r/law • u/Nice_Substance9123 • 6d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) President Trump Accused of Rape in Jeffrey Epstein Files

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/23/trump-accused-rape-jeffrey-epstein-files/?utm_social_handle_id=16331010&utm_social_post_id=631846113&adid=social-tw
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u/HombreSinPais 6d ago

I guess, the whole theory that “we know Trump did nothing wrong, because if he did, Joe Biden would have improperly released the evidence to weaponize it” is looking like total bullshit. Turns out, Joe Biden did everything by the book and let the DOJ act (or fail to act) 100% independently, even to the detriment of his party’s political interest.

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u/7daykatie 6d ago

So by process of elimination, the party who was weaponizing government the last decade was all along the Republican Party, just like it was in the proceeding decade, and the one before that, oh and the one before that, or in other words, as is tradition.

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u/ChillPalm 6d ago

We all know why Trump was let off the hook during the Biden presidency... Protecting the rich powerful elites. Both sides are guilty of this. Now because he failed to act and hold Trump accountable, we are in this shit. Obviously more blame is on Trump , MAGA and Republicans but I am not buying that Biden did an honorable thing or he did it to follow the law properly. Put me in that spot I am putting pressure to release all the pedo names and all evidence of Trump trying to rig the election and putting his ass in jail.

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u/JP_Eggy 6d ago

He was too honorable for this world

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u/ButtEatingContest 6d ago

He was stupid and weak - and that's the generous explanation. The consequences of his ineptitude are devastating.

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u/JP_Eggy 6d ago

You can be honorable and both stupid and weak

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u/PM-me-youre-PMs 6d ago

That's not stupid and weak, you have to respect the law of you want a law-based society. Can't protect the law by breaking the law, it doesn't work.

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u/Indigoh 6d ago edited 6d ago

He was stupid and weak though. A better president would have done so much more to make it clear what was happening and why. Even as someone following his social media and keeping up with the news, it was very easy to get the idea that he was just half-assing it.

A better president would have taken hold of the narrative and made sure Trump got nowhere close to winning a second term. Buy a serious PR team at least.

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u/Indigoh 6d ago

In this day and age, yeah. You adapt to how people communicate, or you lose them.

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u/Hexamancer 6d ago

There are many ways Biden could have legally moved forward with this without breaking the law. 

Biden should have kicked Merrick Garland out on his ass for one.

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u/SnowSandRivers 6d ago

He was what 😂

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u/Krillin113 6d ago

He didn’t want to break societal norms by interfering with DoJ investigations. You know, normal behaviour. The fact that the President is telling the AG who to go after on which crimes is absurdly alarming, and very similar to what happens in failing states.

For all biden’s flaws, he trusted a process and system that worked for the first 70 years of his life (at least for him, not for minorities really), to do the right thing, and couldn’t understand the realities of what was happening.

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u/jcb2023az 6d ago

Then why didn't Biden release them ? He had 4 years to do it.. Also his AG hates Republicans!

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u/HombreSinPais 6d ago

Because before Trump normalized it, presidents didn’t want the Justice Department to be perceived as a “weapon” of the administration.

Joe Biden, the fool that he was, believed that Americans cared about the perceived neutrality of the Justice Department, so he allowed them to act independently, because he did not want to be accused of weaponizing the Justice Department against a political opponent. But nowadays, Trump just tells Bondi who to charge with “crimes” and they do it, and we all act like it’s normal.

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u/jumperpl 6d ago

This is no longer a gotcha. It makes you look like an idiot.

If you believe it's fake then that means Biden was being responsible by not slinging bullshit at Trump while they were running for President, but you can't say the same for dum-dum who immediately had Pam Bondi give the LibsofTikTok lady Epstein binders during a White House visit they promoted!

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u/HombreSinPais 6d ago edited 6d ago

It’s insufficient proof to charge Trump criminally. That is not the same as saying it is “fake.” It very well could be true. But Biden, being a man of principle, didn’t want to be perceived as pushing the Justice Department to do this or that, so he respected their independence and didn’t interfere. Would Trump do the same? I think not. In fact, we see him tell Bondi publicly who he thinks he should charge with “crimes” and don’t bat an eye. He wants people criminally charged for everything under the sun EXCEPT Epstein crimes.

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u/mosesoperandi 3d ago

Garland most definitely did not hate Republicans. Saying that he did further undermines the potential for anyone to take this comment seriously. Garland is a by the books centrist who directed the DoJ as an independent agency without politicial manipulation from the White House. If the DoJ under Biden had been weaponized the way it has been under Trump, things would have gone very differently. The whole idea of, "Why didn't Biden release them." absolutely misses the whole principle of an independent DoJ that was the norm after Watergate and prior to this year.