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[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Is she going to demand the photos stop linking her to Epstein as well?

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

Linking? Didn't Jeffrey Epstein had sex with her first before Trump got his sloppy seconds?

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago
[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 62 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

She wore this after visiting children in cages. She’s no friend of mine.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

She seems like such a nice lady though! I mean clearly having sex with old dudes for money but such a nice lady!

Although I have heard that she might have some immigration issues.

At least she would never steal someone else's speech because she can barely speak English though.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 91 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Streisand Effect:

Asked if he wished to apologize, Biden said: “Uh, fuck that, not going to happen.”>

“What I said is what I have heard and seen reported and written primarily from Michael Wolff, but also dating back to 2019.” He cited a number of publications, including the New York Times and Vanity Fair, as sources of his information.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 29 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

My personal take is that she's only staying married to him for spite.

If she divorced he'd be able to openly marry one of his bimbos.

She's telling people that Donnie and Epstein were buddies.

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Idk I think she's probably just an awful person and has absolutely no morals or ethical standards to make her dislike Trump. Remember the "I dont care do u?" jacket she wore to the child detention camp? That's not something a person does if they aren't the kind of person that gets raped to death every day in a Sisyphus torture hell.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 9 points 11 hours ago

She's done plenty to humiliate him.

She spent the first six months of 2017 living in New York, refusing to go to Washington.

https://youtu.be/s_ZCNL3__GM

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 16 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

She won't get the big pay-out unless they're still married when he dies. Divorce settlements are always smaller than an inheritance.

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 9 points 11 hours ago

She probably thought with his diet and sedentary lifestyle he'd be dead by now

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 points 11 hours ago

You're forgetting the book/movie deal.

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 59 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe she shouldn’t have partied with human traffickers. No sympathy for these kiddy diddlers and rapists.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 27 points 14 hours ago

Pretty sure she "hung out with traffickers" because she was actively being trafficked...

A marriage to a rich older businessman is basically the retirement plan for high end escorts.

And they guy who "discovered her", Paolo Zampolli, is essentially another Epstein. They even co-owned a modelling agency together.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 27 points 14 hours ago

Alternate title: "Matriarch of family that used man as conspiratorial lynch pin in their attacks on his father demands apology and retraction of statements shared by and corroborated by many other sources."

What a bunch of lunatics.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 31 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

When are the Epstein files getting released?

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

Can we stop pretending we actually need them to know what actually happened. You already have a pretty damn good idea. I mean literal testimony exists and is on record.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Do you really think they're going to be released?

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, they've probably been destroyed. Probably a lot in 2019.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

I'm honestly not sure what "files" people expect to exist and what they might contain.

Genuinely asking: was he a blackmailer? Did he keep evidence on all of his clients?

More cynically: do we really expect that law enforcement has that evidence and that the trump administration might release it?

There's just no chance in hell anything actionable will be released by the Trump administration.

Honestly, they could release a list, handwritten in sharpie, of Democrats and call that the epstein files and that would be that.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hunter should counter sue for all the shit they said about him.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 13 points 14 hours ago

Hunter is a deeply troubled man but he isn't an idiot. He understands that the discovery phase isn't something he wants.

Contrast that with republican dumbfucks who will make empty threats before their lawyers explain why that is a bad idea and why they will be dropping them as clients (and setting a few server rooms on fire) before filing.

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I’m glad him and Callahan don’t seem to be backing down from her empty threats.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

It's common knowledge that she, Trump, and Epstein socialized. Epstein introducing the two would only be interesting if that "introduction" involved the exchange of money.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Yeah - lets take this to court and get some facts on the table

[–] marius@feddit.org 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

As a european its always strange to see how Americans drag the whole family into politics. I still don't know if Angela Merkel has any children and she was chancellor for 16 years

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It was a red line that even most Republicans didn't cross (except scum like Rush Limbaugh) until we had the gall to elect a black president. Then the kids became fair game.

[–] overthere@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

That’s not true. I remember them trashing Chelsea Clinton before then.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Rush did. That was the point of my caveat.

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Yeah, they were pretty monstrous and hateful to Chelsea. Of course it's only ever Republicans who do this, because it's the party of terrible human beings.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 points 9 hours ago

The politicians didn't, at least publicly. OP did include the qualifier "except scum like Rush" and that's who immediately springs to mind when someone brings up Chelsea being trashed.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck Melania, but also fuck Hunter. They both seriously suck. I have very little sympathy for either of them and the way they act in public.

[–] atticus88th@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

We should just let em duke it out in a cage match.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There's not much human face left for Hunter to punch.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe instead of them fighting we can see something more... revealing

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Jello wrestling match. You're welcome for the mental image, not even bleach is gonna get that one out (much like the stains)

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, but Andrew from Channel 5 is roped into it, because he did the I terview and it's on his channel.

And he's not taking it down, so he's also open to the lawsuit.

I posted about it a few days ago:

https://lemmy.world/post/34446023?scrollToComments=true

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why is she butthurt over this?

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

You’d be butthurt too if you had that lil orange prick in your ass

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Chomo mad at being called a chomo.