cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43334510
The Department of Justice spoke four separate times to a woman who credibly accused Donald Trump of having sex with a minor he met through Jeffrey Epstein—but most accusations against the president appear to have been removed from the government’s documents on the alleged sex trafficker.
A 21-page slideshow buried in the massive trove of Epstein-related documents included allegations that sometime between 1983 and 1985, Trump forced a woman to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens. When the woman bit down on Trump’s exposed penis, he allegedly punched her in the head and kicked her out. That same woman told the DOJ that Epstein had introduced her to Trump in 1984.
Yet last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi insisted that there was “no evidence” that Trump had committed any crime—adding to the growing pile of denials from Trump officials that constitute a sweeping cover-up of the president’s alleged wrongdoing.
Justice Department records indicate that the FBI spoke to this woman not once but at least four separate times, according to independent journalist Roger Sollenberger. Now those records appear to have been removed from public viewing—despite the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires all documents relating to the alleged sex trafficker to be made public.
Sollenberger discovered a record of four separate interviews, which took place in the summer of 2019, in a separate database of documents downloaded from the government’s public files on Epstein. That document indicated that the first of the four interviews was conducted on July 24, 2019, and the last conducted on October 16, 2019. That document was given to Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers as part of her trial, though the specific allegations predated Maxwell’s involvement with Epstein, Sollenberger wrote.
The woman’s first interview was entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, 2019, just one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell. FBI agents typically have a deadline of five working days to file interview write-ups, indicating an abnormal 16-day gap, Sollenberger noted.
Welcome to fascism. Just couldn’t vote for Harris? You did this.
The capitalist class did this to us. Blame the people who allowed fascism to rise…which absolutely includes Biden and Harris!
The people still voted for trump in greater numbers than Harris. No ifs or buts about that fact. It is the people’s responsibility to stay educated and to actually go vote. It’s been shown that nations with compulsory voting gain more support for the left. Yes, there is a problem with the Epstein class and capitalism, but that doesn’t absolve non-voters and those who voted for fascism from blame.
It is the media’s responsibility to be unbiased and not run propaganda. And yet, Fox News exists.
It is a systemic issue, not a personal one. You can not educate the person who feels they know everything. Someone does not feel like they know everything unless they have that affirmed to them daily. Fox News pushes this shit, daily.
I too prefer the puppet on the left.
LoL
Overton trapdoor
Left of Hitler, just a touch.
Really tired of you pathetic embarassed republicans blaming leftists for the election loss. Leftists overwhelmingly voted for Harris. Your “centrists” hated her.
Bro the people that didn’t vote for harris ain’t here. Not enough of them to realistically blame, anyway.
But how else do people like this feel superior without having an under class to constantly shit on? By the merit of their own achievements? Hah!
Its mostly people that are too “individualism pilled” to realize that trump and maga are a fabricated phenomena by wealthy individuals who have been given too much power by society.
And realistically its not that people are wholly misinformed, just a mix of optimistic, detached, isolated, and understandably angry.
The vast majority of people didn’t foresee what is happening now but its clear the DNC did and saw a lot of acceptable risks in the way they dealt with biden and harris.
I’d call the real issue the “Chuck Schumer worldview”
I voted for Harris but you have to be very bad at your job to loose that election.
But Harris didn’t say she was going to solve all the world’s problems immediately! She wanted to personally murder every single Palestinian person. Or something.
She had a funny laugh.
But realistically she had a vagina and voters aren’t super fond of that. If she’d have been a man, she’d have won. I’ll get downvoted and accused of being misogynist but it’s voters who are, especially women.
And now she’s running again and god help us if the party makes the same mistake in 2028, if we have real elections.
Yea, your take is absolutely not realistic in the slightest.
She lost because she was a genocide enabling, corporatist pig who tried to demand votes from people that she refused to represent the interests of.
Her being a woman had nothing to do with why she lost. The only people who gave a shit about that were Republicans and they were never going to flip sides to begin with regardless of how much the Democrats try to capitulate to them.
Because Trump was certainly none of those things. He totally represented working class people, immigrants, and world peace. There is obviously nothing that Trump has done past and present that would suggest otherwise.
The only difference between him and Kamala is… What again? Sorry, I’m having a hard time finding anything different between the two of them other than their genitals.
She 100% lost because she is a woman. People would rather vote for their own economic demise and livelihood rather than vote for a woman. Don’t give Americans too much credit, the majority of them can’t even fucking read.
Miss me with the false dichotomy bullshit. Just because someone was against Kalama doesn’t mean they are an advocate for Trump.
Your simple minded perspective is no excuse for your lack of understanding about politics.
Hillary won the 2016 popular vote but yeah Kamala lost because she was a woman and not because people want radical change. Its definitely the Vulva, not the fact she was promising to be Joe Biden 2.0 at a time where most Americans were feeling Biden was failing them due to how shitty their bank accounts were.
Trump marketed that he would fix the economy. He didn’t and rug pulled. Kamala did not even bother to say radical change was coming.
Congrats on missing the entire point. Is the ignorance intentional? Or are you just this bad at piecing things together?
I just told you the difference, not my fault you don’t have reading comprehension.
You said people wanted radical change. They elected Trump in 2016 so what change?
You said Americans were feeling Biden was failing them due to their bank accounts. Yet they re-elected Trump while he was president during one of the worst economic times in US history.
Trump marketed that he would fix the economy, but during his first term he tanked it and Biden brought it back up.
I’ve never accused Americans of being smart, but come on dude… We all know why people voted for Trump. It wasn’t because he was radical change or economic growth since there was already 4 years of proof he was full of shit.
America just didn’t want a woman. A fucking moose could have run against Kamala and won because Americans are pretentious idiots.
America still hates women too much for that.
Yes, because she was a woman, not because she was a genocide enabling, corporatist pig who did not align with the interests of the people she tried to demand a vote from.
I would agree with you that was why except that the guy who won is also that.
I mean, sure if you want to be incredibly simple minded about it and ignore all the context around the two platforms.
But, then again, neoliberals enable fascists so I guess I get it’s hard to tell the two apart for those who don’t know the nuances.
It’s amazing to see people like you talk openly about being the problem yet are completely unable to see it and act indignant at the same time.
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It’s amazing to see people like you still have a grade school understanding of political systems while trying to act like you know what the fuck you’re talking about.
Are we just going to ignore that the DOJ had all of these documents while Biden was president and just twiddled their thumbs apparently?
President’s used to let the justice department carry out justice as it saw fit. Now it’s a legal apparatus for the president to weaponize.
Always has been.
What are you talking about? Presidents have directed the DOJ to look into specific crimes and even have created special investigatory tasks forces all the time. Obama did exactly that after 2008 in order to investigate financial fraud. Don’t you think that a child sex trafficking ring involving some of the US’s most rich and powerful people, including former presidents, deserves to be prioritized in the same way?
At the very least Biden is responsible for appointing Merrick Garland of all people. Remember this was after Epstein’s apparent “suicide”.
Like they released the JFK files after JFK was killed? Or how they arrested arrested Reagan for illegally selling arms to Iran to fund death squads in the americas? Idk man there’s a long history of presidents just sitting on this kind of shit and Biden is not exactly brave.
I don’t really disagree. My point is more that if Biden or his AG had actually pursued this with the degree of seriousness it deserves, Trump would likely not be president. People need better options than to vote for a pedophile rapist or someone who let pedophile rapists go free.
I would go on a step further and say, we should remember some norms suck and we should be asking candidates if they will prosecute previous administrations and what for.
Like the norm of not prosecuting presidents is possibly the most destructive and vile norm and has lead exclusively to terrible outcomes, from the contras, to jan 6th, to the Iraq war, to epstein secrecy.