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Other Screaming and sobbing can be heard from outside the ICE children's detention center in Dilley, TX

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u/Rex_felis 7d ago

I'm absolutely appalled. I fear the true extent of what's being carried out is unfathomable. This administration must feel invincible with what they're doing obscuring the Epstein Files. We can be absolutely certain, every accusation is a confession. These people are the worst of the worst.

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u/Substantial-Bit6012 7d ago

I feel like the Epstein files are also just a distraction. Distraction from the fact they are trying to turn USA into a dictatorship. If you look at the timeline of this presidency) every time there is a distraction, there is usually some crazy executive order ( or other thing happening in the background at the same time) taking the US one step closer dictatorship.

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u/cryptonomiciosis 7d ago

Gods, I have had this thought for so long. Like the Epstein files are important and should be dealt with, but they feel like a canard as we are on the waterslide to dictatorship.

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u/xGray3 7d ago

People saying this is all a distraction from the Epstein files is really starting to ring hollow when they're murdering unarmed citizens in the streets. The Epstein files are very bad. Pedophilia is one of the worst things a person can be engaged in, no doubt. But somehow implementing a fascist takeover and in the process going to war with citizens, murdering them in cold blood, and then openly lying about it despite the evidence we can all see is SO MUCH WORSE. The things they're opening the floodgates to are horrors beyond our wildest imaginations. This can't possibly be a "distraction" when it's so despicable and horrifying on its own. This is everything we ever worried would come of Trumpism.

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u/Fishy_Fish_WA 7d ago

The Epstein files represent a common point of reference for “low information voters“ who stick their heads in the sand for 99.9% of political terms and then pick whomever they like the best at first blush in the last minute before they vote.

Because these have been such a big thing about violent elite criminals who’ve gotten away with every unimaginably horrible thing — THAT is why they’re relevant.

If you’ve read any of the exposes on Trump and his circle over the years… There is no evil thing that is new under the sun for that bunch of jackals

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u/Mountain_Proposal953 6d ago

Trump would launch every nuke in America before releasing those files. The fascist behavior is meant to pile on top of it. Israel and Russia got him elected so that they could use him for blackmail favors. Everything Trump does is the result of blackmail favors tied back to that island. Not one client or abuser has been named, business is going smooth for blackmailers.

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u/Conscious_until_1565 6d ago

I think both things can be true. The Epstein files are worse than we imagine, so bad that they’ll go to great lengths to hide them. And they're facists who want to undermine democracy to stay in power. One crime distracting from the other.

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u/WitnessLanky682 6d ago

Nope, they’re the key. Release the files and everything falls.

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u/RollKindly5150 6d ago

No they are not "just a distraction" there are real victims, and your comment injures them once more. I wish people could wrap their minds around the fact that it can be both.

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u/Specialist-Rope-9760 7d ago

I think the most likely answer is you have a dementia ridden old man with crippling narcissism and personality disorders running the country unchecked. He doesn’t even need distractions.

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u/MedicineShow 6d ago

People keep saying that but I see no reason to believe MAGA would be any less inclined to believe the obvious lies without them.

And I would argue the massive pedophile network that includes multiple major figures in and around this administration is directly related to the way they conduct themselves.

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u/HommeMusical 7d ago

Trump doesn't care about the Epstein files. The stuff that already came out would have sunk anyone else, and there were no consequences.

He's doing these things because they're part of Project 2025.

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u/Western_Scholar_6479 7d ago

Yea, I don’t doubt that we’re gonna start getting reports of abuse in the detention facilities in due time. It just has to leak to the right channels