Last time. Danke said Trump had banned Epstein from his clubs. I said there was no evidence of that but Trump did kick Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago.
I NEVER SAID TRUMP NEVER BANNED EPSTEIN FROM A SINGLE CLUB! NEVER! QUIT MAKING STUFF UP!
But, let's go with your straw man argument. Revoking someone's membership to a private club is
not the same thing as banning him from the club. At most private clubs members can bring a guest. The facts put in court is that Epstein was on the membership list but, after he tried to hit on the daughter of another member, he was kicked out and taken off the guest list. If you want to keep someone from being able to come it at all you need to put him on a
ban list. You haven't provided evidence that shows Epstein was put on a
ban list. Maybe that evidence exists. I don't know. I don't care. I never argued Epstein wasn't banned from one club just that he wasn't banned from ALL clubs.
What I do know is this. After Epstein had attempted to recruit one of Trump's teenage workers in 1999 to his sex slave island, Epstein was STILL a member at Mar-A-Lago! How do we know Epstein was still a member? Because if his membership had been revoked then he couldn't have later had it revoked for hitting on the daughter of a club member! Let that sink in for a minute. Let it percolate. Let it seep into the recesses of your mind. @
Danke and everyone else who wants to hold Trump up as an anti-pedo crusader, think about that again. @
Anti Federalist who thinks I'm making a big deal out of nothing, think about that again. I haven't said Trump was a pedophile. I don't think he's guilty of pedophilia by association. But my God people! Would any of you keep hanging out with someone you knew was a pedophile? Would you still call him? Would you still take his calls? Because I sure as hell would not! As the employer of a teenage worker Trump had an affirmative DUTY to keep known pedophiles away and yet he STILL let Epstein come to Mar-A-Lago! WTF?
Here is the timeline of Trump's association with Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...rump-called-epstein-twice-in-november-2004-15
As late as 2004 Trump was still calling Epstein. @
RPtotheWH, if Trump HATED Epstein in 2002 when he called him a "terrific guy" then why was HE still calling Epstein in 2004?
This isn't Don Black and his son taking donating to Ron Paul and taking a picture with him. For one thing that's not an association, let alone a close association. For another I can see being friends with a racist. Hell, I've had white racist friends and I'm black. But a pedophile who's still pedophiling? (Made up word I know). I don't expect Trump to put on a superman cape and "roll into a tirade about pedo island." But that's just it. I have
NO expectations of that man. None. Nada. Zilch. If someone had asked me that question I would have said "We used to hang out in the day but we've drifted apart as of late." He could even say "I wish him well" like he most recently said about Epstein's girlfriend who's been arrested. But to say "He's a terrific guy" who's "fun to be around" and "likes em young?" Well it's a free country (I think) so he can say whatever he wants to about a guy that
on two different occasions hit on teenage girls at Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort and only got kicked out the second time and that was because he hit on the daughter of a club member! But it's still disturbing.
I didn't start this conversation about pedophilia. Danke did by claiming Trump was "going after" the pedophiles. Let's be HONEST about this. Trump did NOT go after Epstein until Senator Ben Sass wrote multiple letters demanding to know why Epstein got a "sweetheart deal."
This is from 2019!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-...stein-why-has-he-been-arrested-again-n1027241
In February, the Justice Department opened an investigation into how federal lawyers handled Epstein's case after Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., wrote a series of letters to the department demanding to know why the government cut what he called a "sweetheart deal" with Epstein.
Let that sink in. Trump did NOT go after Epstein until his third year in office and only because a Republican U.S. Senator was putting pressure to see that investigation opened. (It's a damn shame that senator was not Rand Paul). And after Epstein was "suicided", AG Barr closed that part of the investigation. I'm glad Epstein's girlfriend got arrested after months of media pressure and speculation. Trump is not in control of everything the DOJ does. If he was there never would have been a Russia investigation. So *gasp* maybe there are actually
some people at DOJ willing to do their job! Maybe, after getting started on the investigation thanks to Ben Sass' prodding, some people at DOJ aren't willing to let it go simply because Epstein is dead.
I fully understand Anti Federalist's point of voting for Trump out of self preservation. I also understand my friends on the left who will vote for Biden/Harris out of a sense of self preservation. I get it. A lot of people are scared. Maybe both sides are right to be scared. Maybe neither side is right. Don't know. Don't care. But I've been wading through a lot of bvll$#@! over the past 48 hours from both sides. Trump isn't the demon lord my friends on the left think he is. Nor is the the 4D chess playing, tactical nukes that somehow don't kill children wielding, uberman that some of my friends on the right think he is. He is an empty suit. That is all. Nothing more. Nothing less. This thread is really about him donating to Kamala Harris. Maybe he did it for a nude selfie. We know from her relationship with a still married, though "separated" Willie Brown that she didn't mind trading sexual favors for political gain. Or maybe the guy that cheered on the Hillary Clinton supporting prosecutor who railroaded the Central Park 6 simply likes democratic, female, tough as nails prosecutors who stick it to innocent black men. Who knows. Who care. But saint he ain't.