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Brenda

(1,944 posts)
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 04:28 PM 12 hrs ago

The Sasha Riley story sounds like BS

Maybe he really did live through some horrible things and maybe those plus being a vet with PTSD turned his trauma and maybe delusions into confessions. Is he on medication?

No one on Earth should believe Chump was in a barn in Alabama murdering puppies with his bare hands.

No one on Earth should believe Chump and pals were locking people up to rape and murder in backwoods Alabama and Tennessee.

Shit like that happens but not by filthy rich NYC businessmen with access to the world.

Just hoping people don't waste a lot of time investigating this sad diversion from the Epstein Files even while proclaiming it's bolstering them.

There's enough damning information in the real files that we're witnessing the largest cover-up in American history by means of wars on multiple fronts, including waging war on the American People.

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The Sasha Riley story sounds like BS (Original Post) Brenda 12 hrs ago OP
You know his adopted father was Epstein's pilot right? questionseverything 11 hrs ago #1
I didn't. That's interesting... hlthe2b 11 hrs ago #3
I don't know that for a fact. And if so, it doesn't mean all the rest... Brenda 11 hrs ago #7
I'm not going to pretend to understand that mindset questionseverything 11 hrs ago #13
Wut? Brenda 10 hrs ago #25
More than that, even. BComplex 11 hrs ago #10
A lot of assumptions. Brenda 11 hrs ago #16
I really don't know what your agenda is. Are you trying to prove or disprove something BComplex 10 hrs ago #26
I have no agenda Brenda 10 hrs ago #29
I am only superficially informed, but my instincts tell me this is a trap... hlthe2b 11 hrs ago #2
if the story is real riley will be dead soon enough rampartd 11 hrs ago #4
Were it true, H2O Man 11 hrs ago #11
Why? No one seems to believe him anyway questionseverything 11 hrs ago #14
Where is Epstein? H2O Man 11 hrs ago #15
Yes they do say they were trafficked questionseverything 11 hrs ago #17
They aren't saying Trump trafficked them EdmondDantes_ 10 hrs ago #18
Key point. H2O Man 10 hrs ago #20
No kidding. H2O Man 10 hrs ago #19
Because it's *rump's justice department doing the redacting questionseverything 10 hrs ago #24
Oh, really? H2O Man 10 hrs ago #27
I was gonna rec your post Brenda 10 hrs ago #21
It is an H2O Man 10 hrs ago #23
I agree. It's too pat, and it's too similar to satanic panic stories. Scrivener7 9 hrs ago #35
I'm pretty sure Trump has never been in a barn anywhere-- viva la 11 hrs ago #5
Exactly. Simple smell test for this fantasy that people want to believe. nt Brenda 11 hrs ago #9
It is an H2O Man 11 hrs ago #12
Absolutely agree. nt Brenda 10 hrs ago #22
I can't see Trump doing that kind of dirty work with his own two hands misanthrope 9 hrs ago #34
I seem to vaguely recall he's a germaphobe or something? I just can't imagine him wanting to touch an animal... Alice B. 8 hrs ago #40
the names he was dropping as people that participated lapfog_1 11 hrs ago #6
I agree with all of this. What you describe is plausible. The Riley story doesn't seem to be. Scrivener7 9 hrs ago #36
Let us see the unredacted files. tavernier 11 hrs ago #8
This message was self-deleted by its author LuckyCharms 10 hrs ago #28
I don't know whether or not to believe this. But,... GoCubsGo 10 hrs ago #30
Yes and that's the problem PatSeg 9 hrs ago #33
GoCubsGo..... Upthevibe 7 hrs ago #42
I always suspected that Graham is hiding something like this. GoCubsGo 7 hrs ago #43
Sascha Riley and Lisa Noelle Voldeng claim that they spoke with Senator Wyden Wiz Imp 9 hrs ago #31
I also have grave doubts. It sounds a lot like what the QANON folks accuse Tom Hanks Coventina 9 hrs ago #32
This exactly. Scrivener7 9 hrs ago #37
Why would you post this? OneGrassRoot 8 hrs ago #38
Muddy the water. Woodwizard 8 hrs ago #39
I take it that no credible outlet or reporter bagimin 7 hrs ago #41

Brenda

(1,944 posts)
7. I don't know that for a fact. And if so, it doesn't mean all the rest...
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 04:56 PM
11 hrs ago

But tell me, with everything we know about Donald Trump and what he was doing in the 1980's - would he take time off from coking it up at Studio 54 to go strangle puppies in a barn in Alabama?

questionseverything

(11,620 posts)
13. I'm not going to pretend to understand that mindset
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:33 PM
11 hrs ago

But I am not going to blindly defend it either

BComplex

(9,776 posts)
10. More than that, even.
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:24 PM
11 hrs ago

/what-i-have-personally-confirmed-william-kyle-riley-is-a-yr-old-helicopter
Some key pieces of this long thread:
What i have personally confirmed:
1. William Kyle Riley is a 76 yr old helicopter pilot living in Georgia who graduated from Troy University in Alabama.
2. “William Riley” is recommended by Epstein directly in a released email.
3. “Bill Riley” is mentioned several times in testimony from the manager of Epstein’s Palm Beach compound.
4. A little silly, but on FB, the second person in William Riley’s following list is Lindsey Graham.
@saschabarros

10. William Kyle Riley, pilot from Georgia who follows Lindsey Graham on FB and father of Sacha Riley was a licensed Private Investigator in Georgia. Why does a decorated pilot also need to be a secret PI?

Umm… this is a big one
8. “Bill Riley” is mentioned in this article from 2015. He’s referred to as a “private investigator” hired by Alan Dershowitz to *stalk and discredit* an Epstein victim. Two other names mentioned are “Steve Kiraly” and attorney “Roy Black”

To summarize what I’m confident of so far: Sascha Barros aka William Sascha Riley is related to William Kyle Riley who lives in Georgia and is a helicopter pilot (and follows Lindsey Graham on FB.)
There is a least one Bill Riley who worked for Epstein doing nasty work like stalking and discrediting victims, but I don’t know if it’s Sascha’s Bill Riley.

Brenda

(1,944 posts)
16. A lot of assumptions.
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:42 PM
11 hrs ago

I'll try to counter those assumptions, not because I know the truth but because it is not the absolute truth that Sasha presents.

1. Is he the same guy who was a pilot for Epstein. Or is this a case of mistaken identity? Was he a long term pilot? Does he have work manifests, etc?

2. What the fuck does Lindsey Graham have to do with this?

3. The "decorated pilot need to be secret PI" charge is just dumb. Lots of ex military go into public and private security.

BComplex

(9,776 posts)
26. I really don't know what your agenda is. Are you trying to prove or disprove something
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:59 PM
10 hrs ago

that can neither be proved or disproven without release of the files, and a huge years-long international governmental investigation? So until that happens, this man and this investigative journalist are definitely lying?

Nobody that I know of has said that anything on that release is true beyond any doubt. Nobody will probably ever say that.

Even if bodies are found buried all over the Epstein properties around the world, there are people who would step in and say that it's not true.

Have you had extensive experience with pedophiles? Human trafficking? Have you had extensive experiences with pedophile rings, or human trafficking rings, to say for absolute certain that nothing in there is true?

I'm just curious how you have decided to discredit this entire thing without any further evidence of this man or this interviewer.

Have you listened to all 6 of the audio tapes? What part do you think is contradictory?

Brenda

(1,944 posts)
29. I have no agenda
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 06:15 PM
10 hrs ago
I'm just curious how you have decided to discredit this entire thing without any further evidence of this man or this interviewer.


I already listed a couple of things he said that sounded implausible.
I could post some more of his quotes if you want?


hlthe2b

(112,916 posts)
2. I am only superficially informed, but my instincts tell me this is a trap...
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 04:50 PM
11 hrs ago

If I am wrong, my humble sadness for this man and apologies, but that is what my "spidey sense" is telling me.

questionseverything

(11,620 posts)
14. Why? No one seems to believe him anyway
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:36 PM
11 hrs ago

There are tons of women, who were girls when they say Epstein abused and trafficked them, they aren’t dead

H2O Man

(78,695 posts)
15. Where is Epstein?
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:41 PM
11 hrs ago

You are aware that those "tons of women" are not saying the felon trafficed them, or killed anyone. Seems really simple to me.

H2O Man

(78,695 posts)
19. No kidding.
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:50 PM
10 hrs ago

By Epstein. One should recognize that Epstein and the ferlon are two distinct people. This is actually why there are so many pictures of them together. If they were the same person, pictures & video of them together would not exist. I recognize that what seems obvious to some may confuse others.

Brenda

(1,944 posts)
21. I was gonna rec your post
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:53 PM
10 hrs ago

But thought naw, this simple thing you express deserves a real answer.

Hell Yes!

H2O Man

(78,695 posts)
23. It is an
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:55 PM
10 hrs ago

old tactic to try to discredit those demanding the release of the Epstein Pedi Files. It is sad that there are people who fall for this shit.

Scrivener7

(58,454 posts)
35. I agree. It's too pat, and it's too similar to satanic panic stories.
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 07:40 PM
9 hrs ago

I wouldn't put anything past Cankles, but this just doesn't seem to fit things we know.

viva la

(4,508 posts)
5. I'm pretty sure Trump has never been in a barn anywhere--
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 04:55 PM
11 hrs ago

or been in Alabama except for a campaign event.

Not really his kind of scene... and he never does anything he doesn't like.

H2O Man

(78,695 posts)
12. It is an
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:27 PM
11 hrs ago

attempt to discredit the people demanding the release of the Epstein Pedo Files.

misanthrope

(9,389 posts)
34. I can't see Trump doing that kind of dirty work with his own two hands
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 07:32 PM
9 hrs ago

Especially something as messy as exsanguination.

Could I see him as a sadist? Yes.

Could I see him paying someone else to do the actual hands-on killing? Certainly.

Alice B.

(701 posts)
40. I seem to vaguely recall he's a germaphobe or something? I just can't imagine him wanting to touch an animal...
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 08:31 PM
8 hrs ago

I was unaware of the Sasha story until one of our local No Kings organizers referenced some of the more extreme stuff (killing infants with his bare hands?) while arguing with a TSF supporter in the comments section of a community Facebook post.
As a communications person, I didn't think it was helpful. To put it mildly. There are plenty of criminal things we currently *know* to be true, if anyone really wants to get into it with a Red Hatter posting in unpunctuated sentence fragments.

I'm not saying I don't believe Sasha has been through something awful but his story is not the first thing I'd reach for while making a case against TSF.

lapfog_1

(31,700 posts)
6. the names he was dropping as people that participated
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 04:55 PM
11 hrs ago

Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Vlad Putin, etc... are not plausible. Mind you this was happening long before any of them were powerful rich people. How likely is it that he happened to run into all of these people in this sick child trafficking ring?

do I think that some girls that Epstein and his gang raped were later murdered... yes, but by professional hitman, not the rich bastards...

People think "Eyes Wide Shut" is just how the rich people actually live... it's not.

having underage girls ( especially from modeling agencies and teen beauty queens decorate your parties... and occasionally ( or even routinely ) service the rich men that attended the parties... sure. Many of these girls willingly participated ( but at that age they cannot consent ). Some might have threatened to go to the police... and I could imagine Epstein or Trump having one or two killed... because that story would be whispered between the girls and they would then be kept in line.

Bare knuckle fights, yeah... that's believable... even to the cracked ribs and bloody face. Possible.

I married into a "very wealthy people" class... Gulfstream jets, limo rides... Golf outings with Senators ( Jesse Helms of all people ), etc. They are different than the rest of us, but not in that way. I didn't last long... 7 years of marriage. But long enough. I never saw or heard even a whisper of this sort of activity... and trust me, my now ex-brother-in-law ( a very very wealthy little snot ) would have at least hinted around that we could attend such events if I was interested.

Scrivener7

(58,454 posts)
36. I agree with all of this. What you describe is plausible. The Riley story doesn't seem to be.
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 07:43 PM
9 hrs ago

Though if you and I both turn out to be wrong, I won't be overly shocked.

tavernier

(14,292 posts)
8. Let us see the unredacted files.
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 05:02 PM
11 hrs ago

If they contain reams of information over many years, as people in the know seem to think they do, then this young man’s story will probably be in a pretty good chunk of the files. Then at that time he should be welcomed to corroborate and give testimony. Of course he can do what he likes, but I think without another source, it is too easy for people to just decide that he has a vivid imagination or even PTSD.

Response to Brenda (Original post)

GoCubsGo

(34,685 posts)
30. I don't know whether or not to believe this. But,...
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 06:21 PM
10 hrs ago

When it comes to Trump, NOTHING surprises me any more. The only thing that would shock me would be for him to behave like a decent person for once in his putrid life.

PatSeg

(52,271 posts)
33. Yes and that's the problem
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 07:29 PM
9 hrs ago

Just when we think we've heard the worst, something else comes out. Though I am very on the fence about Sascha Riley's claims, I have to admit not much would shock me anymore.

Yes, if he behaved like a decent, caring person, THAT would shock me as well.

Upthevibe

(10,047 posts)
42. GoCubsGo.....
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 09:10 PM
7 hrs ago

I heard all the parts of the interview.

I also don't know what to believe. I do believe that dt would do the horrific, horrific things that Riley alleges. That's how much of a sick F I think he is.

It would also explain why Jordan and Graham are such disgusting sycophants. But I wonder about the timelines too. He said that Jordan was really young when this happened. I checked and Jordan graduated college in about 1986 when he would've been in his early 20's. But he didn't become a Congressman until his early 40's.

I can see where it could be a set-up to discredit other victims. Having said that, it wouldn't surprise me at all if similar incidents didn't actually occur.

GoCubsGo

(34,685 posts)
43. I always suspected that Graham is hiding something like this.
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 09:38 PM
7 hrs ago

Not saying he was involved in the Epstein crime syndicate. But, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he had his own similar thing going, that Trump found out about, either from Putin, or by his document snooping.

Wiz Imp

(9,072 posts)
31. Sascha Riley and Lisa Noelle Voldeng claim that they spoke with Senator Wyden
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 07:09 PM
9 hrs ago

and House Oversight Democrats in September. If that didn't happen, I would think Wyden or the House Oversight Democrats would come out and say that it isn't true. Especially, if they thought it was an effort to discredit real victims. The fact that they haven't done anything yet leads me to believe it's not that simple and there is something to this.

Coventina

(29,215 posts)
32. I also have grave doubts. It sounds a lot like what the QANON folks accuse Tom Hanks
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 07:15 PM
9 hrs ago

and the Clintons of.

If it is true, my heartfelt apologies and sympathies to this guy.

OneGrassRoot

(23,931 posts)
38. Why would you post this?
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 07:57 PM
8 hrs ago

He isn’t asking any of us to believe him. (He has been posting about it since at least 2021.)

He, like other survivors, are pushing for the files to be released which most of them say will prove the veracity of their stories.

I can understand not believing all allegations but by now NOTHING should surprise us. No need for this kind of content trying to diminish his claims based on opinion.

Woodwizard

(1,272 posts)
39. Muddy the water.
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 08:00 PM
8 hrs ago

Create a barrage of information it is and always been trumps way to keep attention away from everything. Can you remember the headline outrage of two weeks ago?

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