IF true, OMG! It would make a lot of sense.

[Chasstev365]

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-2675108999/

[mwmisses4289]

1. A quick summary, please?

I don't do rawstory or daily kos, as I always seem to end up with malware when I go to their sites.

[sop]

3. Trump has been using Epstein's videos to blackmail the men shown raping young girls.

I suspect the term "graping" used in the article is a combination of "groping" and "raping."

[mwmisses4289]

8. Oh. Thank you.

Confirmation of something long suspected. One of the many reasons he gets away with his criminal acts.
Seems evident the rumors he and j and g were more than friends, they were business partners, are more than just rumors. Which means that j and g were doing the same thing. Which begs the question, are t and his spawn still running that particular business?

[NJCher]

11. Get protection

I use webroot.

[Chasstev365]

2. Trump administration maybe blackmailing people with Epstein evidence to remain loyal

[mwmisses4289]

16. Thanks.

[Fozzledick]

21. Does Lindsey Graham know about this ??

Just wondering...

[Goonch]

4. ;-{).....

Link to tweet

[Chasstev365]

6. Thanks for posting

[lostnfound]

7. James O'Keefe of Okeefe media has zero credibility and a lifetime of dirty tricks and deception against Dems

He was funded by Donors Trust and trump. Do not trust or give credibility.

[markodochartaigh]

10. O'Keefe's brand of vicious tricks and reich-wing propaganda

is well known and undeniable.
However it is also certain that the current regime's Department of Justice has a huge amount of the material which Epstein had, and which Epstein apparently was using to blackmail the rich and powerful. Under Trump the Department of Justice has been weaponized against the enemies of the president to an extent never before realized. Does it seem credible that the Department of Justice would not be using the Epstein material on Trump's behalf?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. This has gotten far far worse than anyone could imagine

Sick.

[yardwork]

13. So far this is exactly what I'd imagined.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Congratulations! You are the new Commissar of Imagining

Pick us some good lottery tickets, will ya?

[UpInArms]

9. It definitely explains why there are so many silent people ... GWB

has not spoken out against any of the atrocities …

I wonder how many he committed, or who he is covering up for

[NJCher]

12. I just assumed this

Kinda’ goes without saying.

I’ve been clicking at the millions of docs from the latest release of files and there are already videos of stuff that doesn’t require much imagination. Videos of young girls in some really awful positions.

Tomorrow the Dems including Jamie Raskin will have access sans the redactions. That might just put a partial end to this, as Jamie showed on television that the redactions they are doing are to protect such people. He showed the memos and explained how the redactions could only have been to cover up the identity of the perpetrator.

I guess what puzzles me is that there would be that many men interested in girls. I’ve always thought of this as a perversion. It could have been a normalizing process, then an opportunity, photographed, and then blackmail.

I have researched how early an age this perversion shows itself and it is very early.

[yardwork]

14. It is perversion.

With billions of people in the world, it's not surprising that there are at least thousands of wealthy and/or powerful men with this perversion. Epstein's business was finding them. I think he and Trump were in business together.

[NJCher]

15. Maybe, but...the number

Of men in this position are few.

Maybe that is why Epstein had to take this worldwide—to increase the number.of men who would find themselves interested in this sort of thing. perversion.

[RockCreek]

19. And the people who end up in such positions with the aid of sociopathic traits

May also be inclined to some sexual deviance.

[yardwork]

20. Yes, that's well established.

People who seek power over others seek positions of power. Politicians, business people, judges, law enforcement, wealthy socialites - even academic stars. Even the town bully, the mean drunk who gets in bar fights. If you look for it you see it everywhere.

Of course not everyone in those positions seeks unlawful power over others, but if your primary goal is that, you'll gravitate to positions that give you power.

Some people have a strong urge for power over others, and they find ways to get it. The rest of us don't notice until we're the ones being abused.

[mwmisses4289]

18. Sadly, this perversion has been normalized in many cultures even today.

asia, the middle east, india...they dress it up as marriage, on their books it is illegal, but it is not enforced. Bloody hell, even here in the u.s. there are several states where girls as young as 12 (or was it 10?) can be legally married with their parents permission. And the attempts in those states to raise the age to 18 were shot down because...fredumb.

[usonian]

22. DU'ers weighed in on this last year.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220735608

A fantastic read.

Trump was partners with Epstein in the biggest sex, Blackman and money laundering scandal in history.

Until his partner was partner no more.