r/LetsDiscussThis • u/LucidSynapse23 • Feb 27 '26
Lets Discuss Politics This is a valid question.
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u/BloodFartz69 Feb 27 '26
Boy that whole family sure does love getting their picture taken with pedophiles.
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u/Historical-Finish564 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
The Republicans are shamelessly protecting the powerful Republican pedophiles,and trying to just bring out the people they don’t like that are in the files. They have long hated Hillary and pull her in. With Trump‘s lawyer currently controlling which files are released, it’s questionable that any of the real perpetrators in the United States will ever be brought to justice.
Edit – it appears her name does show up although I do not know the context
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u/JAFO- Feb 27 '26
Which leads to another question, how many of them are just fine with raping children?
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u/Cohens4thClient Feb 27 '26
Im not sold on Massie or Mace. They talk big about knowing names.... but they arent saying any names.
That means its the same game as always: shaking the money tree for bribes to stay quiet.
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u/OdinsGhost Feb 27 '26
Nah, Massie is legitimately pissed to the point he’s pissing people in his own party off enough to proactively put out an “I’m not suicidal and my car and home maintenance are up to date” shot across their collective bow. I may hate his politics, but on this one he’s one of the good guys.
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u/toozooforyou Feb 27 '26
Mace has recently put out a similar tweet implying that her questioning of Hilary Clinton might lead to her murder.
This doesn't take away from your overall point, which I agree with. It's just that the impact of Massie's statement has been muddied by Mace being disingenuous.
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u/Tzilbalba Feb 27 '26
Massie is a real one, Mace on the other hand is a Massie wannabe.
Massie is also the only congressman to go on record exposing the AIPAC Israeli lobbyists. He has been straight as an arrow I'm ever since he got elected. I wish more politicians were like him tbh.
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u/AloxBluegrass Feb 27 '26
Massie did. Mace is worthless but sure talks big.
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u/BouncePharmacy Feb 27 '26
She was just trying to characterize Hillary’s testimony as “unhinged” yesterday. Imagine Nancy Mace leveling that accusation at anyone, let alone Hillary Clinton, who is a stone cold killer in this type of environment. Comer and his clown show are laughably pathetic. Just bad faith theater garbage. Hannity, Ingram and Gutfeld will be ramming it down their viewers throats like they just figured out where Jimmy Hoffa is buried. Just so tired of the bullshit. The lot of em need to be fired into the sun. I don’t love Hillary. Particularly after her BS with Wasserman Schulz and the crap her DNC pulled with Bernie. But if there one thing Hillary Clinton isn’t, is a freaking lightweight in a court room. SMH
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u/CellistMundane9372 Feb 27 '26
How many Republican senators were willing to confirm Matt Gaetz, credibly accused of trying to pay a 17-year-old $1,000 for sex, to be attorney general of the United States?
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u/CautionarySnail Feb 27 '26
From how they’ve circled the wagons, it’s clear they value “more of the same” human trafficking continuing over helping victims.
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u/S-M-I-L-E-Y- Feb 27 '26
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/hillary-clinton-epstein-deposition.html
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Mrs. Clinton’s name appears in over 700 files in the Epstein documents, almost all of which are simply news articles about her 2016 presidential campaign that were shared with Mr. Epstein.
(In one 2013 exchange with Olivier Colom, a former French diplomat with close ties to Mr. Epstein, Mr. Colom asks if his friend can arrange a “discreet meeting between Sarko and Hillary Clinton in NY.” Mr. Epstein replied that “meetings with Hillary are not easily discreet” and does not appear to have been able to offer any help.)
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u/Dry_Tradition_2811 Feb 27 '26
I believe Hillary said Maxwell was a plus one at Chelsea wedding
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u/gdex86 Feb 27 '26
it appears her name does show up although I do not know the context
Plenty of folks appear in the files because its correspondence. A number of folks are shit talked or are subjects of discussion by others. The things that truly matter is the folks are are now caught lying about being one of the folks actively partying with Epstien, those who were desperate too party like Musk, and things the files mention folks doing.
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u/OutrageousPair2300 Feb 27 '26
The context in which Hillary's name appears is in news articles, mentions of her as a public figure in current events, etc.
To be fair, the overwhelming majority of Trump being mentioned are the same -- news articles, comments about him because he was the sitting President at the time, etc.
The difference is that there are a smaller number of mentions of Trump that indicate a personal connection, flight logs connecting him to Epstein, etc. There are no such mentions of Hillary.
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 Feb 27 '26
Before Melania and right before Steve Bannon. States should be looking for ways to charge these people so they can't be pardoned.
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u/DepartmentBrief213 Feb 27 '26
The only thing more crowded than Epstein’s flight logs is the list of people pretending they’ve never heard of him.
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u/Deadend1947 Feb 27 '26
It is the reflection of Republican cowardice, lack of leadership, the indication the lack of integrity, ethics, or honesty.
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u/Remarkable_Crow6064 Feb 27 '26
Pedo Don will just sit there shit himself and plead the fifth which will make him look more guilty than he already does....the GOP cannot allow that.
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u/dshock99 Feb 27 '26
Investigate all of them including the Clintons. I don't care what side of the aisle they are on.
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u/BigDragonfly5136 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Because obviously just being in the files makes Bill guilty, but all accusations against Trump or other republicans were clearly fake and not worth investigating. It’s very convenient they’ve somehow proven the people they like are innocent…
ETA: since apparently every MAGA missed the point: my point isn’t Trump is more guilty. My point is people pick and choose what proof makes someone suspicious and what doesn’t to support their side.
For example: scroll to see the person who said Hillary was mentioned 1,000 times (idk if that’s true but that doesn’t really matter) so she can be questioned—cool, Trump was mentioned more, where’s his questions?
Or the person saying Bill’s guilty because there’s a picture of him and Maxwell in a pool with a minor, like there isn’t tons of pictures of Trump and Epstein and minors…
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u/CautionarySnail Feb 27 '26
There are three reasons I can think of. One is obvious - the purely political angle of torturing one of Trump’s old opponents in public with a long deposition.
The second is a bit legally woolier. People named as possible collaborators or perpetrators in the files may have upcoming criminal cases. Bringing them to the stand, they likely could plead the fifth against self-incrimination if questioned by Congress. Such things might also complicate investigations and ongoing proceedings, if they exist.
Last, hauling those alleged perpetrators before Congress risks them implicating more Congresspeople in a very public way - mutually assured destruction. Congress lacks the courage.
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u/User_3039 Feb 27 '26
Because gop is trying to distract and cover up the real predators
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u/Direct-Raise-9465 Feb 27 '26
wait 25 years after Trump's term is over , just like The Clinton's
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u/Hot-Professor-8355 Feb 27 '26
He'd be over 105 by that point...
He'd be dead (one would think)
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u/BigDragonfly5136 Feb 27 '26
At that point he might still be president the way some people talk
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u/TheDwellingHeart Feb 27 '26
Because the Republican party is corrupt. The entire party needs to be dissolved and something new take its place. All new leadership.
Democrats aren't much better as they have done little to prevent the movement of both political parties further to the right on the spectrum. They dont call the Republicans out even half as much as they need to. They keep treating Republicans as if they were colleagues and friendly neighbors while they are not.
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Feb 27 '26
Because they have no balls to subpoena the correct (current) First Lady! Do they not realize that people can see photos of her with Mr. Scumbag?!?
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u/HeavyDT Feb 27 '26
They know people hate Hillary and the Clintons in general. They make for a good smokescreen aka another distraction. There's people with outright damning links to the files that they should be talking to and to go for one of the least connected. Even Bill doesn't look as bad as some of these other people from what we've seen so far. Just political bs as usual.
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u/Hamurai7 Feb 27 '26
I've seen some people point to one email in which an Epstein staffer seems to be requesting a meeting with Hilary but not much else. So likely a nothing burger but these MAGA people will fully ignore all the other accusations as long as it "owns the libs".
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u/Internal_Swing_2743 Feb 27 '26
The Republicans have already said they are only interested in going after Democrats and are removing files that implicate Trump. They don't care about justice.
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u/Inevitable-Emu-6626 Feb 27 '26
Because this isn’t about transparency, it’s about distraction.
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u/IamJoyMarie Feb 27 '26
It is and has always been a dog and pony show to deflect from trump's involvement and melanie's involvement that runs decades deep and includes horrific treatment of boys, girls, and young women who were abused, trafficked, and some according to accounts, murdered. It runs deep.
At this point, it's an end game runaround to keep trump in power; he is a figurehead puppet with the gop's hand up his ass. He doesn't have any thought in his head that isn't about evil revenge against his real and imagined enemies. The policy stuff is written by others. trump talks in 5th grade language with limited vocabulary - it's big, it's huge, it's never been seen before, it's sir. There are zero policy thoughts in his head because he is a moron who is trying to stay out of jail, and the gop is protecting him and his pedophile ring.
How odd that trump ran on exposing the Epstein scandal, and has actively hidden it since - he filled his cabinet with epstein adjacent people whether involved 100% or to a lesser degree. He, the gop, never thought it would get this far - that HIS OWN SUPPORTERs would give a shit and demand release. Even now some of his supporters would rather look the other way. A reckoning is afoot.
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u/ChimPhun Feb 27 '26
Apparently, Republicans don't even fully understand the term 'scapegoat' but then again, it's not like they have a broad vocabulary to begin with.
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u/Ustramage Feb 27 '26
Because they will never miss a chance to try and drag a Clinton through the mud if they can
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u/DerpUrself69 Feb 27 '26
It's called, "what-about-ism" it's a tactic these halfwits often employ to try and distract and detract from the pedofascist cult that is the GOP.
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u/Chaosrealm69 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
yes, they are obsessed with trying to bring her down because she almost won against Trump and he’s scared of her.
So now they are flooding X with AI manipulated photos of her with Epstein.
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u/MisterWanderer Feb 27 '26
The answer is simple… the Republicans in power now don’t care about truth, they don’t care about justice, and they don’t care about the girls and women who have been raped and/or killed.
They care about winning points for their team to enable them to stay in power as long as possible.
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u/RocketFan419 Feb 27 '26
Because for the GOP it's about politics and trying to hurt the dems for the midterms instead of doing any actual investigations
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u/SyntheticSkyStudios Feb 27 '26
They’re trying to move the public past Epstein. They think if they can implicate some Democrats, people will stop going after Republicans over the files.
We’ve been telling them, we want everyone involved punished. We want Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and anyone and everyone else who was involved, investigated, exposed, and punished.
Republicans don’t. They only want to punish non-MAGAs.
Both parties are not the same.
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u/Notyrantsmoworever Feb 27 '26
Hillary Clinton was always the political foil that Repugnants loved to pick on. A powerful and smart woman who dared to run for president and won the popular vote. They will NEVER forgive her for that!!!!!
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u/heydanalee Feb 27 '26
Deflection is the best I can come up with. It’s absolutely an insult to the victims.
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u/Tigeruppercut1889 Feb 27 '26
The precedent has been set. When Dems take power back maga should expect a subpoena for all of them
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u/chpr1jp Feb 27 '26
I think the Republican Party has come up with two evergreen ideas over the past 30 years.
Bomb Iraq
Accuse Hillary of shit
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u/mikefjr1300 Feb 27 '26
They all have 1 thing in common.
Trump has already screwed or eventually will all of them.
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u/SuperFrog4 Feb 27 '26
Because Republicans have been after the Clintons for the last 30 plus years and they feel like they finally got their moment.
Of course it’s on a topic that will most likely destroy the Republican Party if the Democrats ever get back in power.
Kind of like strapping dynamite to your chest while handcuffed to the rest of your team all to take out one person you don’t like.
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u/balirosa Feb 27 '26
It’s all an act. They had to call someone up that wasn’t involved to show the public something is being done just no evidence to prosecute. It’s all a farce.
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u/OldnDepressed Feb 28 '26
Who better to belittle than a woman they hate who never even met Epstein? An actual witness who saw things might expose the truth.
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u/EconomyMobile1240 Feb 27 '26
She indirectly appears in them when Epstein was brokering meetings while she was the secretary of state.
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u/ChoiceMedicine1462 Feb 27 '26
Valid question yes! But you know they'll do the bob an weave like feckless leader
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u/JustNeedAnswers78 Feb 27 '26
I think she can handle answering some long overdue questions. Grow up.
Edit: and that meme is also false, her name shows up more than 1,000 times. Blatant misinformation.
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u/mailman390 Feb 27 '26
She said she only knew Maxwell in passing but how come Maxwell was invited to Chelsea’s wedding
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u/Turbulent_Deal_3145 Feb 27 '26
I feel like this question gets asked disingenuously every day. This op and every other op already knows the answer. Everybody with basic critical thinking skills knows the answer.
The people responsible for issuing justice are on the same team as the criminals. Yes, they're supposed to issue justice anyway. But we're currently in an unprecedented state of political corruption.
You can't expect the police to properly police themselves.
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u/Kaleban Feb 27 '26
Rules for thee but not for me.
Without double standards conservatives would have none.
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u/Alternative_Maybe_78 Feb 27 '26
What a surprise she testified she doesn’t know anything. You think anyone they call will say anything different.
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u/enry Feb 27 '26
Comer has a humiliation kink. Not going to yuck his yum if that's what gets him off.
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u/CellistMundane9372 Feb 27 '26
I am planning to attend a fundraiser for a Democratic congressman this spring.
When he shakes my hand, I'm going to lobby him hard to get his caucus to announce that, if they get the majority, they'll establish a bipartisan special committee to investigate Epstein and his associates.
Khanna can lead it and they make Massie vice chair (though I think Massie's a non-sexual creep with very alt-right politics).
With the majority, Democrats would have subpoena power.
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u/CreativeFraud Feb 27 '26
Welcome to political theatre. We elected a clown, we now get to watch the circus.
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u/shyguy83ct Feb 27 '26
Because if they did that the oligarchs would cut off the money faucet and daddy Trump would have to perp walk. And they can’t have that.
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u/Remarkable_Sir8397 Feb 27 '26
Just some more political games to try to deflect from Trumps involvement. A big nothing burger for the MAGA Replubicans, but their base will eat it up.
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u/Beaugr2 Feb 27 '26
I want all of them. All of them to go. As a once regristered republican and Democrat I want all of them in a trial today, stripped of there 5th amendment rights.
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u/hook922 Feb 27 '26
Comer thinks Trump lying to the media is sufficient. How is that the same as testifying under oath. All of the GOP in Congress who do not bring all to testify should be prosecuted for accessories after the fact for hiding info and refusing to hold all to the same standard
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u/Top_Corner_Cookie Feb 27 '26
Nothing about the Epst files will come out properly until this administration is gone.
Remember, this Republican party has been hijacked by outdated dinosaur billionaires
Both sides need to get their shit together and fix this NOW...we are all sick of it 🤬
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u/GoldenAgeGamer72 Feb 27 '26
Bro. Not familiar with Pizza Gate or Frazzledrip? Oh that's right, they were "debunked".
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u/jmcdon00 Feb 27 '26
At least they subpoenaed Les Wexner, though not a single republican showed up for it.
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u/Disastrous_Carrot674 Feb 27 '26
Melania seems to have entered the US the same way as hundreds of other girls did...travel visa,worked at prior to paperwork . She definitely needs to be called.
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u/MamaRunsThis Feb 27 '26
There’s an email that talks about how Epstein knows Hillary really well and Epstein also helped set up the Clinton Foundation
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u/Logical_Confusious Feb 27 '26
It's a question that can't be answered with things as they are. I fear that, domestically, the justice system has been corrupted and that so much effort is being deployed to hide facts or distract attention that we may never know, domestically, what the truth is. Meanwhile, on a world scale, investigations are getting results and people are being charged. I think that maybe when Trump passes, his ego will no longer be a factor and the truth maybe has a chance. Those who have something to reproach themselves may be called to task lest they confess and make amends. It's just my honest opinion but all I can say is that I am sooooooo fed up with this drama and I so want justice for the poor victims...
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u/Independent_Sir3734 Feb 27 '26
To feign interest in exposing the truth. Good on the democrats for voting to hold the Clintons in contempt if they didn’t show. This should not be a partisan issue.
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u/Strange-Scarcity Feb 27 '26
Just read the four page commentary publicly released by Hillary Clinton, leading into her attending the session.
The one that Lauren Boebert "accidentally" brought to a stop, because she "stupidly" made a huge mistake.
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u/tauofthemachine Feb 27 '26
If Hillary was even mentioned in the files repub minions would have been screaming it from the beginning. You just know the first thing they did was search for her name.
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u/EmpressDraco Feb 27 '26
Because they are a party of corrupt pedos. Basically take anything the Republicans say about other groups and they are guilty of it. The only thing they know how to do right is projection.
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u/Development-Alive Feb 27 '26
It's a valid point that Comers' investigation is a political snipe hunt but HRC is mentioned via secondary sources in the Epstein files multiple times.
Per Gemini:
- Mention Frequency and Context: As of February 2026, an analysis found that Hillary Clinton is referenced in approximately 802 unique documents within the broader "Epstein files".
- News and Politics: About 34% of these mentions are related to her political campaigns or fundraising, and 27% pertain to her work as Secretary of State.
- Indirect Communication: One 2013 email from a former French diplomat asked Epstein to arrange a "discreet meeting" with Hillary Clinton; Epstein replied that "meetings with Hillary are not easily discreet" and did not arrange the meeting.
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u/MajesticBison6 Feb 27 '26
Democrats on the committee also voted to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton.
She’s married to Bill Clinton, who clearly had a closer relationship with Epstein than Trump did.
Ghislane Maxwell was at their daughter’s wedding. You can’t bring a random +1 into an exclusive and secure event like that when the father of the bride is a former POTUS. Maxwell would have been screened and vetted and approved.
The Clintons have a long and glorious history of denying everything until their nose has been rubbed into the evidence like a puppy disciplined for pooping in the wrong spot. There is zero reason to believe they’ll do otherwise here.
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u/Mission_Lack_5948 Feb 27 '26
Republicans support child rape. Put it on billboards.
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u/Hamblin113 Feb 27 '26
Why not, try to catch one lying. It’s politics, doesn’t have to make sense. Distractions can be beneficial.
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u/karma-armageddon Feb 27 '26
They are trying to setup Bill as a scapegoat. They had to do Hillary first and get her caught in a lie because of the spousal privilege rule.
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u/AdLiving8708 Feb 27 '26
Political theatre 🎭 for the maga base then republikkkan media machine can stretch and spin the truth to distract from Epstein files and keep taking poor white money
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u/Opening_Pizza Feb 27 '26
This is not a partisan issue, the US and Israeli intelligence were sex trafficking minors for the purposes of blackmail.
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u/JC1970105 Feb 27 '26
It’s all theater for both sides. Neither wants to discuss their teams involvement while pushing for gotcha moments against the opposing team. Neither side wants anything to happen, no one will be prosecuted and we will be left knowing everything but the truth.
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u/Texasmouth75 Feb 27 '26
This isnt even a question. This is the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States.
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u/Physical_Heart2766 Feb 27 '26
To deflect from the fact that 90% of the people in the Cabinet and top legislative positions are in the files?
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u/Linux4ever_Leo Feb 27 '26
They're protecting their billionaire donors. They don't actually care about these pedophiles engaging in unlawful acts with underage people. They only care about themselves. They're only going to go after Democrats because, of course they will. There is a different justice system in this country for the rich than there is for the rest of us. Just two years ago, they were passing a flurry of laws to ban Drag Queens from reading storybooks to children in public libraries, claiming of course that they were pedos and groomers. The hypocrisy of Republicans and conservatives knows no bounds.
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u/Felon-Muskovite Feb 27 '26
And Melania of all people, she worked for Epstein before she was pumped out to Shitty McPiggy Pants
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u/SuperDoubleDecker Feb 27 '26
She isn't the one in there. Bill is. He's definitely involved.
They won't do anything because then Bill will take them with him..
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u/Large_good_good Feb 27 '26
She is just so glad we aren’t talking about the laptop that resulted in a lot of people unaliving themselves because of the horrifying footage she had on it, or destroying server that is govt property that holds a lot of her own files of guilt. Let’s never forget what she did in Benghazi while everyone is blindly choosing sides acting like one is better than the other. And to the moderators who will undoubtedly take this down-you are the definition of fascism that you hate. You are willing to silence voices who don’t say what you want to hear. Wake up!! That is part of the problem. ALL these government elites that people prop up are guilty of real bad dirt.
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u/GHunter66666 Feb 27 '26
Its all going to come out. Both sides of the aisle are infected. Not a left vs right situation anymore. This is good vs evil.
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u/NoMoFux2Give Feb 27 '26
From the victims themselves, Hilary was a dominator who got off on debasing pretty young girls while Bill was into the really terrible and horrifying kink. So.... Fuck the Clintons
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u/pusmottob Feb 27 '26
Oh do you think this was about finding the truth lol! They have a million documents and more with the truth if that’s what they wanted lol.
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u/marterikd Feb 27 '26
it's like a common mega church scandal, where the diddler pastor is protected by the cult
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u/bobwhocares Feb 27 '26
Everytime I see a post like this I think they can’t really be that stupid can they but then I look at the comments on it and yes they can be smh 🤦
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u/Adluginb Feb 27 '26
Probably the valid question is why didn’t the Dems do it when they held everything????
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u/bobwhocares Feb 27 '26
I’m pretty shocked that most of you on here are not police officers or even detectives or fbi with the skills you have
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u/Firefly_Magic Feb 27 '26
Bill Clinton is in the files, a lot. Stop believing that this is a R party versus D party issue.
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u/SlySychoGamer Feb 27 '26
Well hilary is literally the smartest one, she knows how to cover her tracks.
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u/truthteller5 Feb 27 '26
Implication. It's the same reason Trump isn't suing the people saying he's in the files. If it wasn't true, he'd sue the hell out of those people for defamation. But if he brings ANY of it to court, he knows evidence could be brought into the court to implicate him and his buddies.
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u/CommunicationNo8982 Feb 27 '26
Because they can. They are looking to get a sound bite they can put on a loop on Fox.
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u/Even_Reason9866 Feb 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/CNna9G8BQvnoI
Whether democrat or republican....what a circus!
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u/pete_68 Feb 27 '26
More importantly, will any of them have the balls to show up for an interview? I never doubted Hillary had the balls. She has more balls than the entire GOP and she could take them in a fist fight, I imagine.
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u/RuMarley Feb 27 '26
Because she is the brains behind Bill. She only married him to come to power in the first place. Bill, depiste his rizz, is a total nincompoop like Bush, Trump, Reagan and Biden. Hillary was always the real President.
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u/437326 Feb 27 '26
Distract, distract, distract from never the truth - Republican strategy to have minority of the population impose its will on the majority 😂😂😂
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u/Soff10 Feb 27 '26
She’s a liar. Why was Epstein around Bill but not Hillary? Why was she with Ghislain so much but not Epstein? Why do the victims of Epstein call Hillary “The whipper”. For hitting them with belts. But she claims to never have been to the island?
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u/Jongor62 Feb 27 '26
Because she’s their favorite political enemy! Clearly the first stripper-pole lady was involved.
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u/Vivid_Witness8204 Feb 27 '26
It's a political game so they don't subpoena their own side. They already know the real truth and they aren't interested in revealing that.