Classic Donnie

[luzribeiro]

So, it turns out some freshly released emails from Epstein claim that Trump spent hours with one of the victims at Epstein's home, and that Trump "of course... knew about the girls", according to the financier:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/12/trump-spent-hours-with-victim-at-epsteins-house-email-alleges

Meanwhile, the White House's response? Well, the Press Secretary insisted the emails "prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong".

What really takes the comedic cake: there's the unspoken claim (not exactly phrased this way, but implied) that the Trump who was allegedly involved is somehow "a different Donald Trump" than the one we know. Maybe one who accidentally walked into Epstein's house unawares? The actual statement was that the leaks are cherry-picked, part of a hoax, etc you know the drill - but the tone amounts to "not the Trump you know, folks!"

Of course, I'm not saying guilt or innocence here - the facts are still being debated, investigations are ongoing, lots of redactions and blacked-out names. For what it's worth, one of the victims named in other sources is Virginia Giuffre, though whether she's the one referenced in these specific emails is unverified.

And yes - the irony is thick: a man who once said "I've known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years; terrific guy... it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side", is now being defended by his own administration with the "nothing to see here / different guy" approach. Classic Donnie, eh?

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[garote]

What sticks in my craw are all the right-wing pundits trying very hard to claim that emails written in plain language about Trump are "ambiguous" ... who spent countless hours screaming to the rooftops ten years ago about Hillary's emails containing oblique references to child trafficking because they contained the word "pizza".