cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40483416

At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.

The missing files, which were available Friday and no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of Trump, alongside Epstein, Melania Trump and Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

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[–] 76 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Step 1: Remove the photos from the publicly available collection.

Step 2: Claim the photos must be deep fakes because they aren't in the publicly available collection.

Step 3: Prosecute anyone who shares or mentions the photos for defamation and sharing false images.

It sounds ridiculous. But we've seen crazier shit in the last 11 months alone.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Some of the other photos were found taken from checks notes Getty Images

    EDIT: Not the same photo: https://lemmy.zip/comment/23462914

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago*

    For the sake of stemming the spread of misinformation from your notes, no, that picture of MJ, Bill Clinton, and Diana Ross was not taken from Getty images. Getty just also took a picture of them at the same time

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  • [–] 65 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Our executive branch, the FBI, CIA, supreme court, and the majority republican Congress are all actively in on this cover up.

    Is this just the way it is now?

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    People made this all about Trump so people forgot how many are involved. If Trump gets in trouble so do hundreds of other rich people. Half of Congress goes to jail.

    Yes, this is the way it's been for decades.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    🔫 Aways has been

    EDIT: added some links since apparently what the US did before trump came into powers has been forgotten

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    No, knock it off. This level of extreme corruption is not how it's always been, and fuck you for trying to normalize fascism by pretending it was!

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    How long do you think the epstein shit has been going on? it's taken decades to get this far.

    This corruption has most certainly gone on for as long as I've been alive.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago*

    Epstein started his model trafficking agency in the Early 2000s.

    Trump started his model trafficking agency in the late 90s, but was using his pagents for much the same starting in the mid 90s.

    John Casablancas started the first model trafficking agency in the late 60s.

    Trump joined in with Casablancas in the late 80s, early 90s, and likely introduced Epstein as well, but Epstein might have had a different in, a man named Jean-luc Brunel.

    Brunel and Epstein owned MC2 modeling together, but Epstein was a hidden partner.

    Brunel was also the sort of guy who really loved to drug and rape women and girls. Casablancas, a pedo rapist himself, thought that Brunel went to far.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It was never the majority of the federal government knowing about it and gaslighting the public.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Didn't have to be, though, now did it?

    Just the ones in the right place at the right time. You don't need to have an entire organization on board to control and minimize the risks. That is why, for example, Epstein targeted as many politicians as he has. He wasn't catering to their every whim because it was profitable, it was protection.

    Not just politicians, either. Leaders in agencies, the people in the right places at the right time. So that when it finally came to it, he got that sweetheart deal where he basically just used Club Fed as a hotel. And you'll notice that Maxwell is getting the same treatment?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Didn't that guy end up dead in prison?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    only after public pressure got his sentencing to be reviewed and he proved to be a liability, yes.

    Before that happened, though, he was quietly given a plea deal that basically saw him leaving Club Fed for work while basically just sleeping there. for a child predator as vile as he was... well. it was far from uncomfortable. he plead out to a relatively minor crime in exchange for immunity form prosecution for federal crimes, as well.

    once it entered widestream public consciousness, that definitely changed and people like, uh, trump, needed him dead.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Didn't have to be, though, now did it?

    Just the ones in the right place at the right time. You don't need to have an entire organization on board to control and minimize the risks.

    And yet now they do anyway, which is a difference, which is my point.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Holy shit buddy it's a fucking meme. And if you think high levels of corruption are in any way new, I've got some sad news for you.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Holy shit buddy it's a fucking meme.

    Dipshit, inaccurate information circulating as memes is how we fucking got here.

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  • [–] 38 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Its super crazy how its only democrats in the documents. Super crazy indeed. Better not look into that too much.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    And if we’re all patient, we’ll get to see exactly how long it takes for nothing to be done about it.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Oh no. 16 files disappeared out of the tens of thousands that didn't appear at all. Lots of videos in that 30GB dump as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Time to arrest Pam Blondi and get her under oath.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    A local special investigative deep dive into the ”OMG, I am shocked and dismayed”news segment tonight. Watch the film at 11. Or don’t. No one cares anymore but we do hope some of ya’ll are paying enough attention to a. “Sorry for the interruption” Just another word from some corporate overlords. (B/c we gotta pay the bills somehow).

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  • [+] -15 points 8 months ago*

    Funny how people really believe any of these stuff is relevant.. if they released it to the public it's because they don't give a **** about it. Some people really think they are *******.

    Edit: I'm censoring myself BTW.

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