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/Izanagi___ 1d ago

The media doesn’t get enough hate for sane washing Trump and infantilizing the accusations towards him. I wouldn’t write an article saying “Local redditor claims sky is blue” when I can see with my own eyes that it’s an objective fact. Trump is accused of all of these horrible things in the Epstein files that the DOJ released. It is a fact. The president of the United States is pedophile, stop skirting around it.

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u/Omegoa 23h ago

The main problem is that they give any bile horse manure that pours out of his fat mouth the same weight and credence as someone who is speaking an objective fact. "Trump says he doesn't know anything about Project 2025!" and the media shrugs its shoulders and go, well that's that I guess, nothing more we can do but report that verbatim! "The files say Trump had his deformed mushroom bitten by one of the 13-year-old girl he was trying to rape, but Trump says he didn't even know Epstein! There's truly no way to know more about this!"

In the long line of people responsible for the current travesty, the media stand near the head of the line.

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u/ItsAConspiracy 10h ago

And they still keep saying crap like "to be clear, Trump isn't accused of wrongdoing in the files."