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    Remember when Trump raped a 13 year old girl and then settled out of court, then a few years later he said that people who settle out of court are obviously guilty?

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      Interesting. Is there a site that has all of his convictions and settlements listed? This would be great in reasoning why he shouldn’t run for office if you have a link to all that.

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        This isn’t exactly that, but helpful…

        He’s demonstrably the actual biggest loser in history, and he just got more loser-y folks… If any of you are starting to have your memories fade, here’s a quick refresher to read this morning and then copy and send to your aunt karen in Missouri.

        • 0 re-elections won
        • 1 term president
        • 2 times impeached
        • 3 marriages
        • 4 inch lifts in his shoes
        • 5 kids, from 3 different mothers
        • 6 bankruptcies
        • 7 US Capitol police suing him for Jan 6 terrorist insurrection and murder of police
        • 8 trillion + dollars added to the US debt in a single term
        • 9 trump lawyers sanctioned by federal judge for lying in frivolous election fraud lawsuits and ordered to pay defendant’s legal fees
        • 10 years that trump paid $0 in income taxes between 2000 and 2015. ($0 to cops, teachers, roads, prisons, disaster relief, etc)
        • 11 trump associates charged with serious crimes over the past 5 years
        • 12 million votes (the big lie) - trump claims he won the 2020 election by 12 million votes when in reality, he lost by about 7 million votes.
        • 13 of August, 2021 - one of multiple days that trump was supposed to magically become president again according to Qanon and a crack addicted pillow salesman (the two most respected information sources in the gop)
        • 14 year old girl in a youth choir that trump approached in 1992 to say, “Wow! Just think - in a couple years I’ll be dating you.”
        • 15 originally confirmed cases of COVID in the US trump said would soon be, “down to close to zero.” followed by, “like a miracle, it will disappear.” - over 1,000,000 Americans have since died of COVID as it continues to kill years later.
        • 16 years old - age of daughter ivanka when she hosted “miss teen” pageant and, according to long time trump associate Noel Casler, “trump called her over in the middle of a rehearsal and had her give him a lap dance while he leered at the crew.”
        • 17 known trump and russia investigations from local, state and federal prosecutors
        • 18 gop senators that ignored trump threats / warnings and supported Biden admin’s infrastructure bill.
        • 19 as in COVID19 - trump was verified as the single largest source of disinformation on the virus, with a Cornell study claiming that 38% of the “misinformation conversation” originated with trump
        • 20 the day in January, 2021, when Biden was sworn in despite trump inciting a violent insurrection to stop election verification at the US Capitol.
        • 21 gun salute that trump ordered for himself when he left office after a humiliating defeat, even though he never served in the military, famously called military members “losers” and “suckers” and actively avoided the draft with a cowardly “bone spurs” excuse.
        • 22 date in August, 2021, when Alabama hate rally crowd booed trump for finally saying people should get vaccinated, only after 700,000 Americans have died due mostly to his failure as president
        • 23 as in wrestlemania 23 in 2007 where trump, a cartoon level failure with no other prospects, participated in a fake bet that a proxy wrestler would win a fake fight on his behalf or he would shave his wig and hair plugs off.
        • 24 day in August, 2021, when trump actually filed a lawsuit in Florida court against YouTube, a private company, demanding that they reinstate his YouTube channel like a desperate, irrelevant embarrassment with no platforms left to abuse.
        • 25 plus credible sexual assault allegations against trump, spanning decades and with accusers starting as young as 13 years old at time of assault.
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            That list feels like a classic Reddit comment, packed with smugness. No one is going to convince their “aunt Karen in Missouri” that Trump is bad using a Facebook-tier list like that.

            To answer your question, PoppinKREAM on Reddit often posted detailed comments with sources. Sort by “Top” on his Reddit profile and his fifth comment (as of today) has a much better list.

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              no one is going to convince their “aunt Karen in Missouri” that Trump is bad using a Facebook tier list like that.

              FTFY

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              Yeah, I was hoping this place would be a little more accurate in discussion. But it’s still the same circlejerk. “Orange man bad” gets all the upvotes, regardless if the comment is true or not.

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                lemmy.world is a big instance and a lot of the Redditors from the initial migration landed here. But the great thing about Lemmy & the Fediverse is that you don’t have to stick with only one instance. I personally have accounts on lemmy.ml (where I landed after the migration) and beehaw.org (I joined in the early days and fell in love with their community & philosophies). I usually just browse “All” through the Voyager app though, so I can see posts from instances across Lemmy.

                Using Lemmy / the Fediverse requires a different mindset than Reddit and other monolith websites: you’re given a lot more power to choose how to engage with the community at large and the Reddit hive mind isn’t nearly as effective. There’s still going to be circlejerks and brigades and all kinds of shenanigans that come with forums, but don’t take the voting system too seriously and you’ll have a much better time.

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            What specifically is bothering you on the list, friend? Specific points.

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              There’s only 11 Trump associates charged with serious crimes in the last 5 years?

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              First, I’m not your friend. It would be embarrassing to even be mistakenly associated with you. Second, the things wrong with the list are most of your points are just your opinion or things that have no proof or weight. But it is telling that in order to come up with a sizable list, you eat the need to include superfluous bullshit points. I mean, you really find the number of women he’s had kids with troublesome? Or that he has inserts in his shoes. Nevermind the flat out lies in your list. For instance, can you name the multiple officers that were murdered on Jan 6?

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          It would be good to remove silly things like the lifts in his shoes. Removes credibility from the list for anyone not already against Trump.

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            With who? The deplorables that live for hate that we’ll never persuade? Or us, who have earned a chuckle and his expense?

            There is nobody on the fence reading this list. If they are, the jabs aren’t going to be the deal breaker.

            But this is moot. There are no actual independents. Just self aware ashamed in denial Republicans.

            The only work is activating Democrat voters and convincing the left of us that Israel’s regime sucks but not having democracy in America doesn’t help any situation.

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              I really hate the “us vs them” bullshit, but it’s real. I don’t like many of the Democrat policies and am on the progressive side. They suck. But the other side is literal child raping treason Nazis. The fact that I’m saying that with no hyperbole in 2024 is so fucking wild. I wanted the star Trek future with a merit based economy and green alien babes… Not this bullshit.

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                While there are policies I can get behind, I am in no way considered liberal, progressive or whatever other terms are used. So do you think I am a “literal child raping treasonous Nazi”? If your answer is anything other than no, this is exactly why the country is in the shit and there will never be any actual progress.

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                  If you are a republican, then yes. Because gestures broadly at the Republicans

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      Everything Trump says has a little asterisk above it which is “*except when I do it” - except he probably doesn’t know about asterisks. They’re pretty complicated.

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        Sftu loser! He’s got great asteriskses, the best in fact! Nobodies got asteriskses like him, in the world!

        ^(/s, but not really necessary I hope)

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          One time an asterisk came up to Trump, big asterisk, strong asterisk, tears streaming down its typeface and it said “Mr Trump, no president has ever been treated as poorly as you*”.

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        Lawsuits were filled against the buffoon and the pedo by the same individual, but ultimately they were dismissed or withdrawn. They were not settled, at least in no way that can be proven.

        Now I’m not saying that the accusations were invented to negatively affect the buffoon’s election chances, though that is a possibility. I find it unlikely as most sane individuals, especially with what was known at that time, would not risk a crime or being counter sued by filing a false claim. Not to mention licensed lawyers putting their own careers and repairs on the line.

        We also know that the buffoon and his enablers and followers are not afraid to break the law or push its limits to make problems go away.

        Anyway they’re is also this

        https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-do-papers-allege-trump-epstein-took-part-sexual-assault-1857863

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          The OP on this thread said he settled out of Court. Is that true? From everything I’ve read the cases were thrown out?

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            I have no evidence one way or the other. It looks like the California case was likely dismissed because what was being sued over occurred in New York. And the cases in New York were withdrawn, but why that occurred is unknown. There may have been a settlement out of court, but I can’t find anything to prove that.

            We have plenty of evidence at this point to speculate on what may have happened. Could there have been a settlement? Yes. Could the complainant have been intimidated into dropping the case? Yes. Could the complainant ultimately decide that her own health, safety, and well-being was more important? Absolutely.

            These were all civil fillings seeking damages because the statute for criminal liability has passed. Pursuing a case like this as an individual is going to put her whole life under a microscope, force her to publicly relive the abuse, and open her up to cross examination by the defense. I think it is incredibly likely she walked away.

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    yeah… I’m not going to blame nobody for not wanting to read that article…

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      That’s rare, a triple negative. So, who are you going to blame for not wanting to read the article?

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        In the newly unsealed documents, Ms Ransome testified that her unnamed friend “was one of the many girls that had sexual relations with Donald Trump” – including at Epstein’s New York townhouse.

        She then described in graphic detail how Mr Trump allegedly caused pain to the victim’s nipples – and claimed she saw the resulting injury firsthand.

        I mean, it’s not nothing… Far from even.

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              [M]y friend had sexual intercourse with Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson, sex tapes were in fact filmed on each separate occasion…

              And there’s the admission of definite Kompromat on everyone that ever had sex around Epstein.

              Epstein knew where these tapes were hidden and was absolutely imho assassinated for that knowledge.

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                In a New Yorker article released in 2019, Ms Ransome said that “she had invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior, and to make him believe that she had ‘evidence that would come out if he harmed me’”.

                I don’t doubt there are tapes, but in this case the same woman already said she lied about the tapes.

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                  She also maintained, "Jeffrey kept a trove of surveillance on every person who had ever visited his properties”.

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              It was kind of rhetorical. I don’t actually want to know how he hurt a girl’s nipples badly enough for it to be visible to someone else later on.

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    This is NOT worth a click on the article, but I’m gonna upvote any post on this all the same.

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    2020 - S05E08 - Don and Jeff’s Excellent Adventure

    Graphic details about Donald Trump’s alleged “sexual proclivities” have emerged in the latest round of court documents containing details of late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s associates. The new documents contain “incendiary claims” about the former president, including accusations that he had sexual relations with “many girls”, made by one of Epstein’s alleged victims, Sarah Ransome. Mr Trump’s name has appeared a handful of times previously in the documents and, while not accusing him of wrongdoing, appears to illustrate the good relationship he had with the disgraced financier. In the newly unsealed documents, Ms Ransome testified that her unnamed friend “was one of the many girls that had sexual relations with Donald Trump” – including at Epstein’s New York townhouse. - TV-MA, 61 mins

    SD, SHD, UHD, Dolby Vision; Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround, Dolby Atmos

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      Mmh I’m pretty sure having sex with many girls will just be seen as a cool thing for the kind of people who vote for him.

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        I would clarify that the victims were trafficked and often children, but his supporters are notorious for cherry-picking, and their favorite book (allegedly) is full of that and more, anyhow. So, yeah, you’re probably right. 🤦🏽‍♂️

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          Ms Ransome testified that her unnamed friend

          This is the part, the loophole, where the allegations will fall apart with them.

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    Ransome was another imperfect witness. In the fall of 2016, she had suggested to the New York Post that she had sex tapes of half a dozen prominent people, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump—but couldn’t provide the tapes when asked. (Ransome told me that she had invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior, and to make him believe that she had “evidence that would come out if he harmed me.”)

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/alan-dershowitz-devils-advocate

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    they’re demonstrating again that nobody actually cares about this sort of thing

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        They mean anybody that supports the guy isn’t going to care about this. It’s why people like him accuse his opponents of something he’s guilty of doing so that when his scandal comes out, people think it’s either old news or “a Dem witch hunt”

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          The men who support him also support this behavior. It’s part of why they support him.

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      Back to running headlines that talk about how he smells like old cheese I guess. Sigh, what even are we supposed to do.

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        Probably start actual fake news about him supporting progressive policies? Either his fan base would start to hate him or maybe we’d finally get some progressive policies passed

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    Now, let’s tie him to Epstein’s “suicide”…

    I think if he got charged with murder, I might just dissolve into a puddle of happiness.

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      Trump back then didn’t have the necessary influence to have somebody murdered.

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        He was the sitting President of the United States, who had total control of the US Department of Justice, when Epstein died in federal custody under the DOJ.

        I would say he absolutely had the necessary influence.

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          Yeah well we already heard what his lawyers would say, He is allowed to assasinate people against him unless congress says it was naughty. You know… those people he would just have killed before their votes were finalized.

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        He had like a bajillion dollars and connections to everyone. You don’t need gov connections to have access to a hitman, they come to you when you’re that big of a deal… probably. Idk wtf I’m talking about though.

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    Meidas Touch found and produced a contemporaneous news article a few days back that Trump was “dating” one of Epstein’s victims, Anouska De Georgiou in 1997. Seems more than a small coincidence.

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        What I’m alleging is it seems more than a slight coincidence that Trump hooks up with one of Epstein’s victims. That it seems like the sort of thing that journalists and investigative reporters should be taking a look at for obvious reasons. Like when did she first meet Trump, who introduced her, was she working for a “modelling agency”, when and where she met Trump, how she was present at these events, who paid for her accommodation / lifestyle etc.

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    Will anything happen to trumpy boy ? I doubt it. The rich and powerful can get away will anything. crying in middle class

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    I don’t care if he likes to be peed on or whatever, but seriously try to imagine saying this to someone

    she told me how he kept going on about how he liked her ‘pert nipples’,” she testified.

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    Epstein was a state sponsored monster to get blackmail on other world leaders. Now that Epstein’s handlers [read: Israel] need a Biden victory to continue genocide and ensure white supremacy in the Middle East I suppose they will now selectively release names off Epstein’s “friend list”.

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      Or Trump’s just a sexual predator - which is something we all already know as he has basically outright admitted he commits sexual assault, he’s been convicted of rape, has made numerous public sexually inappropriate comments about underaged girls (including both his 16 and 1 yo daughters) - and this is just further confirms it.

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        That was my entire gripe with this. We always knew Trump and Epstein were friends. All of a sudden only SOME of the blackmail Epstein has gets released as a report which conveniently aids the people who sicked Epstein on the world. How is everyone not suspicious?

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          They were released along with tons of other documents that have been embarrassing for other powerful people as well. Something I’ve heard people screaming about for ages online to happen.

          And now that it happens. . .it’s suspicious because it confirms what we already knew what to be true?

          I’m really confused by this line of reasoning.

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            It’s suspicious when it only helps Eipstein’s handlers when they need to influence the next election. They could have relased this years ago.

            I hate Trump but I want objective justice; This is just selectively picking a few for political insurance.

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              This is far from the optimal time to release this is you’re trying to hurt trumps chance of winning the wh. Additionally, trump is a huge supporter of Israel, he even moved our embassy to Jerusalem to show it despite the diplomatic fall out of doing so. There’s no reason to believe he wouldn’t be doing the same exact thing as Biden.

              Trump is the elite scum we all hate, not separate from it.

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                Trump is an idiot who lacks any type of grace or nuance. He would escalate the situation and the US and Israel would have to deal with more uproar versus their current way of getting rid of natives in batches.

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      Yeah, If you think Israel prefers Biden over Trump (you know, the guy who thought it was a spectacular idea to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem) you’re really not following geopolitics - at all. But you keep rubbing those braincells together buddy!

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      I don’t even understand your flavor of racist tin hat. Are you blaming Jews or suggesting they’re victims of a Nazi plot?

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      Lemme guess, you’re a trump supporter and all this is true because you support Trump and obviously trump can never do wrong!

      How close am I?