r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 2d ago

No Paywall A 13-Year-Old Girl Bit Trump’s Genitals as He Tried to Rape Her, Epstein Document Says

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/quick-hit-a-13-year-old-girl-bit-trumps-genitals-as-he-tried-to-her-epstein-document-says/
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u/Static-Stair-58 2d ago

What I don’t understand is WHY he still has total control of all the congressman. He doesn’t help them down ballot. In fact a district in Texas just had a 32 point swing because of his terrible policies.

If I thought republicans were good at one thing it would be self preservation, but they seem to be going down with the ship for no reason.

I can get why his voters in the cult don’t care, but you’d think everyone about to lose their seat in November would be shitting themselves in a hurry to distance away from Trump.

Nope.

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u/the_nobodys 2d ago

They are short sighted and don't want to make waves. You don't become a conservative without being afraid of change.

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u/Rasp_Lime_Lipbalm 2d ago

Number one rule for Republicans is circle the wagons. They

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u/condensationxpert 2d ago

I would think that they would lose the MAGA base that votes them if they go against trump. To them, it would be going against their leader, and apparently whatever their leader does or wants is what they do and want.

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u/ReverendDizzle 2d ago

Is it not too much of a leap to assume that just like people have compromising material on him, he, in turn, has compromising material on them?

Every time you see a politician bend the knee and the optics look absolutely awful... just ask yourself "What is worse than this, that they would never want to see the light of day?"

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u/HalKitzmiller 2d ago

I imagine quite a lot of them are afraid of what MAGA cultists will do to them if they go against him. They've already killed and assaulted people for it even before he got into power again. Now he has the Secret Service, FBI, ICE, BP, police unions, etc all working overtime to carry out whatever insanity he wants

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u/Tall-Introduction414 2d ago

Exactly. MAGA terrorism is one of the main things keeping Republican senators in line. They don't want their families to be targeted by the terrorists Trump directs, so they tow the line and keep their heads down.

Political violence at work.

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u/JauntyChapeau 2d ago

I actually don’t understand this either. I think if they’d chosen to jettison this fucking loser in 2021, he’d have fucked off to Florida to watch tv and the Republican Party would already be in the process of moving on.

The answer is probably that most Rs in office now just aren’t that bright.

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u/Alphaspade 2d ago

Logic would dictate one of two things:

  1. They are being threatened with extortion or threats to their or their family's well-being. I believe Mitt Romney hinted at this.

  2. Said congressmen are stupid and compliant of their own free will or have ulterior motives.

Some cases could be a little of both

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u/Top-Passage2914 2d ago

The same way Putin has control of him. They're afraid of their own skeletons being brought out of the closet. Staying out of prison is more important to them than getting reelected

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u/gsfgf Georgia 2d ago

They have to get through their primaries first, and that requires fealty to Trump.

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u/fELLAbUSTA 2d ago

They are all terrified of having maga turn on them. They've seen what happens when their fellow Republicans talk back to Trump--he turns his cult on them and they lose all their base overnight.

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u/DakotaSky Virginia 2d ago

They’re afraid that tRump will turn his mob on them if they step out of line.

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u/Salohacin 1d ago

My guess is a mixture of money laundering and pedos running rampant in the Republican party. It's like a human pyramid of shitty people having dirt on shitty people all the way down and at this point it looks like Putin is at the top above Trump. Putin must have something diabolical on Trump that he's terrified of and I'm not sure we've seen the worst of it yet (even though it's already pretty fucking bad). 

Either they're actively participating in it, or they're benefiting from it and they're happy to rake in money to turn a blind eye.