Post AxGVxFs7m9tzyehc8G by JeffreySmith@mastdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AxGOAjeFa3EySS877o by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-17T14:22:55Z
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A week ago we heard that the tape of the mysterious and irregular meeting between the the Deputy Attorney General of the entire United States, Todd Blanche (who is also the former personal lawyer of the president) and Maxwell, Jeffery Epstein's accomplice might be released. And now? Crickets. Where is that tape. The one where she says "Trump did nothing wrong."Just like with the Epstein files themselves. "we will release it" then they don't.
(DIR) Post #AxGONO27FwAbBVKFAe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-17T14:25:12Z
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Granted I don't think that Maxwell is trustworthy. She is in prison and wants a pardon from the president. So she isn't a good person to ask for honest information about that same president. She could lie in hopes of getting a pardon. Nonetheless they said, in the name of transparency they would share those tapes. But now everyone has forgotten about that. Another broken promise.
(DIR) Post #AxGOZ7UGbDetLL5UTw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-17T14:27:19Z
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Every time I simply describe these events we have witnessed in my own words I'm stunned by how obvious and blatant the corruption we are witnessing has become. The Deputy Attorney General doesn't go and meet with convicted child traffickers normally. That alone requires and explanation that no one in the Trump administration has given us. Why did he meet with her? What was said? The public has a right to know.
(DIR) Post #AxGOa0HkrRKXISem7E by fullyabstract@fosstodon.org
2025-08-17T14:27:22Z
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@futurebird Honestly, I was expecting an edited tape where she asserts Trump did nothing wrong but various Dems did do wrong, in return for clemency.
(DIR) Post #AxGOoRmBRoSoc0mDIm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-17T14:30:05Z
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@fullyabstract I think they have that, but rightly realize that maybe their base isn't blinded by loyalty enough to swallow that as real given that Maxwell isn't, and cannot even attempt to argue that she is innocent. (Her bid for a retrial is based on a technicality not some assertion that she is innocent, there is too much evidence that contradicts that.)So, her lying for a pardon might hurt more than it helps.
(DIR) Post #AxGP4DqF1Wou1oCGPI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-17T14:32:56Z
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@fullyabstract The press is too scared to hound the president with questions about this. But come on. He should be asked "why is it taking so long to release this information? Can't you use AI to cook up something fake faster than this?"
(DIR) Post #AxGQl78ruMglejvSme by bruce@darkmoon.social
2025-08-17T14:51:50Z
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@futurebird Maxwell is a serial perjurer. Nothing she says can be taken as fact. But of course, that's not the story. The story is that the meeting took place at all, and that she was subsequently granted special privileges that have never before been granted to a prisoner like her. Why?
(DIR) Post #AxGQysStH2XgBqqzuy by HumanServitor@mastodon.social
2025-08-17T14:54:21Z
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@futurebird I'm following this saga through various prediction markets for a gig. There is some expectation of action when Congress returns Sept. 3. I read some right-wing substacks and such as research (do not recommend!), and apparently the MAGA base, or more relevant to Epstein, the "Q" cult, is still pretty pissed and lawmakers are hearing about it.So there's some reason to be guardedly optimistic there will be movement and attention on this again.
(DIR) Post #AxGR2CPTZkDEuuqBCC by samiamsam@mastodon.social
2025-08-17T14:54:56Z
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@futurebird republicans lie about EVERYTHING
(DIR) Post #AxGRIQppi92kHyuQwi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-17T14:57:54Z
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@HumanServitor If I lived in a congressional district with a republican representative now seems like a good time to send a letter asking when the information would come out. Everyone just wants to see what is in the files and know what happened in that strange meeting. Absent facts I'm left to imagine all kinds of things. If there isn't anything there it should not be a problem to come clean.
(DIR) Post #AxGTRcV7uFEsz8jVAW by bicmay@med-mastodon.com
2025-08-17T15:21:56Z
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@futurebird @fullyabstract To be fair, he's kicked out actual journalists from covering him in the White House press pool and has surrounded himself with sycophants.
(DIR) Post #AxGTeYrWkJgxSrNiQi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-17T15:24:19Z
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@bicmay @fullyabstract That only works if journalists fail to stick up for each other. If when one journo was kicked out for a question 20 more kept asking the same one it become unworkable. By, acceding that "no that question went to far" when you know it didn't you become part of the propaganda arm of the state. And you aren't even being paid as much as those who choose that as their profession.
(DIR) Post #AxGU3mbInw0zJRoqHI by JeffreySmith@mastdn.social
2025-08-17T15:28:49Z
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@futurebird @bicmay @fullyabstract Absolutely, I find the Whitehouse press concurrence with the liar in chief's banning of AP for standing up for the truth to be sickening. #GulfOfMexico
(DIR) Post #AxGUAxJdMfIEZVyW1I by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-17T15:30:09Z
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@JeffreySmith @bicmay @fullyabstract Do we need to start naming kids "Gulf of Mexico" is it that bad yet?Darren Gulf of Mexico Williams.
(DIR) Post #AxGVxFs7m9tzyehc8G by JeffreySmith@mastdn.social
2025-08-17T15:50:04Z
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@futurebird @bicmay @fullyabstract Ha ha: maybe New York should rename the Trump Tower street Epstein Files Avenue.
(DIR) Post #AxGnkkPgi8L86saSy8 by lufthans@mastodon.social
2025-08-17T19:09:30Z
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@futurebird we haven't forgotten about Epstein even if news has moved on"IT AINT GONNA GO AWAY - ODE TO THE EPSTEIN FILES"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AGEjj2JdsYou're right that we need to remember. We need to keep asking congress about Epstein as recess ends@emptywheel still covers Epstein on her blog ( though she unfortunately only posts on other services now ), including covering it on @nicolesandler 's show on Fridayhttps://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/12/dont-be-distracted-from-trumps-filth/https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/11/in-rejecting-bid-to-unseal-grand-jury-testimony-judge-paul-engelmeyer-accuses-todd-blanche-of-diversion/
(DIR) Post #AxGoXjsPUkqadQNmsa by lufthans@mastodon.social
2025-08-17T19:18:22Z
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@futurebird FBI should be on hand as witness when govt meets w/ convictsThe attorney who convicted Maxwell should have met with the child trafficker, but they fired that attorneyAG, from Mueller She Wrote, has been covering it on her podcastsAG broke that Maxwell had her sex offender status waived to get her into the Texsas country club prison and also that the country club prison has work release, so Maxwell might get out and offend again like Epstein did