cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/88742

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a trove of evidence regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Donald Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the Department of Justice. The 50-page report, released Monday, contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of…

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    Biden had four years to deal with this guy and just didn’t.

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        Wouldn’t it be some shit if atheists who were good moral people also had to burn forever with Trump by their side. The injustice of that is too much to even consider…

        There cannot be a hell.

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          Or, if there was, it might be that idiot monsters that think “just accept Jesus into your heart” is the path to a heaven, and they got it all wrong.

          Wouldn’t that be quite the irony for those people - thinking that their complete immorality, papered over with a “I’m not perfect, I’m just forgiven” platitude - to find out that it was not sufficient?

          Meanwhile, finding out that atheists, pagans, Muslims, and so on that led good lives went to heaven instead?

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    Ah. Very good. So they’re going to immediately arrest him for severe sex crimes. Right? … … Right?

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    I normally don’t get surprised by these things, but the fact that Trump and Epstein ran the same exact script on these kids, down to promises of admission to the same university, is eye-opening.

    Same methods, same promises. All to get them to go into a room alone.

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      And it really makes you wonder about the people running the university / doing admissions for the university at the time as well. I wonder if they show up in the Epstein files …

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    Donald was mentioned in the files more times than Jesus was mentioned in the Bible. Yeah, I’m not surprised that they managed to find testimony from 11 different women.

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      That’s one thing, second things is that his name was 3rd most mentioned name in the released files after Maxwell and of course Epstein.

      He clearly wasn’t just a customer but part of the conspiracy. His whole modeling business was likely providing young girls to be exploited.

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        The fbi had it titled the trump-epstein trafficking case at least twice in the files before the big wave of redaction post release.

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      Trump is mentioned in the (released) Epstein files more times than Harry Potter was mentioned in all seven Harry Potter books.

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    Things that have frequently harmed children

    • drag shows
    • giant-ass pickup trucks
    • trans rights
    • pedophiles
    • gay marriage
    • missile strikes
    • banned books
    • firearms
    • birth control access
    • churches
    • racism
    • education
    • ignorance

    Who is fighting to protect what here?

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      Who could have known that the guy who got caught saying “grab her by the pussy” while running for office could be capable of such a thing?

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        C’mon, everyone just casually talks about sexually assaulting women who are not in a position to say or do anything about it. It’s just standard “locker room talk” to have a good laugh about sexual assault. It’s just boys being boys!

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    You mean the spoiled rich kid who always had what he wanted with zero regards to legality or morality and only got even more aggressive at it as he grew older, the same guy who was already convicted of rape, the guy who was notoriously friends with and a frequent customer of someone who was organizing human sex trafficking, the guy who is clearly abusing his position of power to shut down any investigation in that matter… you say he might have committed more sexual assaults in his life?

    How is this surprising anyone at that point?

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      the same guy who was already convicted of rape

      I absolutely believe he is guilty of rape but Trump has never actually been convicted… yet.

      He was found liable for sexual abuse in the E. Jean Carol verdict.

      Hopefully he’ll have rape added to his convictions before hanging for treason.

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        Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll – The Washington Post, July 19, 2023

        A judge has now clarified that this is basically a legal distinction without a real-world difference. He says that what the jury found Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood.

        “The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’ ” Judge Kaplan wrote.

        He added: “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”

        Note: the WaPo article I just quoted is footnoted in the actual Committee report the above Truthout article is about (page 4). Even the Committee report doesn’t mince words. It was rape.

        And that’s what the jury found when it convicted Trump, according to the judge.

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    Interesting timing. Not that I’m doubting the validity, and agree with others who are questioning that it’s only 11. A week before the election, it’s obvious that it’s to give people enough time to hear it as to sway as many votes as possible.

    But, is it 11 that are the most compelling? Are the dems planning for if they retake the house and senate? Planning on a fast impeachment? If so, do they really think they will have enough senate votes to find him guilty? Doubtful.

    However, if the evidence for the 11 is compelling enough to satisfy most people, are there enough republicans to support it as a way to get their failing leader out of office, implanting the vp in his stead? Compelling enough to satisfy the majority of their base, as a way for them to rebuild their base, crumbling due to his actions? If the republicans lose both houses, are they going to use the opportunity to salvage the situation, attempt to stabilize things for 2 years, and try again in 28?

    Long shot assumptions, and too many open questions. Probably giving too much credit to the possibility of forward thinking politicians. Also the fact that he has his claws so far into the republican party, it’s probably not going to survive him.

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      A lot of us already voted. The kind of people that most need to hear this probably won’t and they may also have voted. I watched The Good Liars ask people attending his rallies if they knew his name was in the Epstein files thousands of times, and they at least claimed they had no idea.

      Same thing when they were asking them if they knew he made billions since starting his second term. Again, utterly clueless.

      I suppose for the low-info “independents”, it may break through and some of them may vote in the next week. I hope it has an effect on that sort. The true believers are unreachable and seem to be ensconced in an airtight media bubble that fills their head with nonsense. The low-info/swing voter/“independents”…probably anyone’s guess what makes an impression on them.

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    He’s been pushing AI hoping it will get good enough that by the time anything DOES come out he’ll claim it’s AI and his supporters will shovel that shit directly into their skulls.

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      That’s what he wants to do, is change the narrative. Super intelligence vs artificial intelligence. One is smarter than anything else and you’re to accept that. The other is fake news.

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    11000 seems more believable.

    This sick bastard wants to fuck his own daughter, you really think the “alleged” 11 would be anywhere close to the real number?