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"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,'' Trump booms from a speakerphone. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it Jeffrey enjoys his social life."http://www.snopes.com/2016/06/23/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit/
this ''terrific guy'' is Jeffrey Epstein, named in the current lawsuit, and one of the truly LOATHSOME creeps to come along in recent memory:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/07/judge-unseals-more-details-in-jeffrey-epstein-underage-sex-lawsuit-210065
I heard Lisa Bloom on Stephanie Miller this morning, discussing the rape case, and why it's not being reported ANYwhere in the M$M. why is that, I wonder?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html
look who's covering it? no major outlets. the NY Daily News comes closest here:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=trump+rape&tbm=nws
why do you think they refuse to even mention it? they came up with a pretty good answer on the radio this morning.
EDIT: I changed the title because I think the replacement is more specific to the case.especially since there's a witness; it seems to me that the media should at least announce the filing of the case. I has appeared NOWHERE in major markets, except the NY Daily News, and nobody pays attention to them. Please spread this around. I know Clinton has at least a tangential link to this
Initech
(100,063 posts)"It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
Even as a straight white male, I am creeped the fuck out by that sentence.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)they just LAUGH hysterically at the idea, all around. really nauseating
follow up commentary, with the same clip as part of it
the pro trump comments are beyond belief....completely delusional, to an even greater degree than one normally observes
Initech
(100,063 posts)wryter2000
(46,037 posts)They were pretty repulsed. Yes, they laughed, but it was mostly nervous laughter. Joy said, "Who are you...Woody Allen?"
rurallib
(62,406 posts)But one of the overriding principals for TV is to make the big bucks (which they do in campaign years) means there must be a horse race.
If the Trump rape gets legs that would definitely be the end.
spanone
(135,823 posts)hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)tell you what they said in a bit.
what do you think the reason is? makes perfect sense, btw.
hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)of Trump's most unhinged supporters, nor lose the inappropriately close relationship with other REPUBs.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)RAPING! don't go any farther if you want to keep down your dinner:
this, according to witness Tiffany Doe, from the scopes site from above:
I personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the Plaintiff was forced to have with Mr. Trump during this period, including the fourth of these encounters where Mr. Trump forcibly raped her despite her pleas to stop.
I personally witnessed the one occasion where Mr. Trump forced the Plaintiff and a 12-year-old female named Maria [to] perform oral sex on Mr. Trump and witnessed his physical abuse of both minors when they finished the act.
It was my job to personally witness and supervise encounters between the underage girls that Mr. Epstein hired and his guests.
isn't that special?
and yet, NOBODY in the mainstream will touch this radioactive story. they sure jumped right into the juanita broaddrick BS awhile back, as soon as Trump brought it up.
840high
(17,196 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)let the chips fall where they may wrt to Clinton. if he goes down, tough toenails, as long as it happens to Trump, as well. Only problem is that the media probably will ignore it, just as they did the Bush AWOL story, until they were able to unleash the attack on Rather for the supposedly bogus typewriter keystrokes.
I'm still amazed that the NY Times story linked here was pretty much completely ignored, and that's what worries me about the lawsuit.
840high
(17,196 posts)pnwmom
(108,976 posts)the pedophile's Island -- but Trump did.
And the witness, the party planner, says that Trump was there. Not Clinton.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)Really, beyond words
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)why would they do such a thing, and expose themselves to lord knows what kind of abuse?
if you read the snopes article, it quotes her as saying trump threatened her physically if she talked
{name deleted} says in the complaint that Trump and Epstein threatened her and her family with bodily harm if she didnt comply with all of their disgusting demands.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)https://usuncut.com/news/trump-lawsuit-13-year-old-rape/
isn't that special?
2naSalit
(86,536 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)thanks to his own ties with this monster Epstein; make no mistake, he is a monster, and you can bet he turned some dirty deals with a very corrupt prosecutor to keep his filthy, perverted ass out of jail for the LIFETIME sentence he deserves. thanks, Bill. next time, think twice before you take young girls shopping with you when you're buying Chelsea some jewelry.
the very idea that someone like Epstein walks around a free man with only a soliciting rap nauseates me beyond description
one last......know who one of Epstein's high profile defense scum was? that's right:
840high
(17,196 posts)pnwmom
(108,976 posts)An investigation into official flight records of financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epsteins Lolita Express are once again dragging former President Bill Clinton into the national spotlight.
Flight logs obtained by Gawker in January 2015 put Mr. Clinton on the billionaires infamous jet more than a dozen times sometimes with a woman whom federal prosecutors suspect of procuring underage sex victims for Mr. Epstein. Fox News reported Friday that records show Mr. Clinton declined Secret Service protection on at least five flights.
The networks investigation reveals Mr. Clinton flew on the Boeing 727 Lolita Express 26 times, more than doubling the previously reported 11 trips.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/14/bill-clinton-ditched-secret-service-on-multiple-lo/
840high
(17,196 posts)demmiblue
(36,841 posts)You can't tell me that a shitload of people didn't know what was going on (some probably participated), but kept silent.
Fucking appalling.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)obvious perjury committed here
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I don't think going down this road will end well for either party.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)he is involved, fuck him.
if this is true, trump is finished, regardless of WJC
it is SAD that doncon won't be going to the slam for this, though, unless some sort of perjury might be shown
maybe comey can go after him the way he did Martha Stewart
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)the fed attorneys who struck this unholy deal did things like NOT informing some of the underage girls who were solicited that the case was being settled, which they SHOULD have, under law, been allowed to do, eliminating their day in court. can't find it in this story, because the link is so terrible, rendering it unreadable, mostly, for my horrible computer.
I have read that elsewhere, and will post it if I find it.
these people are beyond contempt, and that includes YOU, Alan Dershowitz, legal pimp for Epstein
read the story; it'll make you want to vomit
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)this case is so appalling. I'd forgotten that Dershowitz himself has been accused of assaulting young girls. it's at this link
The two women are represented by Fort Lauderdale lawyer Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell, a law professor and former federal judge from Utah who is a nationally known victims' rights advocate.
They want the judge to rule the women's rights, under the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act, were violated. Some of their proposed penalties include invalidating the non-prosecution agreement; forcing prosecutors to meet with them to discuss the case and possible prosecution of Epstein; forcing prosecutors to apologize; and forcing prosecutors to pay financial sanctions and the victims' legal fees. Victims are not entitled to be paid damages, according to court records.
"There is good reason to believe that if the prosecutors had exposed their dealings to scrutiny by Jane Doe #1 and Jane Doe #2, they would not have reached such a sweetheart deal," Edwards wrote in court records.
Prosecutors "wanted the non-prosecution agreement kept from public view because of the intense public criticism that would have resulted from allowing a politically-connected billionaire who had sexually abused more than 30 minor girls to escape from federal prosecution with only a county jail sentence," Edwards also wrote in court filings.
Prosecutors filed court records revealing the federal investigation of Epstein began in 2006 at the request of the Town of Palm Beach police. The non-prosecution agreement was signed in September 2007, nine months before Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges. Among the reasons for the agreement, federal prosecutors wrote, were that Epstein was being prosecuted by the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office and the agreement preserved and protected the victims' rights to get financial restitution from Epstein.
the worst part of this is that the sleazy defenders of the deal are, under the very guise of secrecy which they hide, are SLANDERING the victims, accusing them of POSSIBLY being procurers themselves!
ironically, they mention that Clinton and Trump's names have come up because of their ties to Epstein, but neither has been charged with anything.
OOPSIE! time to update this January story, isn't it, Sun Sentinel?
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-jeffrey-epstein-victims-civil-20151230-story.html
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)she's since denied it, but that would mean she committed perjury when she signed that deposition
inquiring minds want to know the truth
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)substantive, yes?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Jeffrey Epstein, that is.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)too bad for Clinton. If he's involved in any way, he should suffer the consequences. If Trump is forced to answer these charges before the election, as he should, he's screwed, WJC be damned. Can you imagine if Trump wins, then the court case goes through, and they find for Jane Doe? How many others, who were similarly threatened, along with at least one person who may have "disappeared," will come out of the woodwork, ala Cosby?
The way the media work, though, he's the one who'll get nailed, not Trump, because they refused to even MENTION the filing. All one has to do is follow the way they've spit back the republican line all the way with the email BS.
If you haven't read the snopes link, please do. the Huffington Post one is also good, because it mentions the story of a woman who was assaulted in Ivanka's bedroom at Mar a Lago. Even fewer people are talking about that one, although Trump himself brought it up, which freed her to address it. I'll post that section next.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)This guy (Epstein) is an absolute slime ball (to put it mildly), and I have no doubt that some truly despicable and illegal things went on at his various "parties". It makes me sick to think of it.
With respect to Trump, the fact that he could potential get elected president is frightening. And that is just based on the things about him that are known to be true.
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)to the Penn State coach/pedophile, just as Clinton and many others were linked to Epstein. Were all Sandusky's friends and associates guilty, too?
Guilt by association. Is that the way this is going to go?
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pnwmom
(108,976 posts)saying that Bill did NOT show up on any flight logs to Epstein's Island -- where these assaults are said to have occurred -- though flight logs show Bill and his secret service detail did fly on Epstein's jet to other places.
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pnwmom
(108,976 posts)on that plane."
Horrors!
"Some of whom were allegedly underage." "Allegedly" is the key word here. The woman quoted in the article was 22 when she was hired by Epstein.
Hundreds of Jerry Sandusky's friends, relatives, and associates had no idea what he was doing to little boys. Most people would never suspect anyone they knew of something this vile.
Bill is not guilty-by-association any more than Jerry Sandusky's Penn State alumni pals.
If you want to believe that Bill had no idea what his friend might have been up to, then more power to you.
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)and also in the charitable organization that Sandusky set up.
Many people in PA were around him while this was going on and had no idea what he was up to, and were sickened by it.
Pedophiles don't advertise their activities to non-pedophiles. They're good at covering up.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)one or two other celebs.
I ran across some video from one of those tabloid shows that had an interview with a young lady on the plane that Clinton took shopping at a jewelry store.....a gift for Chelsea's birthday. really creepy video. the girl said nothing happened between her and Clinton, including no massage, after she was specifically asked
couldn't find it again, but here's a written version of what I saw:
http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/10366-lolita-express-masseuse-reveals-lurid-details-from-jeffrey-epsteins-private-plane-for-the-rich-and
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)doing anything more for Bill Clinton than picking out a gift for Chelsea.
Please don't smear Bill here. Did you smear every associate of Jerry Sandusky or Michael Jackson, too? Each of them had hundreds of friends and associates, just like Epstein did.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)I'll link it. no judgment about WJC. sorry if that was what you inferred. to be clearer, the creepy part was what she described happened on the plane (no mention of WJC participating, IIRC). does that help?
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)to refer to the adult woman as a "girl," and a "young lady" and to describe as "creepy" her statement that she had helped Bill pick out a bracelet for Chelsea.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)jewelry {EDIT...holdover from OP}.....being creepy
again, I'm sorry for the inference you made. perhaps it was because of my infelicitous manner of expression, but what I could have said better, in terms of chronology was that the vid was creepy. THEN she talked about the shopping trip. At some point she explicitly said nothing happened between them. that's pretty much what was in the quote, which is right here in this link. you think I did this whole thread to get at Clinton?
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)No one is accusing Bill of nothing more than being one of hundreds of Epstein's friends, and taking rides on his plane, along with his Secret service detail, and many other associates of Epstein.
Jerry Sandusky had many pals. Michael Jackson had many pals. We aren't smearing all of those associates. Why smear Clinton?
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Seriously?
Prepare for a confusing few months ahead then. I daresay this primary season we just went through will never end for some.
Julie
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)pnwmom
(108,976 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)DiverDave
(4,886 posts)Secret Service protection? WHY? You can't be against trumps actions, but ignore bills.
If he did ANYTHING with minor girls, he should pay.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)I was just describing the vid I saw, because I didn't have the link to it.
I specifically said that nothing happened between him and the 22 year old woman.
whatever else you choose to infer is on you.
I'll leave it at that.
no more going down this road. I don't think I can make myself any clearer.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)from one of the OP links:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html
In a court filing, according to a report, Ms. Harth alleged that while she and her husband were trying to do a business deal with Mr. Trump regarding a beauty pageant, he repeatedly propositioned her for sex and groped her, culminating in this frightening alleged incident....my words>>>see ny times link below, and READ IT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html?_r=1
Recently Donald Trump issued a statement that womens claims of sexual harassment, documented in a lengthy New York Times investigation which included Ms. Harths lawsuit, were made up.
Jill Harth responded angrily on Twitter last week: My part was true. I didnt talk. As usual you opened your big mouth.
I must have missed the NYT story linked above, as I wasn't coming here much when it came out. anybody recall discussions regarding it?
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)plage bullet.
I don't think the media are going to touch this unless it's remanded for trial, which won't be til after the election.
it's ''only'' a civil case, anyway
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Though Houraney made it clear he and Harth were a monogamous couple, Trump said, Well, theres always a first time. I am going after her.
I thought the man was joking. I laughed. He said, I am serious,' Houraney told the Times.
Harth said Trump groped her under the table that night when the couple joined him for dinner.
it gets worse from there, as I posted from an earlier link.
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)Hope it's time life will teach him he's wrong.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Bush AWOL did. It would be very sweet, though, if this did start coming out after the convention.
and Bill Clinton, this is for you: if you had any part in this, I hope you suffer the same fate as Trump. I'm pretty sure that you're in more trouble than he at this point, because this is only a civil suit, and beyond the statute of limitations. Unless they can do something about the heinous way the prosecutors circumvented the law in failing to notify some of Epstein's victims before signing off on his plea bargain, it appears he's off scott free, too.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)hosted by Epstein.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)that got a ton of information, wrote a book, and nary a blip. It was shocking. Bush was in on that one too.
http://franklinscandal.com/
Here's another...I lived there... it was very well known...and the list of "attendees" is mindblowing. They hired locals for food service and parking, etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/bohemian-grove-where-the-rich-and-powerful-go-to-misbehave/2011/06/15/AGPV1sVH_blog.html
Then there is Boy's Town.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december292012/boys-town-scandal-tk.php
How could anyone be shocked. It's just part of the "being a politician." See, once you're there at one of these pedophilia parties, you can never use it against anyone else. Speaking of dossiers. And no one ever peeps...even those not involved. And the traumatized children are usually either told to forget it, or abandoned.
I could write books. It's worse in England...in fact it's a fact of life since forever...children have been at the mercy of the level of adult/adult's friends because they are powerless. And really, sex is not about sex...at least this kind...it is about power.
Back in the day, when the Barbarians came through, the townsfolk would offer their children up for "service" so they would not burn down their town. Every conquering nation is "in on it". It's part of the Conquer.
Then there's the Catholic Church. And I have my own personal stories about the Protestants...just as bad.
I hate to see them come out, because they just die an unnatural death and it's just one more horror the public does not want to know about, let along deal with. And that makes the next one even easier.
Seems Epstein's group may even be teenagers. Most aren't...often threatened with the death of parents or family if they tell.
It's just no big deal anymore. Just another sex scandal from powerful people.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)slogging through this muck. thanks for the details
pretty sad, isn't it? very sick making
what's worse about this current case is that the media is still refusing to even mention that the case was even FILED, much less discussed on the merits, or lack thereof. if it's not true, SHOOT it down, right?
not enough ten foot poles, I guess.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)I could be wrong, but they came and went so fast those who don't pay attention to "those things" or read alternative media... mostly never even knew of any of the events. We Americans are very good at not seeing what we don't want to see. Wars, for example.
After thinking of it in an intellectual way, perhaps it makes sense why politicians are as they are. It is rigged...they are owned...and I'll bet money Bernie isn't in The Group.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Sick, sick, sick! The coverup is the sickest thing of all.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)because it just wasn't mentioned much. Kind of like a typhoid handkerchief. No one wanted to touch it. The story, that is.
It's just harder to get away with this shit now with social media. At least they have to try and cover it up????? I still don't think anything will come of it.
You got it right on.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)it puts things in a different perspective, when the nomination was less of a sure thing.
here's an excellent link from the thread, with work from Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio, plus Thom Hartmann:
There is a pending lawsuit against the US Goverment over Epstein and his pedophile cases.
If Epstein had been properly prosecuted, he would have possibly received life. There were at least 40 victims confirmed by the FBI. However, Alan Dershowitz, Epstein's attorney, conspired with the U.S. Attorney, and got Epstein a slap on the wrist. In the deal, none of Epstein's co-conspirators would be prosecuted. No doubt Dershowitz was thinking of himself, since he has been named as one of the men, one of the victims, Virginia Roberts, had to have sex with.
There are people in the Alternative Media that have been covering this case since its inception. This is a far greater crime than what is occurring with Bill Cosby. This involves children. But because the Epstein scandal involves powerful people of both political parties, the Mainstream Media is not covering it. The pending lawsuit against the government is online. Virginia Roberts is the plaintiff.
Here are Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and Thom Hartmann explaining the lawsuit.
Here is a more thorough analysis, linked below:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-El2qydY1kxo/Uy1Z4qznfUI/AAAAAAAALnw
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Do you have an alternative?
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)looking for more
just about anything I've found that has anything to do with 1.bp.blogspot.com leads to right wing bullshit sites....usually to do with pedophilia-attached-to-Clinton......no trump mention at all; some with Epstein
there's a link to dailycaller, a very right wing "news" site, and I came up with this as a result, which shows some other bogus news creating vehicle talking over yahoo and aol news:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/24/1338948/-What-s-Up-With-GOP-Yahoo-and-Wochit
V V V V
The GOP Has A New Propaganda Vehicle
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)bottom:
....Epstein apparently angrily screamed his regrets that Trump took her virginity instead of him.''
https://usuncut.com/news/trump-lawsuit-13-year-old-rape/
Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)Hopefully, reporters are just dotting their i's and crossing their t's first.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Today, everyone is a reporter and this is a good counter to some of the crazy talking points and memes being spread about.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)I remember when Trump said he could shoot someone and his supporters wouldn't care. It seems like Trump could do many heinous things and neither his supporters nor the MSM would pay any heed.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)how INSANE a comment that was, but there has been NO coverage, no discussion of the mere fact that papers have been filed, except in a few papers, mostly in Florida.
NOTHING on the airwaves/cable
complete blackout
just as what happened with BushAWOL
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 10, 2016, 12:54 AM - Edit history (1)
to come up
EDIT, the site I just took down said ''theguardian.com.'' when I went back, it messed up my computer, so I shut down. this quote is from the site, before it started with the warning bells:
Norm Lubow, formerly a producer on the Jerry Springer show, apparently coordinated lawsuits accusing Donald Trump of raping a child in the 1990s
it looks really bad, til the very end, when they discuss the New York filing, then have a quote from Jane Doe, from, unfortunately, a phone belonging to somebody who appears to be an alter ego of the above-mentioned Lubow. He sounds pretty insane in the body of the article, very much like Trump's own alter egos, John Miller and John Barron.
if any body else cares, try this, noting the complete absence of any mainstream print, radio, or tv outlets:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=trump+epstein+rape+filing+june+2016&tbm=nws
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)I don't know why you're having trouble with the link. Here it is.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/donald-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuits-norm-lubow
Rex
(65,616 posts)This is amazing, Trump is the biggest crook ever! I always new he was a long con artist, but wow.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)who's Amy Goodman?....I kid.... this will never see the light of day on regular or cable tv.
they show her on my 2d tier PBS stations, one only over the air, but his stories, just like AWOL, go nowhere.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)You can bet they are holding an emergency back room meeting!!!!
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)between their hold on the courts and the media, who knows what will come of this.
as I've mentioned before, there was no DOUBT that dumbo was AWOL, had convictions scrubbed from his Texas driver's license, at the very
LEAST(*).... and they had things rigged well enough to get Dan Rather FIRED, along with Mary Mapes
lord knows what strings are being pulled behind the scenes. sort of makes one feel a bit......paranoid, hmmmm?
*I have second hand knowledge someone in the know told me about why he had to do community service in Houston
this might pique your interest, vis a vis the asterisked sentence:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2956067
Rex
(65,616 posts)Trump told them to play nice or else.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Trump is a creepy shit. Epstein is a predator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
In March 2005, a woman contacted Palm Beach police and alleged her 14-year-old daughter had been taken to Jeffrey Epstein's mansion by an older girl and paid $300 after stripping and massaging him.[10] She had undressed, but left on her underwear.[19]
Police started an 11-month undercover investigation of Epstein, followed by a search of his home. Subsequently, they alleged that Epstein had paid several escorts to perform sexual acts on him. Interviews with five alleged victims and seventeen witnesses under oath, a high-school transcript and other items they found in Epstein's trash and home allegedly showed that some girls were under 18.[20] A search of Epstein's home found large numbers of photos of girls throughout the house, some of whom had been interviewed earlier by the police.[19] Papers filed in 2006 state that Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places in his property to record sex between prominent people and underage prostitutes for criminal purposes such as blackmail.[21]
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)was the corrupt plea bargain
there's a pending lawsuit regarding this:
read the whole thing, unless you already have high blood pressure....it's make you SWEAR OUT LOUD!!!
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-jeffrey-epstein-victims-settlement-20160520-story.html
scroll down for this part, but you need to read the whole story
But federal crime victim legislation, enacted in 2004 under President George W. Bush, also requires the U.S. Department of Justice to be more than mindful of victims' rights. Prosecutors are legally required to confer with victims, keep them informed about key court dates and ensure they are allowed to speak at plea hearings, sentencings, parole hearings and other important events.
"Sadly when the government began handling this case, it did precisely what Congress thought it had forbidden. The government deliberately kept crime victims 'in the dark' so that it could enter into a plea arrangement designed to prevent the victims from raising any objection," lawyers Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell wrote in court records.
"Victims of crime are not treated fairly if prosecutors are deceiving them about what is going on with regard to prosecuting their abusers. Whatever else 'fairness' might mean, it has to at least mean that the government keep the victims properly informed and otherwise try to ensure that their interests are respected in the criminal justice process," the lawyers wrote in court filings.
Federal prosecutors engaged in "outrageous behavior" in 2007 and 2008 when they went out of their way to conceal from victims that they were negotiating "one of the most extraordinarily lenient plea arrangements in American history," Edwards and Cassell wrote in court records. The office was led at the time by former U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta. Prosecutors themselves designated Jane Does 1 and 2 as victims during the Epstein investigation, which began in 2005, the victims' lawyers wrote.
I wish I hadn't even found this
if you want to get even angrier:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=epstein+plea+bargain+victim+lawsuit
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)the crux, which is insanely outrageous, considering the 2004 law cited in above post:
Plaintiff Attorney Bradley...
according to the same link cited in previous post (Sun Sentinel), this will now move to a BENCH trial, NOT before a jury. what is it going to take?
unless the fix is in again, I don't see how on earth the so-called defense is going to find a way to negate the intent of the 2004 law.
Oneironaut
(5,492 posts)Bill Clinton should be investigated too. All of Epstein's powerful friends should be.
This was allowed for so long because the underclass are second class citizens. The rich feel entitled to us peasants. I don't know if Trump did this, but others certainly have without remorse. They hide behind their money and tell themselves that poor people are simply inanimate playthings to be used and discarded.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)something similar to the 1969 situation in Illinois, when future SCOTUS Justice John Paul Stevens got two corrupt Illinois Supreme Court justices to resign for taking bribes while ruling on a case before them:
Stevens vigorous prosecution of the two justices and the commissions subsequent condemnatory report caused the men to resign and gave Stevens a national profile.
By the end of 1975, Stevens had been appointed as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. When he retired in 2010, Stevens was the third-longest serving justice in the nations history.
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2015/09/17/chicagos-john-paul-stevens-unexpected-justice
care to guess what these crooked judges were prosecuted for?
skip fox
(19,356 posts)??????
Trump is said to "have something on Ailes." Could sex with underaged females be it?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)how do monsters like those two sleep at night?
Calculating
(2,955 posts)They're sociopaths who don't feel emotions like normal human beings. To them, we're nothing more than farm animals to be used however they see fit.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Chaplin's life was turned upside down by Hoover's obsession with him, starting even before the FBI was established. he had a file going on him from around 1917 or so, based on the anti American nature of his films!
not joking. he was PISSED that chaplin never became an American, and eventually used that fact to keep him from returning when he went to England in the early fifties
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)why not? FORCE the media to deal with it....they have not even mention that an actual lawsuit as been FILED?
sooner, not later. for those who remember 68, that's how the dems lost. with no internet, ALL they had was TV/radio/papers, and the visuals were frightening to the uninformed and frightened
this is what's happening today
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)tolling may play a role in this
http://lawnewz.com/celebrity/why-isnt-anyone-paying-attention-to-the-sexual-assault-lawsuit-against-trump/
By contrast, Trumps statute of limitations drama is actually far more unusual. Trumps anonymous accuser has alleged that the Donald raped her back in 1994, when she was thirteen, and that the 20-year statute of limitations never even started running. Ms. Doe argues that the statute is tolled because Trump threatened her. Sidebar: tolling statutes of limitation is standard practice in a variety of instances. For example, if a plaintiff is a minor when a cause of action arises, that statute could be stopped (or tolled) until the potential plaintiff reaches the age of majority. The same concept works when a plaintiff is incarcerated or is mentally disabled. The concept of tolling is to hit pause on a lawsuit for the purpose of effectuating fairness to disadvantaged plaintiff. Statutes of limitation are also tolled when their reason for suing is obscured (as in the case of a medical malpractice victim who does not discover a surgical tool accidentally left inside him until years after the wrongdoing actually happened) or when they are prevented from bringing suit for some other reason. Thats this plaintiffs sweet spot.
According to the plaintiff, Trump threatened to harm or even kill her and her family if she came forward with any accusations:
Any statute of limitations is tolled owing to the continuous and active duress imposed upon Plaintiff by Defendants that effectively robbed Plaintiff of her free will to commence legal action until the present time. More particularly, Plaintiff was unrelentingly threatened by each Defendant that, were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse caused to her by Defendants, Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed. The duress has not terminated and the fear has not subsided. The duress rose to such a level that a person of reasonable firmness in Plaintiffs situation would have been unable to resist.
Thats a pretty mammoth claim. Trump is certainly powerful enough to have exerted 22 years of duress on someone. Alternatively, the whole thing could be fabricated. Trumps attorneys have vehemently denied the allegations, even have gone so far to say they may go after the lawyer who filed the lawsuit. Either way, though, its alarming that this isnt daily, front-page news. People say all sorts of things in the media, but when a federal lawsuit is filed, thats a little different
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)are they waiting until after the election?
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)when are you even going to mention this court case, along with the current statements of Jill Harth, and the deposition of his WIFE about the sexual assaults?
hmmmm?
Fools for Scandal, except for trump, eh?
http://store.harpers.org/products/fools-for-scandal-how-the-media-invented-whitewater
Rex
(65,616 posts)Our media is scandalous. They collect a paycheck and push FUD.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)agrees that they're so wonderful, just as not one single reporter/bobblehead disagreed that Demosthenes was reborn as Melania
Rex
(65,616 posts)Our corporate media is pathetic.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)financing
media aren't going to tell the truth about themselves, are they?
read Rich Media, Poor Democracy, by Robert McChesney, if you suffer from low blood pressure
napkinz
(17,199 posts)see at 1:25 in the video
napkinz
(17,199 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Holy shit.....
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)anybody ever seen a word about this?
vince foster has been brought up how many times in this cycle?
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)still looking, but this subject has been broached again today, and there's lots of stuff here
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)????
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Gee, this went far, didnt it it; but......Hillarys emails!