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President Donald Trump says he has ordered the justice department to produce additional documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

"Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval," he said.

It's unclear if Trump is authorising the public release of these documents. Such action would typically require court approval.

Yeah Bondi, slap together some more doctored BS to tell whatever story you need to tell. Maybe more "raw unedited footage" pasted together and missing 3 minutes.

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[–] localhost443@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago

Knowing how incompetent they are, I won't be surprised if they release a spreadsheet with a second tab they don't notice labelled "Donald's rape list"

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 hours ago

This is like trying to get his tax returns... 😒

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

Sounds like the files have been "fixed" so the orange rapist's name won't be found on the new and improved documents. All okay now.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Grok or openai?

[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sounds like the Dumbass-in-Chief wants that twat to throw together a list of names and claim it's the Epstein list. Bet all the names will be Democrats.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

that twat

I once used the word "twat" around my then-girlfriend. She said "you're pronouncing that wrong." WTF? "It's pronounced twah." Turns out she thought I and everybody else who used that word were trying to say the French word toit. No idea why she thought people were trying to use "roof" as an insult.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 11 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

🐕the fuck you just say?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

It's pronounced ruff.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I hear lots of Americans online trying to use it and pronouncing it wrong (twot). It's twat, tw-at. Maybe they think we all say it like that?

OMG! I just realized Brits and Americans pronounce some words differently! Try saying "tuna" properly.

[–] mmcintyre@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

How do you pronounce swamp?

They pronounce it "PAR-luh-ment".

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Made this joke at work. It'll be

  • Colin Kaepernick
  • Obama's wife(not even Michelle it'll just say Obama's wife)
  • Greta Thunberg
[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 points 12 hours ago

That made me laugh out loud. It will probably say Obama Wife

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago

If democratic personnel are thrown under the bus, they'll drag everyone else down with them.

If there was anything worth seeing surely Ghislane would've used it to get out of jail

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Wait, didn't they say there are NO files? What files are they gonna release? The inconsistencies here will blow some people's minds.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They converted it into a pdf.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

I need that nothing to PDF converter! oh, it's just grok? nevermind..

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There is no Excel spreadsheet named Epsteins_Client_List.xslx

Ergo, no files.

duh, because it's .xlsx

[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

These seem like the kind of people who use spaces, not underscores, in their file names.

also i bet they don't use spreadsheets... more like pdf files 🥁

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

And it's still .xls

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 131 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Cue the news conference where she pulls out a 2000 page binder that she claims are the documents, only to just be blank pages.

[–] quinceyBones@lemmy.zip 75 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I heard Trump has binders full of children.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

It's an old reference, but it checks out.

[–] bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Binder? I don't even know her!

[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Never stopped Trump before!

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[–] Gaylactus@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm sure they will somehow, implicate Joe Binder in it.

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[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago

Nah they will inexplicably only name Democrats, there won’t be a single Republican name in there

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[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Didn’t they already do this? And found nothing?

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 87 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Please let this backfire spectacularly

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I don't see how it could possibly help him. It's just going to keep the story in the media, longer it stays in the news cycle the bigger it snowballs.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

More likely let it stay in the media and give them boring shit until something else catches peoples attention.

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[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It won't, they'll produce a bunch of falsified documents implicating everybody but TACO, and half the country will accept it as gospel.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

I don't think there is a more direct way of saying "you want epstein files? Fine I will produce some fake files and release them. You will eat those files like eating shit all the while knowing they are fake, because that is what you are. You are my little shit eaters."

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The key word is pertinent:

Pertinent

n. Anything that doesn’t portray Trump in a bad light while simultaneously harming his perceived foes, as determined by Donald J. Trump and/or Pam Bondi at the formers discretion.

Plus, the Grand Jury testimony is only a small fraction of the ‘files’

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago

“Produce”, as in “fabricate” or “forge”

[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Prepare for fake documents. Finally People can read this moron like a book. Lies and fake shit.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Springtime for Hitler

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

List aside, did I miss why we aren't still talking about the 3 missing minutes and Adobe edited surveillance footage of the prison?

[–] sh00g@piefed.zip 12 points 1 day ago

Because "flood the zone" is an incredibly effective tactic against Americans who can't stay focused on something longer than one day. Each time something horrific comes out in the news they can just tell people to look at Trump's ankles instead. Oh and then we get a very professional doctor's opinion that Trump is the greatest, healthiest president we've ever had with the physique of a college athlete.

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[–] Naich@lemmings.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it exist today or not? I lose track sometimes. Is there an easy way to remember?

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[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hate to say this, but Epstein/Trump stories feel like the real distraction. It's long been known that Trump is connected with Epstein, that he's a certified sex pest, and that he's creepy about kids (including his own daughter). It's been default knowledge that Trump is a pedo creep, yet people seem to think that even smoking gun evidence will make some sort of difference.

Almost nobody will seriously change where that stand based on anything that could possibly revealed. On the other hand, the economy is in shambles, the government in shreds, and there are actual fucking concentration camps that people are getting disappeared to.

There is too much horror in the moment for me to fret so much about these horrors from the past. Epstein will not harm anyone else, but unknown high level child sex rings will. Everyone around Epstein getting revealed will not bring retribution to many culprits, nor will it change the root causes of such unaccountable abuse.

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