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Johonny

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4. If Trump's life story has shown anything, it's that there is a multi-tier justice system in the US

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 12:37 PM

16 hrs ago

One in which wealthy criminals like Epstein and Trump can essentially break the law repeatedly with little to no interest from authorities. Even when justice comes; the courts are designed to dish out minimum sentences at a slow rate of process, with the multi-tier review courts making sentencing delayed forever, if it ever comes at all.

Meanwhile, the poor live under constant harassment from law enforcement and suffer maximum sentencing for often trivial crimes.

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Sister of Epstein victim reported him in 1996, but FBI failed to investigate, files reveal [View all] Jilly_in_VA 20 hrs ago OP

Or somebody higher up on the food chain intervened. cloudbase 20 hrs ago #1

Don't know how that works. Igel 17 hrs ago #3

It's becoming clear Epstein was a government asset, used and shielded by foreign and domestic agencies for decades. sop 20 hrs ago #2

If Trump's life story has shown anything, it's that there is a multi-tier justice system in the US Johonny 16 hrs ago #4

With Trump, it was known that Ivanka and Don Jr lied to sell condos karynnj 13 hrs ago #7

If the president of the USA at the mucifer 14 hrs ago #5

They were investigating the President at the time JI7 13 hrs ago #8

Where was Louis Freeh during all of this? ck4829 14 hrs ago #6

knr UTUSN 13 hrs ago #9

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