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LisaL's avatar
Aug 1Edited

Letting Maxwell walk out of that Florida prison today was a slap in the face to Virginia’s memory, her family, and to victims everywhere. There is no other solution…congress must impeach Trump.

Thank you Michael…there’s some good writing here ❤️✌🏻🇨🇦

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Stef's avatar

It is so disgusting. Now Minimum security, 635 inmates

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

Don't forget the putting green and pool.

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Patricia Anne Boone's avatar

Get your own Substack, asshole!! We don’t care!!

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Very twisted.

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SJS52's avatar

Heartwrenching article, Michael. It’s so easy to forget about the victims of the crime, especially in our haste to destroy T and his cult. But these young girls were vulnerable and that vulnerability was manipulated and abused to their detriment. It is heartbreaking to think of these many victims of Epstein and his cabal of hedonistic evil criminals.The victims had hearts and souls, they were young and easily gave their trust to Ghislaine Maxwell and now because of some quid pro quo by T’s assistant DOJ she’s in a minimal security facility in Tx. Where is justice for the victims? I don’t give a f~ck if there are Democrats or Republicans in those files, I just want justice!

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Lois W. Halbert's avatar

She walked out today? Wow. Unconscionable.

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NanceeM's avatar

Only Congress can impeach Trump. Courts are not involved in that political process. Nor can they charge him.

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LisaL's avatar

Noted. Post edited.

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Judith's avatar

Unfortunately there are not enough members of either Congress to order his I,peachment or in the Senate to convict him. Our only hope is to take the House and Senate in the midterms but the Democrats are still disorganized, leaderless and clueless. However I will vote for a Democrat over Trump any day. Let's hope the country feels the same way in 2026.

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Catt Berlin's avatar

Trump will never be impeached. Not by this Congress and after this one, things will be so unrecognizable in the world, there might not even be a Congress as we know it. I appreciate your sentiment but leaving the solution to others is NOT the answer. The answer is us, the People. We are the only ones who can get justice for Virginia.

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Sneddy's avatar

Her partner was abusive to her. Not all those known to her in her final years were all that innocent either.

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J Cheng's avatar

Your article brought me to tears. I will remember Virginia. I will remember the disgusting pigs who were allowed to promote this horrible behavior. I will remember that some Americans elected a president who was a participant, a supporter, and a denier of truth.

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Ellen CW's avatar

I will remember also, Virginia RIP

I feel terrible for her family and friends that have to watch Maxwell and this BS going on.

We will remember 💕

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Dee Joy's avatar

CIA whistleblower NSA did a recount found harris/waltz won by a landslide

What you can do about it

https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited?r=3cubt1&utm_medium=ios

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Sandra Wallace's avatar

I followed the link. Thank you Dee!

I've been begging Meidas and Aaron Parnas commenter's to get past defining and complaining about the problem and move on to acting upon solutions.

Copy/paste from above link:

"What We Can Do Together

We now know that an NSA‑approved audit of the 2024 election was buried—an audit that confirms what 41% of Democratic voters already suspected: Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz won the 2024 election—and it wasn’t even close. Adam Zarnowski is prepared to testify to this in court.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was written for precisely this moment—a stolen election is a rebellion against the Constitution. It’s time for pro‑democracy legislators to act. By ignoring clear evidence of a stolen election, they are no longer just bystanders—they are in violation of their own oaths to defend the Constitution.

Just because something hasn’t been done before doesn’t mean it can’t be done now. We don’t need a Democratic majority. We don’t even need criminal charges. We have the authority and the obligation to remove this entire unelected, illegitimate regime.

What YOU can do—circulate this Substack series to everyone, ask them to do the same. We the People are the media until they decide to step up."

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Kristin Beauchamp's avatar

Just ordered the book.

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Bejia's avatar

I don't believe she killed herself!

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Danita Hamilton's avatar

Me either I think they did something to her. Trump and his regime are evil monsters they would do anything to keep people quiet.

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Dee Joy's avatar

You are right.

CIA whistleblower NSA did a recount found harris/waltz won by a landslide

https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited?r=3cubt1&utm_medium=ios

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Marcie Konopinski's avatar

I keep hearing about this and wonder if Democrats are going to do anything about it. When we learned Russia had indeed interfered with our Hillary/Trump no one did anything;it was “too expensive” to have a revote. Is anyone working on this?

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Maybe Epstein?

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Edward mead's avatar

Or Jeffery Ebstein did not hang himself wither.

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MRC's avatar

Of course Trump traffic her.She didn’t kill herself! I hope Ghislaine is next to be strangled

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Susan Troy's avatar

The more I think about it, the more I think we need Kamala Harris to crack this case. She prosecuted sex-traffickers in California and she's good. Having her crack this case would be justice served on many, many levels.

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MRC's avatar

I agree

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

Actually, we could use her testimony - if she ever tells the truth, and if she lives long enough to talk.

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MRC's avatar

Virginia did leave her testimony years ago ,but men didn’t listen.

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

Sadly all too true.

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Susan Troy's avatar

Why?

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

Her family most likely has all of the documents from the trial and other legal filings. That's why. Why do you think Epstein never made it to trial?

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Danita Hamilton's avatar

Exactly

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Susan Troy's avatar

I know exactly why Epstein never made it to trial. There are so many sickening spiders in this web. I'm not putting it past these monsters who lick Trump's boots and admire Putin to do anything to save themselves, including murder. I just think we need facts so we don't look like QAnon conspiracy theorists. We need Kamala Harris on this case. This is exactly the kind of thing she specializes in, and boy, honey, is that one smart woman.

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

Sorry, Susan, we're living in the wrong country with the wrong government. The Felon just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he doesn't like the truth about his own economic policies. If you think there will ever be an actual and truthful investigation as long as there is breath in that old man's syphilitic body, you have more trust in these curs than I do.

No, Kamala Harris is not on the short list.

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Susan Troy's avatar

Agreed. This old codger needs to go. He breaks everything he touches and tries to bend the world to his whim.

But we have to fight him nevertheless. I'm reading Navalny's Memoir, which I recommend highly. He, too, knew what the stakes were, but he did it anyway. His fight was for the freedom and happiness of the Russian people. His book is inspiring. He had a wonderful sense of humor and humanity. Reading his book brought him and his movement to life again. We can learn a lot from Navalny. The parallels are striking. But let's not let the Epstein story die.

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

Oh, it's not going to die. It is a bang the drum loudly moment. Oh, the Club Fed she was just "transferred to?" No fences and one can receive passes to well.....God knows what. Sounds like the deal Epstein cut in Florida when Pam Bondi was AG. Imagine.

Russia was never a republic, it never was a democracy. It is a country that has always been under someone's thumb, always. The United States never has been, until now. What I can't understand it - there are more of us than there are of them, yes? So why, why, why, are we in this position? Is this out of ignorance? Stupidity? Abject laziness? Or not caring? You don't need to answer that. I am just revolted, revolted.

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MRC's avatar

I dont think that word ‘ FACTS” Is in Trumps vocabulary.

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Susan Troy's avatar

Me either. It’s an oxymoron, just like him.

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Marcie Konopinski's avatar

It seems some people are disappearing and some are ending up mysteriously dead….Most of us are scared, but what if you actually had evidence and they knew who you were?

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Sally Pike's avatar

Maxwell's scumbag of a brother now feels free to attack the victims, he has called Virginia a liar who destroyed lives Google his father Robert Maxwell who stole the pensions of the people who worked on his Newspaper. This family are just pure trash the Father stole money and destroyed lives, the daughter stole the youth of young lives and destroyed them.

We must not let these victims be sidelined to protect the reputations of dirty old men being protected by money.

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Ellen CW's avatar

We cannot forget! Let them know we remember, yep.

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Lauren Sinnott's avatar

Well said! Thank you for keeping the light on Virginia and all the survivors!!

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Susan Troy's avatar

Let's empower the survivors to tell their stories. I have three daughters and two granddaughters. This is heartbreaking. It also makes me want to rip the perpetrators' faces off. But that won't solve anything. The public, particularly those folks, including women, who voted for Trump specifically because he was going to pull the curtain back on the Democratic sex trafficking cabal, need to know the facts. This is going to be ugly, but we, the people, have a right to know about the monsters among us. It's beyond politics. It's about human rights.

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Nancy Kanzenbach's avatar

Just follow the money. Not one of the pedophiles and abusers worked or lived in a vacuum. There is (other than the real victims) someone maybe more than one that knows where and how this horrific ring, cult, group came to such dominance in our society. And what we can do about it. Sickening!

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Susan Troy's avatar

I'm not sure what we can do about it, but working together, I'm certain we can figure it out. Solidarity against madness.

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Kevin Richard Sears's avatar

They should be Trump/Epstein files.

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Suki Herr's avatar

I knew about Ms Giuffre in a general sense, but not specifics. I’m saying I don’t know the exact facts, but this is what I observe: despite her brave best efforts, the American ppl elected a convicted sexual predator for a 2nd time. I don’t know, but I find the timing of her suicide of interest.

I think Trump was involved in trafficking because my observations are, Trump a venomous , psychotic toad will literally do anything for money.

Shame on us.

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Susan Troy's avatar

Follow the money. Follow the hypocrites. Think about the Prosperity Gospel Christians who preach love for Trump and Co from the pulpit. Do you think there aren't some preacher names in those files? Those preachers who convince women that they are the original sin, the tempters of men, but who prey on the innocent, watch pornography on their computers, and then hobnob with the rich and powerful at Mar-a-Lago? Pull the damn curtain back on these vipers. I've had it.

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Dee Joy's avatar

CIA whistleblower NSA did a recount found harris/waltz won by a landslide

What you can do about it

https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited?r=3cubt1&utm_medium=ios

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Noli Me Stulte's avatar

While "disgusting" is the least of the words to describe what happened with Epstein, none of this is surprising. As a survivor of child trafficking by a wealthy man (not this case), I can say from experience that these men face no repercussions. Believing victims isn’t even the issue—it’s that nothing is done. The police, social services, and the systems meant to protect -just ignore it.

As an adult, I confronted the head of social services who oversaw my case and did nothing out of fear of my abuser. I asked, How could you leave me there? How could you know and still do nothing? He claimed he "worried about me all the time." I told him that did nothing for me—and that he should be ashamed.

It’s been 40 years since I endured six years of that hell. You don’t get over it. No amount of therapy can undo what was done. Surgeries might repair the physical damage, but the psychological scars—the inability to trust, to bond, to feel whole—never heal. And yet here we are, still allowing it to happen. By refusing to hold these people accountable, we prove there is no justice. Only more silence.

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Becky's avatar

And the abuse, damage, disgusting, criminal behavior, shielding of monsters never stops. May you find some kind of peace for yourself. Most Americans want justice.

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Diana's avatar

She absolutely does deserve better, I’m outraged over this. By the way I’ll never believe she committed suicide! May she rest in peace 🙏

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Is Cheeto Creating His Own Government Slush Fund?

It is clear that a 15% tariff is a tax on American companies and Americans themselves So whatever tariff is levied by Cheeto in his infinite stupidity is a tax against our own country

So far Cheeto claims that all this new found “tax money” is going to be a windfall for the economy But is it really? Since there is oversight as to the money that apparently goes into the Treasury how will that money be used? Since it hasn’t been under legislative auspices it begs the question as to how it will be used

Now that the Appeals court has in front of it a challenge to the legality of Cheeto’s ability to levy tariffs without Congressional approval and seems ready to take away Cheeto’s tariff plan, if the challenge is successful then the money will have to be repaid to American companies This is probably why companies right now are willing to pay the tariffs because sooner or later it will be coming back to them

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Janice Waite's avatar

OMG, I remember her from the 2020 documentary about this whole thing. I didn't realize she was the one that committed suicide. I'm in shock. And now they are giving that horrible women immunity and moved her to a Texas prison. This is an outrage. All these woman spoke up, some of them spoke to police and FBI right after the incidences of abuse and they were silenced. It wasnt until their was so many woman they couldn't ignore it. This is a travesty. R.I.P. Virginia 😪🙏🏽

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G Zeisser's avatar

She didn't commit suicide. She was murdered.

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Janice Waite's avatar

I thought the same thing. It could have been made to look like suicide when actually murder.

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Alexandria Paine's avatar

Virginia Giuffre swore explicitly that she would never kill herself. She was murdered. Don't ever forget that fact.

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G Zeisser's avatar

Not dead by suicide. She's ony one in the growing body count.

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Schmendryck's avatar

Sorry michael, it would be really helpful, and supportive of your eloquent argument, if you were willing to be completely open about just what exactly happened to "Katie Johnson." You have the information, you were there at the time, you should be as open about her as you are about the late Ms. Giuffre.

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Susan Troy's avatar

Who is Katie Johnson?

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Becky's avatar

She’s the young woman who was ready to testify about her abuse around trumps first election. She was so threatened that she dropped her case.

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Schmendryck's avatar

We shouldn't be hesitant to name it in all its unpleasantness: the name is a protective pseudonym given to a Jane DOE who made claims of rape by then-candidate trumpf AND epstein, slightly more than a decade earlier, which had happened at an epstein party in NYC when she was 13 years old. Her claim was later modified to say she attended 4 of the pair's parties. She claimed that the then-candidate stated to her that if she told anyone, that she & her family would be harmed or worse. After a wave of vocal attempts at discreditation by both the candidate & his lackeys, including charges of mental illness, the Jane Doe /"Johnson" accusations were withdrawn and she has not been heard from since. Cohen was NOT involved with trumpf during the time that the accusations concerned, but he was trumpf's attorney when "Katie Johnson" basically vanished from the public view. So we might suspect that he could shed some light if he's so chose.

I'd add only that several of those involved in getting Doe/ Johnson to testify were apparently active in working against the then-candidacy of trumpf.

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Becky's avatar

Thanks for the details.

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BF's avatar

Since you asked:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3894806/Woman-alleged-raped-Donald-Trump-13-Jeffrey-Epstein-sex-party-DROPS-case-casting-doubt-truth-claims.html

If she is still alive, now would be a good time for her to reveal if she was threatened and by whom.

Mr Cohen - did you have any information about her?

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

Who are you?

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Schmendryck's avatar

What difference does that make?

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

All the difference in the world- let's call it just another distraction. It has nothing to do with the subject at hand. So, who are you? You are making assumptions, why?

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Schmendryck's avatar

Who are YOU? For me it's a simple matter of looking at the dates of who was where & when, to prompt these questions. If you're only interested in focusing on ONE victim, then you do a disservice to ALL of them. There is critical information which the public is missing, from the narrative overall, & without it ALL the victims suffer. So who are you sticking up for, at whose expense? I AM making some assumptions, based on those questions, & it doesn't make you look good based upon that.

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KMB's avatar

She deserves JUSTICE!!

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Danita Hamilton's avatar

I won’t forget her or any of them. And I will never forget what the pedophile Trump has done. We will never let her be forgotten and never let Trump forget what a sickening disgusting pedophile murderer he is because this piece of shit is to blame for her death. 💯💯💯💯

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