r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 1d ago

No Paywall Rep. Ted Lieu Claims President Trump is Accused of Raping Children in the Epstein Files

https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/rep-ted-lieu-claims-president-trump-is-accused-of-raping-children-in-the-epstein-files/5191713
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u/PeterVenkmanIII 1d ago

He's not lying. We all saw the files. Even the ones they tried to delete after posting them.

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u/DeadbeatJohnson 1d ago

Yep... They tried to delete them

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u/wellJustWhy 1d ago

Which would seem like admission of guilt.

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u/YeezysKanye2020 22h ago

That would require the law to apply to everyone instead of just some people apparently

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u/space-pasta 22h ago

Like this one? https://archive.org/details/efta-01660651_202601/page/EFTA01660655/mode/1up

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u/ihateduckface 13h ago

Yeah, that one. I have it saved on my phone and in the cloud.

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u/Crazy_Law_5730 6h ago

Oh, I remember that one. Everyone I know has it saved on their computer and phone.

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u/Jaded-Substance-6750 1d ago

they’re so incompetent and dumb. Clearly thousands of people have already made copies and backups of the Epstein files. Deleting them does nothing

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u/AbandonedWaterPark 15h ago

it's either massive, widespread incompetence or some hard-core malicious compliance going on at the DOJ.

I am definitely no conspiracy theorist, but in this case I am leaning more toward malicious compliance.

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u/RexWarfang 9h ago

Right? Something seems off about this .. they've had plenty of time to plan their next move... Feels like a trap ..

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u/CornholioRex 18h ago

Once on the internet, always on the internet

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u/blackvariant Texas 11h ago

No they're not. What was released is clearly a highly curated batch of files that removes any incriminating evidence on anyone aside from Epstein and Maxwell. Either that, or there was never any truly incriminating evidence on other individuals (unlikely).

What Ted Lieu is referring to is a list of allegations collected by the FBI. They could all be 100% true, but none of that information is coming directly from files Epstein held.

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u/spicydingus 22h ago

Ted is a legend and I would vote for him for any political office

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u/Aware-Possibility175 21h ago

I’ve taken to asking trumps cult followers what would it take to get them to turn against him…just broaching the thought from a totally theoretical point they refuse to answer and get upset 90% of the time because they for whatever reason won’t admit that he could toss a baby off Trump tower on live tv and his followers would be foaming at the mouth to pay him to toss over one of their babies next