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highplainsdem

(62,386 posts)
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 06:32 PM 20 hrs ago

Epstein survivors release statement slamming Melania

Breaking: Epstein survivors release statement slamming Melania for trying to absolve herself of involvement in Epstein’s crimes.

“Melania Trump is now shifting the burden onto survivors under politicized conditions that protect those with power.”

Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2026-04-09T22:21:29.402Z



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Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2026-04-09T22:21:29.403Z
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Epstein survivors release statement slamming Melania (Original Post) highplainsdem 20 hrs ago OP
Amen Whip-poor-will 20 hrs ago #1
Kick dalton99a 20 hrs ago #2
Recommended. H2O Man 20 hrs ago #3
I'm right there with you. llmart 18 hrs ago #12
Excellent Grim Chieftain 19 hrs ago #4
Release the files and prove her innocence. twodogsbarking 19 hrs ago #5
Melania is the one who should have to testify to Congress Jarqui 19 hrs ago #6
Exactly! SunSeeker 19 hrs ago #8
If the lawsuit between Melania and Michael Wolff goes to trial, that's what will happen FakeNoose 19 hrs ago #9
Can you imagine Trump taking the 5th on pedophile questions? Jarqui 19 hrs ago #10
I'm sure the lawyers will never allow it FakeNoose 18 hrs ago #11
On Mike's podcast says they are going Tree Lady 3 hrs ago #13
She's pictured with a halo Clouds Passing 19 hrs ago #7
They did that with shrub during the Iraq war NoSheep 1 hr ago #16
It's amazing that the moneyed right wing deviants try to enigmania 3 hrs ago #14
I support those women jfz9580m 2 hrs ago #15

Jarqui

(10,915 posts)
6. Melania is the one who should have to testify to Congress
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 07:51 PM
19 hrs ago

for all the material/emails naming her that are in the Epstein files

She would be a hypocrite if she attempted to avoid it (which is probably what she will attempt to do)

FakeNoose

(41,800 posts)
9. If the lawsuit between Melania and Michael Wolff goes to trial, that's what will happen
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 07:59 PM
19 hrs ago

Melania will be called as a witness, and of course Michael Wolff will also. Smart money is betting that this case will never get that far.

Jarqui

(10,915 posts)
10. Can you imagine Trump taking the 5th on pedophile questions?
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 08:15 PM
19 hrs ago

I agree. It won't happen

FakeNoose

(41,800 posts)
11. I'm sure the lawyers will never allow it
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 08:23 PM
18 hrs ago

They haven't given depositions yet, have they? I'm pretty sure the lawyers don't want Melania to swear an oath to "tell the truth." I'm not implying that she would deliberately lie in discovery, but she would most likely say stuff that they must keep hidden. They'll never let it get to that because Chump's lawyers KNOW how guilty he REALLY IS.

Tree Lady

(13,309 posts)
13. On Mike's podcast says they are going
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 11:56 AM
3 hrs ago

To talk about Melania in detail tomorrow had already done podcast for today when she came forward.

enigmania

(477 posts)
14. It's amazing that the moneyed right wing deviants try to
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 12:18 PM
3 hrs ago

constantly portray themselves as the real victims.

jfz9580m

(17,270 posts)
15. I support those women
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 12:29 PM
2 hrs ago

I am also making a list of all the people in science associated with Epstein and their networks. I don’t want to read papers written by people like those. Most of the science out there is done by decent humans. There is no need to read the contributions of these bottom of the barrel types.

I have never bought into witchhunts and mobbing. They bring with them the risk of an Idiocracy society’s backlashes wherein people react with sympathy initially and then lose sympathy for survivors as chaos escalate
and then society turns more conservative and doubles down on the side of “Creep Rights! Creep Rights are Human Rights!!!”

The fuck they are. So always tricky- dealing with a clearly rather doltish society overall - hey I am one of you! Me Too! I am a brainless dolt too! We!!!

But the point is that survivors must not keep losing public support. Over time that leads to women losing more and more of the most basic rights and angeringly as annoying bs proliferates online (Kim Kardashian has a new show! Women are breaking barriers daily!!!).

That gives a skewed impression of the realities most women deal with and in lives of quiet desparation far from online twaddle.

This disease of a type of elite is another thing. I have met some elite after 2011 who have already maxed out my tolerance. (Though I seriously hope that as awful, annoying, douchey, tacky and unsympathetic to the average female stem worker as they were, they would at least meet the bare minimum of not being Epstein associated and not having histories of sexual harassment. That is the barest minimum in a scientist. What I saw seemed more archaic, backward, craven and unprincipled enough to accept a deteriorating status quo vapidly.

The only plus of that type of douchey conservative PMC is the absence of the a type of annoying and totally disingenuous fake left calculated to help the cons: e.g.: “Sunny in Philadelphia/George Carlin are the real issues in society and basically lead to Epstein!!”.

That shit is calculated to damage serious left. Chris Ketcham - who is awesome - had a cool piece dissecting creeps like Jamie Dimon who shill that crap along with deeply anti-left policies. A left that is more serious should allow those of us who aren’t particularly well-behaved or filtered to tag along so we are all represented when pushing back against these forces.

I was asked not to play Rammstein in lab 🙄. Yeah that’s the issue in science culture - a female grad student who plays Rammstein in lab and not this:

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/19/why-jeffrey-epstein-surrounded-himself-with-scientists/


But the loss of satirical lefties - the kind who expect a society to understand satire without confusing cruelty or prejudice with edginess- has helped the alt right truly fuck with the collective psyche of at least the chronically online.

It must be why so many seem to confuse Trump’a mean-spiritedness with humor.).

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