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In 2019, Jeffrey Epstein referred to Donald Trump as his "closest friend for 10 years."

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Court records, interviews and other documents paint a picture of Trump and Epstein's relationship. cnn.it/3HhYyb3

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-- CNN (@cnn.com) Aug 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM

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Donald Trump diddled kids, watched kids being diddled, or knows close friends who diddled.

This is the reality.

Revealing it is necessary, but it won't be a cure-all. Trump would never resign. He would attempt to keep what he thinks is his by right by using force in its various forms.

It's some people being willfully blind to this monster's nature that's gotten us to this point.

We won't get out of it without blood. I mean more blood. Because Donald's crimes have been more than sexual.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-14 07:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

This is why Republicans nominated Trump and elected Trump over career Republicans.

This is why the overwhelming majority of Republicans still support Trump.

Trump embodies Republican values.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-14 08:17 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

My 2028 futurecast:
-in his final day in office, Der Dotard will commute the sentence of Ms. Maxwell
-with the commutation (not a pardon) she will not have to testify to anything
-Der Dotard, by then an 83-year old poster boy for senility, will go to his grave not being charged with sex crimes in the Epstein matter

Clip and save...

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-14 08:22 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Another day and the ...
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#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-14 08:27 AM | Reply

Yawn. There IS No Trump-Epstein Connection according to CNN. No one cares, also CNN.

#5 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-14 12:19 PM | Reply

"Yawn"

That's right. Assume the position.

You keep practicing opening that tap wide so Trumpy can shove it in deep.

Release the files so you don't have to keep lying about it.

"No one cares, also CNN."

Link or lie.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-14 12:27 PM | Reply

Release the files so you don't have to keep lying about it.

#6 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY

Yeah, well....He likes to lies.

Lies are much cheaper than hamburger these days.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-14 12:34 PM | Reply

here IS No Trump-Epstein Connection

So they weren't friends for 15 years because CNN?

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-14 12:38 PM | Reply

There IS No Trump-Epstein Connection according to CNN. No one cares, also CNN.

#5 | Posted by visitor_

What about according to VISITOR? Do you think there is a trump epstein connection?

#9 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-14 12:40 PM | Reply

I think even the most ardent Trumpers would expect Trump to lie his ass off about his connection to Epstein and dare anybody to prove otherwise.

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-14 12:43 PM | Reply

"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy," Trump told New York magazine in 2002. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

Trump knew.

www.theguardian.com

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-14 12:44 PM | Reply

Trump once believed Epstein to be a terrific guy, but he wasn't the only one who talked up the friendship. Years later Epstein would tell the journalist Michael Wolff that he had been Trump's "closest friend for 10 years", in audio tapes published on Wolff's Fire and Fury podcast last year. Epstein also told Wolff that Trump liked to "---- the wives of his best friends", and said the first time he slept with Melania Trump was on Epstein's plane. Trump's camp claimed that Wolff was engaging in "false smears" and "election interference".

#12 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-14 12:48 PM | Reply

Visitor- Imagine if Obama slept with his soon to be third wife on a pedophiles plane.

Your head would explode, but trump? Nothing.

Cult.

#13 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-14 12:49 PM | Reply

More from the cited article ...

... Their friendship spanned three decades, but in a 2019 interview, Epstein described Trump as his "closest friend for 10 years."

That would have been 15 years after they had a falling out over a bidding war on a Palm Springs oceanfront mansion, and 11 years after Epstein was first convicted on child sex offenses.

Three other individuals who knew the men have also described them as best buds.

They include Maria Farmer, a visual artist hired by Epstein who provided the first criminal complaint of sex abuse to law enforcement;

Stacey Williams, a model who referred to Trump as Epstein's "wing man" after the Manhattan real estate mogul allegedly groped her;

and

Jack O'Donnell, the former president and chief operating officer of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, who recalled scolding Trump in the late 1980s after he arrived at the gambling floor with Epstein and three underage girls. ...



#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 12:51 PM | Reply

Yeah, Two guys in their forties had underage women in their entourage at a casino.

Gross.

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-14 12:52 PM | Reply

PEDO DONNIE HAS TO GO

#16 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-14 12:53 PM | Reply

MAGA needs a new hat.... PEDO!

Please Evict Don Old!

#17 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-14 01:44 PM | Reply

Obama is into dudes. Rather he's into dudes in to him.

#18 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-14 06:27 PM | Reply

Visitor is a pedo defender. Is Visitor a pedo?

#19 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-08-14 07:26 PM | Reply

@#18

Do try harder.

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 07:33 PM | Reply

Obama is into dudes. Rather he's into dudes in to him.

#18 | Posted by visitor_

How come GRINDR usage spikes when there's a republican convention in town?

#21 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-14 07:42 PM | Reply

Next time you pick up a Republican on Grinder why don't you ask him?

#22 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-14 09:09 PM | Reply

'He's a lot of fun to be with': Trump and Epstein were close friends for 15 years
www.theguardian.com

#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 09:19 PM | Reply

@#21 ... How come GRINDR usage spikes when there's a republican convention in town ...

Whoa, I thought you were just trying to be funny.

Then I found this ...

Grindr Dating App Crashes in Milwaukee During RNC: Everything We Know (July 2024)
www.newsweek.com

... Love " or at least a spike of users on the gay dating app Grindr " was reportedly in the Milwaukee air this week while the Republican National Convention was in town.

Over 1,000 users reported a Grindr outage in the Milwaukee area around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Downdetector, a website that collects online service status information.

The Grindr app also allegedly experienced problems in the Cream City on Thursday" the fourth and final day of the RNC " as well as in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. However, Grindr's official status updates show there hasn't been an outage since May.

Nevertheless, a Grindr user who did not want to be identified told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he noticed an influx of anonymous users this week. ...


#24 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 09:28 PM | Reply

Grindr CEO confirms significant' user spike during RNC (July 2025)
unherd.com

... Grindr's CEO has acknowledged that the app had a "significant spike in usage" during last year's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. In a new interview with UnHerd's Freddie Sayers, George Arison dismissed rumors that traffic had caused servers to crash, but confirmed there had been a surge in users as supporters celebrated Trump's confirmation as the Republican candidate. ...


#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 09:31 PM | Reply

Solomon Burke - Flesh And Blood (2002)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
Come sit beside me
That'll do for now
The night has come and left me
Just the light that you allow

Come speak my name
Fill my head with all such foolish dreams
My flesh and blood
Is no more real to me
Than what it seems

My love for you is burning
Like a spark along a fuse
I feel your mark upon me now
As surely as the hand that leaves the bruise

Life is for the living
And life comes hard for some
The rest of us with flesh and blood
Make it hard all along

All I ever wanted
Was the freedom to refuse
Or something of my own to love enough
To hate, to lose

The fever in my brain
Is leaving smoke behind my eyes
But the part of me that wants to change
Fights the part of me that tries
...


#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 09:39 PM | Reply

Next time you pick up a Republican on Grinder why don't you ask him?

#22 | Posted by visitor_

Seems like the party that is obsessed with genitals and who work dicks and jizz into half their insults is dealing with something inside of themselves.

#27 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-14 11:29 PM | Reply

@#27

Stated differently and bluntly ...

Why does the Republican Party seem to want outlaw its own behaviors?

#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 11:34 PM | Reply

All-4-One - So Much In Love (1994)
www.youtube.com

A great a cappella rendition of a standard.



#29 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 11:37 PM | Reply

@#22 ... Next time you pick up a Republican on Grinder ...

So, your current seems to admit the reporting is correct?

#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 11:43 PM | Reply

@#30

Oops ...

So, your current seems to admit the reporting is correct?

- should be -

So, your current alias seems to admit the reporting is correct?

Apologies for my error.

#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-14 11:44 PM | Reply

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