• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I’m struggling to reconcile this with the previous reason given for not releasing the files, that they were a national security risk. So, releasing no evidence would have been a risk to national security after Epstein was dead?

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      3 days ago

      Trump probably collected millions in extortion money from everybody on that list

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        Yes and no. It depends on the part of the government in question.

        Take the Government Accountability Office. I pretty much trust anything they put out. The same goes for NASA, and until this year, NOAA.

        OSHA also tends to get a pass.

        Homeland Security or the FBI? My sodium intake becomes dangerously high.

        And that’s even before Trump returned to power.

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      Were they a risk because they were dirt on politicians? We could have resolved that by getting rid of those politicians.