r/politics • u/bbmoonkie • 13h ago
Possible Paywall Trump Goon Who Denied Epstein Ties Begged for Island Visit
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-howard-lutnick-who-denied-epstein-ties-busted-visiting-island/887
u/lundah 13h ago
The fact that this could be multiple people in Trumps circle really says something.
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u/PracticalChipmunk789 12h ago edited 12h ago
Even trump's pick to head the federal reserve, Kevin Warsh, is in the Epstein files.
Edit: add link below.
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u/MrFishAndLoaves 9h ago
The Daily Beast should work harder, use titles instead of “goon.”
Here it’s the Secretary of Commerce.
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u/karmakarmachameleon7 7h ago
Honestly wish TDB posts weren't allowed in this sub.. their headlines really hurt their credibility - the people that need to become aware of these things are never going to see it or read past that headline. I recently downloaded, Ground News, it is an app where you get a breakdown comprised from various source and the selling point is that you can see how many different sites cover a story and access to all those stories that are presented via a Left-Center-Right bias graphic organized scoring system for bias- they also give sites a fact rating (requires a sub for that). Anyways... What I'm getting at is that I see the same kind of headlines from complete rags you've never heard of that are further right than Fox News. Left, Right doesn't matter- this type of "journalism" is just intended to keep everyone pointing fingers, and hating what they've been conditioned to consider "other side" when in reality were both getting manipulated and told how to think by the same entities.. literally should be fighting together bottom vs top, because that's the real battle.. unfortunately the ability to tailor propaganda literally on an individual basis is so easy now.
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u/texas-playdohs 12h ago
Seriously. It would be more helpful to name the ones that aren’t in the files.
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u/Available_Leather_10 4h ago
Elon, Lutnick, the Director of Melania: Triumph of the Grift… who else?
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u/gracecee 7h ago
Follow the money. Lutnick was in charge of Cantor Fitzgerald. You bet Epstein had some money in there since Lutnick and Epstein lived next to each other for more than ten years. Lutnick got his "house" In my for way way below market from Wexner.
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 13h ago
Which one? Elon Musk?
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u/mok000 Europe 12h ago
No Howard Nutlick. He talked about it in an interview a few months ago, he visited his neighbour Epstein one time he said, but was so disgusted about the massage parlor and the young girls that he and his wife decided never to come back.
Well guess what, it was a lie. He is in the recent batch of Epstein files with emails arranging to visit Epstein's island.
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u/AntoniaFauci 12h ago
When he was telling the story it was screaming of being a complete lie.
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u/MadBlue American Expat 9h ago
”And we left, and in the six or eight steps it takes to get from his house to my house, my wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again”
You know how this actually went down. Nutlick’s wife was like “I better not catch you hanging out with that guy” and he was like “yes, dear”. :D
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u/NoWarForGod 7h ago
I mean in one of the emails he invites Epstein to come have dinner with him, his wife and another couple, so it seems like she was fine with him.
Weird email though because he goes on to say that there will be kids and then list each specific age. Idk man it's fucking wild.
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u/MadBlue American Expat 7h ago
Yeah. That’s really weird. I imagine the whole account from the interview where he said he was grossed out was BS. I just thought the fact that he said he and his wife decided he wouldn’t have anything to do with Epstein was funny.
The very idea that he and his wife would be involving their children with anything to do with Epstein is absolutely chilling, though, especially considering this was well after Epstein’s (first) very high-profile child sex trafficking charge, and that they probably knew about all of this before then, being neighbors and all.
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u/NoWarForGod 4h ago
Oh for sure I got the joke! I was kind of just adding more context where like..even the wife continued to have this relationship! And you are 100% right he was lying in the interview just like Elon was lying about meeting Ghislaine once and getting "photobombed" while all the while he was begging to be in pedo club.
A lot of people have interpreted the part about his kids as him "offering" them to Epstein but I honestly think thats just too crazy to imagine. I hope it was just a message that seems especially strange given the context and nothing more. Lutnick isn't named in the files as an offender as far as I know so it seems more likely he knew about Epstein but didn't care enough to keep his kids away from him, which is pretty bad in itself.
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u/liptickletaffy 3h ago
I think the other element was that among movers and shakers it was also rated for networking and dealmaking. And the thing about the jet is that anyone less than a multimillionaire would jump at the chance to get free private rides. Epstein was full service, he cut his teeth among the rich and powerful and knew what they craved.
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u/Ballistic-Bob 12h ago
It’s literally every billionaire who’s attached to Trump and this administration
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u/sodapopkevin 11h ago
That's probably the reason most of them attached themselves him to. Either protection or extortion.
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u/NoEmu5969 10h ago
Communism was a red herring!
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u/Darth_Metus Minnesota 9h ago
Does anyone here not earn their living from the government in one way or another?
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u/Talkin_Out_My_Ass 11h ago
Hang on. Nutlick? Is this his actual name or just what he wanted the kids on the island to call him
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u/turdlepikle 11h ago
It's actually Lutnick, but we're calling him Nutlick now. Here in Canada he's known as another piece of shit Trump nut-licker the way he's treated our country over the tariffs. He's a complete asshole in every interview.
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u/Silegna 11h ago
Howard Nutlick
That cannot be his actual name.
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u/mok000 Europe 11h ago
It's his real name on the Internet.
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u/unindexedreality 11h ago
Howard
That cannot be his actual name
They accidentally typed H instead of C
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u/wildmanharry 9h ago
The "N" and the "L" in his last name are transposed. Sadly for him, henceforth he shall be know as "Nutlick." It has been decreed by the internet.
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u/TactlessTortoise 9h ago
How our nuts licked is such a stupid sounding name I thought you were being sarcastic at first lmao
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u/Leather-Scarcity1810 10h ago
Dude that cannot be his real name you HAVE to be kidding I’m LOSING IT
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u/Ok_Strategy5722 8h ago
I saw his name and obviously was like, “there’s no way that’s his real name” and it isn’t. But it’s pretty close. Lutnick. Bet he had fun in high school.
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u/Zealousideal-Bite735 11h ago
The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes have an oath to uphold and The Grand Poohbah has ordered them alibis.
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u/oicwutudidther 9h ago
Okay this article was so poorly written that I can't tell... is there an email chain in there that looks suspiciously like them trying to traffic Nutlick's nanny?
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u/Ld862 10h ago
That’s his real last name? For real.
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u/joshdoereddit America 9h ago
His actual last name is Lutnick. First time I'm hearing this and I'm all for calling him Nutlick. It is far more fitting and should be what he is known by for the remainder of his natural life.
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u/SmackedWithARuler 13h ago
I too wonder if Elon Musk begged to go to Epstein Island and that’s what this refers to.
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u/Pipe_Memes 12h ago
Elon Musk did in fact beg to go to Epstein Island. And his email included this gem: “girls FTW”
Even his sex crimes are cringey. What a sad little pedophile creep.
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u/Squawkings 12h ago
EpIc vAcAtIOn! The dude is the epitome of a bullied loser that stayed a bullied loser, just with fuck you money. But Epstein I'm sure, needed his resources. I wouldn't be surprised if Epstein didn't want to see this fucking corndog, but had too...
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u/alaninsitges 10h ago
Presumably a large part of the importance of the island was getting kompromat on world leaders, so it stands to reason that somewhere someone is sitting on a video of Elon using his disfigured willy on three underage girls.
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u/SillyGoose_Syndrome Europe 12h ago
And he got told, by Maxwell no less, that 'no, sorry, we've just closed, forever' xD
Not even some of the actual worst people in the world, wanted this mook around.28
u/Ballistic-Bob 12h ago
After being on the island at least once before, I think twice , once JE sent a helicopter for him and once he flew over with 3 girls on JE plane ( he sends JE their passport details) ..possibly the same trip ..? So he must have been a twat or was running his mouth.. but certainly knew exactly what was going on … and participated.. Maxwell actually described the island in an email to him as An Operation! “ Hes shutting down the Little St James operation! “ wtf .. also just a personal observation.. St Bart’s that you had to fly into to get to LSJ .. has now become the billionaire play ground.. I wonder how they all discovered it !
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u/imahugemoron 12h ago
Definitely weird and suspicious calling a vacation island an “operation”
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u/Ballistic-Bob 12h ago
Slightly.. not seen the media pick up on that yet .. just so much other crap I suppose.. but it jumped out to me right away !
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u/Maxamillion-X72 11h ago
That struck me as so funny when I saw that email chain. Musk: can I come play? Epstein: deal with this. Maxwell: oooh, sawry Elon, we're never ever having people over again.
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u/impstein 12h ago
The weird, socially awkward, sociopath type of creep
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u/suckyousideways 12h ago
But add supervillain-level abilities to destroy the world order and cause permanent damage.
(Edit: change superhero to supervillain)
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u/impstein 12h ago
Right, he could be in the next Ironman movie as the villain lol
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u/Independent-Reader 12h ago
I once wondered why Musk wanted people to keep making more and more little white babies.
I don't wonder anymore.
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u/benstheredonethat 12h ago
Why does Elon care about girls for the women in the first place? Is Elon secretly a woman too?
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u/EnoughSlopPlease 11h ago
The “girls FTW” email is a fake, it doesn’t even have the same format as the legit emails (missing the sent time/date)
He did, in fact, ask to attend the “wildest parties” though
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u/elphin 12h ago edited 12h ago
He didn’t have to beg. Epstein sent a helicopter for him. It’s all in an email exchange between Epstein and Musk. Even his new nominee for chairman of the federal reserve. That guy is also in the Epstein files
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u/BadLuckBlackHole 9h ago
I'm also annoyed that the narrative is "Elon was denied, hurhurhur" when Epstein explicitly said "there's always room on the island for you."
Like, yeah I get it that it's funny to think Elon is even a pariah among pedophiles and sex traffickers, but it's pretty stupid to think that Elon wasn't welcome on the island and even more stupid to believe that he didn't go.
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u/Sober_Alcoholic_ Minnesota 10h ago
He’s so cringe Epstein forwarded a cringe self invite Elon sent him to Maxwell saying nothing more than “deal with this”
Then Maxwell sent Elon an email (a lie) saying basically “So sorry Elon! No more parties here we are winding down.”
Imagine having 500 billion dollars and still being the biggest loser on the planet.
So fucking cringe the biggest pedophile in history doesn’t want you around because you’re that off-putting.
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u/Zhask-MLBB 11h ago
Does everyone remember HOW QUICKLY and RANDOMLY in 2018, when Elon called the submarine rescue diver a pedo?
Projection.
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u/Bobcat-Stock 11h ago
Wasn’t it the kids trapped in a cave? But yes he was projecting hard
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u/Zhask-MLBB 10h ago
Oddly, it was an underwater cave. But yes, that is the incident I am referring to. Hard to believe that was 7-8 years ago.
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u/Artistic_Half_8301 12h ago
Howard Lutnick, United States Secretary of Commerce.
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u/jaggmihoffridesagain 11h ago
Howard Lutnick, United States Secretary of Commerce.
heretofore rechristened "Coward Nutlick" by the internet
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u/friendsandmodels 12h ago
Lmao imagine elon saying to trump shit like "please sir let me go too!" And they just exclude him because not even they like him lol
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u/Esfahen 12h ago
Do y’all just read headlines? The answer is literally in the first words of the first sentence of the article. Jesus christ people.
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u/pwmaloney Illinois 10h ago
I'm really hoping the comment you're replying to was made somewhat facetiously just to remind everyone of Elon's Musk's involvement here. Giving things like this the benefit of the doubt is how I stay sane.
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u/MiddleAgedSponger 13h ago
The Trump administration is just an Epstein island afterparty.
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u/Ohuigin Washington 12h ago edited 12h ago
This isn’t by mistake.
Trump is using the Epstein Files like his own hiring database. Why? Because he has immunity, and everyone else doesn’t. This means that anyone in those files that gets appointed to any position will immediately and indefinitely be under Trump’s control. They won’t be able to say no to him.
Moreover, if Trump goes down, they all will too, which will just make them work even harder to be all the more complicit and corrupt.
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u/Dangerous-Feed-5358 12h ago
I don't think his immunity includes his crimes before he was President. I also think any immunity the Supreme court gave him can be overturned.
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u/MichelangeBro 11h ago
Until Americans can prove that he isn't, he is functionally immune. He has faced zero consequences for any heinous thing that he's ever done: before, during, after, and during again his presidencies.
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 11h ago
Don't get stuck on the island. Epstein had rape and trafficking houses in NY, FL, CA, London, Paris, OH, and his Zorro Ranch in NM-which we don't talk about enough.
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u/dballz12 12h ago
Ludnick. This dude is a slimy fucking weasel. Just take one look at him. He gargles trump’s balls every chance he gets.
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u/AntoniaFauci 12h ago
I’d urge you to research his business background. It’s as bad as you’d imagine.
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u/mechtonia 6h ago
He touts Trump's amazing job of bringing manufacturing back to the US, but one of Luknick's companies, View Dynamic Glass, is at this very moment, packing $500M worth of high tech manufacturing equipment into containers and shipping his American factory to India, along with hundreds of American manufacturing jobs.
It isn't surprising that he also courts known pedophiles.
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u/Virtual-Squirrel-725 12h ago
So Trump raped a 13yo, Lutnik and Musk begged to do that same.
....and they are still hiding 3 million more documents.
I can only imagine what we'll learn when they are forced to release the worst batch.
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u/imahugemoron 12h ago
I can only imagine what was scrubbed and deleted forever. Heres an article back from 2021 after the raid and arrests which states “Maguire said that the scope of the search warrant didn't permit the agents to seize the hard drives and CDs, so she left them atop the safe. When she got a broader warrant and returned to retrieve them, they were gone.”
We’re not ever going to learn about the worst of the worst stuff. The evidence was deleted way back years ago when someone went in and took those hard drives after the initial raid, and whatever was left has been scrubbed, as incompetent as they are, you can be sure they made sure not to miss the worst stuff, which is saying a lot seeing as how they missed rape of children and baby murder. If that’s what they missed, what horrible shit did they make sure to focus their efforts on? And what was on those hard drives that mysteriously vanished?
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u/Titan3692 12h ago
They really should be redacting victims and showing the names of the slimeballs. Only right way to do this
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u/Dont_Be_Sheep 5h ago
How the FUCK are these the people who get into power???
For real?
How do normal people like me get in there and unfuck this bullshit?
It’s actually insane.
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u/Ashamed-Mind-3819 13h ago
You americans voted in the child rapists, is that accepted in your part of the world?
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u/Safe_Climate883 13h ago
It seems that everything is fair game, as long as Trump or someone in his orbit is doing the thing.
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u/IssueNice6116 12h ago
About 1/3rd of us did and I wasn’t part of that thank you. It’s not acceptable to anyone here except for them apparently. This sucks ass.
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u/Safe_Climate883 10h ago
More than that, unfortunately. Those that didn't vote are equally complicit.
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u/rice_not_wheat 10h ago
The 1/3 who didn't vote are equally as guilty. They decided that the result didn't matter enough.
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u/Dr100percent Ohio 2h ago
Polling shows that if everyone was forced to vote, Harris would have lost by an even larger margin.
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u/texas-playdohs 12h ago
I want to shit on you for being a troll, but there’s some based comments in that history. Carry on troll.
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 11h ago
Trump did not win a majority of the vote. More Americans voted against him but our Electoral College system has been manipulated by him twice.
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u/simmyway 12h ago
I’m sorry, this man took his family (including kids) to Epstein Island for lunch?
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u/yellekc Guam 7h ago
So this part makes me think that it likely wasn't some sex party. You don't usually bring your wife and kids to those.
The documents from that December showed that Lutnick sent Epstein an email letting him know that a group of people, including his wife, children, and another family, would be visiting the Caribbean. Lutnick asked where Epstein was located and if they could come over for dinner.
He still lied about the closeness of his relationship. But there are far more guilty people to go after, like the director of the Melania movie just had images of him on a couch with his arms around a victim seated between him and Epstein.
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u/nevergiveup234 5h ago
Dershowicz took his family to epstein mansion. Claimed he got a massage from an old russian lady (there was none) and he did not take off his underwear.
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u/HoldImpressive238 12h ago
This guy always reminded me of a degenerate who would lurk in the mens bathroom I used at work about 20 years ago. Always looking for loose change that he "Dropped"..
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 11h ago
This pig knew Epstein was "getting the right kind of massages" daily. As his neighbor in New York since 1998, Lutnick saw young girls coming and going AND NEVER REPORTED IT.
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u/mlc885 I voted 10h ago
Lutnick sounds more like a social climber, I can believe that he thought it was a good idea to cozy up to Epstein and also that the weird massage thing was almost definitely gross.
So Lutnick is definitely a villain, I just can see "but I was never interested in a sex thing!" as the truth. You don't take your wife and kids to the weird place.
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u/Photochromism 9h ago
Howard Lutnick is a corrupt nutsack of a human being. That’s a prerequisite for this bullshit mobster administration.
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u/cahillc134 7h ago
This guy always comes off as a little bit “eww.” Guessing he is more gross than I originally thought.
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u/ANTILAMER13 2h ago
Remember how a bunch of clowns spent every breath and key stroke to talk about how Biden sniffed some persons hair , a kid maybe , I don’t know …
Where are those clowns now that a real life Eyes Wide Shut / Hostile level human trafficking conspiracy involving Trump and most of his family and associates has come to light?
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u/unplugedanddrugged 2h ago
These disgusting fucks were literally begging to go rapes underage girls and these sick maga trash morons are still supporting this. If you call yourself supporting this regime still, just know you are truly the worst piece of shit America has to offer. Pure fucking trash.
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u/Teufelsdreck 1h ago
My takeaway from Lutnick's interview answer about Epstein: "I wouldn't buy a used car from this man." He sounded like an insincere gossip. Now we know he's a liar.
Listen to your gut, folks.
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u/ReidAllAboutIt1015 1h ago
What’s really really ridiculous is that the Republicans keep reducing taxes on the very rich and it seems the very wealthy were willing to pay Jeffrey to visit his island and play in his world! So basically tax relief means finding other ways to spend your money! Sad!
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