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A surprising number of Andrew Cuomo’s allies, donors, and friends have close ties to the late pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 35 points 4 months ago (4 children)

How about fucking scorched earth... Cuomo, Clinton, Trump, RFK Jr, Gates... I don't care who the hell they are, I want damn good explanation for why everyone's hanging out with this guy.

I can't even make sense of what exactly his public role supposedly was? Supposedly some of the people he associated with weren't a part of his pedo ring? Why the hell were they with him?

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure people partied with Diddy that weren't a part of his freakouts or whatever he called them. Just because you know a guy doesn't mean you are guilty by association, but some people are very guilty and you can tell by their attempt to disassociate with them publicly. Like Trump with Epstein.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah but that's kind of the point there... Diddy, at least made sense of where he was and why he was in that world.

Say you hear 15 A list celebreties are constantly going to parties at Eminem's house, I wouldn't bat an eye. You hear the same except, it's at some rich guy's house, that no one knows where he got any money, but he seems to be around celebrities all the time, you'd start to ask the question, what the hell is this guy, where is his money coming from and why is he around celebrities all the time?

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

How many investment bankers do you know about? Exactly. The only reason you are hearing and seeing this guy everywhere is because he got caught with his pants down and has connections all through parliament. How many people just like him still exist in the world and none of us are the wiser?

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I have a theory that most folks were using him to hide money to make billions. Then, there were some folks who had "every day be another wonderful secret"

Fucking EVERYONE. I do not care which party they’re aligned with, at all. If they were associated with Epstein, nail them to the fucking wall and apply the legal penalties to the maximum degree possible. And then go after literally fucking anyone who was involved in spinning, downplaying, hiding, misdirecting, obscuring, or obstructing the matter. FBI and DOJ personnel; political appointees; judges; police; lawyers; Mossad agents; fucking ANYONE who played the game and helped to brush this shit under the rug. Eviscerate them to the full extent that the law prescribes and allows. Better yet: make it a RICO case, because this was and is very fucking clearly a massive and coordinated campaign.

But that will never happen, because one of the most heinous perpetrators runs the fucking country, and the Tribunal of Six is demonstrably eager to basically just suck his dick with regards to pretty much any matter that comes before them.

I fucking hate it here so much

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why the hell were they with him?

He was just a really good accountant /s

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He already lost the primary and now he gets to lose the general where Mamdani's least embarrassing opponent is the guy who wears a red beret that he hasn't taken off since the 80s.

The Epstein powder doesn't need to be fired.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 16 points 4 months ago

So the dnc are going to make him the presidential candidate for the next election, aren't they?

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Trump has an even bigger Epstein problem. One, because he is the main suspect still alive and two, because he has the power to do something about it but isn't. Pretty cut and dry here that the president, DJ Trump is guilty AF. Also, I just realized JD Vance has the same first two initials, switched around, as his political daddy. That's just weird.

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

DJ TRUMP!!!!! 📣📣 📣📣

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

He actually changed his name.

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They were all best friends, the fastest of friends for more than a decade. There's dozens of then-kids testifying about their serial sexual abuse. Release the goddam Trumpstein files!

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People love to forget how chummy trump was with neoliberals for decades...

Sure, it's more likely for a Republican than a Democrat, but politicians from both parties were/are involved

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Cuomo has a being a decent human being problem.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Andrew Cuomo also happens to have an Andrew Cuomo problem.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

New York has a Cuomo problem

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 months ago

Being a Democrat star child, it's not surprising