MAGAworld influencers go silent after latest Epstein files dump mentions Trump numerous times

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-files-trump-maga-influencers-b2890237.html

Well-known MAGA influencers who once championed the release of the files associated with the government’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein remained unusually quiet about the latest release of documents that included multiple mentions of Donald Trump.

671 points · 57 comments · view on lemmy.world

57 Comments

Soulphite@reddthat.com · 196 pts · 247d (14 replies)

"multiple" = over 600 in just recent copy/paste trick. There will be more mentions. This is basically trumps pedophile sex trafficker ring, epstein was just the fall guy.

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 127 pts · 247d (13 replies)

No way Trump was running the show.

He's the guy who bankrupted two casinos and lost a billion trying to buy the Plaza Hotel.

Moreover, look at Trump's record. He hasn't got any long time associates besides Michael Cohen [who got arrested. ] Trump wouldn't have had any one at his side.

Trump was Epstien's client.

chaogomu@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 247d (1 reply)

Trump ran his own trafficking ring. Trump Model Management.

Epstein ran a separate trafficking ring. MC2 Model Management. (in partnership with a French pedo named Jean-Luc Brunel, founded almost 6 years after Trump's agency.)

They then traded trafficked girls back and forth, while hosting sex parties that they invited rich and famous people to.

Epstein most likely collected blackmail for Israel, while Trump likely collected for Russia.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/welcome-to-trumps-teenybopper-model

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1

https://archive.is/An3VM#selection-719.76-719.115

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 246d
[ removed ]
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 247d (2 replies)

His best client though. Probably the only time he ever paid for services received

newthrowaway20@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 247d

He paid by trading girls.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 247d

maybe someone else was paying his way

fizzle@quokk.au · 38 pts · 247d (1 reply)

I saw a commenter suggest Trumps properties were finding, grooming, and storing potential victims.

chaogomu@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 247d

Trump Model Management.

He ran his own trafficking ring, and yes, he stored girls at his properties. Mostly from Eastern Europe, and in the US on immigration fraud (forcing them to work on tourist visas)

Epstein copied Trump's agency with MC2 modeling a few years after Trump founded his own.

tempest@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 247d

The hotel and casinos were almost for sure money laundering and skipping out on paying vendors/contractors etc

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 247d

Epstein was actually smart. Unfortunately he used his brains for worse things than just run of the mill financial gain. Trump just tries to associate with people who know what they’re doing, just preferentially chooses people good at shitty things.

Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 247d

you can be very successful financially in bankrupting businesses, especially ones that are very easy to get millions upon millions in dirty money and laundering rackets... like casinos.

VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 247d (1 reply)

Although I understand your argument. Epstien got arrested and is currently dead.

theolodis@feddit.org · 2 pts · 246d

I am not sure why you use currently in this context. If you expect him to rise from the dead, he probably would have done so after 3 days, right?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 246d

Also, Trump may have invested in Epstein's trafficking/extortion business.

He hasn’t got any long time associates besides Michael Cohen [who got arrested. ]

Allen Weisselberg was even longer-term and probably more essential to Trump Org operations and its various frauds.

Restaldt@lemmy.world · 113 pts · 247d

Silent?

They are just waiting on their orders on what to believe in.

U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 95 pts · 247d (10 replies)
[ removed ]
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk · 60 pts · 247d (7 replies)

"He tells it like it is".

Cunts

U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 38 pts · 247d (2 replies)
[ removed ]
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 247d

People say Republicans/MAGA will "look the other way" on the bigotry and hate; but you highlighted the unspoken. They'd pay, their own time and money, for the chance to feel powerful by depriving the needy.

When I think of the MAGA base I always envision a disgruntled working-class white man who is certain there will never be a better future, and just wants to beat down marginalized populations. Maybe he does it so there's more for him; maybe because he's misdirected and hate hurts less than disappointment.

Forgive me for not believing that there will be some ground-breaking reaction to this reminder that Trump and the powerful elites are actually self-serving predators. They were voted in to be ruthless predators. DOGE was about destroying the government employees. ICE is about terrorizing brown and black people, and the "libs" that back them. Sure, some of Epstein's victims were white girls... some of the "woke feminists" MAGA mocks incessantly are white women. The attacks on SNAP and criminalization of the homeless are going to destroy all skin tones alike. Banning abortion sure screwed white women (and that one happened pre-reelection).

These people don't vote MAGA to protect kids ; most vote MAGA because they want to feel like KKKlansmen tyrants with as little effort as it takes to cast a ballot; and the rest are just plain gullible.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 246d

Rubes. Suckers. Marks.

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 20 pts · 247d (1 reply)

Also, "You can't take him literally, but you have to take him seriously."

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 247d

Also, "That's just locker room talk."

These statements are often made in the same breath.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 246d (1 reply)

"All men are attracted to young women, it's genetic."

I've heard that one, from a person who's both a Trump and Tate fan.

Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 246d

Eurgh.

I'm 42, nearly 43. Whilst I can objectively appreciate the beauty of a 20 something, I dont find myself attracted to women that young anymore.

Does that mean I'm not a real man?

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 247d

I don't know. Pedo shit hits people on a different level. He's not bringing everyone along for this ride.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 246d

If facts mattered to them, they wouldn't be MAGA. It's about rooting for the home team, not about reason. Endless tribal loyalty displays. They want to be told what to think and do. They have no ideas of their own.

The only people who struggle to craft a semi-coherent narrative are their propagandists. The rest would follow their Dear Leader to catch a ride on a passing comet if he told them to.

chillpanzee@lemmy.ml · 64 pts · 247d (2 replies)

Not really silent so much as waiting for the new talking points.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 247d (1 reply)

"You're asking ME for my opinion? I don't know! Fox news hasn't told me what to think yet! You know I don't do that on my own....."

Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 247d

I bet you could do like a network analysis of post times to see this effect as it spreads from fox to big figures to influencers to magats

quantumharsh@sh.itjust.works · 60 pts · 247d (3 replies)
[ removed ]
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 247d (2 replies)

And the think tanks are spinning their wheels going "uhhhhhhh"

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 247d (1 reply)

I can almost hear that in Tina Belchers voice.

Difference is, Tina would NEVER defend pedophilia.

peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 247d

That is exactly what it sounded like in my head, well done.

Stupidmanager@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 247d

They’re just waiting for new programming instructions. Don’t worry.

myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 247d (2 replies)

Nah. They busy crying fake news and trying to say Clinton is in them.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 247d

He might be. I don't know. I haven't read them.

But if he IS in there, that's not the gotcha moment they think it is.

Trump is in the files.

throws trump in the fire

Fuck trump.

Now, if Clinton is in there too as a guilty party?

throws clinton in the fire

Fuck clinton.

Any other questions?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 246d

Like anyone would shed a tear if Clinton were implicated. That's just a "yeah, so? Now back to the subject of Trump's involvement. How many mentions of each name?"

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 247d (2 replies)

Numerous? It mention over 800 times. That a lot more than the vague title suggests.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 247d (1 reply)

Technically 800 IS numerous! It certainly isn't singular....

scala@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 247d

You could even say it's overnumerous.

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 247d

Just catching their breath before gobbling orange chode again

Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 246d

Waiting for marching orders. They're still downloading.

kieron115@startrek.website · 24 pts · 247d

President’s name was mentioned in some documents part of Tuesday’s release but did not implicate him in any crimes.

He was present while they drowned a baby.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 247d

Unfortunately, they won't stay silent.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 247d (3 replies)

They go into hiatus to somehow find a way to defend pedophilia. Because it can't be bad if Trump does it.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 247d (1 reply)

Good lord.....I am not looking forward to being called a woke libtard for my refusal to rape kids....

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 246d

Who cares what those morons call you?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 246d

Well, they've already started with the "it's only light pedophilia: ackshually it's epebophilia." And even if that mattered, avoid the subject of the trafficking, the rape and the extortion.

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 247d (1 reply)

You will wear that for the rest of your lives you fascist pukes.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 246d

It was fun when conservatives had to bear the stigma of Watergate ... for all of six years until a retired B-list actor with literal Alzheimer's let them goose-step with pride once again.

rossman@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 247d (1 reply)

I have right skewing family and they can't be swayed. their only source is a news station, and they refuse to listen to anything else. They'll just act surprised when anything hits the news. This is like "ignorance is bliss' but ruins it for everyone else.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 247d

It's willful ignorance because they never listen when you try to inform them. They don't want to know, because deep down they know he's absolute scum.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 247d

“It’s more important that we got fake documents released to us that had no new information than actually doing anything.”

Way to go, dumbasses.

OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 247d

Go silent? Lol right. They’re not silent. Right now they’re simply in full-on denial.

It’s like that scene from “What about Bob.”

Me: “You think they’re gone?! They’re not gone! That’s the whole point! They’re never gone!”
opens comments on news story about Epstein
MAGA Influencers: “is this some kind of radical new fake news?”
Me: “SEE?!”

bcgm3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 247d

The Friday News Dump: Xmas Edition 🎁

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 246d (3 replies)

So now Trump will be investigated and prosecuted for his crimes, right? .......right?

mika_mika@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 246d (2 replies)

Narrator: He won't.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 246d (1 reply)

That's why I've been confused about the push for the files release. What did people think was going to happen?

smeenz@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 246d

Sane people would be outraged, republicans world cry fake news, and there would be no change in the status quo. No investigation, no consequences, and no reduction in support for trump. Possibly even an increase as they claim the left is releasing fake news to make their god/king look bad.

santa@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 247d

Good little sheep….