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You have got to be fucking kidding me with this (Original Post) dcmfox Sep 2025 OP
Excuse me, but . . . . no_hypocrisy Sep 2025 #1
Uh, what? wordstroken Sep 2025 #2
Thou shall not bear false witness, Mikey. Nt spooky3 Sep 2025 #3
That is one of the BIG 10, Mikey Jilly_in_VA Sep 2025 #8
Mike knows he's going straight to COL Mustard Sep 2025 #73
Oh, he believes Jilly_in_VA Sep 2025 #86
Little johnson Would Eat tr💩mp's 💩💩💩💩 MrWowWow Sep 2025 #4
Only if he cut a deal with the feds dflprincess Sep 2025 #5
Right. If he were a regular informant, certainly that would have been revealed at some point in the Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #17
Hahahahahahahahahaha! What a maroon. Is he the stalking dog for TACO's getting named defense? marble falls Sep 2025 #6
Provable lie Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #7
Their lies are becoming more outrageous and ridiculous. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #9
Wow. Whatever he did, it was reeeeeealy bad. Scrivener7 Sep 2025 #10
that was my first thought too Skittles Sep 2025 #34
Yep. rubbersole Sep 2025 #44
Probably more like an equal partner mwmisses4289 Sep 2025 #63
And, It Never Came Up Until Now? ProfessorGAC Sep 2025 #11
They've been waiting to play the "Secret Agent Man" card underpants Sep 2025 #18
Kind Of Reinforcing The "Stupid" Theme ProfessorGAC Sep 2025 #22
Oh puhleeeze! 2naSalit Sep 2025 #12
This is what it looks like to sell your soul mcar Sep 2025 #13
kompromat is the only reason I can think of Skittles Sep 2025 #37
Now this is an act of real desperation. ananda Sep 2025 #14
Yep, can't erase his name so come up with a reason for it being there. bluestarone Sep 2025 #15
Whoops underpants Sep 2025 #16
I don't think that video means what a lot of people seem to think it does. Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #25
ah, the mitigator chimes in Skittles Sep 2025 #40
Huh? WTF are you talking about? Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #41
LOL Skittles Sep 2025 #45
🙄😴💤 Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #59
Agreed!!, Wiz! brakester Sep 2025 #85
It's Not funny. Cha Sep 2025 #19
Something else dcmfox Sep 2025 #20
Oh right. trump is one of the good guys... Wounded Bear Sep 2025 #21
Trump was in the deep state? mzmolly Sep 2025 #23
Oh, good grief! Why don't they just go ahead and say that Trump is some alien from outer space. hamsterjill Sep 2025 #24
He might have been an alien.👽 rubbersole Sep 2025 #48
Well, in the world we live in today, you just don't know, right? hamsterjill Sep 2025 #50
Johnson must have watched RFKjr tell the lie about the Head of CDC.... 70sEraVet Sep 2025 #26
"FBI informant" JoseBalow Sep 2025 #27
An informant who helped Epstein cut a sweetheart deal and moved mzmolly Sep 2025 #28
"Praise the Lord and pass the plate" walkingman Sep 2025 #29
PTL: Pass The Loot John1956PA Sep 2025 #49
There has long been H2O Man Sep 2025 #30
At a seminar given by a retired FBI agent who had spent time that NYC nest, he indicated his disdain for the Clintons. John1956PA Sep 2025 #52
Right. H2O Man Sep 2025 #76
Everything you state is in line with the bits and pieces I have picked up over the years. John1956PA Sep 2025 #78
Right. H2O Man Sep 2025 #79
Holy Shit Mikey ! Jesus gonna be so disappointed! 1WorldHope Sep 2025 #31
No evidence, never even a hint for two decades. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #32
Exactly HighFired49 Sep 2025 #89
Donnie Brasco sop Sep 2025 #33
A good movie with Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. John1956PA Sep 2025 #58
Nancy Mace said "President Trump is the one who cooperated with the feds to get this guy." chowder66 Sep 2025 #35
Yet now he wants to keep everything secret? mzmolly Sep 2025 #38
"But Trump called it a Democrat hoax yesterday," Emile Sep 2025 #36
So Trump was working for the deep state Democrats? LiberalLovinLug Sep 2025 #54
Yes, I think that's what he is saying. Wow Emile Sep 2025 #64
Hey Mikey, are your facts all like this? 3825-87867 Sep 2025 #39
I suspect DOJ is floating this tale to take the heat off the guilty AverageOldGuy Sep 2025 #42
If the witnesses say he molested/ raped them Hope22 Sep 2025 #43
Hey Mike your nose is getting longer Ohioboy Sep 2025 #46
I believe you mickey. Codifer Sep 2025 #47
The old "I was conducting my own sting operation" excuse. reACTIONary Sep 2025 #51
I gotta bridge to sell ya if you believe such bullshit. La Coliniere Sep 2025 #53
An FBI informant regarding a hoax? Newark65 Sep 2025 #55
They can not keep their lies straight. John1956PA Sep 2025 #60
So Trump raped kids to get close to Epstein Duncanpup Sep 2025 #56
My name on Democratic Underground is ChouChou but I'm really Taylor Swift and Tom Hanks. chouchou Sep 2025 #57
iIt is such a pleasure to meet you, .Ms Swift and Mr. Hanks. niyad Sep 2025 #82
Also, A pleasure for me. I'd love to chat, but Madonna is holding our table at Montgomery's. chouchou Sep 2025 #87
It's possible the FBI might have interviewed Trump at some point Ocelot II Sep 2025 #61
And don't magats threaten the fbi et alia? GreenWave Sep 2025 #62
Oh, I wondered what they would come up with ReRe Sep 2025 #65
He has always timms139 Sep 2025 #66
More Like An FSB Agent Deep State Witch Sep 2025 #67
Is Holy Mike Johnson on The List? OMGWTF Sep 2025 #68
Just like Whitey Bulger Kid Berwyn Sep 2025 #69
Soneone should ask speaker Johnson if he'd swear on the holy kimbutgar Sep 2025 #70
If this is true Diraven Sep 2025 #71
OK this is getting good orangecrush Sep 2025 #72
Well then, I guess that means the fat fuehrer figures KPN Sep 2025 #74
Mike follows his conscience with the help of a spine of jello struggle4progress Sep 2025 #75
Gonna need to pull on the ol much boots to read more about this one. Attilatheblond Sep 2025 #77
fishing waders . .or a hazmat suit. niyad Sep 2025 #83
k&r n/t area51 Sep 2025 #80
COMEDY GOLD spanone Sep 2025 #81
What a Rebl2 Sep 2025 #84
Cankles "has a very compassionate heart"?? red dog 1 Sep 2025 #88
He's the real victim here Warren_Pointe Sep 2025 #90

Jilly_in_VA

(14,624 posts)
8. That is one of the BIG 10, Mikey
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:10 PM
Sep 2025

Ten Commandments, that is. The ones you want in every classroom, you whiny little fake Christian! Why don't you try keeping them first before lecturing others?

Jilly_in_VA

(14,624 posts)
86. Oh, he believes
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 01:21 PM
Sep 2025

he's going to heaven---the white Evangelical one. Boy, is he gonna be disappointed when he dies! Kinda like the last Talibangelical preacher---who was it now? I've already forgotten because he was so eminently forgettable. Oh yeah, Dobson.

MrWowWow

(1,461 posts)
4. Little johnson Would Eat tr💩mp's 💩💩💩💩
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:07 PM
Sep 2025

-If asked to do so. Actually, he probably already has given ole stinkydollhands multiple rim and blowjobs

dflprincess

(29,417 posts)
5. Only if he cut a deal with the feds
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:08 PM
Sep 2025

To rat out Epstein so he could avoid prosecution himself.

Wiz Imp

(10,413 posts)
17. Right. If he were a regular informant, certainly that would have been revealed at some point in the
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:43 PM
Sep 2025

past 20 years. So if he were an informant, that means he would have to be a confidential informant.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/confidential-informant

A CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT IS A SECRET SOURCE WHO, THROUGH A CONTACT OFFICER, SUPPLIES INFORMATION ON CRIMINAL ACTIVITY TO THE POLICE OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENT. IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY AND OBTAIN EVIDENCE AGAINST PERSONS INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, THE POLICE OFTEN USE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS. BOTH TYPES OF INVESTIGATION REQUIRE THE SECURING OF INFORMATION THAT COMES FROM WITHIN A CRIMINAL SUBCULTURE. WITHIN THIS CRIMINAL SUBCULTURE, DEALS ARE MADE, PLANS FOR THE FUTURE AS WELL AS PAST AND PRESENT CRIMES ARE OPENLY DISCUSSED, AND A GENERAL WEALTH OF CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE IS EXCHANGED. THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT, THEREFORE, BECOMES THE IDEAL TOOL FOR PENETRATING THEIR CRIMINAL SUBCULTURE.

In other words, a confidential informant is an individual who provides useful, credible information about alleged criminal activity to law enforcement in exchange for incentives, such as leniency in their own cases, money, or other considerations.

The thing is, The FBI never prosecuted a case against Epstein so there is no reason for them to have ever made a deal with Trump.

marble falls

(72,531 posts)
6. Hahahahahahahahahaha! What a maroon. Is he the stalking dog for TACO's getting named defense?
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:09 PM
Sep 2025

Wiz Imp

(10,413 posts)
7. Provable lie
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:10 PM
Sep 2025

It's been proven that Epstein was still a member at Mar a Lago long after he was first arrested. Not to mention that Trump himself has never claimed this but he HAS used about a half dozen other excuses for breaking off his friendship with Epstein.

Irish_Dem

(82,336 posts)
9. Their lies are becoming more outrageous and ridiculous.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:15 PM
Sep 2025

It would be funny if not so damn tragic.

ProfessorGAC

(77,277 posts)
11. And, It Never Came Up Until Now?
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:26 PM
Sep 2025

Johnson thinks people are stupider than him, and that's hard to envision.

underpants

(197,179 posts)
18. They've been waiting to play the "Secret Agent Man" card
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:43 PM
Sep 2025

The acting deputy chief of a Justice Department unit said on hidden camera that the government will “redact every Republican” from an Epstein client list, Axios reports.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20613068

ProfessorGAC

(77,277 posts)
22. Kind Of Reinforcing The "Stupid" Theme
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:52 PM
Sep 2025

The deputy chief of Justice didn't know he was talking on camera?
Pretty stupid.

2naSalit

(103,808 posts)
12. Oh puhleeeze!
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:31 PM
Sep 2025

That's a moldy one! Moses Mike spends too much time with the kids, perhaps.

mcar

(46,360 posts)
13. This is what it looks like to sell your soul
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:33 PM
Sep 2025

For the life of me, I will never understand how so many Republicans have sold their souls to devil Trump.

ananda

(35,513 posts)
14. Now this is an act of real desperation.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:35 PM
Sep 2025

It means Trump is in the files all right.

I wonder who came up with that tactic?

bluestarone

(22,465 posts)
15. Yep, can't erase his name so come up with a reason for it being there.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:38 PM
Sep 2025

PROOF beyond PROOF that his name is there possibly MANY TIMES!!!

underpants

(197,179 posts)
16. Whoops
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:38 PM
Sep 2025

The acting deputy chief of a Justice Department unit said on hidden camera that the government will “redact every Republican” from an Epstein client list, Axios reports.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20613068

Wiz Imp

(10,413 posts)
25. I don't think that video means what a lot of people seem to think it does.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:01 PM
Sep 2025

I believe the guy in the video was giving his opinion of what he thought the DOJ would do, NOT that the DOJ had revealed to him their plan to do so. Think about it. If the DOJ planned to do that, why haven't they done it already? I don't think this guy is MAGA and therefore he is skeptical of how the DOJ is handling the Epstein files, and based on what he has seen within the Department, he believes they will do anything they need to to try to clear Trump and Republicans.

Skittles

(172,872 posts)
40. ah, the mitigator chimes in
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:28 PM
Sep 2025

because they really, REALLY thought this issue would be a nothing burger by now - well, guess what.....most people don't care for sex trafficking no matter WHO is doing it......repukes are getting more desperate by the day now

brakester

(623 posts)
85. Agreed!!, Wiz!
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 11:22 AM
Sep 2025

This deceptively edited video is the product of empty-souled, uber right wing liar, James O'Keefe (who was fired from Project Veritas).


https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/epstein-files-redaction-hidden-camera-doj-rcna229348

James O’Keefe, the oft-debunked disinformation-peddler (who was ousted in 2023 from the conservative activist group Project Veritas), posted one of his sting-style videos in which the department’s acting deputy chief at the Office of Enforcement Operations, Joseph Schnitt, discusses internal DOJ feuds over the release of files related to deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the department’s decision to move convicted Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security prison.

Given O’Keefe’s track record of dubiously editing hidden-camera clips to advance his political agenda (which I've covered here for MSNBC in the past), the substance of this particular video should be taken with a boulder-sized grain of salt. But that O’Keefe’s agenda now appears to include targeting the Trump administration over an alleged cover-up of the Epstein files is indicative of the growing right-wing backlash to the administration’s efforts to block the files’ release.
 

dcmfox

(581 posts)
20. Something else
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:49 PM
Sep 2025

If Trump is a RAT, then what did the FBI have on him to make him flip?

Lies upon lies

hamsterjill

(17,754 posts)
24. Oh, good grief! Why don't they just go ahead and say that Trump is some alien from outer space.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:58 PM
Sep 2025

It's what all of his QAnon followers believe. He's from some master race of beings and is here to save the country because he's SO much smarter than all of the rest of us.

The rest of us are forced to listen to this bullshit? I don't think so. This man (Johnson) should be examined for having delusions and hallucinations.

If Trump was an FBI informant, it would pretty much be like Elvis asking Nixon for credentials to be a narc. And Trump is certainly NO Elvis Presley.

rubbersole

(11,277 posts)
48. He might have been an alien.👽
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:49 PM
Sep 2025

Sen. John Kennedy (LA-nazi) had a poster displayed on the Senate floor the other day of an alien....maybe that fake hick was trying to tell us something. Or maybe he's crazier than a Louisiana goat.

hamsterjill

(17,754 posts)
50. Well, in the world we live in today, you just don't know, right?
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:51 PM
Sep 2025

These idiots will stand up there with a straight face and say anything that comes to mind! And half of their idiot followers will believe them!

70sEraVet

(5,616 posts)
26. Johnson must have watched RFKjr tell the lie about the Head of CDC....
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:02 PM
Sep 2025

telling him "No" after he asked her if she was a trustworthy person, so he had to fire her!
There is apparently no lie to big to tell!!

mzmolly

(52,858 posts)
28. An informant who helped Epstein cut a sweetheart deal and moved
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:04 PM
Sep 2025

Maxwell to a cushy hotel instead of a prison?

H2O Man

(79,252 posts)
30. There has long been
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:08 PM
Sep 2025

speculation that after Epstein and the felon broke up, the felon believed that Epstein had reported his money laundering for Russian banks to US- English- Israeli intelligence, and so he dropped dime on Epstein's domestic tax crimes. It is more likely than not that there is a file documenting that speculation existed, rather than answering if he actually contacted the FBI. But keep in mind that at the time of the break-up in their relationship, the felon was tight with the infamous nest of primarily retired FBI agents in NYC.

John1956PA

(5,119 posts)
52. At a seminar given by a retired FBI agent who had spent time that NYC nest, he indicated his disdain for the Clintons.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:56 PM
Sep 2025

I do not know the reason for his antipathy toward the Clintons. My only point is that the FBI office in southern NYC hosted a certain core agents who were of a particular ideological/political agenda.

H2O Man

(79,252 posts)
76. Right.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:08 PM
Sep 2025

There was a group of them who had served in Vietnam before joining the FBI. They were tough, intelligent men, though I don't like their politics. They were the ones that did the investigative work that Rudy G used to prosecute some of the mob. They pretty much formed a unit that helped Rudy become mayor, then challenge Hillary Clinton before dropping out. They despised both Clintons from the time Bill became president. I did not understand it then, and still do not. But they did their best to spread disinformation and misinformation on both.

They disliked President Obama and President Biden. But they hated the Clintons.

John1956PA

(5,119 posts)
78. Everything you state is in line with the bits and pieces I have picked up over the years.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:01 PM
Sep 2025

I have wondered if it was shared religion beliefs and ethnic backgrounds which set the platform for gelling the agents in a homogenized mindset.

Regardless, in their operations, they need to have one another's backs. Mutual trust is a unifying factor.

H2O Man

(79,252 posts)
79. Right.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:37 PM
Sep 2025

Though I'm no fan of their politics, that mutual trust allowed them to go after some very dangerous people. And they were good at it.

I am under the impression that it was their experiences in dangerous situations in Vietnam that cemented them in the FBI. Regardless of my opinion of the war from a social-political view, I respect the young guys who fought there.

HighFired49

(520 posts)
89. Exactly
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:34 PM
Sep 2025

Most news stories I've seen about these two pervs say that they were friends for 15-20 years. Can't believe that even our FBI took that long to move on the operation if they had an inside informant. Total BS.

sop

(19,307 posts)
33. Donnie Brasco
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:16 PM
Sep 2025

John Barron, John Miller, Carolin Gallego, David Dennison...now Donnie Brasco.

chowder66

(12,513 posts)
35. Nancy Mace said "President Trump is the one who cooperated with the feds to get this guy."
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:25 PM
Sep 2025

from this article it shows her post to X.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nancy-mace-abandons-epstein-victims-to-defend-donald-trump-after-calls-to-release-epstein-files/


Marching orders to frame the narrative.

Hope22

(4,878 posts)
43. If the witnesses say he molested/ raped them
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:42 PM
Sep 2025

Then nothing Mikey says matters. Pedophile should fry. On a side note….who wanted Jeffery dead more? Hmmmmm.

Ohioboy

(3,894 posts)
46. Hey Mike your nose is getting longer
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:47 PM
Sep 2025

Then why doesn't Trump support the claims of the women?

And why does he call it a hoax?

And why is Trump named as a co-defendant along with Epstein in a case of rape?

And why doesn't the timeline make sense?

Codifer

(1,212 posts)
47. I believe you mickey.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:47 PM
Sep 2025

Oh, and my cat discovered radium and pitched a perfect game in the world series.

La Coliniere

(1,994 posts)
53. I gotta bridge to sell ya if you believe such bullshit.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:58 PM
Sep 2025

It’s my observation that the more a person proclaims to be a holier-than-though born again evangelical the more they are prone to be out and out liars. One side of my family has demonstrated this for many years. And they are all MAGA.

chouchou

(3,306 posts)
57. My name on Democratic Underground is ChouChou but I'm really Taylor Swift and Tom Hanks.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:02 PM
Sep 2025

Thank you Daarlings..

chouchou

(3,306 posts)
87. Also, A pleasure for me. I'd love to chat, but Madonna is holding our table at Montgomery's.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 02:56 PM
Sep 2025

Kissy..Kissy.. (OK...back to earth...I have to take the garbage out)

Ocelot II

(131,227 posts)
61. It's possible the FBI might have interviewed Trump at some point
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:07 PM
Sep 2025

when Epstein was being investigated, either in 2006 or later wrt the 2019 prosecution. But that wouldn't have made him an informant, just a possible witness.

ReRe

(12,189 posts)
65. Oh, I wondered what they would come up with
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:27 PM
Sep 2025

to deal with this little "situation". I agree with the first person to reply in your thread.


timms139

(563 posts)
66. He has always
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:28 PM
Sep 2025

been a known liar so law enforcement would't have trusted him with anything .

Kid Berwyn

(25,091 posts)
69. Just like Whitey Bulger
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:38 PM
Sep 2025

Cut the Feds in on the action in Boston, further cementing the brotherhood between secret government criminals and gangster elites.

kimbutgar

(27,557 posts)
70. Soneone should ask speaker Johnson if he'd swear on the holy
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:40 PM
Sep 2025

Bible as to this being a truthful statement?

Diraven

(1,950 posts)
71. If this is true
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:49 PM
Sep 2025

The the FBI should be able to show us documented testimony from decades ago that corroborate it. And no reason not to release it.

KPN

(17,510 posts)
74. Well then, I guess that means the fat fuehrer figures
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 09:32 PM
Sep 2025

prominently in the Epstein files

But we and little Mikey already knew that, so …

red dog 1

(33,471 posts)
88. Cankles "has a very compassionate heart"??
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:28 PM
Sep 2025

(From the Mediate.com article)
When asked "Should he meet with the victims?"
Johnson replied, "I suspect he probably will. Yeah, he has great compassion for them. The president has a very compassionate heart."

What a load of shit!

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