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skip fox

(19,502 posts)
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 11:53 AM Aug 2025

What can we "know" about Trump's fear concerning the Epstein files?

Last edited Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:37 PM - Edit history (1)

If his actions in the last few weeks are distractions, from sending troops into DC to having the FBI search John Boldon’s house and office, one can only conclude the material on Trump is either damning or highly embarrassing.

So why doesn’t Trump have the material in question destroyed? Likely because he can’t.

So what does that tell us?

Perhaps because the damning/embarrassing sections are duplicated many times, or an entire file or more are predicated in such sections, or there are multiple cross references to the file/sections like registration documents.

Are there other possibilities?

What are your ideas?

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leftstreet

(41,259 posts)
1. Maybe he's forced to protect others?
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
Aug 2025

I can think of nothing Trump could have done that would shock or upset his minions

MiHale

(13,176 posts)
2. I'm starting to think PedoPrez was a partner with Epstein ...
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:03 PM
Aug 2025

Not only a participant. Could be why we never saw his tax returns. He could have procured and participated in that partnership. Files could show everything including how he laundered the cash.
Exactly why he needs the DOJ under his thumb.

surfered

(14,309 posts)
3. That's the question isn't it? He got his followers all riled up about it and promised if he got in office,
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:07 PM
Aug 2025

...he would reveal everything. Then after getting in offie, all he's done is declare it a hoax, delay, deflect, and distract. It's a puzzlement.

FarPoint

(14,942 posts)
4. He was so much more than a "patron of services or a John".....
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:11 PM
Aug 2025

He was the 3rd Partner of the sex traffic ring/ international level. rTump/ Epstein and Maxwell....

skip fox

(19,502 posts)
6. The fact that Trump can't delete the material tells us something about type or handing of the material.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:25 PM
Aug 2025

That's that my initial question was about

Why doesn't Trump order the material deleted? What does that tell limited fact us about the material?

That seems like a very fruitful like of inquiry.

It might not tell us what's in the files, but it's an approach that can tell us something about the material we don't yet know.

Irish_Dem

(82,378 posts)
7. Trump was part of the network, he was supplying the children to be raped.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:37 PM
Aug 2025

As well as beating up and raping the kids himself.

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