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Alvin Flummux wrote:Buckle the strawberry float up, guys...

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Lex-Man wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:Buckle the strawberry float up, guys...

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Unless I'm missing something they're for personal use. Releasing child porn could back fire quite badly, surely!

Tomous wrote:

Lex-Man wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:Buckle the strawberry float up, guys...

twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1148439947428409344

Unless I'm missing something they're for personal use. Releasing child porn could back fire quite badly, surely!

A few years ago, a woman alleged she had underage sex with all these powerful friends of Epstein, who recorded it and he debriefed her afterwards so he would have powerful secrets to blackmail them with.

This seems like the blackmail tales Epstein was sitting on...this could be huge.

Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew...

Or the tapes will mysteriously go missing and never be spoken of again.

Tomous wrote:

Lex-Man wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:Buckle the strawberry float up, guys...

twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1148439947428409344

Unless I'm missing something they're for personal use. Releasing child porn could back fire quite badly, surely!

A few years ago, a woman alleged she had underage sex with all these powerful friends of Epstein, who recorded it and he debriefed her afterwards so he would have powerful secrets to blackmail them with.

This seems like the blackmail tales Epstein was sitting on...this could be huge.

Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew...

Or the tapes will mysteriously go missing and never be spoken of again.

Moggy wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Lex-Man wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:Buckle the strawberry float up, guys...

twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1148439947428409344

Unless I'm missing something they're for personal use. Releasing child porn could back fire quite badly, surely!

A few years ago, a woman alleged she had underage sex with all these powerful friends of Epstein, who recorded it and he debriefed her afterwards so he would have powerful secrets to blackmail them with.

This seems like the blackmail tales Epstein was sitting on...this could be huge.

Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew...

Or the tapes will mysteriously go missing and never be spoken of again.

And is this likely to be an actual thing (the whole conspiracy part, not just Epstein) or is it just the liberal version of Pizzagate?

Tomous wrote:Or the tapes will mysteriously go missing and never be spoken of again.

Trump Can’t Block Critics From His Twitter Account, Appeals Court Rules

President Trump has been violating the Constitution by blocking people from following his Twitter account because they criticized or mocked him, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The ruling could have broader implications for how the First Amendment applies to the social-media era.

Because Mr. Trump uses Twitter to conduct government business, he cannot exclude some Americans from reading his posts — and engaging in conversations in the replies to them — because he does not like their views, a three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled unanimously.

Trump dossier author Steele gets 16-hour DOJ grilling

The interview was contentious at first, according to two people familiar with the matter, but investigators ultimately found his testimony CREDIBLE and even surprising.

Christopher Steele, the former British spy behind the infamous “dossier” on President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, was interviewed for 16 hours in June by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The interview is part of an ongoing investigation that the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, has been conducting for the past year. Specifically, Horowitz has been examining the FBI’s efforts to surveil a one-time Trump campaign adviser based in part on information from Steele, an ex-British MI6 agent who had worked with the bureau as a confidential source since 2010.

Horowitz’s team has been intensely focused on gauging Steele’s credibility as a source for the bureau. But Steele was initially reluctant to speak with the American investigators because of the potential impropriety of his involvement in an internal DOJ probe as a foreign national and retired British intelligence agent.

Steele’s allies have also repeatedly noted that the dossier was not the original basis for the FBI’s probe into Trump and Russia.

The extensive, two-day interview took place in London while Trump was in Britain for a state visit, the sources said, and delved into Steele’s extensive work on Russian interference efforts globally, his intelligence-collection methods and his findings about Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, who the FBI ultimately surveilled. The FBI’s decision to seek a surveillance warrant against Page — a warrant they applied for and obtained after Page had already left the campaign — is the chief focus of the probe by Horowitz.

The interview was contentious at first, the sources added, but investigators ultimately found Steele’s testimony credible and even surprising. The takeaway has irked some U.S. officials interviewed as part of the probe — they argue that it shouldn’t have taken a foreign national to convince the inspector general that the FBI acted properly in 2016. Steele’s American lawyer was present for the conversation.

Trump labor secretary who cut Epstein deal plans to slash funds for sex trafficking victims

Alexander Acosta, the US labor secretary under fire for having granted Jeffrey Epstein immunity from federal prosecution in 2008, after the billionaire was investigated for having run a child sex trafficking ring, is proposing 80% funding cuts for the government agency that combats child sex trafficking.

Acosta’s plan to slash funding of a critical federal agency in the fight against the sexual exploitation of children is contained in his financial plans for the Department of Labor for fiscal year 2020. In it, he proposes decimating the resources of a section of his own department known as the International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB).

The bureau’s budget would fall from $68m last year to just $18.5m. The proposed reduction is so drastic that experts say it would effectively kill off many federal efforts to curb sex trafficking and put the lives of large numbers of children at risk.

Trump’s July Fourth event and weekend protests bankrupted D.C. security fund, mayor says

President Trump’s overhauled July Fourth celebration cost the D.C. government $1.7 million, an amount that — combined with police expenses for demonstrations through the weekend — has bankrupted a special fund used to protect the nation’s capital from terrorist threats and provide security at events such as rallies and state funerals.

In a letter to the president Tuesday, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) warned that the fund has now been depleted and is estimated to be running a $6 million deficit by Sept. 30. The mayor also noted that the account was never reimbursed for $7.3 million in expenses from Trump’s 2017 inauguration.

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TV Dinner wrote:I'm increasingly concerned that Warren is going to win the nomination. I don't see her beating Trump in a million years. Kamala Harris needs another good debate to build up momentum.

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