President Donald Trump says he has ordered the justice department to produce additional documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval,” he said.

It’s unclear if Trump is authorising the public release of these documents. Such action would typically require court approval.

Yeah Bondi, slap together some more doctored BS to tell whatever story you need to tell. Maybe more “raw unedited footage” pasted together and missing 3 minutes.

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    Sounds like the Dumbass-in-Chief wants that twat to throw together a list of names and claim it’s the Epstein list. Bet all the names will be Democrats.

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    I don’t think there is a more direct way of saying “you want epstein files? Fine I will produce some fake files and release them. You will eat those files like eating shit all the while knowing they are fake, because that is what you are. You are my little shit eaters.”

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    Cue the news conference where she pulls out a 2000 page binder that she claims are the documents, only to just be blank pages.

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      I don’t see how it could possibly help him. It’s just going to keep the story in the media, longer it stays in the news cycle the bigger it snowballs.

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        More likely let it stay in the media and give them boring shit until something else catches peoples attention.

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          Anyone that already hates Trump isn’t distracted by this. If anything it’s only making people that voted for him become more suspicious of him and take criticism of him more seriously.

          This isn’t a distraction. This is Trump absolutely failing to control the narrative with his base for the first real time.

          Because even MAGA voters are ok with burning down the government if it’s true that our two party system and the billionaires they work for are literally protecting pedophiles. Which I don’t think many people doubt at this point.

          MAGA just had the delusions that somehow the sex pest billionaire was on their side.

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          What’s worse than the President of the world’s most influential nation being part of a child sex trafficking scheme? Other than nuclear war, which would be pretty hard to distract people from.

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            I guess it doesn’t really need to be something worse – they have full control over the narrative, and the WH clearly won’t actually release anything meaningful, so keeping it in the news is a huge attention magnet with practically no downside. Maybe an extra week of all other news getting buried is worth it. Maybe it’s a favor to that CEO who got caught cheating at a Coldplay concert. I get the impression that when he does something weirdly out-of-character it’s a misdirection, so I’ll look at page two of the news for awhile.

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      It won’t, they’ll produce a bunch of falsified documents implicating everybody but TACO, and half the country will accept it as gospel.

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        Yeah, this sounds like “make me a list that I can use to target the rich people that don’t like me”.

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      It sure won’t satisfy any of the conspiracy theorists. This has been steeping for too long and imaginations have been running wild. Whatever they produce will never live up to the bombshell people are now expecting.

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    The key word is pertinent:

    Pertinent

    n. Anything that doesn’t portray Trump in a bad light while simultaneously harming his perceived foes, as determined by Donald J. Trump and/or Pam Bondi at the formers discretion.

    Plus, the Grand Jury testimony is only a small fraction of the ‘files’

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    List aside, did I miss why we aren’t still talking about the 3 missing minutes and Adobe edited surveillance footage of the prison?

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    [cutout of female figure for birthday card]

    The letter, according to The Wall Street Journal, allegedly ends with the words: “A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

    “These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures,” Trump said on social media in response to the story.

    “Is that your fucked up scrawly signature in the crotchtal area representing pubic hair?”

    “ . . . . . No”

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    Stupid choice. Why say anything at all really? Just release whatever you are going to doctor and call them the files. This just makes it look like he is pulling shit out of his ass to satisfy the base.

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      But if he didn’t make a big public announcement how else would Charlie Kirk have something to advertise to all the people at Turning Point U.S.A. who are starting to ask too many questions

      Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was critical of the administration’s handling of the files in recent days, praised Trump’s move. “This is massive, this is something that we’ve been talking about for quite some time, and really a power to the grassroots,” he said.

      Wow…

      So when the Dems try to force the release of the files after the president promised to release them then tried to go back on that promise, it’s “all for political show.”

      When the Trump administration picks and chooses what breadcrumbs they will toss to the public (after already releasing edited footage and lying about it and insulting his own supporters), it’s “power to the grassroots.” 👑

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    “Produce” probably as in “make up”. Like an Epstein list containing all kinds of Democrats.