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Prairie Gates

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5. An ancillary effect of the Epstein releases is that Trump begins losing his leverage over some of these people

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Feb 2, 2026, 07:45 PM

9 hrs ago

It's blindingly obvious that Trump held these emails over Karp's head. Remember, one of his arguments to MTG and Mace and Bob ert was that release would hurt "our friends."

Idiot Brad Karp got blackmailed and it came out anyway. Fucking herb.

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Elite Law Firm Boss Who Bent the Knee to Trump Sucked Up to 'Amazing' Epstein [View all] BumRushDaShow 12 hrs ago OP

Fun fun fun Srkdqltr 11 hrs ago #1

I believe all those "contributions" were really just payments to be blacked out in the files. LiberalArkie 11 hrs ago #2

What a bunch of weirdos. No offense to all the weird people out there. ck4829 10 hrs ago #3

HE's in the files Pas-de-Calais 10 hrs ago #4

An ancillary effect of the Epstein releases is that Trump begins losing his leverage over some of these people Prairie Gates 9 hrs ago #5

Imagine working at Paul, Weiss and reporting to this fuckwit Prairie Gates 9 hrs ago #6

A lot of them left and some even joined with others who fled knee-benders to form their own law firms BumRushDaShow 9 hrs ago #7