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Donald Trump was an FBI ‘informant’ on Jeffrey Epstein, Republican Mike Johnson claims (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 57 points 7 months ago (2 children)

But I thought he didn’t know anything

[+] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ladies and Gentlemen, skinny and stout,

I'll tell you a tale I know nothing about;

The Admission is free, so pay at the door,

Now pull up a chair and sit on the floor.

Early in the morning, in the middle of the night,

Two dead boys got up to fight;

Back to back, they faced each other,

Drew their swords and shot each other.

A blind man came to watch fair play,

A mute man came to shout "Hooray!"

A deaf policeman heard the noise,

Drew his sword and shot those boys.

He lived on the corner in the middle of the block,

In a two-story house on a vacant lot;

A man with no legs came walking by,

and kicked the lawman in his thigh.

He crashed through a wall without making a sound,

into a dry creek bed and suddenly drowned;

A long black hearse come to cart him away,

But he ran for his life and is still gone today.

I watched from the corner of the big round table,

The only eyewitness to facts of my fable;

But if you doubt my lies are true,

Just ask the blind man, he saw it too.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This is nice, source?

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Shel Silverstein, "two dead boys"

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I hate Trump, and I don't believe this for a second, and they're all weird lying hypocrites, but...

This isn't really much of a "gotcha". If he was a secret FBI informant, then you'd expect him to deny any knowledge.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

He could have spoke up anytime after the busts went down.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 48 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wow, I did not have this excuse on my bingo card.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

They started floating it a month or so ago.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

This one really saved my ass when I was caught installing cams in the dressing rooms at Kohls.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

Oh good, I’m sure that’s well documented in the Epstein report, right? RIGHT?!?

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 29 points 7 months ago

The level of desperation would be fun to watch if there weren't over a thousand fucking victims.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's a clip of Johnson saying "he's not saying what Epstein did is a hoax", right before saying trump was an FBI informant.

Starts at 0:22

He's trying to play a semantics game.

We have trump on tape literally saying, this is a Democrat hoax.

Fuck this semantics BS. These fuckers are lying straight through their teeth.

They're protecting elite billionaires and child sex traffickers. There's massive amounts of money fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, who knows what else. Who knows who else is involved.

Release. Fucking. Everything. Unredacted.

Never let this shit go.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I dont think its semantics so much as a lie.

Theyre trying to imply that trump was a secret fbi informant so they can explain the redactions in the heavily censored files that they plan on releasing to overhang (this is a disinformation technique) the epstein files.

It looks like this is a final draft of the narrative. Its neither plausible nor is it possible (fbi directors could contradict this claim). I doubt it will successfully deceive most people looking for answers about the epstein list.

[–] jonne 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So, yes he did rape those girls, but only so he wouldn't blow his cover?

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

They say he was the best FBI agent, probably ever. That's what they're saying. The best. Fifteen years, never blew his cover. Got many things done. Tremendous guy.

[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Release his reports.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago

So, did Trump invent this hoax, then? Maybe back when he was still a Democrat?

[–] Heikki2@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

SVR* Informant

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

Guess that makes me an FBI informant for jackin off in the work bathroom

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Well damn, why didn't he say so earlier? All this fuss about him being a pedophile rapist criminal for nothing? Guess we can just get over this whole thing and focus on more pressing issues like the war that is happening in Chicago now.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 7 months ago

ah hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah...

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Ah yes so he got caught raping kids and snitched on Jeffrey to get no time in jail