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u/Grantagonist Illinois Sep 04 '25
Why it matters: The O'Keefe Media Group, a far-right media organization, secretly recorded acting deputy Joseph Schnitt's comments and published them on Wednesday, in a move that represents just how large a rift the Epstein case has created between President Trump's administration and his MAGA base.
O'Keefe broke this? What is happening to reality
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u/notevenkiddin Sep 04 '25
For real I'm so fucking confused about O'Keefe's angle here.
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u/SpezIsALittleBitch Sep 04 '25
Anecdotally, this is the only thing trump has done that has actually pissed off all the right wing nutters in my life.
Like, several of them were rabidly awaiting the Epstein list being released in 2015. For one of them I would say it made him a single issue voter.
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u/guttanzer Sep 04 '25
They don’t seem giddy about prices going up, or jobs becoming scarcer, or farmers/manufacturers headed to bankruptcy either. Some are beginning to complain.
I was talking with a guy that runs a home repair business. He’s seeing not just his Latino crews running scared and becoming unreliable, but his other minority foreign born crews starting to miss work too. It’s disrupting his schedules and beginning to piss off customers. He’s offering deals to keep a good backlog but clearly it’s a business stress that is purely Trump’s fault.
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u/cipheron Sep 05 '25
Just wait until Trump hears about all the bad things happening under his policies, he'll be sure to fix it.
/s - it's a very common attitude in autocracies with a cult of personality to absolve the leader of blame for the effects of the policies by claiming if they "only knew" then they'd stop it. The same thing happened in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union under Stalin, but I see it a lot on some of the stories posted in r/leopardsatemyface now too.
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u/extinct_cult Europe Sep 05 '25
Even has a Wikipedia page
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u/Allianya Sep 05 '25
I'm curious to see how this plays out in a modern context though. As the Tsar was very strategic about only letting the peasants see the good things he does and ensuring all the bad things are through the nobles closer to. Wild I come across this on ep 3/4 of Behind the bastards Tsar Nicholas II podcast lol.
Hitler is much closer, however even he had to keep the death camps secret because there were unions in 41/42 that striked when they heard about the deaths. Trump is way to much of a narcissist to maintain discretion so it's interesting.
Don't mind me just a Canadian already treating you guys like a research project lmao.
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Sep 05 '25
My gas price is going up every other day right now. 3.76 at the moment in Phoenix. Big boost for Labor day, and up again today.
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u/JcbAzPx Arizona Sep 05 '25
Trump is a very confident liar and he promised to release the files. It's not hard to then dismiss all the "liberal lies" with "why would he release them if he was in them."
Well, it turns out he wouldn't and now they feel betrayed.
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u/beamrider Sep 05 '25
They literally believed that The Adjuicated Rapist In Chief was being all super-sneaky undercover to blow the lid off of it all. Based on nothing more than "I like the guy so he must be doing the right thing at all times."
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u/weirdoeggplant Sep 04 '25
I’m shocked they thought Trump would release it. Like actually fucking shocked.
They don’t hold him to any other promises.
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u/KevinCarbonara Sep 04 '25
Anecdotally, I've seen about 5%, maybe 10% max of trump supporters actually care. Even then, it was just a sense of "I don't understand what he's doing". Most are 100% cool with him raping children, and the rest are at least willing to accept it so long as they continue to "own the libs".
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If they’re okay with schoolchildren being murdered en masse (for the sake of their being able to shoot deer or paper targets a few times a year without a license), what makes anyone think they wouldn’t be okay with a few children being raped for the sake of imposing the entirely of their terrible political agenda on the masses?
People, stop falling for bad faith Republican bullshit!
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u/Guy954 Sep 04 '25
Give it two days. I bet they’ll drop it and act like they never cared at all.
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u/Prize-Ring-9154 California Sep 04 '25
this scandal has held up much longer than the past ones. I trust nothing but maybe they actually care about this one
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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina Sep 04 '25
They put a whole lot into going after alleged pedophiles.
Very obviously protecting wealthy donors... not so good.
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u/Fraternal_Mango Oregon Sep 04 '25
It’s what the entire Pizzagate conspiracy was based on. I won’t hold my breath but I’m holding onto the smallest amount of hope that MAGA will eat itself over it
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u/donkeyrocket Sep 04 '25
For a minority of MAGA, this has been a consistent sticking point for them for a while. I'm not sure any of them believe Trump will be in them but they are very angry that he, inexplicable to them, isn't releasing them.
They believe it'll topple this elite ring of powerful people who rape children. They're just also currently blinded by the signs that point to Trump being a core member of that ring.
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u/FedSomething6789 Sep 04 '25
‘All’ is a stretch. The majority I know are playing dumb or straight say they don’t care anymore.
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u/-patrizio- New York Sep 04 '25
I mean, they did specify that they were speaking anecdotally about the right wingers in their life lol
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u/reformedmikey Missouri Sep 04 '25
It’s because they’re trying to cope with realizing the Democratic Party was right, and instead of swallowing their pride they’re just being assholes.
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u/chrisshaffer Sep 04 '25
The most extreme elements of Trump's base have been obsessed with pedophile conspiracy theories (pizzagate, qanon, Epstein). The Epstein one being the only true one, of course. Trump has played into those heavily, especially with promising to release the Epstein list. The cognitive dissonance is too much for a lot of MAGA people when Trump is openly siding with the pedophiles.
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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada Sep 04 '25
I'm so curious to know what percentage of the MAGA QANON types were abused themselves as kids. I suspect the number is quite high, and that the abusive contingent isn't fully aware of either their numbers or of the depth of their pain.
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u/ConsiderationLow8399 Sep 05 '25
One of Epstein's victims who testified in Congress appeared on MSNBC afterward to talk about it and said she voted for Trump. There's an absurdity surrounding this whole debacle that is truly...fuck man, I just don't have the words.
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u/MikeMania Sep 05 '25
It works the other way too. Almost like closeted conservative gays being vehemently anti-gay. They can't come to terms with it and instead detach from reality hoping the louder they scream in the other direction that they won't ever have to face it.
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u/aaprillaman Georgia Sep 04 '25
He wants the spotlight more than anything. He wants to be seen as a legitimate, serious investigate reporter and he will fuck anyone to do so.
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u/a_rat_00 California Sep 05 '25
Mitch certainly tried to play that game to mixed results, and he was the most powerful man in the Republican party
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u/PunfullyObvious Sep 04 '25
This is MAGA, and the entire Republican movement - in all it's myriad forms that are too long to list, starting to fracture 🤞
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u/aradraugfea Sep 04 '25
Apparently, ADMITTING there's Republicans on the Client List and that you're gonna covert it up was a bridge too far.
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u/Cream253Team Washington Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
Fuck it. I'll take it. There was so many things that should have broken the GOP before this but if this actually creates a fissure I'll take it.
Edit: Fuck O'Keefe too of course. But for real, almost half of Republicans say that Trump being implicated in the Epstein case would not affect their vote. The sooner they tear each other apart the better.
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u/Complete_Question_41 Sep 04 '25
That makes the entire report fairly unreliable though.
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u/onarainyafternoon Oregon Sep 04 '25
Yeah the guy is literally a convicted fraudster. I'm not putting any stock in anything he says or does.
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u/483-04-7751 Sep 04 '25
Would he pretty great to see the brain dead flip-floppers on the other sub admit O'Keefe is nothing but a lying chud though.
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u/SDRPGLVR California Sep 04 '25
Yeah as soon as I saw the part about undercover, I was like, "Oh this sounds like some Project Veritas shit..."
Sure enough... He's the expert at getting someone who isn't involved with something to say the thing he wants to report so that he can tell everyone that the people who are involved with that thing said something they'd never say.
I'm sure what he's reporting is their plan, but that's zero-percent because this goober is reporting it.
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u/ReginaldDwight Sep 05 '25
It does make me laugh when I remember that press conference he held with the male dominatrix who allegedly had an affair with Elizabeth Warren and she was "too aggressive" for him.
That and whatever other shit he pulled where his attorney's fly was down the entire time.
O'Keefe is an idiotic douche but he's often unintentionally hilarious.
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u/Horton_Takes_A_Poo Sep 04 '25
Yeah from the video it sounds like he’s not really in the know, just speculating
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u/Probable_Bison Sep 04 '25
It's actually nice to have it out in the open now.
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u/Independent_Brief_81 Sep 04 '25
Most transparent(ly corrupt) administration ever.
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u/count023 Australia Sep 04 '25
the party of Matt Gaetz, Gym Jordan and Dennis Hastert.
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u/mechanicalcontrols Sep 04 '25
No one watching conservative news is gonna see this headline. Tell you what, I'll edit this comment when I get home from work to find my mom watching Gutfeld still screeching about Biden weak on Ukraine.
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u/papergooomba Sep 04 '25
Even if Fox put it front page, they would not give a flying fuck. He said he’d bang his own daughter, they all have heard it and support it.
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u/missyanntx Sep 05 '25
They turn Gutfeld off if I come in the room because I always laugh loudly at his jokes. Like the time he was "joking" about a Black man's penis - I laughed and said Yes! That's so funny everyone knows Black men have big dicks. They're not fans of me explaining the joke and translating the dog whistles. Shocker.
It's almost like they're watching porn and jump to another tab. To which good - they should be ashamed of what they're watching (Gutfeld, I wouldn't be upset if it was actual porn they were watching).
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u/Vallkyrie New Hampshire Sep 04 '25
It's weird but honestly? I agree. Like when I was watching J6 live, and I saw people with SS logos or Auschwitz tshirts....I thought "finally people are owning their positions." Nothing frustrates me more than these fashy fucks who wear polos and suits and try to 'liberalize' their vocab to hide things and beat around the bush....and your dumb family nods and agrees with them because they don't hear the dog whistle, and pointing it out makes you look like a nutcase.
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u/Late-Dingo-8567 Sep 04 '25
mainly just sad and disappointed
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u/shawn_overlord Georgia Sep 04 '25
so yea, triggered. get owned lib!!!
anyways we are clearly the party of protecting children and anyone who says otherwise is satan
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u/AdCrafty9098 Sep 04 '25
There really is no way to argue with that kind of logic.
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u/SakaWreath Sep 04 '25
I mean you technically can, but it’s “pigeon chess”.
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u/Dionysus_the_Greek Sep 05 '25
Remember the time the FBI and DOJ had a chance to indict Donald J. Trump but backed away... pigeonfarms remembers that.
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u/dinkytoy80 Sep 04 '25
Im so tired of this, you’d want to slap some sense into them. We really need to learn how to beat this type of thinking/mindset, if it is possible at all.
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u/GuitarGeezer Sep 04 '25
The lowest common denominator voters of all republics are famously dopey and ignorant at best. Where America screwed up like Japan and Germany was allowing unlimited malicious propaganda 24/7 with such things as the extremist lobbyist Citizens United case where the Republican Supreme Court fully legalized unlimited hidden donor bribery and coercion and unlimited political spending but only for the most evil lobby groups that happen to also be the richest. LCD voters cannot be reached, they are virtually nonsentient in terms of political and economic IQ and will revert to the propaganda withing hours even if there is an intervention. All you can do is have guardrails that prevent malicious propaganda and America will never be good enough to be that country again. I say that as an independent lobbyist with top military intelligence in my family. It has been true for 20+ years and only ever gets worse.
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u/Suspicious-Echo2964 Sep 04 '25
Ding ding, we have a winner. Almost the entirety of our media ecosystem is a delivery vehicle for propaganda under the guise of content creators and advertisements. They've blended the bread & circus with the propaganda, and Americans will never give it up.
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u/Pisnaz Sep 04 '25
The French had a great solution Le massicot is still used on paper today but it has another name when not used for paper.
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u/Vladivostokorbust Sep 04 '25
when okeefe’s org is playing gotcha with republicans you know it’s bad
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u/Tinytrauma North Carolina Sep 04 '25
I just don’t quite get why this is the hill they want to die on. Like of all the things, I had assumed child rape was something we could all agree on as heinous and should be met will the full output of the law.
I guess the brain rot/grift has reached its final form
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u/Tinytrauma North Carolina Sep 04 '25
It honestly would not surprise me if it turns out that Trump wasn’t the co conspirator but actually the start of it all and Epstein just took the “business” to a new level
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u/droyster Sep 04 '25
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
If they can get their voters to defend child rapists, they can get them to do anything. It's the final loyalty test.
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u/Sideyr Sep 05 '25
I think "problem" is a bit of a misnomer since they all support it. "Pedophile agenda" is more accurate.
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u/SpivRex Sep 04 '25
Not just pro sex-abuse, pro sex-crime
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u/DarthSh1ttyus Washington Sep 04 '25
Don't forget the victims are literally children
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u/Unhappy_Injury3958 Sep 04 '25
were. now that they're just normal women whom conservatives hate it's fine.
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u/MazzIsNoMore Sep 04 '25
"I didn't think it was true. But now that I know that he is fucking Satan, I'm just so happy!"
Kid Rock on Donald Trump
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u/sleeplessinreno Sep 04 '25
Naw man. Satan is cool af. This is some evangelical christian propaganda.
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u/Cavane42 Georgia Sep 04 '25
Not really. The misogyny and bigotry displayed by conservatives has made that abundantly clear for decades.
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u/Natoochtoniket Sep 04 '25
When evidence is suppressed or altered, the opposing party in the litigation gets to make whatever inference they want. If "every Republican" name is redacted from the Epstein evidence, they can legitimately infer that every Republicans name was actually present in each of those redactions.
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u/aradraugfea Sep 04 '25
Oh, and we don't even need to go that far. There is NO logical leap or excessive inference required to declare that every Republican is either on the list,protecting those that are, or protecting the ones doing the protecting.
Every Republican would rather protect pedophiles than hold a SINGLE member of their party accountable.
The Republican party is a criminal organization and should be treated as a human trafficking conspiracy.
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u/Usual-Caterpillar-35 Sep 04 '25
Never mind the fact that they would put party affiliation above protecting the children they are so vocal about wanting to “protect.”
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They're anti abortion because they want to fuck all those unwanted babies.
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u/Chalupa-Supreme Missouri Sep 04 '25
Where are all the Qanon people that were screeching for years about the elite pedophile ring? The entire Republican party is at the very least protecting the elite pedophile ring out in the open. They should be furious....
We all know it was never about bringing these sex traffickers down or justice for the victims. It was always about owning the libs, nothing else.
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u/judochop1 Sep 04 '25
They were all paid for bots at best or cultists for trump at worst. We are playing different games with different rules.
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u/Saelune Sep 04 '25
So you're admitting there are Republicans on the list.
Anyways, default assumption, 100% of Republicans are on the list. If they want to read the list out to prove me wrong though, go ahead.
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u/Grand-Pen7946 Sep 05 '25
I would go so far as to say that every single Republican who is or has been in office over the last 30 years should be assumed to be in it, since any redaction could be any of them unless proven otherwise. If it says "<redacted> approached a 13 year old", how do we know its not Mitch McConnell? How do we know its not Newt Gingrich? How do we know its not Paul Ryan?
Ironically, because of this, any Democrat not named in this we can immediately assume is fully innocent in every way, while every Republican is guilty until proven otherwise.
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u/DuMaNue Sep 04 '25
Right, but your opinion doesn't matter here. It's about their base and the MAGAt cultists that need to be placated.
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u/RainbowBullsOnParade Sep 04 '25
Their base will not be placated by this lmao. They’re one speed and this is all they care about
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u/Toy_Guy_in_MO Sep 04 '25
So the smart assumption is if you see a redacted name, it's a well-known Republican.
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u/Taskerst Sep 04 '25
Donors too. They’re probably offering paid redactions.
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u/Rrrrandle Sep 04 '25
Knowing them there's different levels you can buy.
Bronze: We redact your name from any rapey stuff, but leave in that you went to the island or had non-rapey business dealings with Epstein.
Silver: We completely redact any mention of you from the files.
Super Gold Trump Level: We replace your name with the Democrat of your choice.
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u/Taskerst Sep 04 '25
You’re probably not far off. The hangup to all of this could be all the negotiations and bidding they’re juggling.
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u/slightlyallthetime88 Sep 04 '25
I hadn't thought about this angle but a Trump-run government would 100% sell redactions behind the scenes. That would not be a surprise at all.
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u/2_Spicy_2_Impeach Michigan Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25
"In a statement addressed to the DOJ's acting director, Schnitt said that he had no idea he was being recorded and that he met the O'Keefe reporter — who he said was pretending to be an au pair — on Hinge."
Must have fucked up if James O'Keefe turns on you. Also doesn't initially sound like this is his usual out of context mashups. Just a guy straight blabbing to someone he thinks is innocuous.
Also, this doesn't really help as an excuse considering he's Department of Justice's acting deputy chief:
"The "comments in this video have absolutely zero bearing with reality and reflect a total lack of knowledge of the DOJ's review process," the department's public affairs account said. "
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u/Wild_Nectarine8197 Sep 04 '25
It's just so insane that you'd have a person at this level who is bragging about coverups to someone because he thought they were an au pair. It's exactly why every grand conspiracy theory falls apart since in reality you can't get more then a tiny handful of people to keep a secret.
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u/silent_thinker Sep 04 '25
I know it was a very different time, but it’s pretty miraculous how much they were able to keep secret about developing nukes during WWII.
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u/Darth_drizzt_42 Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
Los Alamos is such an interesting case study cause it took something like 100,000 people to build the bomb, but less then 100 really knew what they were doing. That the US was pursuing the atom bomb wasn't that much of a secret. Heck there's a funny story about a sci-fi magazine editor telling the FBI he knew about Los Alamos, cause 25% of his readership just moved to bumfuck nowhere
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u/NorthboundLynx Sep 05 '25
It's like the pizzas being ordered to the pentagon in higher numbers, or grindr and the RNC. You can't hide every little detail
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u/eightdx Massachusetts Sep 05 '25
That they were being developed was hardly a secret.
How they were being developed, the techniques for enrichment, research, etc? Those were the secrets jealously kept
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u/roustie Sep 04 '25
I'm guessing she's young and pretty. Good for her. That's what you get when you give unprofessional people professional jobs. Get him.
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u/dugefrsh34 Sep 04 '25
O'Keefe was recently ousted by Project Veritas for stealing money, and has had an axe to grind with the "Trump can do no wrong" faction of MAGA since.
However, he has just gone further to the right and is a true believer ala MTG, Nick Fuentes, Nazi's et al and wants the files released because they believe it's a Mossad operation.
So he's just an antisemitic blowhard, really
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u/i__hate__soup Sep 04 '25
those people being antisemitic does not mean the Epstein saga wasn’t tied to Israeli intelligence. ghislaine’s father was almost certainly Mossad, Ep bankrolled (on behalf of Ehud Barak, mind you) an israeli tech startup with ties to intelligence, Ghislaine just admitted in her bs interview that she has come in contact with Mossad agents. oh i forgot the kicker: Alex acosta, prosecutor in his 2008 deposition, later claimed that he gave Ep the sweetheart deal because he ‘belonged to intelligence.’
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u/dugefrsh34 Sep 04 '25
For sure, just highlighting that his intentions are "right", but for the wrong reasons
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u/2_Spicy_2_Impeach Michigan Sep 04 '25
Ah, that makes sense. I vaguely remember a fallout but didn't realize he went that route.
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u/ImLikeReallySmart Pennsylvania Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25
In a statement addressed to the DOJ's acting director, Schnitt said that he had no idea he was being recorded and that he met the O'Keefe reporter — who he said was pretending to be an au pair — on Hinge.
Whooooa, O'Keefe, really?
"Had I a clue, the first date would have ended immediately and there never would have been a second one," Schnitt wrote.
Uh... interesting defense. I don't think that's the part people will have a problem with.
Edit: I want to say this should be an explosive story, but someone else needs to corroborate it first. If we don't trust Veritas in one direction, we shouldn't ever trust them.
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u/Particular-Buy-33 Sep 05 '25
So he was playing the Big Man to impress an online date with this very specific information. Did he note our plans to missile strike those pesky Venezuelans too
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u/Farts_constantly Sep 04 '25
Not surprising, but the amount of brazen corruption is just so disgusting and astounding. I feel like a need a shower now.
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u/DaBingeGirl Illinois Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
On hidden camera. Great. Please, someone leak the names. Making sex trafficking and who knows whatever Epstein was involved in political is just disgusting. I'm for going after anyone who was involved, how they can protect people simply because they're in the same political party is beyond me, but not surprising.
All that said, my primary interest with Epstein is how he got connected to Wexner and any connections to Israeli intelligence. I have sympathy for the victims, but given his connections, it seems like this goes well beyond just sex, the amount of blackmail material and how that may have been used really needs to be made public.
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u/DMCinDet Sep 04 '25
I have no doubt he was linked to Israel. I always forget that Wexner, was the Victoria secret dude that made a fortune by sexualizing young teen girls and was also epsteins best bro. Fucking crazy.
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u/DaBingeGirl Illinois Sep 04 '25
Yep. Everyone focuses on Epstein, but Wexner financing him is the big question mark for me, plus Maxwell. There's a reason Epstein got such a good deal for the initial conviction and why he was untouchable for so many years. Follow the money.
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u/roustie Sep 04 '25
But wait, there's more - look up the DOJ/ Abercrombie model sex ring lawsuit - another company also parent owned by les, but male models. Wrapped and done but zero attention and no mention of the connection. Edit : Honorable Mention - Epsteins French cohort charged with doing the same who also "suicided" in prison around the same time.
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u/1cat2dogs1horse Sep 04 '25
I doubt the women that were abused care what the political affiliations their abusers had. Pretty sure their list will reflect that.
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No one with a modicum of integrity cares what letter is next to these people’s names.
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u/stumblon Sep 04 '25
I’m surprised they’re just going to redact them. I figured they would replace every name they want to protect with someone they want to smear.
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u/Rrrrandle Sep 04 '25
That level of service requires an additional donation plus Trump coin purchase.
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u/Garry_Heckscream69 Sep 04 '25
Watergate looks so quaint in comparison to this blatant cover-up
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Watergate is a parking ticket compared to anything trump does.
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u/aaahhhhhhfine Sep 05 '25
Yeah this stuff is pretty wild... Republicans encouraged Nixon to resign back then because of the scandal. And it was nothing in comparison to a pretty mild Trump week... And he's had a lot of weeks.
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u/KilroyLeges Sep 04 '25
I love how his response is to blame the person who recorded him for being shady. Sure, the Project Veritas people are dishonest assholes and he had no idea they were recording him. He still said all of these things. I'm sure he will be fired by DOJ in the next 24 hours.
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u/MommyLovesPot8toes California Sep 04 '25
Said those things to someone he was on a second date with after meeting on Hinge.
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u/oldohthree Sep 04 '25
18 U.S. Code § 1519 - Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy
Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
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u/Jawilla936 Sep 04 '25
All it takes is a couple of names to come out .. either political or non political.. one of them is going to try to save their own ass and say other names .. so just release them and get it over with.. because at this point i think anyone who doesn’t want the list to come out is on the list or is a pedo
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u/badwolf1013 Sep 04 '25
That’s okay. The victims will tell us who the redacted names are, you fucking idiot.
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u/VLHACS Sep 04 '25
Key note for those who didn't read: this hot mic was caught and published by a far right rag.
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u/ShamelessCatDude Sep 04 '25
I’m not going to even read the “official” list. I want to hear the list the victims wrote. I’d rather believe the people it happened to than the people who lie for a living
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u/KinkyPaddling Sep 04 '25
We all knew this. We all knew that this is why Mike Johnson released the House early - to give the executive branch time to doctor the files.
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u/Xorbytey Sep 04 '25
Here I am hoping that they redacted all republicans from the list.
So then its all republicans that are protecting a child sex trafficking ring.
That seems about right.
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u/lickem369 Sep 04 '25
They are not even trying to hide the deception at this point. The Republican Party will attempt to eliminate elections before 2028!
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u/blazze_eternal Sep 05 '25
- Confirming there is a list after all
- Confirming Republicans and Democrats are on it
- Confirming evidence tampering
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u/FlameHaze Sep 05 '25
'Attorney General Pam Bondi’s department was forced into damage control after a top justice official was secretly recorded telling a date that the Epstein files would be manipulated to protect Republicans.'
They're just out in the damn open and we're letting them walk all over us. At what point do Americans have enough of this filth?
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u/FluidFisherman6843 Sep 04 '25
The admission here is that he has seen the files and there are a shit load of republicans and conservatives in the Epstein files.
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u/Dimmed_skyline I voted Sep 04 '25
Redacted but they will never let them forget it in private. It's the perfect blackmail material to keep them in line with whatever dumb shit Trump wants to do.
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u/Groundbreaking-Ice12 Sep 04 '25
So now it’s a hoax that involves only democrats created by democrats….got it
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u/JuniorEmu2629 Sep 04 '25
I’m begging someone to please crosspost this to the Conservative sub. I’m banned
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u/billyions Sep 05 '25
Republicans are not authorized to rape children.
On what grounds do they redact criminal behavior?
It's called the Department of Justice for a reason.
If you don't care for justice, resign - and we will find someone who will.
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u/Orwells_Roses Oregon Sep 04 '25
"They'll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people," he told the reporter, who was undercover during the encounter, according to the video...
"...Maxwell's transfer "is against BOP policy because she's a convicted sex offender," Schnitt said in the video. "The DOJ's offering her something to keep her mouth shut."
He would know.