XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc
From: cryharder@pussies.net
On 2/12/26 4:58 PM, Alan wrote:
> On 2026-02-12 13:44, Meme them till they cry wrote:
>> On 2/12/26 3:49 PM, Alan wrote:
>>> On 2026-02-12 10:41, Meme them till they cry wrote:
>>>> On 2/12/26 1:19 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>>> On 2026-02-12 09:47, Meme them till they cry wrote:
>>>>>> On 2/12/26 12:16 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2026-02-12 08:56, Meme them till they cry wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2/12/26 11:43 AM, Lee wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Socialism is for losers wrote in
>>>>>>>>> news:01fpokhj028c4m7m7at2sdob5dfb431p97@4ax.com:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:07:42 +0000, Lee
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Socialism is for losers wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>> news:lvqmokli1khclbi61c4d9t0ts4r9eq51ir@4ax.com:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:02:17 +0000, Lee
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>>> news:10mffk4$lo$5@reader2.panix.com:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | Do you think that Donald Trump was involved
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in crimes
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | Yes.....: 46%
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | No......: 30%
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | Not sure: 24%
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> |
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | President Donald Trump has repeatedly maintained that he
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> |
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | But in July 2006, just as Jeffrey Epstein's criminal sex
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | charge became public, Trump called then-Palm Beach police
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | chief Michael Reiter to tell him that Epstein's activities
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | with teenaged girls were well known in both New York and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | Palm Beach.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> |
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | "Thank goodness you're stopping him, everyone has known
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | he's been doing this," Trump told Reiter, according to a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | 2019 FBI interview with Reiter contained in the Justice
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | Department's Epstein case files.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> government/article314631578.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> html>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --bks
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The same Trump who paid Stormy Daniels
>>>>>>>>>>>>> #130,000 to deny the sex he never had with
>>>>>>>>>>>>> her.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Stormy Daniels was an adult.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> And Trump lied about screwing
>>>>>>>>>>> her and bribing her.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Can't condemn him for that.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You can't condemn Trump for anything.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Who wouldn't have lied about screwing her?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So you admit Trump lied.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Not that you care about that....
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just your daily reminder that Trump released 3.5 million more
>>>>>>>> documents from the Epstein files than Biden.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Because Congress passed a law requiring it...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...and he's actually in violation OF that law.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now explain Biden's failure to release them; or even democrats'
>>>>>> failure to seek their release at any other time except during
>>>>>> Trump's presidencies.
>>>>>
>>>>> Biden obeyed the laws which applied at that time.
>>>>
>>>> Non sequitur. There was no law requiring the release of the Epstein
>>>> files during his administration, so his DOJ released exactly zero
>>>> pages from the full investigative trove. Democrats in Congress
>>>> didn't push for any legislation to force it either, despite
>>>> controlling the House for part of his term. They had four years and
>>>> did nothing.
>>>
>>> There were laws that required they remain confidential.
>>
>> No, there weren't.
>
> Yes there were. Laws about documents involved in a case before the
> courts...
Nope. Biden could have released them at any time. And based on every
which way but Sunday that democrats have tried to get Trump they would
have certainly used the files if there was anything there.
> ...as was the case of Ghislaine Maxwell.
>
>>
>>>>
>>>>> Now explain why MAGAts are both claiming that the files are a hoax
>>>>> AND that they implicated Democrats...
>>>>
>>>> Beats me. If it's a hoax, why did Trump sign the law mandating their
>>>> release?
>>>
>>> Because he expected his toadies to redact his name...
>>>
>>> ...which they spent months doing.
>>
>> That certainly explains why his name appears unredacted over 1 million
>> times.
>
> It appears "unredacted" in documents that they've only let legislators
> see...
>
> ...and you seem to think everyone is a stupid as you are.
>
> Tell me: if you had to redact names in a situation like this...
>
> ...would you redact every instance...
>
> ...when it is KNOWN that Trump and Epstein had a relationship of many
> years...
>
> ...or would you only redact the name in SOME of the places it appears?
Again, Biden had them for four years. Yet nothing. You know as well as I
do if there was evidence of criminal activity by Trump it would have
come out.
>>
>>>>
>>>>> ...despite Democrats leading the charge to get the law passed that
>>>>> requires their release...
>>>>
>>>> Since when is Thomas Massie a democrat? Massie, not Democrats, filed
>>>> the discharge petition to force the vote when it stalled. It got
>>>> bipartisan support: 427-1 in the House, unanimous in the Senate, and
>>>> Trump signed it. If Democrats were hiding something, why push for a
>>>> law forcing full release? This was a rare win for transparency
>>>> across parties—credit where due, but it's not a one-sided story."
>>>
>>> He filed the discharge petition along with a Democrat, Ro Khanna...
>>>
>>> ...and that petition got just 4 Republicans who signed on to it...
>>>
>>> ...as opposed to all the Democrats.
>>>
>>> The 427-1 vote was after Trump had finally capitulated...
>>>
>>> ...and someone explained to him how they could fiddle with actual
>>> compliance.
>>
>> But that's exactly why it's bipartisan: A Republican (Massie)
>> initiated the forcing mechanism when the bill stalled under Republican
>> control,
> > and a Democrat (Khanna) co-sponsored from the start.
>
> So how is it you know that Massie "initiated" it?
>
> > The petition got > the job done, leading to the House passing it
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