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'Could bring him down': Senator says Trump was 'clearly at center of child sex ring' - RawstoryWhat we've already seen is immensely incriminating; clearly, Donald Trump was at the center of a child sex ring, Murphy said, speaking over the weekend with The Bulwark Managing Editor Sam Stein during a panel.
BeyondGeography
(40,743 posts)Murphy for Senate Minority Leader.
Mike Nelson
(10,843 posts)... I wonder if Sen. Murphy knows something we haven't seen, yet? The "center" means, to me, manager or co-manager status... something equal to Epstein and Maxwell. I thought Crooked Donald's involvement was more fringe... or onlooker.
The Roux Comes First
(1,984 posts)And this was doubtless not a one-time occurrence.
Mike Nelson
(10,843 posts)... money involvement, as Global1 mentioned below.
BWdem4life
(2,859 posts)That The Donald would stand by and watch his friend make all kinds of money and not want a major piece of the action?
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,906 posts)She ain't been having too much luck with the judges so far.
The Roux Comes First
(1,984 posts)And pissing off the few judges not previously bought off by the orange felon and the "heritage" foundation.
global1
(26,317 posts)B.See
(7,332 posts)both??? Who knows? (Answer: SOMEBODY does.)
misanthrope
(9,303 posts)is Jeffrey Epstein's other passions beyond sheer sexual depravity. The biggest of those was shady financial dealing and it was a huge part of how he amassed the power he had.
Now while many of us have our suspicions that Trump was a "short eyed" sexual predator, we know for certain he is magnetically drawn to illegal financial hijinks. He can't help himself. I have to wonder if that isn't as much a part of his paranoia about the Epstein files as anything else.
Amaryllis
(10,838 posts)several years into investigating it.
electric_blue68
(24,954 posts)I haven't followed it supper closely, but enough, I think. He is, Epstein was, Ghislaine is a monster. Years of hideous criminal actions.
You go, Sen Murphy!
PatSeg
(51,503 posts)it is hard to keep up. Meanwhile, people are still examining what has been released and more of the whole picture seems to be coming together.
Chris Murphy doesn't tend to be hyperbolic, so I am assuming that what he says is based on solid evidence.
Joinfortmill
(19,536 posts)RockCreek
(1,163 posts)And he had a modeling agency in the relevant time period.
Epstein is known to have had direct connections of the worst kind with a French modeling agency. The guy who ran it, who repeatedly raped Virginia Guifre, died of reported suicide while in jail for his illegal modelling related "activities" a few years ago.
Escape
(332 posts)Epstein and Trump were made for each other.
the nelm
(212 posts)Senator says something like this, it unfortunately doesn't move the ball that much. They are still the majority and still aren't budging. When that majority starts to crack, then I'll start thinking there might be some real justice. In the meantime, Senator Murphy keep pounding them with facts and truth.
BaronChocula
(3,779 posts)I love Murphy's optimism, but rubber and road don't always meet. After everything for which the molten orange blob has been given a pass, I'm not holding my breath. But I hope he's right.
B.See
(7,332 posts)I didn't read it so much as optimism as wishful thinking.
Permanut
(7,765 posts)Oh, wait, I thought he was toast when he called war casualties "suckers and losers", or when he vilified the Kahn family, or when he was convicted of 34 counts of fraud, or when he said of Charlottesville that there were "fine people on both sides", or when he pardoned 1500 thugs who attacked the capital.
Never mind.
Blue Owl
(57,936 posts)tRump is at the center of a child sex ring.
BOOM. Presidency OVER.