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Democrats fan Epstein flames
Politico ^ | July 23 | Politico

Posted on 07/22/2025 11:10:00 PM PDT by RandFan

It’s the fixation of Washington. Now Democrats from coast to coast are plotting how to capitalize on the Jeffrey Epstein saga.

An ongoing furor around the government’s investigation of the disgraced financier has done more than fracture President Donald Trump’s base. It has also injected a volatile new element into midterm elections and created an opening for Democrats scrambling to exploit any perceived Republican weakness as they work to retake the House.

Once largely confined to the Beltway and to the more conspiratorial corners of the internet, the Epstein affair has already shown surprising staying power by tapping into pervasive distrust of those in power. Democrats are hoping it will help them portray the Republicans controlling Washington as corrupt and insulated from consequences.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: astheyandweshould; astrollsgetzotted; defamation; dnctrollsonfr; epsteindistraction; epsteinsmear; epsteintrolling; epsteintrolls; wrapupsmear; yellowjournalism
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To: minnesota_bound
Those victims must have had a very strong case to get those banks to agree to such massive settlements. Why isn’t the government interested in talking to those victims?

If Letitia James could get the executives from Deutsche Bank to testify during President Trump's sham mortgage fraud trial in front of Judge Engoron, one would think that the federal government could get Deutsche Bank executives to provide information about Epstein's transactions, too.

-PJ

21 posted on 07/23/2025 1:15:20 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Does Bondi even know?

Epstein has been dead for 6 years.
Ghislaine Maxwell has been in prison for 3 years.
The “Epstein files” have been examined by the Trump Admin for 6 months.

Bondi planning to “sit down for an interview with Ghislaine” seems like a futile process —
<><>hearing airheaded Bondi saying: “Is there anything you can tell us?”.
<><>Bondi’s not putting the finishing touches on a strong case.

Well, it does give Bondi an excuse to visit her hairdresser
for new highlights and a trim for another Fox interview......snx.


22 posted on 07/23/2025 1:16:11 AM PDT by Liz (')
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To: RandFan

They are doing what they do. Smoke, fog, obfuscate, and lie about a topic with few details about anything solid in their reporting.


23 posted on 07/23/2025 1:17:40 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: RandFan

DJT keeps using the same political jujitsu. I’m amazed that they keep falling for it. Democrats are too predictable. Everything is opposite of what trump said. Trump opposes release of documents so they demand it. If Trump releases a fake video, democrats produce a REAL video of them setting the precedent to arrest an ex president. Trump arrests criminal aliens, democrats go try to get them released to the streets. It’s contrarianism and it’s easily manipulated. Someone at the whitehouse is ‘thinking’, and they’re manipulating the thoughtless democrat mob and the democrats can’t control themselves.


24 posted on 07/23/2025 2:00:31 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: RandFan

BTTT


25 posted on 07/23/2025 2:01:53 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Samurai_Jack

Whistling past the graveyard.


26 posted on 07/23/2025 3:16:24 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: RandFan

Biden had the Epstein files. If there was anti Trump material he would have released it. Democrats are fishing in a dry hole.


27 posted on 07/23/2025 3:21:39 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: jimwatx

“Everybody is thinking it must be something big if they are working so hard to keep it under wraps.”

Trump and the DOJ have requested the release of grand jury testimony in Epsteins’s case. Does that mean anything at all to you pearl clutchers with your supernatural analytical abilities?


28 posted on 07/23/2025 3:30:26 AM PDT by odawg
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To: jimwatx

“On the contrary is just keeps getting bigger the more they try to ignore it.”

Did you know that Trump and the DOJ are trying to get the judge to release the grand jury testimony that ended up sending Epstein to prison? How does that constitute ignoring?


29 posted on 07/23/2025 3:33:36 AM PDT by odawg
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To: RandFan

It’s all they have


30 posted on 07/23/2025 3:58:56 AM PDT by albie
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To: Liz

Liz, you are one of my favorite posters on FR. Why the jabs at Bondi though? She’s been here for 6 months and many here on FR thinks she should have cleaned up 25 years of filth in DC by now. She’s not perfect, but who’s your alternative at this point?


31 posted on 07/23/2025 4:09:23 AM PDT by TheRake ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled". ~Mark Twain)
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To: TheRake

Liz, you are one of my favorite posters on FR. Why the jabs at Bondi though? She’s been here for 6 months and many here on FR thinks she should have cleaned up 25 years of filth in DC by now. She’s not perfect, but who’s your alternative at this point?


My gripe is she’s had many chances to do “something” but
preferred grooming herself for numerous Fox appearances.

Tulsi, otoh, came in and broke the bank.


32 posted on 07/23/2025 4:13:43 AM PDT by Liz (')
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NYT——Johnson Cuts Short House Business to Avoid Vote on Releasing Epstein Files

The Republican speaker truncated the legislative schedule for the week ahead of a summer recess, moving to deny Democrats the chance to force votes on whether to release the Epstein material.


33 posted on 07/23/2025 4:17:23 AM PDT by Liz (')
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To: RandFan

We are never going to know the truth about anything to do with Epstein. We should just go ahead and wrap our minds around that. Something about it has something in it that is just too damaging to release. And who knows what it is? I even heard a rumor that Epstein was trying to recruit scientists that worked with UFO technology to try and blackmail them. Of course that’s not true but they’re definitely hiding something big. Or someone big.


34 posted on 07/23/2025 4:57:09 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: RandFan

There’s enough dumb repubs to help the Dems out on this topic....


35 posted on 07/23/2025 5:04:18 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: RandFan

The comments are flooding Facebook and X with moonbats going nuts making claims and accusations. I’m glad I caught on in the first 48 hours


36 posted on 07/23/2025 5:14:54 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Liz

Understood, but Tulsi and Kristi are on Fox News all the time as well. Which I don’t mind, because it gets information out that we may not know. Unlike Tulsi, Bondi has to make a rock solid case, which we hope is happening behind the scenes. Whatever she’s doing, Trump is apparently on board with. I’m not a 100% sold, but I’ll give her up to a year in. The swamp is deep and wide for sure.

I’ll ask again, who’s the alternative?


37 posted on 07/23/2025 5:32:10 AM PDT by TheRake ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled". ~Mark Twain)
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To: RandFan
Democrats fan Epstein flames

1. because its the only thing they have thats working

2. they dont have anything else to run with

this is one of those stupid hot-button issues that have zero importance in the big picture, but is great at pissing people off
38 posted on 07/23/2025 6:20:47 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: Liz

The Mossad rumors have been out there for two decades.

https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-Blackmail-2-book-series/dp/B0BKGMRK4G


39 posted on 07/23/2025 6:30:40 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: TheRake

I’ll ask again, who’s the alternative to Bondi?


We’re not privy to Trump’s preferred list.....so we dont know.


40 posted on 07/23/2025 6:31:08 AM PDT by Liz (')
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