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kentuck

(114,961 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:04 PM Nov 12

It's all a "hoax"...

Uh-huh.

Did I just hear a bomb go off?

I do not believe that Johnson had any intention of ever opening the government so long as the Epstein files were a threat to Trump.

But now, an email has been leaked from the Oversight Committee that Trump spent hours with one of the victims at Epstein's pad in Palm Beach. The email was from Epstein to Maxwell. It is not a "hoax".

Now, who is going to ask Trump to resign?

What diversion or distraction can make this story disappear?

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It's all a "hoax"... (Original Post) kentuck Nov 12 OP
Cue the Trump "Hoax" posts now johnnyfins Nov 12 #1
Why would the people who have the power ask the orange throwback to resign? efhmc Nov 12 #2
Rightwing media still hasn't mentioned it FoxNewsSucks Nov 12 #3
The MAGA purists will hear about it on social media... kentuck Nov 12 #5
More bombings of Venezuelan boats, or Colombian boats. OLDMDDEM Nov 12 #4
Official message! usonian Nov 12 #6
As another poster replied to a similar post johnnyfins Nov 12 #7
Wag the Dog. hadEnuf Nov 12 #16
Assuming true, in order for this observation to result in him being told by the GQP to resign AZJonnie Nov 12 #8
One correction dflprincess Nov 12 #19
You're right, that was poor word choice AZJonnie Nov 12 #26
Does anyone think he will break his silence? johnnyfins Nov 12 #9
Degenerate Zero Kid Berwyn Nov 12 #10
Files? What files? My daughter is still hot. twodogsbarking Nov 12 #11
Look out, Venezuelans. Scrivener7 Nov 12 #12
Yep. kentuck Nov 12 #13
Or Canada durablend Nov 12 #34
His Lie Secretary Levitt liberalgunwilltravel Nov 12 #14
Lievitt is a hoax. hadEnuf Nov 12 #17
He won't resign Warpy Nov 12 #15
🤣🤣🤣 ultralite001 Nov 12 #23
Agree, because bluestarone Nov 12 #35
Who is this girl Epstein said Trump spent time with? creeksneakers2 Nov 12 #18
The dead girl... kentuck Nov 12 #22
Thanks creeksneakers2 Nov 12 #25
Her and Epstein now both dead, coincidence? Emile Nov 12 #30
The orange turd will threaten to nuke states with representatives that proceed with exposing the Epstein files kimbutgar Nov 12 #20
Oh, I bet they were praying together relayerbob Nov 12 #21
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 12 #24
Wecome to du. 22-year-old Chauntae Davies Emile Nov 12 #27
Certainly is making me curious to know what the post that was deleted was. relayerbob Nov 12 #36
You joined just to post THAT? 11 Bravo Nov 12 #29
I can't believe it's still there. Emile Nov 12 #32
Curious bronxiteforever Nov 12 #33
All of this makes the coming days a particularly shitty time to go deep-sea fishing. 11 Bravo Nov 12 #28
The economy, Epstein, Russia, the stolen documents Johonny Nov 12 #31

FoxNewsSucks

(11,465 posts)
3. Rightwing media still hasn't mentioned it
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:14 PM
Nov 12

so the tRumphumpers have no idea.

The rest of the media will probably go back to covering a Kardassian or some other crap in a day or two.

kentuck

(114,961 posts)
5. The MAGA purists will hear about it on social media...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:18 PM
Nov 12

...and the question will then be, do they still want to pursue the matter? I think enough will want to pursue it that the ones that want to continue the cover-up will not be able to do so.

johnnyfins

(3,294 posts)
7. As another poster replied to a similar post
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:29 PM
Nov 12

The only distraction big enough to drown out Epstein would be war. I don't even think that would totally kill the story. Epstein is NOT going away.

AZJonnie

(2,350 posts)
8. Assuming true, in order for this observation to result in him being told by the GQP to resign
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:32 PM
Nov 12

It would probably require the victim to testify in some manner (behind closed doors to Congress presumably) and tell them that a) sex occurred with Trump, and b) Trump knew they were not 18. Just because, well, he's Trump and he fucking gets away with everything.

There is an angle he can use to weasel out here: While Guiffre has said that when she was "told to give someone a massage, that meant sex", it is also true that at the time she met her husband, she was in Thailand, on Epstein's dime, attending an actual professional massage seminar, like something on the up-and-up, legit massage training. She wanted to become a professional masseuse, and Epstein was paying for her to become one.

This fact suggests that there could, in fact, have been actual, regular massages going on at his estate, along with the happy ending kind. And IIRC, some other (then) girls have since said they "started out" just giving massages, without the sex part. Ergo, that will probably be "the angle" is that Trump got a massage, but it was just a massage, he didn't ask "the woman" for her identification.

Then there's also the angle that the DoJ had this information while Garland was in charge of the DoJ, and yet they "never said anything", which Trump will leverage to say "If they thought I did something illegal, they would've come after me!" and a LOT of people will come to that same conclusion when he says it, even though, in reality, they probably didn't "say anything" because they couldn't corroborate it with any victim's actual testimony, or other additional records, and the DoJ were actually a professionally-run organization at the time.

This is why I say that while it will look bad for him that he was "with an Epstein victim for an hour", the woman will need to tell Congress that Trump had sex with her, she was under 18, and Trump knew it, in order for there to be (maybe) something more serious happening to him than just embarrassment. And even then, we'll get at least some GQP creeps in attendance claiming "we didn't find her testimony credible", I mean, you could bet the farm that would happen in that instance.

MHO, fwiw.

dflprincess

(29,088 posts)
19. One correction
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:50 PM
Nov 12

Trump's underage victims did not "have sex" with him, they were raped by him.

AZJonnie

(2,350 posts)
26. You're right, that was poor word choice
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:32 PM
Nov 12

I have altered the post to read "sex occurred with Trump", as I was going for a more clinical tone there.

In the state of Florida if the victim was under 18, and sex occurred, then at minimum, statutory rape occurred. If, in your book, statutory rape and rape are the same thing, even though in the former case, the victim said "yes" and in the latter, the victim said "no", then that's your prerogative. I don't subscribe to that thinking because I want the word "rape" to maintain a certain level of impact in discussion, and in law. I feel it should be reserved for when someone is literally forced, because that is SOOO mentally traumatic, *always*, so I prefer not to blur that line with this particular word. But to each their own, friend.

Bottom-line, depending on what Trump knew at the time, it would've been either statutory rape, or rape. If he knew she was being trafficked, then yes, clear rape.

johnnyfins

(3,294 posts)
9. Does anyone think he will break his silence?
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:40 PM
Nov 12

I mean, over this latest evidence? He can't sue anybody for this revelation and he has zero impulse control.

Will we see hoax hoax hoax? Or "the emails were fabricated by democrats"?

This doesn't look good for Ghislaine, either. Im sure she would say she doesnt remember responding to Epstein and saying she was thinking about the fact that TSF hasnt talked.

Kid Berwyn

(22,386 posts)
10. Degenerate Zero
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:11 PM
Nov 12
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year

Donald Trump, then 45, with contestants in the 1991 Look of the Year competition, the year he was a judge

In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it


By Lucy Osborne, Harry Davies and Stephanie
The Guardian, 14 March 2020

Excerpt...

Patty Owen, an Elle and Cosmopolitan cover star, recalls seeing Trump at Elite parties as far back as 1982. “He would always be at the bar. That’s where he would stay and that’s where all the new models would hang out,” she says. “Whenever I saw him, I was always like: why does John have to invite him?” Barbara Pilling, also then an Elite model, told us Trump asked her out for dinner in the summer of 1989 at an industry soiree. She recalls Trump asking how old she was. “I said 17 and he said, ‘That’s just great – you’re not too old, not too young.’”

Continues…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year

liberalgunwilltravel

(1,003 posts)
14. His Lie Secretary Levitt
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:11 PM
Nov 12

Has already stated that it was a hoax. So that is the story they’ll stick with.

Warpy

(114,226 posts)
15. He won't resign
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:18 PM
Nov 12

He will have to be removed from office by his cabinet because he has become too imparied to continue in office (fat chance, they'll just try to prop him up for another 3 years) or he will have to be impeached over his misuse of extraordinary emergency powers and he won't resign then because he's survived 2 other attempts to remove him from office.

I still say we should have lashed him to a refrigeraator dolly in ;2021 and wheeled him toff to a waiting chopper to take him to AF for a flight to Russia. The emergency chute could be deployed, he'd be rolled down onto the tarmac, the chute would be cut off and the door sealed, the plane returning to the US. Putin wanted the asshole so bad, Putin should have gotten him as a present.

ultralite001

(2,299 posts)
23. 🤣🤣🤣
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:09 PM
Nov 12

"lashed to a refrigerator dolly"...

brings this scene to mind from "My Favorite Year" w/ Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker +
Tony DiBenedetto as Alfie Bumbacelli... A classic...




creeksneakers2

(7,888 posts)
18. Who is this girl Epstein said Trump spent time with?
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:42 PM
Nov 12

Track here down and see what she has to say.

kimbutgar

(26,510 posts)
20. The orange turd will threaten to nuke states with representatives that proceed with exposing the Epstein files
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:51 PM
Nov 12

I would not put it past this insane madman to harm the American people. Just look what ICE is doing in blue states!

relayerbob

(7,327 posts)
21. Oh, I bet they were praying together
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:54 PM
Nov 12

At least, that's likely what the story will be.

Or was they "preying", I get those mixed up these days,

Response to relayerbob (Reply #21)

relayerbob

(7,327 posts)
36. Certainly is making me curious to know what the post that was deleted was.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 10:27 PM
Nov 12

I didn’t see it, it was apparently challenged and removed pretty quickly

Johonny

(25,099 posts)
31. The economy, Epstein, Russia, the stolen documents
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:08 PM
Nov 12

January 6th, his civil lawsuits . . . The only thing that is real is the fake gold in the White House.

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