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Tuesday, December 09, 2025

If there is nothing truly damaging to President Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein files, he and his administration did a great job of making it look like there could be. How else to explain their promises of full transparency, their sudden and inexplicable U-turn, and then their (ultimately unsuccessful) efforts to fight Congress' push to get the files? It seems the administration didn't learn its lesson from that episode. Because it looks like history could be repeating with the boat strikes video.

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Trump and the administration sound as though they've suddenly gotten cold feet about releasing full video of the September strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed survivors. This despite Trump having said plainly less than a week ago that the administration would release it.

While the strikes were already controversial and legally dubious, experts say that the US military killing survivors could be a war crime.

Trump said Wednesday that "whatever they have, we'd certainly release, no problem."

But pretty much everything since then suggests the administration wishes he hadn't made that pledge.

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The core questions according to the article:

What would be so sensitive about the portion that shows a second set of strikes that wasn't sensitive about the initial strikes? And why has it taken nearly a week to review that release, when it took just hours to review the release of the initial strikes?

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-09 03:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Murder has No Statute of limitations.

Trump may get SCOTUS to say he's immune from prosecution.

The other clowns in the chain of command have no such immunity.

Sleep tight --------.

#2 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-09 04:08 PM | Reply

The second strike is a Democrat Hoax!

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 04:56 PM | Reply

What would be so sensitive about the portion that shows a second set of strikes that wasn't sensitive about the initial strikes?

#1 | POSTED BY DOC_SARVIS

The survivors were trying to surrender.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-09 05:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The Epstein Files and the Boat Videos together emphasize that Donald Trump is a murderous pervert.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-09 06:07 PM | Reply

"I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out a little. Like I'm having a really different time having sympathy for these guys who 10 seconds earlier were almost taken out by the initial bomb but because they managed to get ejected a little too soon had to be taken out in the water. I realize legally it might make a difference but truly it's a tough case to get sympathy from the American people"
--Megyn Kelly, saying the quiet part out loud.
www.latintimes.com

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 06:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#6

I saw the vid of her saying that the other day. Utterly chilling to watch the quite part being said out loud in a, 'couldn't give less of a ---' manner.

www.youtube.com

yt short

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-09 06:26 PM | Reply

The Banality of Evil.

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-09 06:33 PM | Reply

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