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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      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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      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.