• antihumanitarian@lemmy.world
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    Don’t take this as a defense of him, but rather a statement that there are better, more credible arguments to push. From what I can gather the entirety of the evidence “linking” is a phone call making the claim. It’s not even clear the baby was real at all. If it’s true, this isn’t evidence enough, and is effectively a red herring and a self made straw man. Don’t take the bait, use better arguments.

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      That was my thought too. There’s plenty of stuff we can prove, let’s focus on that. This one is egregious but it’s better to point to the ones with more evidence, we have plenty of those to choose from.

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    It seems the Q folks were right about the “satanic levels of evil”, except it was their people doing it.

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    While I’m not a fan of the president, I am interested in the veracity of the claim, or the supposed investigation that cleared him of suspicion. I wouldn’t be shocked if he did do it, but want to have more supporting facts.

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      It doesn’t really seem like the kind of thing he would be around for. He has others do the dirty work, and thinks it’s below him to just be around people he isn’t presently takening advantage of (as in, unless he was doing her at the time, why would he be there). Doesn’t mean there wasn’t some strange combination of events that caused him to be there, and I can’t see him caring one way or another about the baby, so he would totally be aware of it and not care.

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        Here’s probably what happened, because it fits Trump and is incredibly dark:

        He had sex with a pregnant 13 yo that was being sex trafficked - he accidentally shock induced birth through rough sex (which is actually common) - and then expected another person to handle it (which was her “uncle” + Epstein).

        Sounds plausible and very likely given that Epstein was into enabling these horrors to gain influence over these people. He’d likely be complicit in the worst crimes imaginable if it meant gaining an advantage over his clientele.

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    Republicans have a Pedophilia problem

    Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

    Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

    Republican South Carolina Rep. RJ May of Lexington was charged in July 2025 with ten counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children. He faces 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

    Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

    Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

    Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17. Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

    Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

    Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile. Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

    Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail. Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos. Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

    Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child. Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

    Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

    Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

    Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

    Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

    Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

    Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

    Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

    Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl. Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

    Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

    Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

    Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

    Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

    Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

    Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

    Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

    Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

    Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

    Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

    Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

    Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

    Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

    Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

    Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

    Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

    Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

    Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex.  Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

    Dennis Hastert served as Republican Speaker of the House (so, 3rd in line for the Presidency) for all 8 years of W. Bush’s two terms. He also sexually molested at least 5 boys when he was a HS wrestling coach, all of them underage with the youngest victim being 14. The victims only finally saw justice when Hastert was caught by the FBI trying to falsify payments for hush money.

    Donald Trump walked into Miss Teen USA change rooms with girls as young as 14 changing. 26 women have spoken publicly about Trump’s pattern of sexual assault. In 2023, he was found legally liable for the rape of E. Jean Carroll by unanimous jury.

    https://goppredators.wordpress.com/

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    Somehow, everytime something of the Epstein files comes out, it’s always so much worse than we imagined.

    I wonder how many bodies are buried, literally

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    So in addition to, I’d say at least a dozen abortions he caused, he also participated in murdering a baby? Fucking serial baby killer.

    Abortions? With all that adultery and raping, he can’t have gotten away from pregnancies and STDs.

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      Not wanting to say you’re wrong, but do you have any sources on that he caused abortions as well?

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    Aaaand Americans do absolutely nothing about this obscenity.

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      Join your military so you can go crush the regime? That’s how the world solves its dictator problems. Other countries agree to come kill a lot of them and cripple their ability to express power. Then your country can power broker after the war, advance all their interests, start a culture of exceptionalism to compensate for their looted wealth. Then later on will find out your country started importing Americans as they sold company/state secrets left and right for their own safe passage. .ow they’re slowly starting groups that spread hyper-capitalist ideology through out your police departments and draw in the heads of industry in your country. They advance their power by demonizing your most vulnerable groups and steadily gain a diseased momentum in your politics. No matter how much you point it out to others… no one understands you. They’ve slowly deamonized critical thinking and history lessons start to leave out more and more context so you can’t actually talk to other members of your country about what’s happening because their literal ability to interpret and evaluate what is happening has been specifically crippled. Now you’re intellectually alone, in physical danger from persecution, and none of it was your fault because you genuinely tried to highlight the downfall around you and push movements to change the pattern.

      Then when you go online you realize pathetically sad people exist everywhere…and they’re all prepared to watch your country burn while high fiving each other for “Not being you”.

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    If anyone else was linked or even hinted at being linked to something like this, they’d be in prison before you could say howdy there.

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      One I know is basically saying it’s pointless. That neither side will be happy with the results and tries to say he cares about “all the other stuff going wrong”. One example he’s currently focusing on… the 2020 election. Apparently the Fulton County issue that just popped up recently is proof the entire election was rigged.

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        Well let’s see if we can motivate this guy into getting back into to pizzagate. He’s right that neither side will be happy - and that’s cause there are gross people in power from the full political spectrum and across many kinds of busineses. But this may be an issue where politics should be fully set aside.

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          Qanon/pizzagate was never about protecting children or actually getting justice for people being trafficked.

          It was a self-inserted live-action role-playing adventure where anyone with unemployment checks and a couple guns could dress up in their tactical gear and start piecing together word puzzles in their basements so they can go feel like they’re doing something meaningful with their lives and avoid the crushing reality that they’re just uneducated, unqualified normal-ass people who are just as vulnerable to the whims of tyrants and criminals in power as the rest of us.

          What’s a more noble thing to be fanatical about than rescuing children? Surely, everyone would praise such a worthy crusade and the amount of respect and adoration you would get for rescuing children would make mom stop telling you to get a job, right?

          When the actual sex-trafficking, child-murdering cabal came into light, it stopped being fun. It’s too big, too confusing, too many high-profile people involved and the average person can’t unlock any secrets or clues that will make them a hero.

          Not to mention, most of the Q-anon chuds were themselves trump-voting pedophiles, a lot of those fuckers were just overcompensating for their own proclivities.

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    Honestly, kudos to whoever selected the headline image for this article…