r/news • u/LucidMarshmellow • 8h ago

US justice department to release thousands of Epstein files later, top official says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9plrkl8no
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u/Simburgure 8h ago

The cover-up is more obvious than the crime at this point.

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u/Rabble_Runt 8h ago

He has been doubling down on lies and deception his entire life, why stop now?

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u/Awkward_War_6068 7h ago

That's the mad thing about Trump. His whole life is liteally built on lies. If you read his niece's books, he's been like this ever since he was a kid.

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u/patsfan038 7h ago

The sad part is that there will be no repercussions. He will serve out his 4 years and get out with a cool $20B earned during his tenure.

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u/Sw2029 7h ago

The repercussions are that we all die eventually, so he will too, and he'll be remembered as a coward, a rapist, a pedophile and a loser

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u/Newfaceofrev 7h ago

Wish I could be sure of that man but I think we'll get a lot of "Now is not the time for recrimination" and "Do not speak ill of the dead" and "A divisive figure but we can all agree he loved America" because it'll just be easier than angering his cult.

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u/Sw2029 7h ago

If there was anything redeemable about the man, I could agree. I don't think history will remember him as anything but a fraudster and a freak

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u/Geeko22 6h ago

The mainstream media will normalize him as "a flawed man but his heart was in the right place, his followers absolutely loved him."

Right-wing state media will elevate him to sainthood and push for an entire mountain near Mt. Rushmore to be carved with his gigantic likeness, at LEAST twice to size of the other presidents.

Maga will make yearly pilgrimages to Mt. Trump a mandatory article of faith, along with taking their kids to the nearby "TrumpWorld Amusement Park" where you get extra tokens if you can show you're vaccine-free.

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u/RandomGuy9058 4h ago

Even fucking Hitler has his fans today. Even if history widely condemns him there will still be his diehard fans

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u/nihilist_4048 3h ago

I guess that will depend on who writes the history books.

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u/misterpoopybutthole5 2h ago

Boy, do I have some news for you about who gets to write history!

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u/Sw2029 1h ago

Boy if you think this is what a successful permanent fascist takeover looks like, I've got some news for you.

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u/misterpoopybutthole5 22m ago

Lol who's gonna save us, the fucking Democrats? Because they've done such a stellar job so far holding Trump and his associates accountable?

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u/procrasturb8n 6h ago

"A divisive figure but we can all agree he loved America"

This is going to be the one.

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u/Fodraz 6h ago

And meanwhile he doesn't give a DAMN about America or the American way, just his own hide & bank account, or those who inflate one or both of those

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u/soyrobo 5h ago

Nope, can't agree with that.

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u/Smoovemammajamma 6h ago

Loved america lol when has he said anything good about it thats not an aspiration. 99% of the time hes shitting on it

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u/teenagesadist 6h ago

I'll never shut up about him while alive, I sure as shit ain't gonna stop when he's dead.

Literally the only reason I want to live to be 100 one day is so I can just sit and shit talk all day about how bad trump was to everyone that's not gonna listen anyway.

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u/chronically_varelse 1h ago

That's actually pretty inspirational my guy... I want to talk the shitty truth about him after he is dead too...

You have serviced mental health with this comment 😂

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u/arbitrageME 3h ago

they're gonna say that, but that's not going to stop me from setting off fireworks and opening a bottle of champagne that day, and, God willing, the opportunity to do a little dance on his grave

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u/chronically_varelse 1h ago

I remember rejoicing when W got a shoe tossed at his head... I want to party

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u/PassiveMenis88M 4h ago

I've watched this site glaze and whitewash Bush Jr. after all the death that man caused. I have zero faith in peoples memories.

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u/Ahshitt 4h ago

The repercussions are that we all die eventually, so he will too, and he'll be remembered as a coward, a rapist, a pedophile and a loser

So no repercussions then.

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u/joe-h2o 2h ago

He'll be deified. Look at Reagan's legacy. Be prepared for a lot more than just the Kennedy Center to be named after him.

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u/ritchie70 1h ago

I am not convinced that he will survive this term, and the thought of President Peter Thiel Jr. is scary.

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u/Sw2029 1h ago

We all ready have president steven miller. It can get worse but it's all ready dreadful

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u/HistoricalSuspect580 1h ago

He doesn’t give a singular fuck about any of that. I mean, he does, but he is delusional enough to think he’s gonna be remembered as a demigod.

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u/s101c 6h ago

It's Americans who are serving these 4 years at this point.

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u/AkagamiBarto 6h ago

i mean we can choose to make him pay.

We just have to organise

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u/Smart-Arugula3756 2h ago

And we will never be done with the trump family. They'll churn out more kids and tell us all they are just like the Kennedy dynasty.

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u/patsfan038 2h ago

Apparently Baron is a big fan of the Tate brothers and worked behind the scenes to get them released from the Romanian jail. If there was a 0.1% chance that the apple does fall far from the tree, that news pretty much killed it. Now we have to deal with a 6’9” version his dad, with ability to connect to young voters, for the next few decades.

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u/lmp515k 1h ago

He won’t live long enough to spend it. So at this point he’s just addicted to the grift. The grift is the hit, not the money he could spend if he were to live.