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This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:
— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-11-14T16:25:46.163Z
â He personally directs criminal investigations.
â He is targeting opponents.
â Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.ð


Just_Vote_Dem
(3,481 posts)malaise
(291,349 posts)Love it
GreenWave
(12,037 posts)ms liberty
(10,822 posts)dweller
(27,610 posts)(checks notes )
John Barron
✌🏻
MustLoveBeagles
(13,883 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,546 posts)twodogsbarking
(16,876 posts)moose65
(3,426 posts)Wouldn't it be delicious if emails bring him down???
Fil1957
(419 posts)our society in the form of an authoritarian fascist state is now seriously under threat. They and he will not go quietly. They can't.
Because if they fail and the rule of law prevails, many of them are looking at serious prison time. So they will do anything and everything no matter how lawless and morally bankrupt they can to stay in power.
If you think things have been wild the last 10 months, you haven't seen anything yet. Hang on to your hats folks, things are about to get really crazy!
Unfortunately a lot of innocent people are going to get hurt in the collateral damage.
tetedur
(1,390 posts)So if he is in the emails, other people are talking about him?
mysteryowl
(7,791 posts)pat_k
(12,528 posts)Video at link:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/politics/video/what-americans-are-saying-about-trump-and-the-epstein-files
Article on polling done before the 20,000 document drop and his pressure campaign with Mace and Boebert
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/politics/donald-trump-epstein-political-danger
This is perhaps Trumps worst issue, by the margin who disapprove. Americans generally disapprove of his and the administrations handling of the Epstein matter by around a 3-to-1 margin in most polls. The most recent poll, a Reuters-Ipsos survey from last month, showed Americans disapproved of Trumps handling of it 57%-19%. Independents disapproved 59%-10%.
And like virtually every other survey on the topic, not even a majority of Republicans said they approved: 44%.
Americans are also quite unhappy with the administrations transparency and disclosure.
An August Pew Research Center survey showed 63% of Americans and even 38% of Republican-leaning Americans had little or no trust in what the Trump administration was saying about the matter.
Similarly, an August Quinnipiac University poll showed voters said 73%-16% that the Justice Department wasnt being transparent about its investigation.
All of that said, this is clearly not a top-tier issue for most Americans. Relatively few have seemed to be paying close attention. Only about one-quarter were following it extremely or very closely in the Pew survey.
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Trumpublicans are very, very, very worried. What to do? What to do?
Vote yes or no on release?
Get caught as part of the cover up when it all explodes?
Keep their wagon hooked to the felon?
Go down with him or risk his retribution?
They know that when this many people have seen the files, there is no keeping the lid on whatever is there.
Was the felon "only," an investor in human trafficking? A client? Both?
They are not happy.
Even if the vanishingly small possiblity that he "just" knew about it and didn't participate in some way is true, he is screwed.
live love laugh
(16,109 posts)FakeNoose
(39,584 posts)Chump isn't participating in the emails, and he's not reading or writing them. Chump is the subject of Epstein's emails, or one of the topics anyway. I guess the point is that Epstein had a lot to say about Chump, especially after he decided to announce for the Presidency.
By 2015 Chump and Epstein were barely speaking to one another.
MayReasonRule
(3,978 posts)
mysteryowl
(7,791 posts)and I thought he didn't know him.
debm55
(52,879 posts)Hassler
(4,669 posts)Was fellating
wiggs
(8,585 posts)Hassler
(4,669 posts)To blow a gasket when someone asks her who is the Bubba Epstein is referring to.
MayReasonRule
(3,978 posts)
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,947 posts)an "...Epstein hoax involving Democrats, not Republicans..."
It's a hoax, but it involves Democrats?? WTF?!
I hate him SO MUCH.