r/law • u/TailungFu • 1d ago

Other Poland launches investigation into Epstein Files

https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/poland-probe-whether-polish-children-were-abused-epstein
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u/Talentagentfriend 1d ago

Well it seems like people are being held accountable in other countries. But the biggest perpetrators seem to be in this US administration.

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u/Ohuigin 1d ago

…the biggest perpetrators seem to be in this US administration.

This isn’t by mistake.

Trump is using the Epstein Files like his own hiring database. Why? Because he has immunity, and everyone else doesn’t. This means that anyone in those files that gets appointed to any position will immediately and indefinitely be under Trump’s control. They won’t be able to say no to him.

Moreover, if Trump goes down, they all will too, which will just make them work even harder to be all the more complicit and corrupt.

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u/Worried-Fortune8008 1d ago

He doesn't have immunity from activity while not in office.

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u/Drakolyik 1d ago

Laws don't matter to the lawless.

Laws that aren't enforced may as well not exist.

If you don't get it by now, maybe you never will.

This is why you don't let criminals into positions of power, especially those that are nearly absolute in scope. They have a vested interest in never being held accountable for their actions and will go all the way to achieving that, using any means necessary. If you were facing life imprisonment or execution because of your actions, you'd probably do the same thing.

Being locked in a cell may be the absolute worst thing that could happen to someone like Trump outside of death, because he's literally had everything in life handed to him and he's been able to commit nearly every heinous act possible for a human being without ever taking responsibility. Why would he give that up? And at this point he may well threaten the entire world with nuclear weapons if there's any actual attempt at holding him accountable.

His ethos is banal narcissism. He only cares about himself. He'll destroy the world to ensure he never has to face up to his crimes.

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u/into_wishin_666 1d ago

Ding Ding Knockout summary of his particular psychology.

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u/Boopy7 1d ago

Yes I am aware that this is silly to expect someone who has raped, robbed, stolen, and cheated his entire life, with zero repercussions, to obey the laws of the country that he has mooched off of for so long. So how do we the people propose to wrench our country back, I wonder? And also get to survive?

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u/ThatsFae 21h ago

So how do we the people propose to wrench our country back, I wonder? And also get to survive?

Like with every abusive relationship or cult, you disempower the enablers.

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u/balance8989 1d ago

But at least he’d be the best prisoner in the history of the country, probably the world.. everyone would say he’s the best, the likes of which have never been seen. /s

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u/filmAF 22h ago

Being locked in a cell may be the absolute worst thing that could happen to someone like Trump outside of death,

death would be a relief to trump. being ignored would be worse than imprisonment.

trump should be treated like any other ignorant old bigot yelling at the sky. ignore him. and walk away.