The Trump administration has come under mounting pressure from the president’s make America great again (Maga) base to release files on the case, including a supposed list of Epstein’s influential clients.

Trump, in response, has variously dismissed the existence of such files or said they were invented by Obama and members of his administration, including James Comey, the former FBI director, and Joe Biden, vice-president in the Obama administration.

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    I’ll be blunt: the fact that Obama did NOTHING when I’m fairly fucking positive there was a LOT of intelligence indicating orangeboi was the Manchurian Candidate is utterly damning. He was so fucking concerned about optics that he refused to move when a nascent existential danger with hostile external support was clearly rearing its head.

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      He was so fucking concerned about optics

      To be fair the media went apeshit because he wore a tan suit and used mustard on a sandwich!
      With Trump it’s like: “Oh and Trump sexually assaults women willy-nilly because he thinks he is entitled to it. But that’s OK because that’s just who he is.”

      If Obama had pushed for Trump to be arrested and accused on treason, USA might have ended up in civil war.
      That task was not for Obama to do, it was for the judicial and security services. And yes they failed, possibly because security services are generally overwhelmingly right wing.

      That said, I would have loved to see Trump in an Orange jump suit, he 100% deserves to be imprisoned for the rest of his life.

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        I don’t blame him for making the joke at orangeboi’s expense that evidently formed the kernel of spite and rage that made him decide to go for it.

        I DO blame him for not taking the threat he posed seriously. Especially considering this is the standard dynamic between our two parties - one follows the rules and conventions and etiquette and expected decorum and wrings their hands about not being able to do something… and the other one doesn’t fucking care and just does it anyways.

        So: yes.

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    Even if this conspiracy theory was even remotely true, and not a distraction to protect the pedophile-in-chief, wouldn’t Obama have immunity for everything he did as president based on Trump’s precedent?

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    So the Russian asset is accusing the Obama administration of falsely accusing Russia of something that everybody knows they not only did, but do as a matter of course?

    It’s not even as if the accusations are particularly noteworthy, They explicitly did not accuse the Trump campaign of seeking out or cooperating with the Russian interference - they just accuse Russia of interfering. As they do in every election (and as virtually every major world power does in virtually every election everywhere).

    Trump is really desperate to shift attention away from Epstein, isn’t he?

    And Gabbard is really driving home the point that she has absolutely no integrity, principles or ethics.

    Just another day in the decline and fall of the United States…

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      They explicitly did not accuse the Trump campaign of seeking out or cooperating with the Russian interference

      “russia, if you’re listening…”

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    He seems to be rather desparate when you see what ideas he is throwing around to distract from his close relationship to Epstein.

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    Wow, they’re really trying to make this a thing. Fuck you Guardian and MSN:

    Shitty headline on MSN: Tulsi Gabbard Uncovers ‘Treasonous Conspiracy’ Within Obama Admin, Releases Bombshell Documents

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tulsi-gabbard-uncovers-treasonous-conspiracy-within-obama-admin-releases-bombshell-documents/ar-AA1ISdLH

    Edit: Also this

    • Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/politics/tulsi-gabbard-texas-hawaii-voting-residency-invs/

    • Tulsi Gabbard Described as ‘Advanced Devotee’ in Alleged Cult

    https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-science-identity-foundation-advanced-devoteee-hindu-1990506