wait, he'll drain that swamp any minute now!!!
It's not covering up a crime, it's just that the truth is complicated, and the citizens can't understand it. They're protecting us, it's for our own good.
Edit: I decided I better add /s, before someone thinks that was actually a serious statement, which it would be for MAGAs.
It's like they're not even trying, it's insulting really like how stupid do they think we are
Speaking of coverups, the Franklin Scandal from 88 sure feels familiar (thumbnail is clickbait to appease the algorithm) coverup starts with a plane crash about halfway through and the bodies keep dropping until around 92: https://youtu.be/a2lvo38u4ds
Early reports on Epstein's trafficing start in 94
That was a wild, disturbing ride. Let me down a rabbit hole to John David Norman and his child abuse network. Prosecutors decided to settle for Norman instead of pursuing his client list, which included some high-profile individuals. Also connected to at least two serial killers.
For some reason that made me think of Jeff Gannon. Did he claim he was a victim of abuse as a child?
There was no Fox News, Facebook or Joe Rogan when watergate happened and no citizens united yet so there was a shared concept of reality in the country.
Or a BJ in the oval office by a naïve young intern?
Specifically because this is what Roger Ailes and his conservative friends created Fox News and the conservative media sphere to prevent. It's so crazy that it's worked so well for them. After Watergate happened they sat around together and came up with ideas to make it so they would never have to face consequences for their crimes again. They identified media coverage of Watergate, correctly as a thing that shifted public opinion against Richard Nixon. They never wanted public opinion to go against their guy again no matter how heinous their crimes. So they created Fox News and they created all the other conservative spheres specifically to stop public opinion from shifting in that way. It is so brilliant and so fucking evil.
It is? I see the Epstein files all over Lemmy and endlessly posted on friends’ social media (Facebook, Instagram, etc)
Thats an extremely small bubble.
But even if it’s small, isn’t it an accurate representation of what people as a whole are talking about?
Besides, I know my friends in real life and they won’t shut up about it so it’s not just confined to Lemmy.
At the risk of quoting Junior Soprano, no you didn't know it, they just told you
NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR's investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.
You may know of other investigations showing very similar things but this is new
I think we knew like we knew Eddie Spaghetti liked to eat spaghetti before anyone even told us that about Eddie.
I've been putting off watching the Sopranos for over a decade (for no particular reason - I DO want to see it) but that line weirdly might have sold me on it
You really should just watch it
Yeah, I really can't overemphasize how much of a petty insecure asshole the character who said it was, but the delivery of it is hilarious
Also, as someone who's watched it, I have some mixed feelings about some of the narrative choices and implied messages in that show, but it really is a master course on dissecting the hypocritical and superficial psychology of mobsters, which I feel like this administration and all of its goons demonstrate constantly
I will be watching it like I watch classic cinema. The formula has since been refined but it was the first of its kind so it has some freshman fumbles.
Mobsters indeed. I wonder, if the Mexican army swooped in and killed the head of the MAGA cartel, would we see the kind of violence in our streets as Mexico is having now? I mean, they're certainly well-armed enough but they are also lazy Americans. They'd be like, "can I go down to Home Depot and hire some Mexicans to do it for me?"
(Which tbf is pretty much what I'm doing now with this speculation)
No, we do know, because Bondi told us so. She said there were 6M pages, and that they only released ~3.5M.
Yes, but... the Dow!
I would so love to see Blondi in prison over this. Same with Pedonald, of course.
Reactionary centrists in the Murc's Law media would say that wanting to see justice meted out for pedos and pedo-protecters means that someone has "Trump Derangement Syndrome".
I mean. Sue them. I’m not sure saying they broke the law over and over again is going to do anything substantive.
Considering there's not a single email to or from him in the files... yeah, we know.
They say the cover up is always worse than the crime but I don't think that applies in this case.
Department of Jeffery Epstein (DOJ)
I mean... is anyone still surprised by this?
The U.S.A. are governed by a pedophile rapist and they don't go tear and shoot shit up. So the majority of them is fine with this.
I mean, we all know they are breaking the law daily and donald trump has threatened them all with death if they don't scrub his name from every file.
I really wish the conservative party didn't just flop over like a possum for a horrible dictator, but they are desperate for control and this was their only way to get revenge on democrats and neutral people.
Someone else did all of the work on this, *these are the files that are missing. Heed the trigger warning:
YouTube video of Katie Johnson’s testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRod
Full court docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/
PDF of the initial complaint (WARNING very graphic): https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/1/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/
If the strategy of the party under investigation is to hide evidence, shouldn’t they just be assumed to be guilty? The burden of proof is on the accuser, but if the accused hides or destroys evidence, I think that should forfeit their assumed innocence. If withholding and or destruction of evidence can be proved, then the accused party should be assumed to be guilty.
Don't forget the 14 terabytes of other files and evidence not yet released.
"Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department of Justice. Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes," Garcia stated.
We all knew this was going to happen - you can't trust this administration to not break the law.
But how’s the Dow?
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