• cmbabul@lemmy.world
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    Obviously every piece of evidence against is valuable given the unjust world we live in, but I have to think for a moment about how crazy it would be for anyone not currently convinced of his crimes to see this and then suddenly change their mind

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      And to think, we don’t even know what could have been covered up or erased during Trump’s first term when him and Barr were fully in control of the DOJ/DOC.

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      Human beings are bayesian. Nobody changes their mind instantly on almost anything. They collect information and compare it against their internal view of the world and update that view accordingly. Confirmation bias makes us interpret data in a way that more likely agrees with what we already think and believe (yes - all of us - you to dear reader).

      A slow steady push of data and facts may change some folks over time. But you can’t expect to just flick a switch and see all of MAGA change at once. But nobody reports on that one guy who read this and suddenly thinks “yeah - he probably did something”.

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    Pedonald was publicly bragging about being a pedophile way before he ran in 2016. Anyone who’s says they’re still waiting for evidences would call it a hoax if that turd would come to their house and rape kids in front of them.

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      Since everything with him is projection and his lies mean its truth, Im pretty sure Donald Trump murdered someone on 5th Avenue too. Probably someone he raped.

      That line was him bragging.

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    Clickbait. Yes, her story had more corroborating points in the sense of where she lived at the time, and who she knew, among other things that in general indicate she was telling the truth.

    It has no corroborating points with the actual accusations even though the headline wants you to think that.

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      They corroborated details about one of her accusations against another man, Jimmy Atkins, who was extorting money from her mom because he had compromising photographs of the daughter who is the accuser. This is all part of her story, about the men who trafficked her when she was a minor. Granted it’s not direct evidence of sexual assualt but it still corroborates her story.

      “During her interviews, the woman told FBI agents that two men were extorting money from her mother, who wound up going to prison for embezzling money. “Her mother informed her late in the process that they were in trouble, that she had seen photographs…and that she was paying people money,” an FBI agent wrote after an interview, referring to alleged naked photos of the teenage girl.”

      “The woman claimed Epstein started abusing her and trafficked her to several men when she was aged between 13 and 15. She had met Epstein after he responded to an advertisement for babysitting that her mother, a real estate agent in South Carolina, had given to her clients.”

      “A report from South Carolina newspaper The Post and Courier released on Sunday has now corroborated key personal details given by the woman about a third man she claims also sexually assaulted her—named Jimmy Atkins. Those details are not directly related to her accusations against Trump, but suggest that she was truthful about other matters she raised with the FBI.”

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        I fully believe that this happened, but holy hell is it unbelievably fucked up that, if I am reading this correctly, this man possessed photographic evidence of the sexual abuse of an underage girl (itself illegal to possess!) and managed to use them to blackmail the victim’s mother with the threat to reveal them. The threat of the victim being revealed as a victim was considered blackmail material, while Atkins was absolutely secure in the idea that he could just possess child sexual abuse material and wasn’t going to get busted for it.

        Fuck this world.

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    I hope, one day, this overwhelming mountain of evidence actually manages to cause some real-world consequences for the criminals involved. (And leads to some small amount of closure for the victims.)