Seems Johnson knows this. Both him and Trump will keep this shutdown going to stop the forced release of these files it seems. Don’t know what kind of plan they’re cooking up though.

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    It was obvious this was the case when they fought so hard to prevent the release. They continued with it even when it’s clear that the actions they’re taking to keep it hidden it’s damaging for them.

    My bet is that there’s video evidence of Trump raping a minor, or maybe a recording of him admitting it. I don’t know what else could be more damning than that.

    At this rate they’re gonna keep this up until Trump dies.

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        Trump wasn’t just a customer. He was Epstein’s partner and Mar-a-Lago was a hub for international sex trafficking, including child sex trafficking.

        They’re not the Epstein files. They’re the Trump files.

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          This is my thought as well. He has to be in there to such an extent that if they removed all mention of him, what was left would fit on a fucking post it. Otherwise they would have tried to release it with a few pages “lost” and blamed Biden.

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      There actually IS a piss tape and it’s underage girls involved. I’m sure Epstein’s circle included unscrupulous Russian oligarchs.

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      There could be video of him and his mushroom penetrating someone underage and so many of his meathead cult members will claim it’s “AI” or something.

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      How is that more dancing then what he has already said. Walking in on miss green US change rooms grabbing them by the pussy. He has literally admitted to sexual assaulting the contestants and nobody cares. Just like when/if these files come out nobody well care.

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        I don’t think that’s the case. He said both things but not at the same time. Those are two different gross stories getting mashed together.

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      bet is that there’s video evidence of Trump raping a minor

      Just delay until AI video is good enough to claim it’s AI.

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    This is the Panama papers all over again. Another way of proving everyone in power is corrupt and we’ll do fuck all about it.

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      I think this is a little different because I believe in unreleased form this is more of a monkey on the Trump fandom’s back. Had they just been released at the start, there would have been massive coverage for a week, but MAGA would believe that Trump’s different by being open and transparent about it, and Democrats are just whining and people would forget about it much like the Papers. Whereas this way, it’s clear the Republican swamp has something it REALLY doesn’t want to reveal, to the point they’d be willing to starve the country and hold the entire government hostage over releasing them.

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        We already know Trump is a rapist who likes underage girls. That has been proven without a doubt on multiple occasions. What does hanging out with another guy who does so change, especially since that’s another thing we’ve already known for years?

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              Yeah that he’s a rapist is a matter of record. That he was adjudicated as such after the statute of limitations ran out is why he’s not a listed sex offender.

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            I think you may be misinterpreting. He did not say it has been proven trump raped little girls.

            He stated trump is a rapist, this has been proven is a court of law.

            He stated that trump likes little girls. This has been proven time and time again, from trumps comments on his own daughter to trump walking in on children changing for a beauty pageant. Lets not forget “when youre famous, they let you do it”

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    Remember, this case is about dozens of rich men raping young girls and the only person who’s in jail is a women.

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    Trump biographer Michael Wolff told the Daily Beast that he had personally seen “about a dozen Polaroid snapshots” of Trump and Epstein, in which Trump was photographed with several topless young women on his lap. Wolff said Epstein pulled the photos out of a safe and spread them out “like a deck of cards” on his dining room table.

    I bet that is the least compromising thing in those files.

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    Who would’ve thought our sitting president being a pedophile and best friends with one of the most notorious human traffickers in history would be such a problem? /s

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    Covfefe’s law: Trump always turns out to be worse than anyone imagined, even when you take into account Covfefe’s law.

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    How many people have access to the files right now? Not a single one is doing the right thing. Complicit. If I happened across those files, they would have to murder me to stop them leaking. The level of apathy genuinely makes me wonder if it’s wickedness or some sort of actual brain damage from some chemical or virus we haven’t found yet.

    Fuck

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      Did you not notice the part where Epstein committed suicide, Giuffre was hit by a bus, survived, and then committed suicide, and Maxwell was paid a closed-door visit by Trump’s personal fixer?

      They have and will continue to kill to keep these secrets.

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      If they’re leaked and not officially released, then Trump denying their authenticity (a given) will convince more idiot centrists.

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        The cynic in my thinks those files will do nothing. Short of photos of him raping children (and even then I’m not sure) he’s not losing any Republican votes.

        They could claim a mistake the first time… But they voted for that vile piece of shit a second time fully aware of what a disgusting piece of crap he is.

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    I mean, they’re hosting a historical shutdown specifically to prevent their release. We already knew they were damning.

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    The files they don’t have that don’t exist that don’t incriminate anyone on a list that is not real that is a hoax is worse than they ever imagined.

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    RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES PEDONALD

    I wouldn’t doubt it if he diddled little boys too. Or at least laughed when his close friends did. Disgusting fucking cancer…

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    Yup. Keep your eye on the prize. It’s shocking and sad that a whole political party got culty for a pedo, but here we are.

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    Why do you think we have the Epstein shutdown?

    Donbald is happy to have millions of children and the elderly starve, flights cancelled during the holidays, etc., if it means he can avoid justice and focus on building his Epstein ballroom.