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    We know it’s bad. All we had to do is notice how desperate Trump has been to keep this buried.

    It’s going to be fun finding out what it is that he did exactly.

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      He’s already been proved in court to have committed rape, and very credibly accused of having raped a 13-year-old.

      I’m not saying that what’s in the files is not even worse. But what’s already in the public record is already enough and then some.

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      Spoiler - he was actively involved in trafficking kids, not just raping them. To such a degree it might as well have been called the Trump Files. A lot of the trafficking went through Mara Lago, and a lot of the girls were picked from the international beauty pageants he used to run, by Trump himself.

      There ya go, do with this information what you will. Think it will budge the evangelical Christian support? I don’t.

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      My favorite conspiracy is that he & Epstein have been trafficking girls, young women, and even boys, and using the product to blackmail GOP leadership into “supporting” him. How many times since 2015 have you asked yourself, “What does Trump have on [X]?” after a private meeting and abrupt policy flip? Blackmail material is useless once it’s public.

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        There is without a doubt a giant black mail ring that encompasses a bunch of politically powerful people.

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        That’s like… one of my least favorite conspiracies. You have odd preferences.

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          Yeah, my favorite is that Jim Morrison agreed to fake his death to get the US government off his back for how his music fueled counter culture at the time. He laid low for a little, and then re-emerged as his new persona, Glen Danzig, the leader of the horror punk band, The Misfits.

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            I mean I’ve never seen Jim Morrison and Glen Danzig in the same place at the same time, that probably checks out

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              I always imagined the Business Plot going down like…

              this war hero who gave his entire life towards serving his country walks into congress exclaiming “by god you all need to hear this, these unscrupulous businessmen came to me trying to get me to pull a coup…”

              congress goes - …slow blink… no need for a coup, they already own us. the war hero leaving with his entire reality shattered as he knows noone (no common man, atleast) would believe his story, especially not after the story is spun by the media conglomerates that were a part of the plot

              then in a followup phonecall congress exclaims… “godfuckingdamnit JPM, do you really have to pull this prank on every other innocent (in the conscious sense) war hero we got? doesn’t that ever get old?”

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              Enron is a pretty good one too

              My favorite conspiracy theory is that the NBA draft lottery is rigged. People always say “oh no it couldn’t possibly be rigged because it’s overseen by the accounting firm Ernst & Young”. It used to be overseen by the accounting firm Arthur Andersen until they got busted aiding and abetting the Enron scam.

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                When I was an accountant my shred box had “Arthur Andersen Audits, 2000-2004” on the front of it. Big laughs every time someone saw it

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      I doubt we will until after he and his fellow shitheads that are in it, are dead. His taxes were never formally released. He’s in a lose-lose situation if he releases them, because they’re going to be very bad.

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        Bad like diddles kids bad, or bad like trafficks kids bad, or bad like is actively part of the blackmail scheme the trafficking and diddling kids enables bad? The last one is the only part that explains the “loyalty” his party (and to lesser extent the opposition party leadership, certain media enterprises, etc) has been providing him.

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      He was one of the most prolific child sex traffickers in history. Not only did he rape them himself, on hundreds of occasions, he bought and sold them as sex slaves. And the vast majority of his victims were white, American, Christian children.

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      Im willing to go so far as to suggest that he might not have been directly involved but that he’s now protecting someone like a Bill Gates, Warren Buffett or the now deceased Prince Philip.

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        Lol you think Trump would protect anyone but himself? The guy famous for refusing to pay people who do work for him? The guy who has betrayed everyone he felt like he could benefit from betraying, even a little tiny bit? He doesn’t give a fuck who else would be implicated. He would probably murder Melania on live television to get out of it if he thought it would work.

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          Yes, I believe he would protect other pedos whom might have evidence of his roles in other crimes such as supplying Epstein with children to traffic.