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The contrast is striking: In Europe, some people whose names come up in the Epstein files are facing consequences — but in the U.S., not so much.

European royals, government officials, politicians and others are losing jobs and titles over their connection to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. European law enforcement agencies are opening investigations based on recent troves of documents released by the U.S. government.

Prominent Americans with apparent ties to Jeffrey Epstein — including Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick— have so far largely kept their positions of power.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 20 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

"Owning up to your mistakes" on heinous shit like this includes snitching.

It's a fucking international child trafficking ring, the US isn't the only nation that can go after US citizens for that.

Everyone going down in other countries need to be grilled to disclose everything they know, and then at least release the names and crimes

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It would be truly amazing if any international warrant was issued for Trump. I'm not sure anyone would be willing to actually act on the warrant, but just issuing it would be worth it.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

It would be like Israel where it ends up banning high level officials from even travelling thru a country's airspace

But, I think it would be believable for stuff to come out in trials and due to the international and high level corruption of this case, if some countries don't prosecute their own, other countries governments have a responsibility to disclose the evidence and that the offending countries know but refuse to act

Fuck it, what's the risk in burning a bridge with trump when he's so fickle?

Either way it won't last, but this has a shot to get rid of him, which every responsible power wants.