Do you think Trump will fall because of the new Epstein emails?

Apparently they're scrambling in the wild house, meeting with lauren bobert in the situation room etc.

I think it just has become far more likely that trump himself had Epstein killed...

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Naich@lemmings.world · 112 pts · 273d (1 reply)

The only thing that will take him down is a blob of cholesterol being dislodged during a particularly violent fart. He is surrounded by boot lickers who will excuse him literally anything, including raping children if necessary.

BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 273d

Or shooting someone on fifth avenue

pedz@lemmy.ca · 91 pts · 273d (8 replies)

No. Nothing matters. He said it himself.

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?

FatVegan@leminal.space · 37 pts · 273d (2 replies)

The only true thing he accidentally said.

mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 272d

That's not true.

He said smart people don't like him.

balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 4 pts · 271d

I think he also called his supporters dumb

shapesandstuff@feddit.org · 21 pts · 273d

The Boys was supposed to be an exaggeration, not an instruction manual

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 273d (2 replies)

He would even argue they were an illegal immigrant or some other excuse that could warrant shooting someone.

TBi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 273d (1 reply)

Even if it was a white Christian family man they’d argue they were some illegal immigrant of some kind. The wrong kind of Christian…

dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 271d

"They were having Antifa thoughts. They don't believe in God! Antifa. We have designated Antifa a terrorist organization a long time ago. Anyway, I did a good job."

LoveCanada@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 266d

Course that was back when New York was on 'his side'. Not so sure that would still be true with the new mayor.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 46 pts · 272d (1 reply)

Much more likely Republicans will legalize child sex.

BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 272d

It beats the mines.

djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 43 pts · 272d (1 reply)

The issue is that anyone with a functioning prefrontal cortex has known he's a pedophile since at least 2016, when it was released that he would regularly walk into the changing rooms at the child beauty pageants he would sponsor.

This whole controversy has really just been about desperately hoping the MAGA crowd would accept a single fact in their life if maybe it didn't come from mainstream media. The issue that I see is that the right-wing propaganda machine has completely given up on getting the Epstein files released. They're not gonna cover it, they'll call it a fake news attack by the Democrats, and that's the last thought the MAGA crowd will have on it. There was a very brief moment where they did care earlier this year, but Trump and specifically Mike Johnson have successfully delayed long enough.

the other issue is even if somehow it did break through and galvanized the MAGA base against Trump... so what? Trump has already made it abundantly clear he doesn't give a fuck about his base, the law, rules and norms, or really anything beyond consolidating his power and acting like a king. Would that base actually go so far as to vote Democrat in the midterm elections a year from now? Would they vote Democrat in 2028, assuming we even have free and fair elections by then? would they even still remember? at the end of the day, I think they hate the mythical idea of "The Left" that they've been sold too much to ever actually fight alongside us, so hoping the J6 crowd would try to actually save democracy this time is absurd.

superduperenigma@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 272d

Some lessons I learned from Trump's first term that so many people apparently did not:

  • He's not gonna learn his lesson
  • Republicans are not going to swoop in and save us from what other Republicans are doing
  • His supporters are fine with what he's doing, and if they aren't they'll be fine with it after conservative media tells them to be fine with it
  • He will not face consequences for what he's doing

I would love to be proven wrong, but keeping these things in mind helps me to avoid unnecessary disappointment.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 272d (3 replies)

He won't "fall" until his supporters stop supporting him.

To be clear, his supporters voted for him in 2024 even though he was already a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and insurrectionist.

They will not care if they find out he fucked children.

xTechDeath@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 272d (2 replies)

Here is their response:

But Biden …(insert dumbest conspiracy you’ve ever heard)

skvlp@lemmy.wtf · 9 pts · 272d

But Biden fucked children in the basement of that pizza place that didn’t have a basement

manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 271d

Biden did a lot of things worth criticising , it's wild u.s. patriots latch onto like, biting a babies leg on halloween

ICCrawler@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 273d

No. I think it will get far less coverage than it should, will get pushed out of the news cycle early, and Trump won't be held accountable. The only way anything happens is that someone who's pissed off makes another assassination attempt and lands the shot this time.

Harkronis@kbin.melroy.org · 35 pts · 272d
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nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 272d (1 reply)

If you're old enough to remember the panama papers and how less than a handful of wrong doers had to face their consequences, you can basically expcet a rerun. The entire ruling class is a criminal enterprise.

derry@midwest.social · 11 pts · 272d

The person who released them journalists Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017 and Ján Kuciak in 2018 due to their investigations  ended up being assassinated

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 272d (1 reply)
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sexy_peach@feddit.org · 4 pts · 272d

I am no US-american, but I agree

gointhefridge@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 272d (7 replies)

the slow drip of leaks is proving to be an effective strategy. Normally they flood the zone after a bombshell and the scandal gets buried. This time, whomever is conspiring against him is doing a much better job at keeping things tightly wrapped and leaking it slowly to keep the conversation relevant.

AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 272d (5 replies)

I think whoever is behind it is trying to get Vance into the Oval Office.

muffedtrims@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 272d

I'm thinking this has to do with Vance's secret weekend meeting at Warren Buffet's house a few months back.

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 272d (3 replies)

As much as I dislike him, I would rather a cunt than a nonce.

Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 272d (1 reply)

You aren't going to get that cunt, he is just a mouthpiece for the Antichrist expert, Peter Thiel.

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 272d

Probably, but anyone who hasn't raped children is better than someone who has.

AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 272d

I'm here for the drama

Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 270d

It's a good tactic because whatever lies the Whitehouse comes up with to defend against the first few leaked things might be countered by the next few leaked things. They have no idea what is available to be leaked next so have to be careful what they say.

If it all came out at once they would know exactly what they have to work with when crafting their story.

As well, coming out a little bit at a time means people can focus and pay attention to the details, discuss it.

If 20,000 emails were all of a sudden leaked hardly anyone would care because no one would be talking about the same things at the same time and the details get lost

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 272d

No.

TwentyEight@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 272d (5 replies)
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HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 271d

From what I've heard from folks outside the US, we're way past the point of not being the shinning city on the hill. The only thing I see is that if and when the emails come out to public, the US will be so marginalized by the rest of the world that doing business with them will almost be the equivalent as doing business with North Korea (not counting trade embargos), that people will not really care as much anymore. And even if you where in the US you'd be more interested in just surviving the day than caring about the already known pedo in chief running the whitehouse will all his clouns and billionaires. The only thing that could give me joy is that if thefiles come out, the rest of the world powers could make trade embargos with the US and any billionaire that has financial or political ties with the US (specially including tech companies) so those billionaires would either jump ship and line up with the tax laws of the rest of the world or sink with the rest of the us economy.

Heavy rant over

balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 271d (3 replies)

Wow you really were gonna get that out regardless of the post topic, weren't you?

manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 271d

Let them cook

TwentyEight@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 271d (1 reply)
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balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 271d

It's it now?

Can you honestly even claim you answered the question? You didn't even do a complete sentence on the topic before shifting into a diatribe against capitalism.

redlemace@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 273d (5 replies)

He's like teflon .... Nothing sticks.

But once there is a minor scratch, it will become completely worthless in no time at all. Now it's not IF but WHEN that scratch happens

Flamekebab@piefed.social · 18 pts · 272d (1 reply)

I'd say he's the opposite of teflon - he's so fundamentally dirty that it's impossible to make him worse than he already is. If who he is doesn't move the needle then nothing else will make the difference.

SillyDude@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 272d
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TBi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 273d

We can hope. But everyday I lose more and more faith in my fellow humans…

yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 272d (1 reply)

Theres been more than scratches. Seems like multiple times a day theres a new thing, just one of which would have been enough to sink someone's entire career 20 years ago.

Im not sure if its due to constant access to unlimited news, a sign of the times we live in, or simply him being untouchable.

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 272d
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Vanth@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 272d

If he somehow does start getting held accountable for this, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries will twist themselves into pretzels to somehow throw him a lifeline. And it wouldn't even make me assume Schumer or Jeffries are in the Epstein files, I think they're just so cowardly and worthless they'd help Trump without getting anything out of it.

mistermodal@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 273d (6 replies)

Where did these emails come from again? I swear to god if it's klippenstein again

protist@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 273d (3 replies)

Congressional Democrats subpoenaed Epstein's estate, then released them publicly

mistermodal@lemmy.ml · -15 pts · 272d (2 replies)

They don't look legit, there's been nothing really juicy, I'm calling it

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 272d (1 reply)

.ml user is actually a forensic investigator

plyth@feddit.org · 5 pts · 272d

Trump has success because people play politics like a team sport. Discounting opinions from .ml is the same mindset.

Which juicy details have been exposed?

sexy_peach@feddit.org · 3 pts · 273d (1 reply)

I don't know, sorry

mistermodal@lemmy.ml · -5 pts · 273d

AAAAAAAA@

devfuuu@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 272d (2 replies)

Videos of him doing the deed with children would still make no difference at all.

Nobody will move a finger to touch his orange hair.

Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social · 4 pts · 272d

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if we've gotten to that point.

They'd claim it's AI generated and move on to 'more important thigns' like the money wasted on foodstamps

sexy_peach@feddit.org · 1 pts · 272d

I disagree

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 272d (2 replies)

Only if it kills him.

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 272d (1 reply)
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 272d

The question was if we think he will fall, not what we want to happen.

nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 272d

absolutely not. it can't be used in any type of court for anything in particular. nobody's going to go after him for anything in there.

it's just optics. and how much worse could the guy's optics possibly be? what difference does it make?

prex@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 273d

One can only hope.

QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 273d

Let's not get excited too early!

rantron@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 272d

Nope.

Wilco@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 272d

No, too many wealthy politicians will go down if the files are released.

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 272d

lol no

morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 4 pts · 272d

Someone will take a fall.

The operation will be largely unaffected.

JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 272d

No

ObsidianNebula@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 271d

TLDR: No.

Looking at conservative responses online, in the news, and from real people, they don't seem to care about these emails. I've seen explanations that Democrats selectively blacked out names and words to make Trump look bad, that the emails are entirely faked, or that the emails actually are good for Trump because they prove that he was only aware of Epstein's crimes but didn't partake in them. This last explanation usually includes talk about how Trump was an undercover operative that brought down Epstein (but he doesn't want to brag about it for some unknown reason) or that he obviously couldn't report his suspicions of crime occurring since he didn't have hard proof (you can definitely report crimes without giving evidence).

I think if an email was released that explicitly said Trump committed crimes, they would say the email was a fake that was planted by Democrats during Biden's term. If photos or videos of the crimes were released, they would say they are AI generated. If Trump himself said he did it, they would say that it wasn't actually that bad because of some reason or another. Idk what the specific excuses would be, but I know that a lot of Trump supporters would buy them while simultaneously believing the evidence when it pertains to people who are not Trump. I think there may even be many that know the excuses are lies, but they refuse to turn on Trump because it means they would have to accept that they spent the past decade publicly supporting a bad person.

Don't get me wrong, there will definitely be conservatives that break from Trump with each new scandal that comes, but what are they actually able to do about it? Trump runs the organizations that would be in charge of investigating him, so it is unlikely that any legal action would happen unless he is impeached. Republicans could call their representatives and say they will vote them out of office if they don't impeach Trump. The representatives likely will not listen because they know that at this point, Republican voters will never vote for a Democrat.

I think it is possible (but unlikely) that Trump could lose much of his base's support, but I personally don't think there will ever be a grand fall from power or punishment for misdeeds. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I think the best we might get is that a decade after Trump has died, some conservatives will feel comfortable enough to say that he may have done some bad things.

BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 271d

No. All rightists live in a reality distortion bubble. They are thoroughly brainwashed cultists and nothing will ever change their minds.

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 272d

It makes the existing situation worse for Trump. It could be the straw that breaks the camel's back or another scandal to add to the pile.

BenLeMan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 272d
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2xar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 272d

No. He will fall because he's fucked up the economy and inflation.

BobQuasit@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 272d (1 reply)

I'm still skeptical that Epstein died at all! More likely they killed some guy who looked like him and let Mossad spirit the real Epstein away to Tel Aviv, where he's living under a new identity on the beach with all the children he can r*pe.

As for Trump, no. Come on. The only way ANY of the corruption ends is with a general strike and the overthrow of the state - plus, with any luck, capitalism itself.

#GeneralStrike

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 272d

RIP Anthony Bourdain

lemonwood@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 271d

Depends. What does the pizza index say? How busy are the fast food places surrounding the white house? /s

cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -22 pts · 273d (2 replies)

Honestly I still like Hillary for arranging Epstein's "suicide." She's far more devious. Trump is dirty, but he's fairly up-front about what he's about. Honestly I don't think he's intelligent enough to pull it off. Someone from his camp? Far more likely than him himself. I'm not shifting blame if he gave the order. I'm saying the whole thing would have been outside his realm of comprehension. If it did come from his side — and I do not, for a second, believe that it absolutely did not — he wasn't told and is still in the dark about it.

But no. We've known Trump was a pervert and a predator for years. Anyway, all the emails really reveal is he messed around with some early-20s girls when he was in his 40s. Hardly children. Victims of sex trafficking sure, but not children.

It's a cult. His followers will condemn poor people for doing the same thing he's done, even if they're white and straight, but especially if they're brown and/or LGBTQ+. And they'll forgive his mistakes. I heard he pardoned a transgender person who helped him try to overthrow the government on January 6. His followers don't care they're transgender. Trump doesn't, either, apparently. But he'll take some other action against the LGBTQ+ community and they'll support him for it.

I will say that they made a great point, though. The White House, the Trump camp, I mean. They asked why we didn't care about this so much when Biden was president. Solid point. No one thinks Biden is in the Epstein files. The answer is pretty obvious. They thought, after January 6 Trump is unelectable, just let him go away in peace. They'd rather let him get away with what he did rather than stain any of their colleagues. Only now that Trump is back in the White House are they trying to weaponise the Epstein files. They could have done this under Biden and they would have potentially won in 2024 but they didn't.

folkrav@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 273d (1 reply)

I will say that they made a great point, though. The White House, the Trump camp, I mean. They asked why we didn't care about this so much when Biden was president.

I'd say Trump literally making releasing the files part of his campaign then pulling back as soon as he was elected might play a part...

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 273d

Exactly. Trump, once again, brought it on himself by campaigning on it.