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You have got to be fucking kidding me with this (Original Post) dcmfox 19 hrs ago OP
Excuse me, but . . . . no_hypocrisy 19 hrs ago #1
Uh, what? wordstroken 19 hrs ago #2
Thou shall not bear false witness, Mikey. Nt spooky3 19 hrs ago #3
That is one of the BIG 10, Mikey Jilly_in_VA 19 hrs ago #8
Mike knows he's going straight to COL Mustard 16 hrs ago #73
Oh, he believes Jilly_in_VA 34 min ago #86
Little johnson Would Eat tr💩mp's 💩💩💩💩 MrWowWow 19 hrs ago #4
Only if he cut a deal with the feds dflprincess 19 hrs ago #5
Right. If he were a regular informant, certainly that would have been revealed at some point in the Wiz Imp 19 hrs ago #17
Hahahahahahahahahaha! What a maroon. Is he the stalking dog for TACO's getting named defense? marble falls 19 hrs ago #6
Provable lie Wiz Imp 19 hrs ago #7
Their lies are becoming more outrageous and ridiculous. Irish_Dem 19 hrs ago #9
Wow. Whatever he did, it was reeeeeealy bad. Scrivener7 19 hrs ago #10
that was my first thought too Skittles 18 hrs ago #34
Yep. rubbersole 18 hrs ago #44
Probably more like an equal partner mwmisses4289 17 hrs ago #63
And, It Never Came Up Until Now? ProfessorGAC 19 hrs ago #11
They've been waiting to play the "Secret Agent Man" card underpants 19 hrs ago #18
Kind Of Reinforcing The "Stupid" Theme ProfessorGAC 19 hrs ago #22
Oh puhleeeze! 2naSalit 19 hrs ago #12
This is what it looks like to sell your soul mcar 19 hrs ago #13
kompromat is the only reason I can think of Skittles 18 hrs ago #37
Now this is an act of real desperation. ananda 19 hrs ago #14
Yep, can't erase his name so come up with a reason for it being there. bluestarone 19 hrs ago #15
Whoops underpants 19 hrs ago #16
I don't think that video means what a lot of people seem to think it does. Wiz Imp 18 hrs ago #25
ah, the mitigator chimes in Skittles 18 hrs ago #40
Huh? WTF are you talking about? Wiz Imp 18 hrs ago #41
LOL Skittles 18 hrs ago #45
🙄😴💤 Wiz Imp 17 hrs ago #59
Agreed!!, Wiz! brakester 2 hrs ago #85
It's Not funny. Cha 19 hrs ago #19
Something else dcmfox 19 hrs ago #20
Oh right. trump is one of the good guys... Wounded Bear 19 hrs ago #21
Trump was in the deep state? mzmolly 18 hrs ago #23
Oh, good grief! Why don't they just go ahead and say that Trump is some alien from outer space. hamsterjill 18 hrs ago #24
He might have been an alien.👽 rubbersole 18 hrs ago #48
Well, in the world we live in today, you just don't know, right? hamsterjill 18 hrs ago #50
Johnson must have watched RFKjr tell the lie about the Head of CDC.... 70sEraVet 18 hrs ago #26
"FBI informant" JoseBalow 18 hrs ago #27
An informant who helped Epstein cut a sweetheart deal and moved mzmolly 18 hrs ago #28
"Praise the Lord and pass the plate" walkingman 18 hrs ago #29
PTL: Pass The Loot John1956PA 18 hrs ago #49
There has long been H2O Man 18 hrs ago #30
At a seminar given by a retired FBI agent who had spent time that NYC nest, he indicated his disdain for the Clintons. John1956PA 17 hrs ago #52
Right. H2O Man 15 hrs ago #76
Everything you state is in line with the bits and pieces I have picked up over the years. John1956PA 14 hrs ago #78
Right. H2O Man 14 hrs ago #79
Holy Shit Mikey ! Jesus gonna be so disappointed! 1WorldHope 18 hrs ago #31
No evidence, never even a hint for two decades. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz 18 hrs ago #32
Donnie Brasco sop 18 hrs ago #33
A good movie with Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. John1956PA 17 hrs ago #58
Nancy Mace said "President Trump is the one who cooperated with the feds to get this guy." chowder66 18 hrs ago #35
Yet now he wants to keep everything secret? mzmolly 18 hrs ago #38
"But Trump called it a Democrat hoax yesterday," Emile 18 hrs ago #36
So Trump was working for the deep state Democrats? LiberalLovinLug 17 hrs ago #54
Yes, I think that's what he is saying. Wow Emile 17 hrs ago #64
Hey Mikey, are your facts all like this? 3825-87867 18 hrs ago #39
I suspect DOJ is floating this tale to take the heat off the guilty AverageOldGuy 18 hrs ago #42
If the witnesses say he molested/ raped them Hope22 18 hrs ago #43
Hey Mike your nose is getting longer Ohioboy 18 hrs ago #46
I believe you mickey. Codifer 18 hrs ago #47
The old "I was conducting my own sting operation" excuse. reACTIONary 18 hrs ago #51
I gotta bridge to sell ya if you believe such bullshit. La Coliniere 17 hrs ago #53
An FBI informant regarding a hoax? Newark65 17 hrs ago #55
They can not keep their lies straight. John1956PA 17 hrs ago #60
So Trump raped kids to get close to Epstein Duncanpup 17 hrs ago #56
My name on Democratic Underground is ChouChou but I'm really Taylor Swift and Tom Hanks. chouchou 17 hrs ago #57
iIt is such a pleasure to meet you, .Ms Swift and Mr. Hanks. niyad 3 hrs ago #82
It's possible the FBI might have interviewed Trump at some point Ocelot II 17 hrs ago #61
And don't magats threaten the fbi et alia? GreenWave 17 hrs ago #62
Oh, I wondered what they would come up with ReRe 17 hrs ago #65
He has always timms139 17 hrs ago #66
More Like An FSB Agent Deep State Witch 17 hrs ago #67
Is Holy Mike Johnson on The List? OMGWTF 17 hrs ago #68
Just like Whitey Bulger Kid Berwyn 17 hrs ago #69
Soneone should ask speaker Johnson if he'd swear on the holy kimbutgar 17 hrs ago #70
If this is true Diraven 17 hrs ago #71
OK this is getting good orangecrush 17 hrs ago #72
Well then, I guess that means the fat fuehrer figures KPN 16 hrs ago #74
Mike follows his conscience with the help of a spine of jello struggle4progress 15 hrs ago #75
Gonna need to pull on the ol much boots to read more about this one. Attilatheblond 15 hrs ago #77
fishing waders . .or a hazmat suit. niyad 3 hrs ago #83
k&r n/t area51 4 hrs ago #80
COMEDY GOLD spanone 4 hrs ago #81
What a Rebl2 3 hrs ago #84

Jilly_in_VA

(12,897 posts)
8. That is one of the BIG 10, Mikey
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:10 PM
19 hrs ago

Ten Commandments, that is. The ones you want in every classroom, you whiny little fake Christian! Why don't you try keeping them first before lecturing others?

Jilly_in_VA

(12,897 posts)
86. Oh, he believes
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 01:21 PM
34 min ago

he's going to heaven---the white Evangelical one. Boy, is he gonna be disappointed when he dies! Kinda like the last Talibangelical preacher---who was it now? I've already forgotten because he was so eminently forgettable. Oh yeah, Dobson.

MrWowWow

(1,000 posts)
4. Little johnson Would Eat tr💩mp's 💩💩💩💩
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:07 PM
19 hrs ago

-If asked to do so. Actually, he probably already has given ole stinkydollhands multiple rim and blowjobs

dflprincess

(28,992 posts)
5. Only if he cut a deal with the feds
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:08 PM
19 hrs ago

To rat out Epstein so he could avoid prosecution himself.

Wiz Imp

(6,832 posts)
17. Right. If he were a regular informant, certainly that would have been revealed at some point in the
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:43 PM
19 hrs ago

past 20 years. So if he were an informant, that means he would have to be a confidential informant.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/confidential-informant

A CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT IS A SECRET SOURCE WHO, THROUGH A CONTACT OFFICER, SUPPLIES INFORMATION ON CRIMINAL ACTIVITY TO THE POLICE OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENT. IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY AND OBTAIN EVIDENCE AGAINST PERSONS INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, THE POLICE OFTEN USE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS. BOTH TYPES OF INVESTIGATION REQUIRE THE SECURING OF INFORMATION THAT COMES FROM WITHIN A CRIMINAL SUBCULTURE. WITHIN THIS CRIMINAL SUBCULTURE, DEALS ARE MADE, PLANS FOR THE FUTURE AS WELL AS PAST AND PRESENT CRIMES ARE OPENLY DISCUSSED, AND A GENERAL WEALTH OF CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE IS EXCHANGED. THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT, THEREFORE, BECOMES THE IDEAL TOOL FOR PENETRATING THEIR CRIMINAL SUBCULTURE.

In other words, a confidential informant is an individual who provides useful, credible information about alleged criminal activity to law enforcement in exchange for incentives, such as leniency in their own cases, money, or other considerations.

The thing is, The FBI never prosecuted a case against Epstein so there is no reason for them to have ever made a deal with Trump.

marble falls

(67,971 posts)
6. Hahahahahahahahahaha! What a maroon. Is he the stalking dog for TACO's getting named defense?
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:09 PM
19 hrs ago

Wiz Imp

(6,832 posts)
7. Provable lie
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:10 PM
19 hrs ago

It's been proven that Epstein was still a member at Mar a Lago long after he was first arrested. Not to mention that Trump himself has never claimed this but he HAS used about a half dozen other excuses for breaking off his friendship with Epstein.

Irish_Dem

(73,859 posts)
9. Their lies are becoming more outrageous and ridiculous.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:15 PM
19 hrs ago

It would be funny if not so damn tragic.

ProfessorGAC

(74,227 posts)
11. And, It Never Came Up Until Now?
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:26 PM
19 hrs ago

Johnson thinks people are stupider than him, and that's hard to envision.

underpants

(192,635 posts)
18. They've been waiting to play the "Secret Agent Man" card
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:43 PM
19 hrs ago

The acting deputy chief of a Justice Department unit said on hidden camera that the government will “redact every Republican” from an Epstein client list, Axios reports.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20613068

ProfessorGAC

(74,227 posts)
22. Kind Of Reinforcing The "Stupid" Theme
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:52 PM
19 hrs ago

The deputy chief of Justice didn't know he was talking on camera?
Pretty stupid.

2naSalit

(97,693 posts)
12. Oh puhleeeze!
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:31 PM
19 hrs ago

That's a moldy one! Moses Mike spends too much time with the kids, perhaps.

mcar

(45,248 posts)
13. This is what it looks like to sell your soul
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:33 PM
19 hrs ago

For the life of me, I will never understand how so many Republicans have sold their souls to devil Trump.

ananda

(32,963 posts)
14. Now this is an act of real desperation.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:35 PM
19 hrs ago

It means Trump is in the files all right.

I wonder who came up with that tactic?

bluestarone

(20,206 posts)
15. Yep, can't erase his name so come up with a reason for it being there.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:38 PM
19 hrs ago

PROOF beyond PROOF that his name is there possibly MANY TIMES!!!

underpants

(192,635 posts)
16. Whoops
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:38 PM
19 hrs ago

The acting deputy chief of a Justice Department unit said on hidden camera that the government will “redact every Republican” from an Epstein client list, Axios reports.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20613068

Wiz Imp

(6,832 posts)
25. I don't think that video means what a lot of people seem to think it does.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:01 PM
18 hrs ago

I believe the guy in the video was giving his opinion of what he thought the DOJ would do, NOT that the DOJ had revealed to him their plan to do so. Think about it. If the DOJ planned to do that, why haven't they done it already? I don't think this guy is MAGA and therefore he is skeptical of how the DOJ is handling the Epstein files, and based on what he has seen within the Department, he believes they will do anything they need to to try to clear Trump and Republicans.

Skittles

(167,051 posts)
40. ah, the mitigator chimes in
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:28 PM
18 hrs ago

because they really, REALLY thought this issue would be a nothing burger by now - well, guess what.....most people don't care for sex trafficking no matter WHO is doing it......repukes are getting more desperate by the day now

brakester

(439 posts)
85. Agreed!!, Wiz!
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 11:22 AM
2 hrs ago

This deceptively edited video is the product of empty-souled, uber right wing liar, James O'Keefe (who was fired from Project Veritas).


https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/epstein-files-redaction-hidden-camera-doj-rcna229348

James O’Keefe, the oft-debunked disinformation-peddler (who was ousted in 2023 from the conservative activist group Project Veritas), posted one of his sting-style videos in which the department’s acting deputy chief at the Office of Enforcement Operations, Joseph Schnitt, discusses internal DOJ feuds over the release of files related to deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the department’s decision to move convicted Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security prison.

Given O’Keefe’s track record of dubiously editing hidden-camera clips to advance his political agenda (which I've covered here for MSNBC in the past), the substance of this particular video should be taken with a boulder-sized grain of salt. But that O’Keefe’s agenda now appears to include targeting the Trump administration over an alleged cover-up of the Epstein files is indicative of the growing right-wing backlash to the administration’s efforts to block the files’ release.

dcmfox

(432 posts)
20. Something else
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:49 PM
19 hrs ago

If Trump is a RAT, then what did the FBI have on him to make him flip?

Lies upon lies

hamsterjill

(16,440 posts)
24. Oh, good grief! Why don't they just go ahead and say that Trump is some alien from outer space.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:58 PM
18 hrs ago

It's what all of his QAnon followers believe. He's from some master race of beings and is here to save the country because he's SO much smarter than all of the rest of us.

The rest of us are forced to listen to this bullshit? I don't think so. This man (Johnson) should be examined for having delusions and hallucinations.

If Trump was an FBI informant, it would pretty much be like Elvis asking Nixon for credentials to be a narc. And Trump is certainly NO Elvis Presley.

rubbersole

(10,401 posts)
48. He might have been an alien.👽
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:49 PM
18 hrs ago

Sen. John Kennedy (LA-nazi) had a poster displayed on the Senate floor the other day of an alien....maybe that fake hick was trying to tell us something. Or maybe he's crazier than a Louisiana goat.

hamsterjill

(16,440 posts)
50. Well, in the world we live in today, you just don't know, right?
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:51 PM
18 hrs ago

These idiots will stand up there with a straight face and say anything that comes to mind! And half of their idiot followers will believe them!

70sEraVet

(4,837 posts)
26. Johnson must have watched RFKjr tell the lie about the Head of CDC....
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:02 PM
18 hrs ago

telling him "No" after he asked her if she was a trustworthy person, so he had to fire her!
There is apparently no lie to big to tell!!

mzmolly

(52,436 posts)
28. An informant who helped Epstein cut a sweetheart deal and moved
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:04 PM
18 hrs ago

Maxwell to a cushy hotel instead of a prison?

H2O Man

(77,808 posts)
30. There has long been
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:08 PM
18 hrs ago

speculation that after Epstein and the felon broke up, the felon believed that Epstein had reported his money laundering for Russian banks to US- English- Israeli intelligence, and so he dropped dime on Epstein's domestic tax crimes. It is more likely than not that there is a file documenting that speculation existed, rather than answering if he actually contacted the FBI. But keep in mind that at the time of the break-up in their relationship, the felon was tight with the infamous nest of primarily retired FBI agents in NYC.

John1956PA

(4,408 posts)
52. At a seminar given by a retired FBI agent who had spent time that NYC nest, he indicated his disdain for the Clintons.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:56 PM
17 hrs ago

I do not know the reason for his antipathy toward the Clintons. My only point is that the FBI office in southern NYC hosted a certain core agents who were of a particular ideological/political agenda.

H2O Man

(77,808 posts)
76. Right.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:08 PM
15 hrs ago

There was a group of them who had served in Vietnam before joining the FBI. They were tough, intelligent men, though I don't like their politics. They were the ones that did the investigative work that Rudy G used to prosecute some of the mob. They pretty much formed a unit that helped Rudy become mayor, then challenge Hillary Clinton before dropping out. They despised both Clintons from the time Bill became president. I did not understand it then, and still do not. But they did their best to spread disinformation and misinformation on both.

They disliked President Obama and President Biden. But they hated the Clintons.

John1956PA

(4,408 posts)
78. Everything you state is in line with the bits and pieces I have picked up over the years.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:01 PM
14 hrs ago

I have wondered if it was shared religion beliefs and ethnic backgrounds which set the platform for gelling the agents in a homogenized mindset.

Regardless, in their operations, they need to have one another's backs. Mutual trust is a unifying factor.

H2O Man

(77,808 posts)
79. Right.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:37 PM
14 hrs ago

Though I'm no fan of their politics, that mutual trust allowed them to go after some very dangerous people. And they were good at it.

I am under the impression that it was their experiences in dangerous situations in Vietnam that cemented them in the FBI. Regardless of my opinion of the war from a social-political view, I respect the young guys who fought there.

sop

(15,813 posts)
33. Donnie Brasco
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:16 PM
18 hrs ago

John Barron, John Miller, Carolin Gallego, David Dennison...now Donnie Brasco.

chowder66

(11,216 posts)
35. Nancy Mace said "President Trump is the one who cooperated with the feds to get this guy."
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:25 PM
18 hrs ago

from this article it shows her post to X.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nancy-mace-abandons-epstein-victims-to-defend-donald-trump-after-calls-to-release-epstein-files/


Marching orders to frame the narrative.

Hope22

(4,139 posts)
43. If the witnesses say he molested/ raped them
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:42 PM
18 hrs ago

Then nothing Mikey says matters. Pedophile should fry. On a side note….who wanted Jeffery dead more? Hmmmmm.

Ohioboy

(3,770 posts)
46. Hey Mike your nose is getting longer
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:47 PM
18 hrs ago

Then why doesn't Trump support the claims of the women?

And why does he call it a hoax?

And why is Trump named as a co-defendant along with Epstein in a case of rape?

And why doesn't the timeline make sense?

Codifer

(1,055 posts)
47. I believe you mickey.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:47 PM
18 hrs ago

Oh, and my cat discovered radium and pitched a perfect game in the world series.

La Coliniere

(1,544 posts)
53. I gotta bridge to sell ya if you believe such bullshit.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:58 PM
17 hrs ago

It’s my observation that the more a person proclaims to be a holier-than-though born again evangelical the more they are prone to be out and out liars. One side of my family has demonstrated this for many years. And they are all MAGA.

chouchou

(2,290 posts)
57. My name on Democratic Underground is ChouChou but I'm really Taylor Swift and Tom Hanks.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:02 PM
17 hrs ago

Thank you Daarlings..

Ocelot II

(126,929 posts)
61. It's possible the FBI might have interviewed Trump at some point
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:07 PM
17 hrs ago

when Epstein was being investigated, either in 2006 or later wrt the 2019 prosecution. But that wouldn't have made him an informant, just a possible witness.

ReRe

(11,839 posts)
65. Oh, I wondered what they would come up with
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:27 PM
17 hrs ago

to deal with this little "situation". I agree with the first person to reply in your thread.


timms139

(380 posts)
66. He has always
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:28 PM
17 hrs ago

been a known liar so law enforcement would't have trusted him with anything .

Kid Berwyn

(21,897 posts)
69. Just like Whitey Bulger
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:38 PM
17 hrs ago

Cut the Feds in on the action in Boston, further cementing the brotherhood between secret government criminals and gangster elites.

kimbutgar

(25,923 posts)
70. Soneone should ask speaker Johnson if he'd swear on the holy
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:40 PM
17 hrs ago

Bible as to this being a truthful statement?

Diraven

(1,537 posts)
71. If this is true
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:49 PM
17 hrs ago

The the FBI should be able to show us documented testimony from decades ago that corroborate it. And no reason not to release it.

KPN

(16,904 posts)
74. Well then, I guess that means the fat fuehrer figures
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 09:32 PM
16 hrs ago

prominently in the Epstein files

But we and little Mikey already knew that, so …

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