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REN's avatar

We have enough to impeach him. Let’s do it now!!! 😤🤬😤

John A. Steenbergen's avatar

Democrats need to wait until they have a majority in the House and at least 50 seats in the Senate. Otherwise, the House will never approve articles of impeachment and the effort will be dismissed as political theater. Democrats do need to investigate the corruption of the Trump administration, but will be very hard, if not impossible, to do as long as the Speaker of the House is little Mikey Johnson.

Merry's avatar

So, now the ultimate question is simple - WHO CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH???

Methinks the answer is clear.

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

Another classic directed by Rob Reiner (sigh)

U. R. (Roger) King's avatar

When this nightmare is all over, I'm sure there will be an Academy Award winning movie that future generations will only have waste 2 -3 hours of their lives absorbing while America has had to suffer decades and the Epstein survivors, sadly, even longer.

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U. R. (Roger) King's avatar

It seems so many people's minds have become warped almost simultaneously that, at first, the thought of substance poisoning making people ultra suggestible actually crossed my mind for a moment but, after a great deal of serious thought, I came to the sad conclusion that many people are just naturally suggestible, racist, and amoral at their core but the environment wasn't such that unscrupulous people could take advantage of them; that is, until the advent of anonymous social media in which people like these would become ripe pickings/victims. It truly has been a sad realization because I'd spent almost 40 years in the IT world and never thought it would ever have negative outcomes. What hath God wrought...

Merry's avatar

Extraordinary talent who left a legacy that will last 😢

Jan's avatar

I'm hearing 3 to 5 more months of the demented one.

Prosecute the enablers.

Nadia Vicente's avatar

Republicans are starting to see that there are MORE PEOPLE THAT HATE PEDOPHILES, than Support tRUMP and MAGAtts!!

That’s why the EPSTEIN TRANSPARENCY BILL PASSED with ONLY ONE “Nay” Vote, between BOTH THE HOUSE and SENATE!!

Republicans are starting to SEE that tRUMP IS NOT GOING TO BE PRESIDENT FOREVER, and staying attached to his PEDOPHILIA CRIMES, IS THE END OF THEIR POLITICAL CAREER!!

Eva Seifert's avatar

Ds need 60. I don't see any Rs that would vote for convict him. Even McConnell chickened out, and Mitch doesn't look like he's long for this world. Mikey's in bed with POS, maybe literally. He's not going to do anything. But they can try impeaching the blonde idiot in charge who thinks POS has saved 200 million or more Americans from drug deaths.

Anne's avatar

This is the mantra of this corrupt WH: “It's fake!” Just know this America, this CORRUPT WH will continue to GASLIGHT YOU! LIES LIES LIES!!! Nassar is additional evidence of the EVIL within the ranks of this DEEPLY INHUMANE CRIMINAL CRUEL CORRUPT CIRCLE OF PEDOPHILES. Nassar went to jail for his SEXUAL ASSAULT CRIMES against the USA Olympic Gymnast team. ALL these animals around EPSTEIN, MAXWELL, AND TRUMP, have a common bond of depravity. Evil. Truly evil!! PROSECUTE THEM ALL!! THEY ALL SHOULD DIE IN PRISON.

Prophetess Danielle Joseph's avatar

Facts….lil mikey and Patel are a thone in everyone side!

Ralph Hensley's avatar

Not 25th Amendment impeachment. The Article II Section 4 impeachment proceedings must be invoked

Kasi Lynn's avatar

He’s been impeached twice. We need the felon removed from office. Impeachment doesn’t guarantee removal from office.

MJ Delaney's avatar

It will if we have the House AND Senate.

Patrice La Belle, M.D.'s avatar

Removal needs 67 votes in the Senate. That generally means that both parties must agree to it.

MJ Delaney's avatar

We can get there. Many Senate Republicans are quietly expressing outrage and fear of these war criminals aligning with our decades old enemies and alienating, even threatening, our decades old allies. He will get impeached and he knows it.

Terry's avatar

If the felon child rapist has any sense at all he would step down...he's f'n criminal and we all know it...

Dik de Bruijn's avatar

Please review the rules regarding impeachment so you'll understand why that's not going to happen now!!!

Beatriz Brito's avatar

But our opposition voices need to be documented for the sake of history. Remember. silence = death.

Beatriz Brito's avatar

Yes please. Those who can. Let it start the sooner the better!!

Beatriz Brito's avatar

We once again may not be able to impeach But. We. Will not be silent. The future. Needs to know. We. Did not vote for the felon. Nor approve of this administration. That has proven to to be accomplices. To. This horrific representation of historical crimes.

Jim McDonald's avatar

Thank you for your tireless efforts and excellent reporting, Ben.

Tracy's avatar

it’s maddening that the lies are out in the open and NOTHING can happen?

Lizz Barnett's avatar

Not likely to happen until democrats have a majority because with republicans having majority he will not be removed.

Evon Zundel's avatar

Oh no, something CAN happen.

Prophetess Danielle Joseph's avatar

you and the team ate amazing

Protect the Vote's avatar

So Call It Like It Is: Cheeto Is A Pedophile

Pretty gross to think but POTUS is a pedophile His DOJ is not only protecting the rich, journalists, wealthy Nazi donors, and now responsible government officials In essence Cheeto is protecting Nazi Republicans

But more than anyone else, Cheeto is obstructing the legislative law that demands the release of all the files because it defines his past pedophilic behavior So it’s pretty clear what the endgame is…cut out any incriminating information that Cheeto doesn’t like

The American electorate is pretty sophisticated and they aren’t buying this obfuscation WE the People know the truth Cheeto is a pedophile and protecting Republican Nazi reputations And the Republican Nazi party is supporting this activity

Tracy's avatar

thank you for laying it out—it’s helpful, but just so sickening and maddening that the entire administration is seemingly insulated from ANY accountability. i am not sure how the Powers that Be allow it to happen —they may be reaping benefits but the underlying destruction will be theirs to bear as well. For what??! that’s what i don’t understand….private prisons, inhumane treatment, disappearing people, detaining people, racial profiling, denying people their dignity much less their human rights— this is never what I thought America would tolerate and stand for

Protect the Vote's avatar

The problem is that justice as you point out is not being served for the victims of these illicit acts by powerful men....they go unscathed including POTUS Meanwhile the scumbag directs attacks against imigrants without due process Somethings got to change and it begins with WE the People demanding more from our representatives

Lizz Barnett's avatar

Nationwide protest against fascism February 17 at noon in Washington, at state capitals and city halls

Strawberry's avatar

Thank you Ben, you are doing a great job.

Mary Schweitzer's avatar

What I find distressing is the degree to which they clearly see the men named in these documents as potential victims if the information is released. They don’t see the women as the victims. There is no other excuse for not letting the women’s lawyers see the whole files.

Dik de Bruijn's avatar

That's the "Christian"/MAGA way. Men are the pure victims, led astray by women/girls. For a softer -- but no less repulsive -- version of this, think Mike Pence refusing to be alone with any woman other than his wife. As if HE isn't responsible for his behaviour once in the presence of a Jezebel.

Merry's avatar

And referring to his wife as MOTHER is another way to avoid taking full responsibility for his actions.

Dik de Bruijn's avatar

Too true! I forgot about that little detail.

Merry's avatar

That whole MOTHER thing was just bazaar and it told us a lot about Pence.

I grew up in Indiana near Columbus where he lived and he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in that district for 12 years before being elected Governor of Indiana in 2012. But he wasn’t a popular governor so he didn’t run for a second term. And oddly, Trump chose him for VP.

Judith Swink (CA)'s avatar

I think probably because Trump thought he could control Pence. As he pretty much did until the final decision on following through on Congress accepting the Electoral College ballots.

Merry's avatar

Absolutely yes he did. And at long last, Pence finally grew a spine when it was most needed. Kudos to him for that! Better late than never, I suppose.

Terry's avatar

it's called patriarchy - they think they are entitled to rape children...

Mary Schweitzer's avatar

I think it’s more the good girl/bad girl thing. They don’t believe in statutory rape. And, after all, the girls were dressed “provocatively.” I know that in the FL trial the girls were treated like ho’s.

Merry's avatar

Young girls are often indoctrinated from a very early age, through TV advertising campaigns, girls magazines, clothing styles, makeup and provocative, flirty behavior to compete for boys’ attention. It often pits girls against each other. And they are often taught to seek boys from more affluent families who drive nice cars, etc.

So trading sex for financial stability is subtle learned behavior that has existed for centuries.

I remember reading an article about an interview with Melania Trump during which she was asked if she married trump for his money. Her response was, “Well do you think he would have married me if I wasn’t beautiful?” Or something along those lines…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/melania-trump-summed-up-her-tragic-marriage-in-one_b_592444eee4b07617ae4cbfa2

Mary Schweitzer's avatar

I was part of the women’s movement in the early 70s that had us in small groups talking about our experiences. We thought there was no discrimination until we began listening to each other. What we had thought were simply individual cruelties happened to us all. For example, there were about 1/5 the spots for good undergraduate ed for women as for men (women could not go to Yale, Princeton, UVA, and many other good universities when I applied to college - and the 7 sisters, women’s colleges that corresponded to the Ivy League, were 1/5 the size of the men’s universities.). I thought it was my own personal failure to go to a school like I wanted - but it happened to us all. And that was just one example.

At least on my level, we weren’t competing for men with money or status - rather, you married the man who had the career you wanted but couldn’t have - a lawyer, a doctor, a politician, a successful executive..And then we were expected to maintain a household that supported his career. So you had a liberal arts education to compensate for your husband’s focus on his career.

Merry's avatar

I was 13 when JFK was assassinated so I also grew up during those tumultuous years of political, social, and cultural unrest, the horrors of Vietnam, the draft, women’s rights, mass protests, Nixon, etc. And I was also actively engaged.

When I was in HS my mother’s advice was to learn shorthand and find a successful man. Instead, I worked my way through college, thought about studying law, got undergraduate degrees in liberal arts and in business. Then I eventually went to medical school when I was about 40. I’ve been licensed to practice for about 30 years. I also earned a masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine because holistic medicine has always been my focus.

It was a long and arduous process because my husband’s career always superseded mine. And he worked internationally in public health. So we moved a lot. Eventually we divorced because I needed to focus on my own goals.

About 25 years ago, I was living in Santa Monica, and I met a man who owned and operated a retail business focused on Chinese medicine. My husband knew him and introduced us. So I spent some time getting to know him and his wife and he asked me to join his staff. When we discussed compensation, I told him I’d accept whatever he was paying the man who was already working for him, who also had masters degree in TCM, but no doctorate degree.

And he told me straight out to my face that the man had a wife and family to support and he couldn’t pay me because I was married and I didn’t need the income! I was stunned, said goodbye and never looked back.

Of course it was illegal for him to pay me less money because of my sex. But the truth is, it still exists. Women are judged on appearance and men are judged on financial status and success.

Mary Schweitzer's avatar

As late as the 60s if there was a single earner household with children, the earner was a man do they talked about a “living wage.” Well, now if there’s a single earner with children, it’s going to be a single woman. And they no longer talk about a living wage.

Mary Schweitzer's avatar

I was 13 when JFK died, too!

Rita Payton's avatar

And still they lie for him

W. Rogers's avatar

Please keep now to your lawyer voice, as we get very serious as to what is now unfolding. This will not be the time for emotions, facts will speak for themselves. We think Meidas Touch is outstanding and so needed at this time.

Deborah Pocius's avatar

It’s wild that these are the “most safe” ones to release, imagine the ones they are still holding onto 😭

Jazluz's avatar

All redactions are Trump until the DOJ proves otherwise.

ANDREA Orangias's avatar

He’s so full of it and himself. ACCOUNTABILITY!!!! 🤬🤬🤬

MegsyM's avatar

reminder: Tom Barak, current ambassador to turkey was a close friend of epstein - the estate emails reveal some gross exchanges; Paulo Zampoli is the US something for global trade - he deported his epstein procured baby momma - she was MIA until 3 months later she popped up in an ICE detention facility - very similar to what KKKaroLYING's family is trying to do to her SIL; Paulo was also involved in the "modeling agencies" movement of young girls, including Melania, if the reporting is to be believed; RFK JR has ties to epstein; Buttlick was epstein's neighbor and gave that WEIRD AF interview recently; Elon is in the files - he was "taking kung fu lessons" with ghislaine (side note: kimbel's wife was epstein procured);Leon Black's kid, with his own SA allegations is currently working in the admin.... Trump keeps saying "I thought this epstein thing was done" - HARD TO BE DONE WHEN YOU STAFFED YOUR CABINET AND ADMIN WITH EPSTEIN ASSOCIATES

Terry's avatar

A fascist regime of child rapists...and their protectors...

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

More about this at Middle East Eye, 13-Nov-2025: Barrack, a 78-year-old billionaire real estate investor, is a key figure in Trump’s Middle East foreign policy. In addition to being the ambassador to Turkey, Barrack is the envoy to Syria and has handled diplomacy with Lebanon and the Gulf states. ... Barrack's ties to Trump date back to 1988, when he brokered the $400m sale of the Plaza Hotel to Trump. The future US president would later sell the Plaza at a loss to a partnership that included Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jeffrey-epstein-asked-us-ambassador-turkey-make-him-smile-child-photo

Renee Goodman's avatar

Megsy, that’s amazing information! Thank you for reporting it!!!

MegsyM's avatar

Bekah Day & Meghan Jay are who deserve the credit. They are the OG Queens of the deep dives. And they bring receipts. I'm just commenting across platforms to raise awareness!

Suede67's avatar

Just when you think things can't get any worse/creepier/more disgusting, boom, here come more files to prove we haven't seen it all yet. Sick, twisted, demented (and that's just what we already know about, imagine what's still to come). Gross!

Jacquelyn's avatar

Love this news you guys do a great job

LIBERTY DOVE's avatar

This is a battle of good -v- evil.

Deb's avatar

As prophecied.

Richard Timko's avatar

That’s a good way to put it !

Ajjizzle's avatar

My goodness, it’s so scary to think what’s in these files. I feel that these files are going to open up something more heinous that sexual assault and abuse.

Nancy Endersby's avatar

I think they will contain ties to people with a lot of power and money from all over the world. I think that is why the investigations have taken so long. Definitively been a lot of speculation.

Ajjizzle's avatar

Yes, I was just sitting here thinking about what trump and this administration is going through in this moment in time. and he’s so miserable, I’m worried about what he might do. Can’t trust this government. I believe that’s he should be closely watched having codes to nuclear weapons. But in the same GOD will always win against evil.

Susan Wladaver-Morgan's avatar

It’s so upsetting that the DOJ is treating the alleged abusers and possible co-conspirators as victims who deserve as much protection as the children who were abused.