• LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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    There is exactly one person’s life that Trump cares about, and that says everything that needs to be said about this topic.

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    How come this logic doesn’t hold water for people who live in poor neighborhoods or areas with gang activity? Or for migrant workers from Mexico?

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    So, you can destroy normal peoples lives, people who’ve paid taxes and followed the law, but rich pedos are above the law, got it. America, you’re cooked.

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    “[Trump] said, and I agree, there are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein’s conduct. They maybe had lunch with him or maybe had some correspondence for one thing or another,” O’Reilly began. “If that name gets out, those people are destroyed — because there’s not going to be any context. The media doesn’t care about context — so you can’t do that. You can’t destroy human beings by putting out the files, whatever they may be.”

    Oh, yeah, Bill, you’re totally right. Lemme just put down this pitchfork and torch and go right along with NAW I’M JUST KIDDIN EAT THE RICH

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      You can’t destroy human beings by putting out the files, whatever they may be.

      - Donald “Russia, if you’re listening” fucking Trump

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      Technically, that’s true. A fair bit of investigation would help, but friend Patel isn’t in much of a hurry, now is he? And this was never an issue before either, when it was - say - the Clintons’ heads that were gonna roll, why is that then?

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      Maybe if we had a functional government that gave a shit about innocent until proven guilty then this excuse would hold water. They shouldn’t release the files; they should use them as the basis for investigations and eventual prosecutions, because nobody can say for sure if every person on the list is guilty. But we can tell the excuses are bullshit because they’re just gonna sweep it all under the rug and pretend it didn’t happen,

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      …the fact that ASSOCIATION with the name Jeffery Epstein could be tainted is enough, at least for the court of public opinion…

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    Trump Doesn’t Want to Release Epstein Files Because (rich) People’s Lives Will Be ‘Destroyed,’ inconvenienced with having to spend money on lawyers when a few of their wives divorce them Ex-Fox Host Says

    Real “Brock Turner-ism” happening here. Be sad that some rich people might get in trouble.

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    The lives that mattered (the victims’) have already been destroyed. Why are we protecting these people?

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      He’s trying to retcon the whole thing (and no doubt pad himself and his cronies), by fabricating this fiction that there are names in it that are just associated with Epstein, without being involved in anything illegal.

      Personally I don’t buy it. Seems like he’s in CYA-mode.

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          If that concern were actually relevant and not merely an excuse, mob justice would fail to consider innocence. That’s seen repeatedly. Merely an excuse seems likely, but…

          The thing I could imagine is that the list being something like a contact list, and Epstein treated celebrity contact information as a status symbol. If the list is a ledger of otherwise off book transactions, or a lost of people complete with blackmail material, then I can’t see how they could even try to make the argument about innocent caught up in the list.

          Either way if they have a district list, put aside releasing the list for a moment, where’s the legal system enforcement actions?

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    Two possibilities:

    1. The Epstein files are full of Magastanis.

    2. There was never anything in the Epstein files and the Magastanis lied and 70 million idiots believed them.

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        They lied by claiming that the list was full of Democrats and that they were the party to protect children from the lizard people.

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      1. The Epstein files are full of Magastanis.

      I mean, if there is some list of extremely wealthy clients… It would probably just resemble a copy of the Republican mega donors list.

      Most people wealthy enough to vacation on a private island also really don’t like paying taxes.

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    LOL, he must be talking about himself, since he never gives a rat’s ass if someone else’s life is destroyed - see for example, the outcomes of DOGE, ICE…

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    You know whose lives I’m concerned about? The children whom these monsters raped. Does anyone care that their lives were destroyed?

    If you choose to rape children, don’t complain that your life is “destroyed” just because you have to face consequences. You did this to yourself and deserve every consequence you receive.

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    Fucking GOOD! Let them be destroyed! These are the sorts of people that NEED their lives to be destroyed!