Surprised the Beast is running a false headline. It’s right there in the article:
"Georgia Rep. Collins made a bombshell admission, that he believes Donald Trump’s name will be in the files
“Yeah, I’m sure he’s in there,” Collins said, without providing evidence, according to an audio clip of the exchange uploaded to YouTube, titled, “HOT MIC: Republican caught saying Trump IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES!”"
This is why we don’t allow YouTube bullshit, removing this for the same reason. YouTube by proxy.
We all BELIEVE he’s in the files, that’s not the same thing as a direct admission he IS in the files.
Here’s the reaction of most MAGA: “thank god, for a second, we were afraid he wasn’t!”
Excerpt:
“Yeah, I’m sure he’s in there,” Collins said, without providing evidence, according to an audio clip of the exchange uploaded to YouTube, titled, “HOT MIC: Republican caught saying Trump IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES!”
Wow, look at this concrete evidence. I bet the poster didn’t even read the article. Another clueless dimwit.
MAGA lawmaker Mike Collins lobbed a political grenade into efforts from Team Trump to limit his exposure to fallout from the Epstein files. Georgia Rep. Collins made a bombshell admission, that he believes Donald Trump’s name will be in the files, at a county GOP meeting, the Washington Examiner reported.
A constituent asked the MAGA lawmaker whether he believed Trump was in the files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide while in federal custody in New York City in August 2019 as he awaited trial on new sex trafficking charges.
“Yeah, I’m sure he’s in there,” Collins said, without providing evidence, according to an audio clip of the exchange uploaded to YouTube, titled, “HOT MIC: Republican caught saying Trump IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES!”
The White House has repeatedly pushed back after reports emerged that Trump was told in May that he was in files related to Epstein. Trump and Epstein were once friendly, but the president said they fell out in 2004.
The Daily Beast contacted the White House and Collins for comment.
Collins said he believed Trump was in the documents because the president “was the one that was telling the FBI about it.”
“He’s the one that kicked [Epstein] out of Mar-a-Lago and then called the FBI,” the lawmaker continued, repeating his claim: “Yeah, yeah he’s in there.”
“So, what’s going to happen? Are you going to vote to release them?” the constituent asked.
“Oh, we need to release them. I have no problem releasing it, but you’ve got to go through the judicial,” Collins responded.
The MAGA lawmaker added, “I’m not a lawyer and I’m not a judge, but it is more complicated than just saying, ‘boom, here’s the files.’”
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, a Collins campaign spokesman said, “Mike’s words speak for themselves: President Trump was right about everything, kicked Epstein to the curb, and did nothing wrong. This ‘story’ is a massive nothingburger from never-Trump consultants using DNC talking points. They won’t stop Mike’s momentum delivering results for the America First agenda. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
In July, The Wall Street Journal reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump during a routine briefing that his name appeared in the files. The newspaper said that this did not indicate any wrongdoing on his part.” The White House in response called it a “fake news story”.
In June, billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk also claimed, then appeared to backtrack, that Trump was named in the Epstein files.
Trump “is in the Epstein files,” he wrote in a post on X as he and the president engaged in a bitter online feud. He alleged that “that is the real reason they have not been made public.” Musk signed the post off by writing: “Have a nice day, DJT!”
Musk added in a follow-up post: “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”
At the time, Trump brushed off the claims in an interview with NBC News.
“That’s called ‘old news.’ That’s been old news. That has been talked about for years. Even Epstein’s lawyer said I had nothing to do with it. It’s old news,” the president said.
Officials in the first Trump administration determined that Epstein’s death was a suicide, but conspiracy theories that he was killed to shield high-profile individuals have proliferated nonetheless.
The Trump administration, in February, declassified and released files related to Epstein, but they were highly redacted and did not offer major revelations. The FBI said in a July memo that a “systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list.”
Everyone knows. Nobody cares enough to do anything. He is the most powerful man on Earth and he’s currently mobilizing the military against cities in the united states.
It might be time to set the epstein shit to the side and start like… getting up and getting geared up for actual civil disobedience and group action. The physical kind.
Then why are they knowingly protecting oedoohiles?
We know, we know.
Yeah, no kidding.
Removed by mod
“he believes Trump will be in the Epstein files” is a different sentence to “Trump is in the Epstein files” Can you see that? Those first two words have definitions, they’re not just filler. So fuck you for posting a false headline. Reported.
I don’t know what the server rules are, but there’s a good chance (if it’s like others I see) it requires the poster to post the headline exactly as it’s written. And that’s the headline the link uses.
Sensationalism, yes. But reporting him might not really be worth the mod’s time if that’s a rule for this instance.
No one is being forced at gunpoint to post things they clearly didnt even bother reading. What I meant was “fuck you for posting something with a false headline.”
Bombshell? Really? Come on, take the fucking kid gloves off and get your tongue out of his asshole. That POS has always been a slimy bastard.
We know, but what about the others who do not live in reality.
honestly why is this surprising to anyone?
I wonder if this will be like that time some Republican (was that Paul Ryan?) “joked” about Russian collusion during Taco’s first term.
Trump’s in the Epstein files.
He may or may not have diddled kids (probably underage girls, based on what we know of his character alone).
But the above is the only thing most people are talking about. There’s probably a lot more illegal activity involving Trump’s real estate, money laundering, etc. There’s probably a lot more elite billionaires in business and politics who would also come out, big money, big illegal activities.
Letting this come out would lift the veil of propaganda and fantasy that we live in a world full of “rule of law”, peace, prosperity, and freedom. It’s a facade of propaganda. When people see that it’s all a farce, both sides of the political spectrum will be furious. The USA is possibly more corrupt than Russia or North Korea, or whoever. We’ve just been better at hiding it.
They don’t want to release all this info because it could cause some societal catastrophy, resulting in economic breakdown, which threatens their power and wealth. They need society to stay as it is, people to keep going to work and not cause trouble. We are the cement and rebar foundation propping up the billionaires luxurious lifestyles. They live in exorbitant mansions and generally have several of them, in very nice places. They have 500 million dollar yachts. Without the system under control, their lavish lifestyles are threatened.
They’ll figure out a way to hide it all. Some way to appease enough of their support cult of poor and working class. It’s already working to some extent, with the gislaine Maxwell debacle saying trump was innocent nonsense. Eventually their base will submit, they always do. They’ve been trained to.
The USA is possibly more corrupt than Russia or North Korea, or whoever. We’ve just been better at hiding it.
Absolutely not. This in itself is propaganda.
We’re working on catching up, but we’ve got a lot of catching up to do. When was the last time you bribed a cop? (Yes, I know. We have major police issues. Still not close to Russia’s or North Korea’s.)
We absolutely have our issues. The problem is that we’re getting closer to Russia’s corruption instead of improving on our own issues.
Letting this come out would lift the veil of propaganda and fantasy that we live in a world full of “rule of law”, peace, prosperity, and freedom
That’s optimistic but this veil has been lifted already. Remember the Panama papers? Remember all the the other times rules of law suddenly doesn’t matter to Republicans? I don’t because there’s way too many occurrences to keep in my head at once at this point. The right is a cult and there’s no unindoctrinating the vast majority of them. His support is not steeped in reality.
He may or may not have diddled kids (probably underage girls, based on what we know of his character alone).
Talk about a distinction without a difference. “Underage girls” are kids. It may seem more reprehensible to rape an 8 year old than a 16 year old but it’s the same crime and the same damage to a human being.
In the case of trump and rape the distinction doesn’t matter. But in other cases it does.
A 50yr old raping a 5 year old, is different than a 23year old having a “consensual” relationship with a 17year old. A 17 year old is underage, but not a child. The latter is creepy and should not be encouraged, but a very clear distinction compared to the former. Objectively, the former is worse than the latter.
Wow. Didn’t think a pedophile would get an up vote. Calling a 6 year age gap at that age is not just creepy.
Regardless of my opinion, we don’t need to be throwing that accusation around so lightly.
He’s allowed to have that opinion and discuss it without being accused.
That’s a good point, Epstein must have been into a lot of financial crime which Trump is likely linked to. Pull that thread and it’s linked to other hugely rich and influential people.
