• switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    What’s interesting about this whole debacle is the POTUS is a child rapist mentioned more times in the trumpstein files than god is in the Bible.

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    19 hours ago

    If only a Democrat administration had been in control of the DOJ when it came into possession of the Epstein files, things would be so different

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      19 hours ago

      That would’ve required Congress to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act while Biden was prez

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        18 hours ago

        No, you have it backwards. Biden directed the DOJ to keep it all secret. The transparency act would have compelled Biden’s DOJ to disclose. The act was only necessary because Biden was actively obstructing justice.

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          18 hours ago

          That would depend if you believe that his DOJ were withholding the release due to Maxwell’s court case and subsequent appeals. Those only ran out in October of 2025. I could easily see it being a convenient excuse but it’s plausible

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            18 hours ago

            Did or did not Biden believe Trump was a threat to democracy? Did he or did he not have access to the top political analysts reviewing Project 2025? Did he or did he not campaign on protecting “the soul of America” from fascism?

            He had literally everything he needed to protect us from the child-murdering pedophile racist but figured “meh, we’ll let the vote decide it”

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              18 hours ago

              He could have legally shot trump in the face, because protection of the constitution from threats foreign and domestic is an official duty of the president.

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                15 hours ago

                Didn’t SCOTUS also decide that a president can’t break the law, even if you’re selling top secret documents (that smells like shit for some reason) to foreign powers?

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                  14 hours ago

                  Kinda, it has to be an official duty of the executive branch, but guess who gets to determine what an official duty is? The SC.

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                11 hours ago

                But still saw the inside of a prison cell because killing is not okay, which is more than Herr Dumpster Fire.