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    If this theory were true than Biden would have released the Epstein files. Both parties are complicit.

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      I’m not sure about that. If Biden had released them, they would have been able to spin it as them being ‘doctored’ or other bullshit. Honestly, there were ways to release them, at least partially, in a way that both appeased his base and covered his ass. Instead, they decided to make themselves look guilty AF with the “take the claw in the face, roll around on the ground, and die” strategy.

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        So fucking what? When you know trump is going to release it edited, as it seems like he’s already in the process of doing, which was obvious to anybody with a brain during the election, why the fuck wouldn’t you preemptively release them? I mean besides the obvious reason, what could possibly be the logic here? Unless the argument is that it’s pure stupidity, which comes with its own issues therein of itself.

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          The list undoubtedly contains major political donors along with politicians on both sides. The donors part is probably the key you’re looking for

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      Dept of Justice declassified them on Jan 9th this year. He was a little busy that week doing a massive pile of other things, besides Trump had promised to release them, why would he prioritise something no one was asking for ahead of things like student debt relief and pardons for non violent drug offenders ?

      https://old.reddit.com/r/50501Movement/comments/1m6l94x/why_didnt_biden_release_the_epstein_files_a/

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        So the files were unsealed for a year during Bidens administration and they still weren’t released?

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            Ok, so he had a week. Call me crazy, but the pedophile ring that supposedly implicates our entire ruling class in child molestation is kind of important, and the people should know about it.

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              Biden had a week. Trump has had 6 months. Trump campaigned on releasing it, Biden was hurriedly trying to get too much done in too little time.

              If there’s Democrats on the list they should rot in hell with Trump and Epstein.

              But pointing the finger at Biden is straight up deflection to protect Trump. There is no other way to view it.

              Trump & Bondi have the primary culpability here. Whataboutism really only protects the Fanta Felon

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      Biden respected the law, though. The files were sealed by a judge until after Ghoulaine Maxwell’s trial. They weren’t unsealed until after Jan 2024. Biden couldn’t, by law, release them.

      Biden didn’t run a cult. He allowed the DOJ to operate independently of the executive, unlike Trump who demands loyalty oaths and treats every agency like his personal operatives.

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        Yeah, I did, or else I wouldn’t have even known what pedocon meant. We already know there’s going to be some democrats on the list, or at the very least their donors. I don’t understand why this one isn’t a valid point.

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      Ok, but right now way more Republicans are for sure on that list(they just can’t seem to leave kids alone) and Biden isn’t in power to release the thing. Also leftists don’t particularly like Biden all that much, and it’s funny when the right thinks they’ve figured out a gotcha because it’s just a projection of how much they’ll let their own guy off the hook for stuff they know is awful.

      If most of the Democrats go down then most of their voters would be largely ok with that. And at least the Democrats have made some moves to push this issue forward in the last couple weeks, which for them is refreshing given how little energy they often put into anything at all.

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      It’s weird this conversation sticks to democrats and Republicans. How many leaders from other countries would be implicated in this list? Either way Biden is a bitch for not releasing it, but I’d believe an excuse that he didn’t want to potentially fuck up 10 alliances with other countries before I believe he was protecting some pedo dems. I wouldn’t accept the excuse, but I’d believe it.

      Names should be released regardless of party or country. Let the chips fall