Well, it seems to be just a rough night for column subjects. Appropriate for Christmas Eve and the time of being born. A birth always wins over horror. And sleep tonight will wash away the worst of what we are seeing. This is a good thing. Now, back to your regularly scheduled Trump Episode Gazillion Show. He’s linked to a nasty bit of work, and yes, in a bad way. With thanks to Raw Story:
Donald Trump’s name appears on a newly released Epstein file in which a purported victim makes allegations about a newborn baby being murdered and dumped in Lake Michigan. The Justice Department released this file ahead of Christmas Eve, in which an unnamed individual, on Aug. 3, 2020, is looking for an update on the status of their earlier complaint. The report lists Jeffrey Epstein as the perpetrator and Trump as the witness.
“I previously provided a tip about 3 weeks ago, maybe 4 weeks ago, under an alias I have for myself,” the letter says. “All the other details of the previous tip match all the information given in today’s tip, except that I am giving my real name. A detective from the NYPD FBI sex trafficking task force called me a couple of weeks ago from a 212 area code number. I talked to him for about 20 or 30 minutes about my being sex trafficked by my uncle and Jeffrey Epstein in 1984 while I was 13 and [pregnant] … I told him some other important information about other high profile individuals involved in my sex trafficking and the murder and disposal of my newborn daughter because I gave birth to her while in the middle of this ordeal.”
Good gods. It seems like it was said so casually, until you look at the meanings behind the words. “Murder and disposal.” She was *13*!!! She was a victim and was impregnated and was told to get rid of her daughter. That’s heartless and cold. It’s also going to fck her up majorly mentally and emotionally, on top of what she has already been through! It makes you wonder how many other victims were lost to suicide, especially after all that Virginia did in her time on this earth. I was once told that sometimes, it’s the only way to stop the pain. We can’t imagine because we don’t know that pain.
In a section under which Trump’s name is listed, it says, “Again, just trying to find out the NYPD detective on the FBI sex trafficking task force that called me a couple of weeks ago and spoke to me about some of these issues.” “How is Contact Known: He participated regularly in paying money to force me to [redacted] with him, and he was present when my uncle murdered my newborn child and disposed of the body in Lake Michigan,” the letter says. The White House didn’t immediately return Raw Story’s request for comment on Wednesday, and instead linked to a social media post from a Trump DOJ appointee:
Cowards. What a bunch of hooey. If they’re trying to do damage control, they’re “doing it wrong”. It’s only making it worse. They must be frantically trying to go back through files to redact Donnie’s name out of everything. But there are just SO MANY that even with 1,000 pairs of eyes on them, they couldn’t be sure to have caught everything. Good. Make them sweat. A lot. Donnie Dementia won’t be any help. (Ha.) So let’s see the last cowflop (thank you again, Raw Story, and I pretty much used the whole thing)
“The Department of Justice has officially released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already. Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims,” it says.
But that social media post itself was hit with a major fact check by X users: “The claim of ‘commitment to transparency‘ is unfounded: DOJ missed the Dec 19 deadline mandated by the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act, releases only partial/heavily redacted files, and now faces bipartisan criticism for non-compliance and excessive redactions.”
WHAM. Busted! Every time the DoJ says something and hasn’t done its homework, it will get ruthlessly mocked and fact-checked. The people who fact-check must be having a great time hammering on them! Then it makes the (not Trump-controlled) news, and the glee spreads! We certainly get to enjoy it! In today’s world, we take what we can get.
But then, on a serious note, it’s showing that Donnie was definitely in it waist-deep with Epstein. And the man who PAINTS HIS FACE ORANGE is our president. His addled brain won’t remember any of the Epstein years (and HOW did he manage to *not* get arrested). We have the horrifying story of another victim. It’s probably just going to get worse. We keep getting hit “upside the head” with new revelations every damn day. How many more are out there?
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“Trump Linked To Epstein And A M*******d Baby – The Hits…”
I do not understand why you deem it necessary to use *s. Could you please explain?
To me, it appears somewhat childlike, and to belittle the seriousness of the item. Call a spade a spade. I wonder if it’s a kind of faux sensationalism – a version of the Streisand Effect?
By the bye, I am a UK resident, and I read this website every morning. Keep up the good work!
The internet algorithms tend to “cancel” websites if certain words (which, unlike Mr Carlin’s legendary “seven words you can’t say on television,” do not seem to actually appear in any absolute written form) are used uncensored (or unedited, if you prefer) in article titles or as headlines. A formal, legitimate news site (such as MSNBC–or whatever it’s calling itself now–or CBS or PBS) might be able, given their status AS news agencies, to post words like “murdered” or “molested” (given the former is used in the article, I’m assuming that was the ****d word in the title) without issue. But words and phrases like “rape” and “sexual assault” tend to trigger people (in more ways than one), when they appear in a title. Even a number of TikTok shorts and YouTube clips will employ euphemisms (“grape” and “SA” and “unalive”), usually by the poster or contributor, within the video but the title will typically use the word or phrase with ***s in the more sensitive areas (even creators who do reaction videos will typically bleep out and/or emojify offensive/offending words from the source video–for instance, if some “alpha” dude posts a video using that word referring to forcible sexual assault, the reacting creator may bleep the word from the original video and a captioning might show the grape emoji).
Where would these ” Internet Algorithms” reside, and who controls them? Does it mean that if a title contained the word Murdered, then
somehow a webpage would be unavailable, or if someone had searched for “Trump Linked To Epstein And A Murdered Baby”, then this page would not be offered? This is a serious query to which I’d like to know the answer. Any help, please?
Google and Bing (and possibly others) would drop the story from their search results because of the M-word.
Thank you, Joseph! You explained it much better than I can…Merry Christmas!
Hello Adrian and Merry Christmas if you celebrate!
Google will give us hell and could hurt the site if we say Murdered, fuck, ass, various words like that in the titles. It would cause problems. So we self-censor our titles with words like that to keep us in business. I chose to censor that title over concern for safety and concern for people’s feelings. I thought about this for quite some time about how much of murdered to use. I probably cut back too much. But it was Christmas Eve and a touchy subject so I played it safe, likely too safe.
Joseph’s reply was a very good explanation also. The algorithms are controlled by Google. We do not have access to them. We only know what would happen if we used the wrong ones. I probably repeated myself too much since I just woke up, but I wanted to respon to your comment ASAP/
Thank you for your kind words about the site!!!
Thank you, Susan, for your kind reply. Yes, I do celebrate Christmas (although in a secular manner) with family.
I didnt realise Google was so childish and prim about site selection. I use DuckDuckGo as a search engine and Opera as a browser, and I find them to be open and grown-up. Interestingly, I use Google Gemini as an AI assistant, mostly for information and understanding, and I find it to be open, candid and as explicit as necessary. I’m learning so much! For instance, did you know that the hottest (highest temperature) in the universe is found here in the UK in leafy Oxfordshire? (Go on, check it out.)
Thanks again for your endeavours. I cannot imagine how sane folk are coping in the current US environment. Keep going!
This might be one of the skeletons trump dreads being revealed. Infanticide adds yet another grisly dimension to this monstrous sex-trafficking operation, and if he is tangibly connected to it, he will be instantly abandoned by every person on this planet with a shred of moral fiber, including most of his Christian nationalist supporters. How many others?
I can’t wait to see how Leavitt handles it.
I’m guessing she will say it’s part of the untrue allegations, meant to hurt poor Donnie.
Oh, very much so! It’s going to be fun to see how much she’ll try to redirect the conversation.
Merry Christmas!
In a way, this might already have been revealed. If it can be linked to Donnie in other documents, well, that’s all she wrote. He will turn into an instant pariah. I absolutely condemn this. It was a rough subject. It’s going to give me nightmares for some time. But people need to know.
KKKaroline is going to do the same thing Trump does. She’s learned how it goes. So she’ll bluff and bluster and try to re-direct the conversation to say it couldn’t have been him and he wouldn’t do something like that, blah blah blah. The entertainment factor for this is going to be fun, weird as that sounds, because the information is out there now and she can’t avoid it. She’ll insist it couldn’t have been Donnie and will get defensive and mad if anyone pushes her on the issue. That will be the entertaining part.
Merry Christmas!
Roger, Trump projects his own crimes onto others, as for example when he accuses the Democrats of “weaponising the DOJ.” Remember when he accused doctors of “aborting” newborn babies, during his defence of overturning Roe v Wade? Looks like that appalling crime could be the source of his projection, not simply an imaginary horror employed to shock people into agreeing with his abortion bans. I’ve long suspected that the Epstein files contain crimes far worse than we normal, sane folks could have anticipated.