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deminks

(11,495 posts)
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 05:11 PM 9 hrs ago

Rep. Raskin saw a reference to a 9 yr old girl in unredacted Epstein files

“Raskin also said that he saw ‘references to 17-year-old girls, 16-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 11-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls, and I saw a reference today to a 9-year-old girl. So it is a really gruesome and grim story.’“ www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Jill Lawrence (@jilldlawrence.bsky.social) 2026-02-09T21:39:27.230Z


“Raskin also said that he saw ‘references to 17-year-old girls, 16-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 11-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls, and I saw a reference today to a 9-year-old girl. So it is a really gruesome and grim story.’“ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-congress-dhs-ice-immigration-epstein-files-doj-live-updates-rcna257949

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Wiz Imp

(9,345 posts)
4. There was a reference to a 9-year old girl in the redacted files.
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 05:40 PM
9 hrs ago

There was an email from/to a person whose name was redacted that mentioned a 9 year old girl from Brazil.

kwolf68

(8,311 posts)
6. Whoever is involved
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 05:48 PM
8 hrs ago

Needs to goto prison, then burn in hell. Sad thing is you have the Trump regime in control of all of that shit so you know they will protect King Donald, even if he's a complete pedophile. How the hell can you support this guy? Forget I asked.

Botany

(76,736 posts)
7. He (Trump) is a monster. And the Republicans, the media, and the Powers that be are covering for him.
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 06:00 PM
8 hrs ago

The man raped underage girls and was part of an international child sex trafficking ring
that included, Putin, Musk, Epstein, and others. He should have been in jail years ago.

Volaris

(11,511 posts)
9. I think maybe its time for another discharge petition, one that lifts the statute of limitation for any crimes
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 07:27 PM
7 hrs ago

Directly implicated in any Epstien-related document the DOJ has as of Feb 1, this year.

Money laundering, sex crimes, trafficking, the whole shebang. Fuck these people, I WANT THEM SCARED of what they did (and THOUGHT they got away with).

PatSeg

(52,592 posts)
10. Look at that face!
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 07:27 PM
7 hrs ago

Would you trust that man around your children or grandchildren?

I swear, he gets uglier everyday as if his real personality is coming to the surface. Or perhaps the more I know, the more I perceive the ugliness?

B.See

(8,042 posts)
12. Here is how The Guardian covered it:
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 07:47 PM
7 hrs ago
Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files - The Guardian

Which in addition to Raskin's remarks above, contained the following:

In the UK, Keir Starmer’s government  has been rocked by revelations of ties between Epstein and Peter Mandelson, whom the prime minister appointed as ambassador to the US.

Raskin noted the files were enough to spark a political firestorm in the UK but not in the US even though Trump – unlike Starmer – is mentioned repeatedly in the files.

“It is a huge political scandal [in Britain], and I’m just afraid that the general coarsening and degradation of American life has somehow conditioned people not to take this as seriously as we should be taking it,” Raskin said, noting that files he has seen contain discussions regarding girls as young as nine years old.

“I hope the whole country is focusing on the absolute gravity of the crisis that we’re in.”

llmart

(17,467 posts)
14. Jaimie Raskin is my hero.
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 08:00 PM
6 hrs ago

He is NOT letting this die and I thank him for that. It should never have taken this long for the public to know all that went on with the pedo in chief and Epstein. We're still only getting dribs and drabs. I want the floodgates to open and some leakers divulge it all.

JudyM

(29,672 posts)
17. "... the general coarsening and degradation of American life..."
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 11:03 PM
3 hrs ago

Raskin nailed it. The exact opposite of the ludicrously named "MAGA."

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