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Miles Archer

(21,713 posts)
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 12:00 AM Dec 20

I ASSUME Trump & Bondi thought Bill Clinton would just STFU and not respond. Life happens while making other plans.

I don't know WHAT THEY WERE THINKING. Release 10% of the materials you were ordered to release, redact the bejeezus out of them, make sure you scrub references to Trump, and stack the deck against Bill Clinton. He won't have anything to say about that, right? (Buzzer sound effect goes here).

Former President Bill Clinton has responded to the latest release of files associated with notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein with a stern statement accusing the White House of using him as a scapegoat.

Clinton, who maintained a relationship with Epstein for years and who features prominently in the trove of images released by the Department of Justice on Friday, issued a statement via his press secretary that read, “The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton.”

“This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be.”

The statement continued, “Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton,” referring to Wiles’ assertion that Trump’s repeated claim that the Epstein files incriminate Clinton was incorrect.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/clinton-unloads-on-trumps-plot-to-scapegoat-him-for-epstein/
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Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
1. I know darn well trump was involved. But I'm disappointed at best seeing these photos of Clinton. Maybe innocent,
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 12:06 AM
Dec 20

. . . . . . .

Melon

(1,066 posts)
2. A married man in a hot tub with girls is not ok ...president. No president.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 12:23 AM
Dec 20

I firmly stand on anyone, proven to have exploited underage girls from any party should be fully prosecuted.

This is a horrible look for any president and sick. All pictures need to be released immediately including trump.

Miles Archer

(21,713 posts)
3. Everyone I know wants justice, whether Epstein's friends were Republicans or Democrats
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 12:37 AM
Dec 20

There's no double standard when it comes to wanting equal application of the law.

Problem with today's release is knowing what we know, what we've seen to date, is that OTHER THAN THE ONE FILE HER REDACTORS MISSED (I posted it in a separate thread), WHO THE HELL would believe Trump being "absent" from the files?

My objection isn't that Clinton was in the photos. That's a separate issue. It's that the guy who praised Epstein as a fun guy who likes 'em young was ABSENT from what was released.

Clinton, Trump, Dershowitz (who said he got a massage but it was OK because he kept his underpants on)...investigate everyone. And EXCLUDE NO ONE.

Blue Full Moon

(3,143 posts)
5. That pic
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 07:06 AM
Dec 20

Could have been taken in any hotel or cruise ship. Different people get in hot tubs every day. It's a nothing burger.

Melon

(1,066 posts)
8. There s a picture of him in a pool with a girl and Ghislaine. Let's not be naive about him.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:42 AM
Dec 20

He got a bj in the Oval Office.

W_HAMILTON

(10,051 posts)
10. And that wasn't illegal. And not one of the Epstein victims have implicated Clinton.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 12:03 PM
Dec 20

So stop slurring him with your false indictments.

Polybius

(21,504 posts)
7. We don't know if it is a young girl next to him, that's just the assumption
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 08:34 AM
Dec 20

It could be anyone. Hell, it might even be Trump in there next to him.

FascismIsDeath

(50 posts)
4. We all know Bill Clinton, while a decent President, was a piece of shit as a husband.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 12:44 AM
Dec 20

But I don't think he was ever into children.

Its been 25 years since he was President.

If he actually did do anything with children, then fuck him, he and Trump can share a cell together.

This is a distraction to all the times they redacted Trump's name.

rampartd

(3,749 posts)
6. we know trump's attitude to the commandment "thou shalt not bear false witness."
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 07:57 AM
Dec 20

but i will not defend clinton . not my place.

clinton has firmly denied other things, he can deny this one too.

pinkstarburst

(1,874 posts)
9. At this point in time, I am done defending Bill Clinton
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:57 AM
Dec 20

The man was a good president. He was also a womanizer, an adulterer, used his position of power in the oval office to sleep with a young intern, and I don't want to see one democrat defending his actions.

If we are against Trump being a creep who hangs out with Epstein and did god knows what to underage girls, we should be against all men being creeps who hung out with Epstein and did god knows what to underage girls regardless of who they are and what political party they belong to. I truly hope no one here is naive enough to think Clinton was at those parties simply because Epstein had really good wine coolers or a nice hot tub. FFS...

W_HAMILTON

(10,051 posts)
11. And this is why we lose.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 12:06 PM
Dec 20

Throwing our allies under the bus for no reason.

Feel free to tell us which of Epstein's many victims have said Clinton ever did anything inappropriate with them.

I'll wait.

mucholderthandirt

(1,753 posts)
12. My guess is we haven't even begun to hear from all the women and girls involved.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 05:20 PM
Dec 20

Whether Clinton was into girls is unknown. We do know he was an adulterer and thus was likely supplied with women of some ages by Epstein, which makes him a total shit and not protected from righteous outrage and disgust.

To be honest, I don't care much for either Clinton and wish their hold on the Democratic party would break, along with that of their allies. We need to adapt to the modern world and change how Dems work for others, especially those who aren't rich or don't have power to make politicians rich.

W_HAMILTON

(10,051 posts)
13. Your guess is wrong. This has been unfolding for decades.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 05:58 PM
Dec 20

And you don't have to be honest, because anyone that reads your post can tell that you don't care for Clinton, so much so that you repeatedly blame him for doing terrible things no actual victim ever has.

And it's also not surprising you then extend that same disdain for Hillary and then other good Democrats. It's a consistent pattern from those that would happily throw allies under the bus that they haven't found a way to beat otherwise.

Again, this is why we lose.

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