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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: albaby1 SILVER
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Subject: Re: Epstein - Trump is Trapped
Date: 11/18/25 2:16 PM
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As another poster said this morning, why not interview the ladies?

I'm sure they have. Just not in hearings.

These women haven't lacked for legal counsel, or for access to elected officials, for the last several years. They haven't had hearings on these things, but I doubt very highly that there's a whole lot that these women are willing to give that hasn't already been given. I have no doubt there are also things that they don't want to, or are unwilling to, talk about in those conversations - but then they probably wouldn't testify to them on national TV, either. None of this stuff is likely to be completely secret at this point, other than the things that they'll never speak of.

Which is why I think it's so unlikely that there's a whole lot of new perpetrators waiting to be identified - including Trump. Rather, I think the "accountability" would be more about all the very rich and powerful people who surrounded Epstein and knew that he wasn't into grown-ups, but kept silent (or worse enable his behavior) because he was rich and connected. The sort of stuff that the FBI/DOJ doesn't bring cases or investigations on, because there's no actual crime - just a complete and utter moral failure. And that's the sort of thing that the victims might not be in much of a position to testify on. They could certainly speak to the circumstances of their own assaults, with clarity and credibility. But they might not be in a position to testify directly that of course Famous Person X would have to have known what was going on.

The Epstein Files could theoretically bring some accountability for that kind of stuff, but it's not going to be criminal cases against other people actually engaging in pedophilia. Just the many people who knew that Epstein was a monster and did nothing to stop it.
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