Note: These were collected by someone else and are what’s missing from the Epstein files. They were previously released.

In the files, you can see that there was a witness willing to testify, so I took out “unsubstantiated” in the headline:

Three memos that describe four interviews conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2019 contain explicit but unsubstantiated claims that Donald Trump sexually abused a woman when she was a minor in the early 1980s with the assistance of Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Guardian review of those documents.

The Department of Justice did not release those records when it uploaded millions of pages of files related to Epstein beginning in December. The existence of the missing documents was first reported by independent journalist Roger Sollenberger and subsequently confirmed by NPR, causing outrage in Washington and sparking an investigation from congressional Democrats.

The Guardian obtained the missing FBI form 302 reports, which memorialize 25 pages of agents’ notes from the four interviews conducted in the summer and fall of 2019. The notes describe how the woman came forward to tell agents she recognized Epstein from a photo sent by a childhood friend. Only the first session, in which she did not name Trump, made it into the public release. The Guardian has chosen not to publish the woman’s name.

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    I know when they say “a woman when she was a minor” means a current adult who was a minor at the time. But why does that even need to be said? Why not just say “… Trump sexually abused a child in this year.”?

    The only 2 options are that she’s now an adult, or deceased, which should get its own sentence or paragraph anyway.

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    the woman told agents she had been sexually abused by Epstein from the age of 13, beginning approximately in 1983, while she was living in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

    Better known as raping a girl.

    Tired of these weasel words.

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    Yeah this has always been the most telling thing about trump that so many ARE NOT jumping on. He will sue anyone for the slightest thing. Where are the slander lawsuits? Why is he quiet? The silence speaks novels.

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    There’s probs explicit video of it as well, Epstein was called the worlds greatest blackmailer

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      That’s a big part of the problem: much of the best evidence, photos and videos of victims, many of them underage, in compromising situations, would be extreme privacy issues as best, and actual child porn at worst.

      We are so conditioned to accept photographic evidence over everything else, that we never really fully believe anything unless we’ve seen video or photos of it. This evidence exists in the Epstein Files, but it can never be released. It’s a Catch-22 that protects the worst people on the planet.

      If that information came out, people would be outraged. I read a DESCRIPTION of a photograph of an underage girl being abused by several men, and just the description outraged me. There was blood, and the girl looked semi-conscious, and she said that she thought she was going to die. As it turns out, that was only ONE photo out of ten photos of this girl. But since the photos can’t be shown, it doesn’t make the media, which generally relies on visual media these days.

      It’s time for ALL those photos to get graphic descriptions, and start releasing those descriptions with big media promotion. Just the descriptions will make people demand justice.

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      2nd. Ghislane is only just now playing her sweatheart deal card, is looking at a pardon and didn’t have to fake her death and move to Tel Aviv.

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    In the files, you can see that there was a witness willing to testify, so I took out “unsubstantiated” in the headline:

    This is correct, and right, and why billionaire media exists only to serve themselves.

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    “Claim”

    Yeah no shit, people have claimed that for years. Provide proof, and then put the son of a bitch away. I’m so sick of more headlines about nothing fucking happening.

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      Yeah where’s all the victims that pulled out their phone while they were getting raped??!!! 20 years ago when smartphones were only an idea they could have just used theirs!!! /s

      As far as I know a few victims have described genitals, as well as providing accurate descriptions of relatively unknown locations and associates. There is also a shit ton amount of proof that these victims were around Epstein and Trump during this time (pictures and communications). There probably is a lot more, but I’m merely making a point that proof in sexual abuse is very hard to find, and in most cases only possible right after the fact.

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        When a zillion different women come out with allegations against a man who will legally (and maybe illegally) destroy their lives for doing so, and the allegations keep coming? I know that’s not legal proof, but I feel like it should be.

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      Thousands of scientists from hundreds (if not thousands, I actually don’t know how many cultures there are) of cultures all around the globe agree in all their different languages that climate change is real.

      People like my coworker — ‘Oil doesn’t cause climate change or environmental damage — those scientists just want to get paid.’

      Do you understand what I’m trying to say? I can replace the words in the analogy to match the context of the conservation if you want.

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        Well they are right. Oil does not cause climate change or enviromeltal damage.

        !Its just how we accuire it, process it, transfer it and use it that causes climate change and enviromental damage!<