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inconvenient facts trigger displacement activity like yawning. caught between lying and denying, huh?
I'm just pointing out that nobody really cares about minor campaign finance violations.
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yeah right, keep telling yourself that. there is a difference between simply knowing the guy on the one hand, and attending multiple of his sex parties, even when those two were the only 'guests' (of age), writing glowing reviews about his character including a description of their shared love of young girls.
Trump told the media that he and Epstein had a shared love of
beautiful women, not 'younger' ones, and that
Epstein liked them "on the younger side". Your attempts at writing Trump into the vincinity of pedophilia are pathetic.
Here is a nice overview from the left-leaning and certainly not Trump-affine vox:
https://www.vox.com/2019/7/9/20686347/jeffrey-epstein-trump-bill-clintonIn particular, note what the article has to say about accusations of Epstein-related wrongdoing by Trump:
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The 2009 subpoena: In 2009, Brad Edwards, an attorney who has represented various Epstein victims, had Trump served with a subpoena for testimony in a case against Epstein.
But Edwards is not alleging any wrongdoing from Trump; rather, the opposite. He said in a recent interview that he had served subpoenas on many connected people in 2009, and that Trump was “the only person who picked up the phone and said, ‘Let’s just talk. I’ll give you as much time as you want.’”
Edwards added that Trump “was very helpful, in the information that he gave,” calling it “good information that checked out and that helped us.” And, he said, Trump “gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever.”
Virginia Roberts’s lawsuit: In 1999, 16-year-old Virginia Roberts worked as a spa attendant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. It was there, she says, that Epstein’s girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her to give massages to Epstein at his house. But Roberts (who now goes by Virginia Giuffre) hasn’t accused Trump of any wrongdoing, and her previous status as a Mar-a-Lago employee is the only connection to Trump.
The Katie Johnson lawsuit: This is the only accusation against Trump for Epstein-related wrongdoing. An anonymous woman sued Trump in 2016, claiming that in 1994, he violently raped her at an orgy hosted by Epstein. She said she was 13 years old at the time, and accused Epstein of raping her as well. She first filed suit in California under the name “Katie Johnson,” and when it was thrown out there for technical reasons, she filed it in New York under “Jane Doe.”
But many journalists were wary about this claim. There was no corroborating evidence offered (except for affidavits from two anonymous people claiming to have been told of or witnessed it), and the suit appeared “to have been orchestrated by an eccentric anti-Trump campaigner with a record of making outlandish claims about celebrities,” the Guardian’s Jon Swaine wrote. Jezebel’s Anna Merlan tried for some time to get to the bottom of what was going on and concluded in June 2016, “The facts speak less to a scandal and more, perhaps, to an attempt at a smear.”
So even journalists from the liberal and staunchly anti-Trump Guardian come to the conclusion that the only Epstein-related allegation against Trump is most likely bogus.
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repression is a powerful force, huh? remember roy moore?
Roy Moore is not a pedophile?! The guy is a scumbag and a reprehensible human being, and it certainly reflects badly on Trump that he defended him, but Moore still only ever approached teenage girls, not pre-pubescent girls. Hence, he's not a pedophile, and thus, your claim that Trump defended a pedophile in Roy Moore is false.
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repression is a powerful force, huh? remember rob porter?
Trump refused to take sides against Porter without airtight proof, but didnt claim he was innocent.
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Asked by reporters two days after Porter's resignation, President Donald Trump commented, "He said very strongly yesterday that he's innocent so you have to talk to him about that, but we absolutely wish him well, he did a very good job when he was at the White House."
Also, how on earth is Trump's alleged support for Porter amid allegations of domestic abuse something that he did "out of political reasons"? Porter held a non-political post as the WH staff secretary...
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Feb 1 2020 02:26pm