‘I never went to that island’: Trump on Epstein underage retreat in epic Clinton rant
www.independent.co.uk
Trump is visiting his golf courses in Scotland as questions continue to swirl around his former ties to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

Sorry again for changing the headline but wanted the interesting part out again. Full video in the story.

OG headline: ‘I never went to that island’: Trump says of Epstein’s underage getaway and tells reporters to talk about Bill Clinton

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    no one’s going to believe her

    Give the Wingnut Wurlitzer a few weeks to work the crowd.

    Plenty of people scoffed at QAnon and the MIA/POW guys or Sovereign Citizens or Scientologists in the beginning. But enough time and memes and AM Radio Heads screaming at their audiences. Now its just a big part of the received wisdom of the crowd. In the wrong group, you’re weird if you don’t believe their dogma.

    If she plays ball with Trump, no one will believe her, and she’ll just end up suicided in a few months.

    If she plays ball with Trump, a bunch of the WSJ Trump-Epstein articles go away and we get back to calling Columbia students antisemitic for protesting genocide.

    • khornechips@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 days ago

      Wait, was the POW/MIA thing some kind of conspiracy? My dad always flew one of those when I was a kid. He was also a card carrying NRA member so it wouldn’t be that shocking.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        Wait, was the POW/MIA thing some kind of conspiracy?

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_POW/MIA_issue

        Considerable speculation and investigation have been devoted to a hypothesis that a significant number of missing U.S. service members from the Vietnam War were captured as prisoners of war by communist forces and kept as live prisoners after U.S. involvement in the war concluded in 1973. A vocal group of POW/MIA activists has maintained that there has been a concerted conspiracy by the Vietnamese and U.S. governments since then to hide the existence of these prisoners. The U.S. government has steadfastly denied that prisoners were left behind or that any effort has been made to cover up their existence. Popular culture has reflected the “live prisoners” theory, such as in the 1985 film Rambo: First Blood Part II. Several congressional investigations have looked into the issue, culminating with the largest and most thorough, the United States Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs of 1991–93, which found “no compelling evidence that proves that any American remains alive in captivity in Southeast Asia.”

        It was Ross Perot’s flagship issue during the early 80s

      • bigfondue@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 days ago

        Yes the POW/MIA thing has it’s origins in a conspiracy theory that the US knew about thousands of American military members that were alive and in POW camps in Vietnam, but left them behind and lied about it.

        That is the origin. I’m sure a lot of people with the flags just think it’s a remembrance thing though.