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Georgina's avatar

Thanks for talking through this. Because these are exactly the things that were on my mind!

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Jane in NC's avatar

Even during his first term, Trump's administration got caught up in the Epstein case when Trump hired Alex Acosta, who was the federal prosecutor who gave Epstein the sweetheart non-prosecution agreement instead of a trial and jail time. The Trump DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility found that Acosta has 'exercised poor judgement' but had not engaged in misconduct in his atrocious handling of the Epstein case. BUT, the OPR refused to release their full report. Acosta was eventually forced to resign as Trump's Secretary of Labor.

Epstein was rearrested in 2019 on very similar charges to the 2008 case, and jailed. But he allegedly committed suicide before he could be tried. Trump probably thought all the Epstein business was over, and he was in the clear. But, not so fast, Donnie. After spending years spinning his cult up over Epstein, they expected him to deliver now. The fools. Why would the guy, who been found liable for sexual assault, who admitted to being a peeping tom at his teen beauty pageant, and who's had an unnatural fixation on his daughter Ivanka since she was a child, turn over records that almost certainly show him to be a pedophile?

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Marie's avatar

What is the statute of limitations on charging for child trafficking? Is POTUS exempt if he was involved in this before he was POTUS? Why is FLOTUS showing up all the sudden? Is FLOTUS a citizen? If not, does that make Baron von Orange not a citizen under the new proposed rules?

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verne's avatar

Dang, i wonder if Susie Wiles is prostrate under her desk, with a Swisher Sweet, burning a hole in the rug, and an empty bottle of MD 20/20, trying to find Ballard's number....

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

DeSanctimonious Beating Democrats to the Metallic Line

The framers of the US Constitution understood money, credit, currency, and their differences they know that money is gold and that paper currency even when redeemable into gold introduces counterparty risk and that deposits in banks are the most dangerous currency of all They wrote into the Constitution basic monetary principles that served the people well until FDR in 1933 began the downward slide to fiat currency

The Numeraire Clause of the Constitution gave the power of the coin to the Federal government Note that this was not to print money This has become Article One Section 8 Monetarily we as a country have lost our metallic moorings and going off the gold standard in 1971

And the Republicans have talked about a return to a gold standard for some time Now DeSanctimonious in Florida(https://bit.ly/44MyMU2) has decided to take another step toward a metallic standard by making gold and silver legal tender in the state This is a step toward sound money with the dollar’s purchasing power dropping 88% of what is was in 1971

Democrats need to join them This is one thing we can agree on (in part from Money and Liberty Chapter 9 James Turk)

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Jane in NC's avatar

WTAF does any of that gibberish have to do with the Trump hiding the Epstein files?

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

It doesn't

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Jane in NC's avatar

No kidding. 🤦‍♀️

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