Elon Musk has said an Axios report that the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had concluded there was no evidence of a Jeffrey Epstein client list was the “final straw”.

The report also said the agencies had concluded there was no credible evidence the disgraced financier and pedophile blackmailed high-profile and prominent individuals, and confirmed that surveillance footage showed Epstein had killed himself in prison.

“So… umm… then what is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for?” Musk posted to his X platform, referring to Epstein’s former girlfriend and associate who procured underage girls for him to abuse.

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    As a Republican this Leaves me ANGRY because I THOUGHT the CLINTONS were on that List but if Trump, who was Epstein’s Best Friend, says there is No List then that means the CLINTONS never Raped kids either!

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      Honestly I think it’s kind of funny the administration is trying to bury this, because there is already very public information on Trump being a rapist and making creepy remarks towards young girls.

      If it releases with him on it his supporters would absolutely do the mental gymnastics required to use it as proof the liberal elite are an evil cabal, while also insisting that dear leader is blameless.

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        an evil cabal

        There’s that word, which Marjorie TG mispronounced as cable in a Qanon promotional video years ago. Fucking dumbass.

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        They would do mental gymnastics to wave off dear leader fucking little girls, yes.

        Would they forgive him for fucking little boys though?

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        Really wouldn’t be that hard, they could point to several passages in the Bible that could justify him being a rapist and paedophile because they took it wildly out of context. IIRC Mary was something like 13 when she’s was betrothed to Joseph.

        The Bible contradicts a lot about how these guys handle stuff while invoking it, but that’s one area where, because of the times in which it’s referencing, there are examples that fit their narrative. Honestly I’m surprised they haven’t used that already, but it’s probably because none of them have actually read it.

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      I know the /s is there (mentally) but the idea that someone is mad that kids weren’t raped is abhorrent.

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    Here’s Elon just before the 2024 election telling Tucker Carlson:

    If Trump wins that Epstein client list is gonna become public. And some of those billionaires behind Kamala are terrified of that outcome

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    c’mon do it, you jilted sycophantic cuck. you were born to engage in political corruption, get burned by people better at it than you, than lash out at them in a tantrum fueled by your delusions of having conflicted morals. just do it

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    Imagine being so spun up by qanon that you are driven to support the Rapist-in-Chief (and besties with Epstein), thinking Taco was going to do something about the child rape that…checks notes…the Democrats supposedly do (lol)? Even when it was the rapist-in-chief that was found guilty of rape? Remember, it was Hillary and crew that was supposedly trafficking children out of the basement of a basementless pizza parlor?

    Can even one of these idiots make it make sense, even in their fictional universe? None of this makes any sense at all.

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    Bullshit.

    This is all hoked-up drama to distract the masses while they push us into working poverty.

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      Agent Krasnov and whatever KGB names Elon and his father have been given would agree.

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    Musk framed himself as a champion of good fighting the forces of evil, but then he retreated when Tesla stocks went down. Democrats are destroying the country, society is being perverted, etc. But that’s nothing compared to his wallet. (His words.)

    Musk says he’s aware of a massive pedophilia conspiracy involving presidents, billionaires, and royalty. Then he backs out when Trump threatens SpaceX contracts.

    He wants to bring mankind to the stars and create a free society on Mars. But then someone will threaten his bottom line and that will be the end.

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    The title of that article should be “Elon Musk Gets His Name In Print Again”

    Because there’s nothing there, really. I’m reading an old book (“old” meaning twenty years which is not old but- ) it has used Newsweek as a source of truth several times. Because there was a time it was considered to be so.

    It is not now. Whoever owns it is playing a bad game of chicken with journalism.

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        Oh the list exists, of course. I’m not saying they’re making up things necessarily - just that they’re making “news articles” out of tweets and other low-effort so-called-journalism which wasn’t really the case a long time ago.

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          No need to single out Newsweek, then, as basically all publications opted for this sort of cheap content to inflate their pages…

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            Newsweek, given it’s history and the crass purchasing of the branding is especially egregious.

            business insider, for example, can do what it wants and yeah it’s just regular terrible.

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      If they report on the old things: “this isn’t new news! Stupid media”

      If they don’t, “ugh 24 hour news cycle, they report on it once then forget about it. Stupid media.”

      I’m giving this one a pass if it keeps the files in the limelight and/or pisses off Trump.

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        Yes it serves our purposes, sure. It has nothing to do with whether or not the news is “old” or “new”. At least not for me. For the mods of c/news perhaps.