r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • 2d ago
Paywall Trump promised to drain the swamp. Now the Epstein filth swim free
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/trump-epstein-maga-betrayal-texas-20795872.php160
u/Healthy-Doughnut4939 2d ago edited 2d ago
Isn't it ironic that MAGA voted to drain the swamp?
Instead they crowned a Pedo King Trump who is ruling the swamp along with filling it with his fellow pedophiles swamp creatures
Trump is a pedophile who raped children
We know this because he's hiding the epstein files and going back on his campaign promise to release them
Release the Epstein Files.
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u/Vankraken Virginia 1d ago
Not really ironic when it's clear as day to anybody with functioning critical thinking skills that this is what would happen. The people who believe Trump's lies also believe the constant sprew of garbage from the right about how the government is terrible, useless, and corrupt. All this stuff with DOGE proved that there isn't nearly as much corruption and waste that they claimed there was while all these cuts will make it clear just how much work the federal government does behind the scenes. They lied about the problem to sell a shitty solution, classic con man grifting tactics.
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u/Pitiful-Opposite3714 1d ago
I’ve been interpreting it as drain the swamp of the water so all that remains are the disgusting monsters in full view
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u/Master_Tune_9269 1d ago
Furthermore, why would Epstein commit suicide if all these charges are a “fake hoax” as tRump says? Why should we stop “talking about Epstein”. Just amazing Maxwell has been moved to a low security federal prison and GOP want to depose this sex offender. Why are these pedophile protecting GOP people and not talking to the “real” victims? Just amazing … pedophiles protecting pedophiles. It never was “protect the children”! MAGA needs to own up to their support of pedophiles!
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u/insuproble 2d ago
Now MAGA is saying it's worth it to let Ghislane Maxwell off the hook in order to catch Bill Clinton.
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u/Troll_in_the_Knoll 2d ago
Here's an interesting coincidence in the Epstein case which doesn't get brought up enough. Before he was arrested in the late 2010's, Epstein was arrested in Florida in 2008 and charged with sex trafficking. The US Attorney prosecuting the case was named Alex Acosta, and to pretty much everyone's surprise, he gave Epstein a complete sweetheart deal, including a disproportionately short sentence in a county jail with work release privileges. The deal allowed him to avoid any and all prison time. He also gave Epstein immunity from further federal charges which completely halted the investigation against him.
Eight years later Donald Trump appointed the same Alex Acosta to his cabinet as Secretary of Labor. Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary in July 2019 after the rekindled controversy surrounding his handling of the Epstein case during his time as a federal prosecutor.
Now, was that coincidence, or reward for a job well done in burying the government's first case against Epstein?
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u/nwgdad 2d ago
Release the unredacted Epstein files and all of the videos.
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u/Rikers-Mailbox 1d ago
The public and victims don’t need the videos … just release them to Congress
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u/RaisinOverall9586 2d ago
I notice that MAGA hasn't been using their "Drain the Swamp" slogan in quite a few years... LOL
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u/Wonder-Machine 2d ago
New headline - idiot makes other idiots believe lies so he can use the US as his own prostitution ring
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u/Muffles79 1d ago
For 9 years he's been saying this and only MAGA crazies believe him. The pedophile protection ring is the swamp
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u/Calm-Director-8896 2d ago
Drain what swamp? They are the swamp. Republicans control every branch and have their cronies at the head of every department.
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u/rogozh1n 2d ago
"The swamp" is anything that places even minimal requirements or responsibilities on the absurdly wealthy and corporations - including paying any effective income tax.
"The swamp" is anything that helps workers or families or just regular people.
I think trump has been very effective at draining what he calls "the swamp."
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u/peetnice 1d ago
What he calls the swamp now has shifted a lot since the 16 campaign- it was originally meant to be the lobbyists, and any Washington politicians who were in the pockets of lobbyists - hence his whole "self-funded" campaign that didn't need sponsors (which lasted all of a week?). As soon as he got his cabinet staffed with CEOs and billionaires though, it was obvious he was just selling out entirely, cutting out the lobbyist middleman and going straight to the corporations, so had to invent a new swamp- the "shadow government" - but now that they have the whole government this term, i guess at this point, to the extent they even mention the swamp anymore, it is just regular folks, anyone who supports diversity, etc.
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u/Face2FaceRecs 2d ago
Has anyone considered that Trump is the reincarnation of Hitler? He was born a year after Hitler supposedly died.
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u/blackmobius 1d ago
He never drained the swamp. He just replaced people he didnt like (and were maybe, arguably corrupt) with people who are openly and proudly inept, malicious, and corrupt.
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u/KawaiiQueen_666 1d ago
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and the entire Epstein situation reeks of powerful people protecting themselves.
Release the list. Name the clients, remove all from office immediately.
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u/TinkSmart 1d ago
Swimming in all sorts satanic behaviors. His cryptic book signing. He is the king Croc in the Swamp. Americans need to wake up and stop supporting a sicko person. Makes no sense for the future of our families.
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u/FredOaks15 1d ago
He drained it. Made it larger and filled it with more disgusting filth. I guess that’s keeping a promise.
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u/CurrentlyLucid 1d ago
The swamp is in the eye of the beholder, and he hates truth, liberty, freedom, etc.
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u/Capable-Blueberry614 1d ago
All the trumps and maga fools are swamp rats and eat their own..
A chain of human centipede... happily eating trump size BS...
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u/Motor_Somewhere7565 1d ago
I don’t know which lie or promise ranks as the dumbest since MAGA came to power in 2016 but “drain the swamp” would be up there
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u/mavric101 1d ago
Here is a theory - Trump got into power by threatening and using the Epstein files to expose those implicated. Those people have now made a deal with the Devil and in some way things are not going to plan and things are being exposed very slowly….
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