President Trump acknowledged that Jeffrey Epstein recruited one of his victims, Virginia Giuffre, from Mar-a-Lago, and distanced himself from the allegations: “By the way, she had no complaints about us.”

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Title - Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex-Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41

She accused Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, of recruiting her to join their predatory ring. She also sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault.

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    Remember when republicans went on and on about Biden being a pedophile? I’m starting to think that they don’t actually care about pedophiles all that much.

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      Enough of their members will care. The ultra wealthy backers are no doubt above it all, even if they’re not the kind of actively participate. But we’re heading into serious taboo territory here. Like more taboo than murder in many people’s eyes.

      This one could actually stick.

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            This is how I feel as well. He’s on record talking about walking around backstage of beauty pageants and also talking about “grabbing them by the pussy” because he was rich.

            Everyone knew what he was, it didn’t matter, words don’t matter to fascists.

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      To be fair Biden has tons of creepy pictures / videos out there.With Trump the difference is that you know he actually did things besides act creepy.

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    “Yeah, my friend was a pedo human trafficker and he got some of his victims from my business and I knew about it and hid it and… uh… Hillary’s E-mails did it.”

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    So to replay what he just said, but with some coherence:

    Epstein was scouting Mar-A-Lago for underage girls, because he knew Trump hired underage girls. Then it happened enough times that Trump himself, a billionare with other problems, heard about it. Trump then directly told Epstein “get outta here.”

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      Why are underaged girls being hired in the first place? Why is anyone underaged being hired at a golf resort?

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            I mean, you’d have to change our whole world order for that. A lot of people under 18 need jobs to support their family or themselves. Hell, even with wealthier families it’s not uncommon for kids to have weekend or summer jobs to save up or have some pocket money.

            The real issue is why is Trump hiring them to be around his “place of residence”.

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              A lot of people under 18 need jobs to support their family or themselves

              Which is NOT the case in a well-functioning society. Childhood and adolescence is supposed to be for playing, growing up, and learning, not being responsible for you and your family not starving.

              Hell, even with wealthier families it’s not uncommon for kids to have weekend or summer jobs to save up or have some pocket money.

              Fair. Though that completely contradicts your reason for it to be NECESSARY for children to work.

              Doing some low stress work for extra money like 15 hours a week or less is probably fine, but I highly doubt that either applies to the underage employees at the Mango Mussolini’s overpriced roach motel BEFORE they get trafficked into sex slavery, let alone after.

              The real issue is why is Trump hiring them to be around his “place of residence”.

              You know why.

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                I don’t know. I think children benefit from some labor. Not like down the coal mine labor, certainly not whatever the fuck trump and his pedophile buddies got going on.

                But being part of a functioning, productive unit. Maybe learn a practical skill or two. Burn off some energy and build some muscle.

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                Which is NOT the case in a well-functioning society.

                Say you’re middle class without actually saying it.

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    Just gonna point out that you don’t “steal” people, you steal things. Which tells you all you need to know about trump.

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    Here too, it’s important to point out the events leading up to her “suicide” are highly suspicious and can’t be corroborated by local police or her relatives. This happened right after Trump came back to power.