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Showing Original Post only (View all)Sorry to annoy everyone yet again, but much about that Epstein email hangs on the accuracy of one word [View all]
That word is "Victim". As such, I think there's more that we need the answer to before we pop the champagne corks saying yelling we were right all along.
Consider the exact content as presented to us, but two different versions of it, and keep in mind we don't really know any other context (which, to me, is odd, as this seems to be the middle of a discussion):
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasnt barked is trump.. Teen Rachel spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.
or this version
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasnt barked is trump.. Donna Smith spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.
Wherein "Donna Smith" is actually a cop, but the person who redacted it, just assumed "Victim".
I would propose to everyone here to at least *consider* the possibility that (Victim) turns out to be inaccurate. Why? Because the 2nd version of this email makes at LEAST as much sense, if not more. In this version, he's simply saying Trump hasn't ratted him out, as far as he knows. And "75% there" in this context is some kind of gauge on how close he is to getting out of deep shit with investigators.
Without knowing what was actually there, OR the surrounding context, I'm hesitant throw 100% credence on use of the word "Victim". I know this is annoying habit of mine, I'm sorry I'm always doing this and people are just going ugh
OTOH, at minimum, in version #2? It's SOLID PROOF that not only did Trump KNOW? But he was also literally talked to by the cops, and (apparently) didn't say shit about what he KNEW!!! As I've consistently said, there's no question he fucking KNEW and didn't SAY shit, and the files are full of that, which really may be enough for him to fight their release as he has
Again sorry to piss in the proverbial cheerios, yet again.
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Sorry to annoy everyone yet again, but much about that Epstein email hangs on the accuracy of one word [View all]
AZJonnie
Wednesday
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I cannot possibly imagine that the DoJ does/did not have everything the Estate has in this regard, long ago
AZJonnie
Wednesday
#8
Well, not just Biden's DOJ. Sorry to burst the bubble you'd prefer to exist in, but it is true.
RockRaven
Wednesday
#10
Thanks for clarification. This is exactly the sort of cogent argument I always see from RockRaven
AZJonnie
22 hrs ago
#33
Well, that's very convenient since Giuffre REPEATEDLY exonerated Trump of any wrongdoing including in her book
AZJonnie
Wednesday
#7
Do you not see what I post, all day and every day? I mean obviously not everything, but generally?
AZJonnie
Wednesday
#15
The premise of this post is wrong, from what I've read. The ID is known, from multiple
RockRaven
Wednesday
#5
Because it was in her 2025 memoir that she just wrote, and her estate released posthumously
AZJonnie
Wednesday
#17
We are making the same point. Yes, she is gone, having exonerated him (to her knowledge) on her way out.
AZJonnie
Wednesday
#23
I get what you mean, but I was asked why *I* am so interested in the case near the top of the thread.
AZJonnie
Wednesday
#24
From what I've read, the "VICTIM" redaction was in the version of the files supplied by the estate,
Emrys
Wednesday
#25
Not suggesting anyone tried to warp the facts, but mistakes can be made on a task like that
AZJonnie
Wednesday
#26
It MIGHT be an inside joke, but to borrow the words of a past US president, "I want to hear him deny it."
Emrys
Wednesday
#28
I've said this like 20 times in various posts over months but not everyone see everything, so again lol
AZJonnie
Yesterday
#29