GOP members say Epstein files are bad for Trump

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

David Shuster on X: "A few GOP house members say they’ve heard from FBI/DOJ contacts that the Epstein files (with copies in different agencies) are worse than Michael Wolff’s description of Epstein photos showingTrump with half naked teenage girls. Speculation/rumors sweeping through GOP caucus. 1/" / X

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[Easterncedar]

1. Keep the drumbeats going!

And hope something of those files survives.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

58. Evading

Evil President Sultan Trump Evading Investigation Now _{(but not forever)}

[C_U_L8R]

2. No sh!t.

Trump knows that if he could hide his taxes for this long, he can surely keep his Epstein child sex crime evidence buried.

[PatSeg]

20. You would think that a man

who has SO MANY awful secrets would keep more of a low profile. If a person is trying to hide something(s), politics is probably the worst career choice he/she could make. By running for national office, Trump was just asking to be exposed, though I am surprised he ever got as far as he did.

Of course, Trump is both arrogant and naive enough to think he can get away with such crap.

[C_U_L8R]

27. He was existentially motivated to seize the Presidency.

It was that or go to jail.

[PatSeg]

30. Yes, that is true

He was really scared of prison, though clearly he loves having so much power as well.

[RainCaster]

31. pedophiles are not treated nicely in prison

Even criminals have a sense of honor when it comes to children.

[PatSeg]

32. Apparently a lot of criminals

were victims of child abuse and have no sympathy for abusers.

[zorbasd]

35. Well, he pretty much have gotten away with

everything he has done all his life, with very little repricusions.

[PatSeg]

38. I know and that still blows my mind

Meanwhile, the things he did over the years were public knowledge, yet he still got away with it.

[misanthrope]

78. Think about this

How many other rotten humans are there out there with access to near-comparable wealth and power who have gotten away with similar because they were smart enough not to draw attention to themself in the same way as Trump did?

While the world contains stupefying wonder and beauty there is also a heap of heartbreaking awfulness in it.

[SergeStorms]

50. Has it ever mattered?

His cult doesn't seem to care what he does just as long as he hates like they hate.

[rampartd]

59. they will happily offer their daughters for his use.

[PatSeg]

62. Probably

I suppose they see it as a worthy cause, plus he is rich and powerful.

[PatSeg]

61. Sadly, that is true

I remember lots of exposes on Trump back in 2016 and throughout his first term. Just one or two of those scandals would have destroyed anyone else's career in a heartbeat, but it all just slides off his fat back. They decided early on that he was their guy and refused to listen to any well documented information on the man or as you say, they just don't care.

Ah but now his bullshit policies are hurting them personally, not just those they hate. Maybe he's not so great after all?

[3auld6phart]

77. Diaper

Don is not a wise man. The Guardians Of Pedo party will cover for him and many others that are on the Epstein files..

[PatSeg]

86. I am sure the Epstein Pals

stick together and protect one another. Kind of like a fraternity.

[Paladin]

3. Release the goddamned files. Preferably today. (nt)

[AllaN01Bear]

12. also, the nmot swearing in of a new congress critter who said they wou d vote for a file release.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Gee. That would explain the shutdown.

[UpInArms]

5. That "doodle"

is disgustingly and revolting … and exposes so much darkness

Evil inhabits our country’s highest office

[Botany]

13. You mean that doodle that was "planted into" Epstein's birthday book that was put together by Maxwell

….. 22 years ago just to make Trump look bad in 2025.

Wonderful Secrets

[IronLionZion]

29. Deep state playing the long game

[Botany]

40. We dare not tell "them" we have the power of time travel.

After all that was how Barack Obama was able to go back in time to plant his birth announcement
in 3 different Hawaiian newspapers.

[electric_blue68]

67. SHhhhhhhhhh!!!

😉

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[Historic NY]

6. Its really going to hurt his legacey when the Epstein Ballroom is finished

[dalton99a]

7. Kick

[Lovie777]

8. Duh..........

[irisblue]

10. No lie

[Raven123]

11. Will Johnson convene the House after Sherrill leaves?

And adjourn before her replacement is elected?

[leftstreet]

43. There's also a TN seat in December

I don't know if it leans D or R

But yeah Johnson will be playing Musical Chairs

[yellow dahlia]

73. Hmmm. Of course.

[FakeNoose]

14. They know it and we know it

Nobody's fooling anybody. Let's get this out in the open.

Remember when Bill Clinton got a blowjob in the White House? Remember when we all had to hear the nasty details, no matter who got embarrassed. How is this any different?

[sop]

26. The Epstein Files will be the blue semen-stained GAP dress.

[lapfog_1]

80. I am certain that good ol jeffrey was blackmailing millionaires and billionaires

by getting them to engage him as their financial advisor... and then skimming the money deposited with him as "fees" ( thus hiding the blackmail as legitimate services, paying taxes on the blackmail money.

The disturbing thing is that the description of what these men did to the young girls... they didn't just have sex or get a hand-job or something, they beat them and humiliated them and forced them to do things that people would find very disgusting, especially on an underage girl of 13 or 14 or so. Remember the Moscow hookers and the pee tape... now take that even further. We are talking about very rough sex and crying / screaming young girls... just getting a hand-job from an underage partner is rape... but taking it to forcible rape, beatings, whippings, maybe to the point of blood and possible broken bones... and maybe even past that with some the the hundreds to thousands of eastern European / Asian girls that were trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell, it would not surprise me that possibly one or more vanished when one of these monsters that think they are above the law unleashed their full depravity on one of the unfortunate girls ( or boys, but I think Jeffery was only into young girls ).

now who was Epstein's best friend, who thinks he can jut "grab them by the pussy", who had a teenage talent show where he could walk around into dressing rooms without anyone stopping him, who had a modeling agency that imported young girls from Eastern Europe, who had a "thing" for Eastern Slavic women ( so much that he married two of them )?

And one girl told a story ( and then disappeared ) about that same person violently raping her when she was one of Epstein's girls...

And then there is the birthday card that hints at a confession to all of this... secrets indeed.

and Epstein would have had multiple videos of each and every rape / beating / assault / humiliation. Probably from multiple angles and he probably made multiple copies...

[ColoringFool]

81. They Had Better Be A Helluva Lot Worse

Monica was an adult, age 23. Willing, by some reports eager.

But more to the point, President Clinton was not convicted.

Not exactly the outcome to be wished for Trump.

[mn9driver]

15. The amount of damage by NOT releasing them is huge.

It has become obvious that they contain absolutely damning evidence against Trump.

[Hotler]

16. And a lot of orher people. nt

[Attilatheblond]

24. Damning info on others in the file is one way Trump controls so many others

and gets millions in 'donations' from many. If the files are wide open, Donald loses EVERYTHING and is left with no power but a lot of indictments still to face. President Out On Bail is fucked.

[purr-rat beauty]

47. Bingo!

It's a circular blackmail ring

[Emile]

17. Mike Johnson protector of pedophiles.

[Clouds Passing]

18. Dumpy's addiction to secrets is a high that supersedes all his other addictions

[WestMichRad]

19. They'll release the files only when...

pedophilia and sex trafficking have been normalized.
Or when they can replace every single Repuke and billionaire donor named with Democratic names.

[FakeNoose]

66. If there were ONE Democrat in those secret files, it would have been released already

They have scoured the Epstein files backwards and forwards, and they can't find a single D name in there. That's why they haven't been released, and why it's kept hushed up. Somebody call Ken Starr ... oh that's right, he's dead.

[babylonsister]

72. I would imagine a Dem or three might be involved.

I think there are a lot more rethugs named, some high rollers, and the mango, the one who is in it up to his eyeballs.

[twodogsbarking]

21. I'll take "the rapist" for $200 Alex.

[Fil1957]

22. Wow! I had no idea!

[ChicagoTeamster]

23. Then why aren't they turning on him and releasing everything they know? Not just Epstein but everything.

Kevin McCarthy said Trump was on Putin's payroll along with other Republicans . Release everything from the Epstein files and Mueller investigation. What are these MAGA morons afraid of? Trump couldn't possibly have anything to blackmail them with .

[YodaMom2]

42. I wouldn't be too sure about tRump not having any blackmail on them.

We all know tRump himself is compromised and that Putin has so much dirt on him Russia could build their own tRump hillock. But you’ve gotta assume they have similar dirt on *numerous* US Congress members, especially anyone who traveled to Russia for any reason (they spy on virtually everyone).

Given that the Epstein operation’s major source of money is widely believed to have come from laundering money for Russian oligarchs and the Russian mob (I know, that’s redundant), they would have motive to share some of their dirt with Mango Mussolini so he can use it to keep them in line and continuing to stall and impede on his/their behalf.

[ChicagoTeamster]

49. I was being sarcastic. I tried to put a sarcasm tag in angle brackets but it didn't show. New to posting.

I'm sure there are many compromised Republicans. Madison Cawthorne and George Santos were among the newest, others like former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher go way back.

[ColoringFool]

82. TRUMP'S "major source of money....mob" is equally true.

A Trump son even stated that fact outright (well, he might have omitted the word "mob" ).

The EF contain damning evidence of BOTH PEDOPHILIA AND TREASON by Trump.

Remember: He's a textbook Projection case. And just this week he accused Pres. Obama of treason.

[Martin68]

25. Of all things, it could be the Epstein scandal that breaks Trump's back.

[sop]

28. I hope you're right.

If pictures with naked underage girls doesn't break Trump's back, nothing will.

[CaptainTruth]

33. Seems like reason for impeachment once we take the House.

Force GOP members of Congress to vote to protect a pedophile.

That should win over a lot of voters. [sarcasm]

[Kablooie]

34. I still expect that ...

If strong evidence came out that Trump raped children we will hear plenty of excuses why raping children isn’t so bad.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

46. It's in the Bible somewhere.... N/T

[Upthevibe]

36. Kick. N/T

[Doodley]

37. Don't hold your breath. The files will probably never be released, if they still exist. If they are released, Trump

will blame Democrats for creating fakes and MAGA will be furious with Democrats, not Trump . As long as Trump is deporting immigrants and being racist, they will worship him.

[Moostache]

39. At thiss point I no longer really care about the Trumpstein files...

Let him die believing that he successfully dodged accountability. Once he is dead, the tell-all books and accounts will sprout like weeds and sully his (already) worthless reputation in the history books as a hateful, incompetent pedo/sex criminal and he will be reviled and the "Trump" name soiled for the next 7 generations.

He thinks in one-day intervals. His legacy is fouled beyond repair already, and these sexual deviant acts with Epstein will eventually be just as known as his sexual assaults and lying and cheating life. He is the very lowest humanity can sink to in pursuit of fame and attention seeking. But in death, he will be brutalized like no one since Nero or Idi Amin perhaps?

[MichMan]

41. I will never understand why the Biden/Harris administration didn't release them

As an October surprise

[ColoringFool]

83. I Can Think Of Some Reasons

Taking "the high road."

Protecting some Democrats.

Having a misguided notion of National Security.

[MichMan]

85. How did that work out?

We could have had President Harris

[Buns_of_Fire]

44. And if they're *never* released (which is what I suspect will happen)?

Well, it's giving people lots of time to speculate on what must be in them to merit the delay. The longer the wait, the more damaging the speculations become. That's what happens (ask Nixon).

In that respect, the refusal to release them may be worse politically for the Guardians Of Pedophiles. Just keep linking "Epstein" to "Trump" and/or "Republicans" at every opportunity.

[usonian]

45. Even if there are no sex crimes described (and no doubt, they are. The guy has no discretion) then his empire is gone.

And all his friends, enablers and partners in the criminal enterprise.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220735608

👆👆👆👆👆

[ForgedCrank]

48. Do we

really believe that if there were something actually tangible there, that it wouldn't have already been produced before Trump took office?
This is still nothing more than tabloid talk, just like when the Republicans were saying the same crap about various Democrats including Clinton, and all of that was BS too. We need to move on to policy, this stuff is really making us look silly. This is just Pizza-Gate reinvented.

[tinrobot]

51. Interesting that it's GOP House members who are leaking this...

Drip... drip... drip...

I sense that the dam is about to break.

[FakeNoose]

70. I think a lot of them are disgusted by Chump

They're starting to realize that getting rid of him would be a good thing. Even a GREAT thing.

[surfered]

52. If the Epstein files exonerated Trump, they would have already been released

[viva la]

53. Kash Patel refused to answer Swallwell about whether he told Bondi Trump was in the files.

He got more and more agitated and started screeching about sanctuary cities.
No one could have looked more guilty.

[RockRaven]

54. They say that... AND THEY ARE ACTIVELY COVERING IT UP.

No self-awareness.

"Oh man, this is really bad for him" as if they aren't party to it because of their choice to actively cover for him.

It is really bad for YOU because YOU are engaged in hiding it.

[Grins]

55. "...worse than Trump with half naked teenage girls." OF COURSE IT'S WORSE!

It’s Trump! A barrel of sleez with no bottom.

What I learned in the Army: “When they say things are bad - THEY’RE WORSE!!”

[Ocelot II]

60. How about completely naked teenage girls?

Or boys?

[Iggo]

75. Children are children.

[Ocelot II]

76. Yes, they are.

[republianmushroom]

56. How young Putin ?

[democrank]

57. Even though some GOP House members know this truth about Trump

they still refuse to take action. Protecting the Grand Old Party is of utmost importance as is protecting their members who abuse children. Anything goes….Nazis, child groomers, insurrectionists, white nationalists, and a whole lot more. They are a disgusting group of people who have abandoned all principles of decency.

[Blue Owl]

64. The difference between Clinton's Lewinsky scandal and tRump's Epstein scandal

In terms of the seriousness-to-media coverage ratio is absolutely ridiculous and should destroy any thinking person’s trust in the corporate mainstream media.

[Hekate]

65. Well in that case: EPSTEIN! MAXWELL! TRUMP!

[Hassler]

68. Maga Mike is the Gym Jordan of House Speakers

[C Moon]

69. Well it appears to me that trump is bad for the gop.

But if they can’t see that, so be it.

[spanone]

71. Of course they are, that's why he's done everything possible to distract.

GUILTY AS HELL

AN INNOCENT MAN WOULD INSIST ON RELEASING THEM

[SamuelTheThird]

74. Not sure how reliable Shuster is

He has had a big come-down in his journalistic career.

[Coldwater]

79. The Epstein Card

[bagimin]

84. I am

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, I tell you.

[Ping Tung]

87. They're not as worried about Trump as they are about their own asses when he crumbles.

They won't be boasting about their attachments to Trump and MAGA.

[lame54]

88. Bad for Trump. Not that Trump is bad