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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(126,489 posts)
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:04 PM Jul 16

Trump Decries 'Jeffrey Epstein Hoax,' and Those Still Raising Issue as 'Past Supporters'

resident Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed the outrage within his party over the Jeffrey Epstein files as “bull—t,” rebuking his own supporters for buying into what he called a “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” and declaring he no longer wanted the backing of “weaklings.”

The post on his social media platform Truth Social marked Trump’s most forceful attempt yet to tamp down an escalating political crisis that has fractured parts of the MAGA coalition, spotlighted internal rifts in his administration, and prompted a growing number of Republican officials to call for the release of files related to the convicted sex offender’s decades-long abuse of underage girls.

“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bull—t,’ hook, line, and sinker,” Trump wrote. “I don’t want their support anymore!”

The outburst followed weeks of mounting pressure on Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Justice Department’s reversal on long-promised disclosures related to the Epstein investigation. The Trump Administration has now insisted that no “client list” exists—despite years of signaling otherwise.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-decries-jeffrey-epstein-hoax-143629379.html

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usonian

(19,351 posts)
2. Bless Barbara Streisand for the "Streisand Effect"
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:10 PM
Jul 16
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.

The term was coined in 2005 by Mike Masnick after Barbra Streisand attempted to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drawing far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.



IGNORE IT, IGNORE IT. A THOUSAND TIMES, IGNORE IT.

MineralMan

(149,549 posts)
3. Clearly there is some really bad shit on Trump in that material.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:10 PM
Jul 16

Really bad. B(l)ondi has probably told Trump about it and he is frantically trying to destroy people's confidence in anything they might find out from whatever stuff there is in the Epstein files. If it weren't awful for Trump, he wouldn't be pushing that hard to suppress it.

Time for a leak that will dwarf the Pentagon Papers leak. C'mon, everyone who has access to that shit: leak it. You know you want to...just do it. Make yourself famous! You'll be a historical hero!

RockRaven

(17,630 posts)
6. Hey worthless reporters: ask him why HE arrested and charged Epstein, why HE
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:25 PM
Jul 16

had Epstein in a jail in which he died, if this is a hoax. That shit happened during his first term.

Vogon_Glory

(9,989 posts)
7. Come on MSM, look into it! It's not like you guys want to appear to be house organs like Fox, Newsmax
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:32 PM
Jul 16

or One America News.

Or do you?

Kid Berwyn

(21,494 posts)
8. Demented Traitor Deludes Poorly
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:39 PM
Jul 16


"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy," Trump said. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-trump-has-said-about-jeffrey-epstein-over-the-years/ar-AA1IEH7t

Torchlight

(5,190 posts)
10. Keep screaming hysterically about the hoax you campaigned on, Mr. trump!
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 02:04 PM
Jul 16

Keep talking about not talking about it, Mr. trump! Tell us all about your Epstein hoax. Again. Continue yelling that this story should not be story.

Signed, Epstein's mother (if you never watched Welcome Back, Kotter 'nuff said).

LetMyPeopleVote

(166,916 posts)
11. The Epstein files are a big deal to QAnon idiots who believe in a pedophile cult who sex traffic children
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 08:45 PM
Jul 17

A good percentage of trump supporters are QAnon idiots and Epstein is a big deal to these nutcases.



A lot of you may be mystified as to why DOJ’s withholding of the Epstein files so upsets Trump’s base.

It’s very simple.

👉 Roughly a third of MAGA Republicans qualify as QAnon believers.

👉 QAnon teaches that government, media, and financial elites are Satanists who sex-traffic children.



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