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OneGrassRoot

(23,790 posts)
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 04:34 PM Jul 13

I don't understand why Trump...

didn’t just remove himself from the Epstein files, or just fabricate them altogether and release them? They don’t follow rules or laws so I fully expected a fabricated document, not this shitshow, which is enjoyable I must say.

Do you think it’s because he feared Elon or someone else (foreign intelligence) would call them out if they did that? His cult would have eaten it up.

Any thoughts? I’m intrigued.

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FarPoint

(14,111 posts)
1. It is my sense, belief that there are digital copies out there....
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 04:37 PM
Jul 13

Elmo Muskrat may indeed have a copy....I'm feeling for sure Putin has a copy.

Soon, we may have the digit copy out for all to see....

RockRaven

(17,625 posts)
3. Because deep down they know they are not competent enough to pull it off.
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 04:48 PM
Jul 13

They know they would fuck it up -- like they did with the "raw footage" of the prison video which was quickly identified as a stitch-up job by analyzing the metadata.

Ocelot II

(126,095 posts)
4. He can't be sure there aren't other copies of the files, or parts of them, out there somewhere.
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 04:49 PM
Jul 13

GoCubsGo

(34,085 posts)
8. I'm sure Putin has his grubby little hands on a lot of it...
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 06:39 PM
Jul 13

Along with a whole lot of other related dirt. Which is one of the reasons the Sex Offender in Chief has been so compliant to him.

LogDog75

(647 posts)
6. Too many people were involved in the investigation to make them keep their silence
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 05:01 PM
Jul 13

I'm thinking the investigators and the managers in the DoJ know what are in the files and as long as they're keeping their jobs they'll remain silent for the "good of the DoJ." I don't doubt some of them have copies of the investigation, the videos, and evidence of who was was on Epstein's client list.

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