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Nancy Richardson's avatar

The victims deserve justice and need to get it anyway they can. They need to stay strong, fight hard and know America is behind them.

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Cheryl Herrera's avatar

Americans are behind them, but our justice system has been bought and paid for. Their corruption will go down in history as SCOTUS’ worst judges ever to darken our government.

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MH's avatar

They don't care. Isn't it that simple, and we can't expect anything different.

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Cheryl Herrera's avatar

Unfortunately, you are right, except they care about covering up for people in high places being protected. Not the people who deserve and need protection.

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MH's avatar

You are very right.

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Robin G Farr's avatar

Absolutely stay strong!!! 💪 Never give up!!!

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Nancy Richardson's avatar

Totally agree!

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Robin G Farr's avatar

They will clear the path for so many children!!!! Please 🙏 God let it happen!!!!

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Nancy Richardson's avatar

I totally agree with you.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Is there a "Go Fund Me" site where people can support these brave heros.

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Nancy Richardson's avatar

I don’t know.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Maybe somebody knows........

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Nancy Richardson's avatar

I don’t know.

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Cheryl Herrera's avatar

One can be assured of one thing always: Wherever Trump is involved, there will be lies, corruption, coverups, and evil.

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Cheryl Herrera's avatar

And, he will never, ever pay for his lifetime of crimes.

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Mark L's avatar

Unfortunately or fortunately he’ll croak of natural causes before any justice actually occurs. May his eternal residency in he11 be as horrible as the book of fiction portrays.

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Kathy H's avatar

No, these criminals will never pay for their lifetimes of crime, but we can damn well do everything possible to make sure they don't continue to get away with it.

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Jax's avatar

Only in the afterlife which I know for many isn’t enough.

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Sylvia Sewell's avatar

Not while lives.

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Annie Kent's avatar

Unfortunately. Either he’ll die first, or continue to be protected by MAGATS.

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Edward mead's avatar

Donald Trump needs to be impeached with Trump's AG Bandi and Trump's Secretary of War, and Trump's FBI Director. These Criminals are above the USA Law. Congress needs to take action this week and rid the Cancer these goons have caused to the USA taxpayers.

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Jax's avatar

They all need to be charged and convicted of treason and conspiracy to destroy the government. Impeachment is nothing to him, he’s already been impeached twice, far more harsh punishments need to be inflicted on all of them!

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Frankie Shilakes's avatar

If those who are part of this cover up are identified, we could charge, try, convict them and perhaps discourage it from happening again!

Then perhaps we would make a wiser choice and elect a new crop of leaders who aren’t so entrenched in the Party system that they forget their job is to be a voice for the people - not the Party. And it’s not simply about getting re-elected. Politics was not meant to be a lifetime career! Maybe when that happens, our elected officials will become a voice for their constituents again!

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Callie🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽's avatar

No offense because I appreciate and agree with the point of your comment, but he’s already been impeached twice. Impeachment is weak. He needs to be tried, found guilty, removed and punished. The reason that he’s not been tried for treason is beyond me. It may have been our best chance at justice.

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

The hole gets darker and deeper. Is there an end?

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john augustine's avatar

yes november 2026 elections!

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MAGAisAMess's avatar

The way things are going I wouldn’t be surprised that we don’t have midterms

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john augustine's avatar

mutiny if that is attempted

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john augustine's avatar

trump has been thumbing his nose at everyone who (in normal times) who could stop this bullshit and has gotten away with it

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Jax's avatar

That’s what’s so bad about where we now are. All politicians allowed this to happen. They saw this decades ago and did nothing!

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Robin's avatar

collusion of multiple DOJs, unSupreme Court and all of Congress.

Everyone who was a check & balance decided me-me-me > US Constitution

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Jax's avatar

Agreed

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Teri Gelini's avatar

This is just basic drumpf behavior and the criminal clown car junk drawer are doing his biding and they do not care about hurting anyone. I find that any woman that does his biding is a traitor to other females. There are many of us who were sexually assaulted years ago and all of this like the #metoo movement has only brought the horrors back to us 50-60 years later. JPJP from Jersey on substack had a perfect piece she wrote today and I was crying right along with her as she described her own assault and then went into the detail of the injustice that has occurred to these girls as many of them were early teen not late teens. Some may have been even younger. It is painful any of us that have been assaulted and all of us deserve better

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MAGAisAMess's avatar

I believe the GOP’s handling of the Epstein file release was a blatant insult to the survivors. It’s a clear reflection of how little regard they have for the men and women they’ve assaulted.

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Kathleen Dolphin's avatar

If nothing else this story is finally in the public eye. For, in 2016, there were those of us who knew about this but our voices of warning were like cries in the wilderness.

This won't go away and each decade, each year, each month, each day the arch of the universe is leaning toward justice.

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Didi Hoffman's avatar

These men are JOHNS, and their names and faces need to be pasted all over the internet. Without regard to politics. I pray these women name names, and take control of the narrative.

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Rosalind Heid's avatar

Actually, they are MUCH worse than just JOHNS. They are CHILD PREDATORS, but I agree, names and faces EVERYWHERE!!!! They should not ha e a minute’s peace.

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Marilyn's avatar
3hEdited

Johns is a nothing word for pedo men who go whoring around. Many of these men were committing adultery and had female children, some the same age as the children they abused Think Bill Gates, pedo tRump and the list goes on.

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Mark L's avatar

What they are releasing is totally useless due, obviously, to the “redactions”.

The sheer volume of redactions are all admissions of guilt.

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Debbie E's avatar

The survivors fear that Epstein's power extends beyond the grave, because it does. We are witnessing it in real time. This is definitely a case where the crime is far far far greater than the coverup.

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Noly Garland's avatar

Everyone involved with covering need to be thrown in jail.

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Robert Hart's avatar

Meanwhile for most of the mainstream media the story is NOT that Trump et all are violating the law in every way, but "what can we learn from the Epstein files" or "key takeaways" from the Epstein files. Heather Cox Richardson quoted at length from the Transparency Act today or yesterday and the requirements for DOJ to comply go far beyond just photos and phone messages. They include details about the deal Epstein got in FL, for example. Interviews and interrogations. And so on. The text of the law is almost completely bulletproof against evasion, and yet Blanche goes on TV saying "well settled" law makes redactions more important than meeting the deadline when there so much the DOJ was supposed to disclose that needs no redaction at all. Trump, Biondi and all the rest had no intention to comply. Means and intent, right? Criminal obstruction. It's up to Congress to enforce this law. Come back to DC, get a quorum to open session, and start the impeachments. This is far more important than Christmas vacation.

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Jax's avatar

Congress is just as corrupt and responsible for these crimes!

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Deborah Bice's avatar

Should the people that saw the young girls that were there without their parents be accountable for not reporting their observations of this irregular situation to authorities? If you see something then say something. His estates with their adult nudity and questionable art choices while young female children were in constant residence should have caused some concern by visitors. The men who were not part of the sexual abuse of these young females did not report the situations the girls were subjected to while in their presence is appalling.

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Jax's avatar

All involved are guilty

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TONY's avatar

You seem to have misunderstood the geographic issues...EPSTEIN owned an ISLAND - NOT PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE, with lots of surveillance to prevent ESCAPE, ALL EMPLOYEES sign NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS.

EPSTEIN ISLAND was not accessible - check out the location.

There were NO VISITORS. There was no ACCESS.

This seems to provide the information you lack:

Where is Epstein’s Island on the Map? Location Explained

Epstein’s island or Little St. James lies near St. Thomas and remains a lasting symbol of secrecy, power and unresolved survivor allegations.

https://thedailyguardian.com/world/us/where-is-epsteins-island-on-the-map-location-explained-688155/

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Vikki's avatar

A cover up? Who'da thunk......

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Valerie Smyth's avatar

Can a judge put in consequences for non-compliance as they make a directive? Such as: If the files are not released by 12/19/25 IN FULL, then Pam BONDI will be held in a cell until they are.???

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