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Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,150 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Hard to know who is more screwed up... this lot or the ones nit picking over the definition of rape or paedophilia cos Trump is involved. Any excuse.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,915 ✭✭✭threeball


    Murdoch could well have been sitting on it for years. He knows Trumps time is coming to an end but his agenda hasn't been fulfilled so move him on in favour of Vance. Try to push through the rest of project 2025. Its exactly what Murdoch and his ilk want. Even his own kids have spoken out about how poisonous the guy is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,421 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    How is Trumps time coming to an end ?

    He has 3.5 years left to serve.

    Murdoch is 94 he probably doesnt have much time left himself to be honest.

    Its a nest of vipers, this political landscape, Elliot Carver would fit right in.

    There's no news like bad news, Tomorrow's News Today.

    The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,105 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Epstein might not have a file, but I'd be fairly confident Murdoch has one of all the stories he didn't publish because the leverage was worth more.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,915 ✭✭✭threeball


    The pressure is building, if the content of the files don't finish him, the stress and pressure of trying to suppress them will. Hes getting more shook by the day.

    Murdoch doesn't care that he's 94, he'll be trying to shove his world view down people's throats long after he's pushing up daisies.

    Bunch of rich kunts that the world would be better off without.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,421 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Maybe there is a smoking gun in the files, I dont know, maybe Trump is trying to protect someone in his circle, a main backer perhaps.

    Why would he have made such a fuss over releasing the files if he knew there was a smoking gun about him in them.

    The files include flight logs, contact lists, court records and other materials documenting his activities and associations with high-profile individuals.

    I mean we know he was a friend of Epstein and flew on his private plane regularly, thats common knowledge.

    I see Nancy Pelosi says Trump should release the Epstein files, but of course she is repeatedly silent on why Biden failed to release additional documents on Epstein during his term of office.

    If there was a smoking gun in the files on Trump you would imagine Biden would have released this last year in the election campaign.

    Its all a bit strange.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,350 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Tulsa Gabbard rolling out the latest deflection tactic with the Conservatives favorite bogey-man, Barack Obama.

    She wants him prosecuted for acts relating to the 2016 election.

    These clowns are pathetic. Wonder does she remember that last year, at the insistence of her current boss, the Supreme Court granted Presidents immunity. Not that there's any basis in her claim either way, its the latest attempt to distract from Epstein.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,672 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Pretty simple really, Biden didn't interfere with the Justice department so releasing information around criminal investigations would simply be odd. Releasing any documentation has the potential to interfere with criminal investigations until they're completed. In effect, Biden was a professional in terms of he approached the role. Trump approached it by promising things that he now appears to be entirely backtracking on

    Basically Biden has absolutely nothing to do with Trump's issues, no matter how much you try to redirect. Pretty easy headine is "Noted Political Sex Offending helps cover up crimes".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,707 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    It's gonna be funny watching right wing drones twist themselves in knots in regards to their sudden new found hate of old hero Murdoch.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,149 ✭✭✭Widdensushi




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,707 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    They won't ever get over a handsome, intelligent, charismatic black guy making it to the top.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,385 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    He's very old, famously incontinent, can barely construct a sentence, is incapable of telling the truth or feeling empathy and is now doing everything possible to convince people that he's a child molester.

    Someone with a functioning brain would struggle with one or two of these problems.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    So is Maxwell more useful to Trump confined to prison and essentially silenced or free and ready to speak?

    Ironically if there is “nothing to see here” in terms of Epstein, she’s probably one of the few people capable of revealing the truth - a pardon from a 20 year sentence would probably get her talking

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/ghislaine-maxwell-could-use-government-misconduct-to-challenge-imprisonment-1783826.html



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Maybe there is a smoking gun in the files, I dont know, maybe Trump is trying to protect someone in his circle, a main backer perhaps

    Definitely nothing to do with Mossad

    Yes, it's boring and 3 hours long



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,322 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    It's not going to happen. They will settle long before.

    I'm even starting to entertain that the birthday message might be deliberate weak reporting to hand Trump a "win" via settlement and deflate the Epstein thing.

    Both men rely heavily on each other.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,576 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    I see Nancy Pelosi says Trump should release the Epstein files, but of course she is repeatedly silent on why Biden failed to release additional documents on Epstein during his term of office.

    I don't know if you had time to look, given your busy schedule, but there was a vote recently to release the files and the Democrats voted for it, with the Republicans against. Why do you think that was?

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,915 ✭✭✭threeball


    If theres nothing of note in these files and they're corrupted by democrats as Trump claims then theres an argument she doesn't have a case to answer, could be released and could be eligible for compensation. Thats the possible consequence of Trumps fcukery.



  • Site Banned Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭political analyst


    Given that Trump can't run in the 2028 presidential election (regardless of any impression otherwise that he has allowed to exist!), the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) story makes no difference to his status as President. So why does he feel the need to keep his base on side, which is the reason for his libel action against the WSJ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭Economics101


    Not content with contempt for the judiciary and the rule of low at home, the Trump regime is now intimidating foreign judges who somehow annoy it:

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/19/rubio-moves-to-strip-us-visas-from-eight-brazilian-judges-in-bolsonaro-battle

    How long before Irish citizens, politicians and government officials get threatened by this thuggery?



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  • Site Banned Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭political analyst


    Being a friend or acquaintance of Epstein is not proof of having raped, or at least taken advantage of, teenage girls. After all, Peter Mandelson, who knew Epstein, can't be accused of having sex with girls because he's gay!

    As for Bill Clinton, the females with whom he had interactions that were, to say the least, controversial, had already reached adulthood when those interactions took place.

    Post edited by Trigger on


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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 45,547 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    You're right - being a friend of Epstien doesn't make one a paedophile but given the photos of trump with female children and knowing that Trump took pride in deliberately walking in on female children in various states of undress does appear suspect. Add that to the fact that he is a sexual predator/rapist makes it even more suspect. Do you not agree?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    You lads are insane for even wanting to row in behind Trump at this stage. I really don't get it. What is gonna be achieved by the blind support for him?

    Gay people can rape kids too btw. Look at Kincora. It was even mentioned in the video I posted



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,988 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Firstly, I'd be careful of assuming what Trump can or cannot do. He has absolutely no respect for rules or norms. He'll try anything he thinks he can get away with.

    However, if we leave that aside, the base is Trump's great cudgel to wield. It's the thing which has constantly prevented the wider Republican party from abandoning him. It's more important than his money. It's hard power and control of the base has enabled him to practically make or break careers within the party via just a tweet.

    If he loses that base, he becomes a non entity to the party and nothing more than a nuisance. He can then be left to his fate of pending criminal cases and lawsuits. As I cannot think that Trump wants to spend the last years of his life in poverty or imprisonment, he will do anything to hang on to the base, his great insurance policy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Trump has only very recently realised that Vance is out to get him. It's being obvious to everyone else but Trump, apparently.

    Vance yesterday calling for the "drawings" to be released, while Trump etc are doing everything in their power to stop the release. Going as far as threatening to sue Murdoch. Vance is undermining him at every opportunity



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,204 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    We are already being threatened in relation to the Occupied Territories bill.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    For a “normal” politician it would be game over- but Trump is not a normal politician - he got elected even though he had sexual assault related legal findings against him.

    But even for Trump, had there been smoking gun evidence of sex with minors, we would have heard about it by now - I don’t believe something that serious could have been kept hidden. He’s been elected president twice with a break in between- there’s over 70 million Americans who didn’t want him as their president - it’s pretty much impossible for a story like that to remain secret, for this long.

    The time to release such information was before the election - that didn’t happen. I’ve no doubt there’s “intelligence” out there relating to his friendship with Epstein which would be very damaging to Trump - he is after all on record as saying many times, that he didn’t know Epstein well or at least greatly played down his friendship with him. But I don’t think there’s anything near what people are claiming there is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,385 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,576 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    What does this comment mean?

    Because they won't be killed over this, that's okay?

    Can you explain?

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



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