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During last week, house and Senate The Republicans joined the Trump administration to obstruct the release of Epstein files – obtaining a program that has the victim of minor girls for the benefit of extremely rich men.
This is only the last chapter of the long -standing affiliation of the right with pedophilia. The GOP itself was involved in several scandals linked to the pedophile while also trying to take advantage of the legitimate concerns of the public concerning the abuse of children for its political gain.
A story of scandal
President Donald Trump is the central figure In the current Epstein scandal. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were known to be friends in the past, and the Wall Street Journal recently revealed What Trump sent Epstein a sexually explicit birthday letter, featuring a naked woman’s drawing and the message: “Happy birthday – and maybe another wonderful secret.”
The newspaper also reported that Prosecutor General Pam Bondi had alerted Trump that his name had been included in Epstein files, which his administration refused to release.
But even apart from the Epstein scandal, Trump has a loop of young sexual women, including children. In A 2006 interview With the shock Jock Howard Stern, Trump said that he had no age limit to the way a woman with whom he came out could be before stopping.
“No, I have no age – I mean, I have [an] Age limit. I don’t want to be like the Foley Congress member, you know, 12 years old, “said Trump.
Trump was Also accused to go to the locker room of the Miss Teen USA beauty contest – that Trump owned at the time – where competitors as young as 15 years old undressed. According to witnesses, Trump said: “Don’t worry, ladies, I have already seen everything.”
THE Foley scandal The fact that Trump ironically referred to Republicans to lose control of the Congress in the 2006 mid-term elections. The GOP was left rushing after it was revealed at the time. Mark Foley of Florida sent inappropriate sexual texts to the pages of the Congress. In one case, Foley would have sent explicit emails to an old page that was 16 at the time.
The republican management was aware of the actions of Foley but did not withdraw it from its position or would not sanction it otherwise.
The republican leader who presided over the Foley scandal turned out to be a offender himself. President Dennis Hastert, who held his post from 1999 to 2007, Tribunal admitted that he has repeatedly abused sexually boys whom he trained when he was a coach to wrestle in high school.
The subject of the struggle was also involved in The sexual abuse scandal Implying representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, one of the most eminent supporters of the Trump Congress. Jordan was accused of having looked at the sexual abuses perpetrated against members of the Ohio State wrestling team, where Jordan was a coach. Some victims were minor, one of whom said that he was 14 or 15 years old when he was mistreated.
And the Republicans had a problem similar to their hands when the judge of Alabama Roy Moore run for the Senate In 2017. Moore was accused by several women of having tried to engage them in romantic relationships when they were as young as 14 years and Moore was in their thirties. Moore lost the race to the Democrat Doug Jones.
Allegations of abuse as a campaign tactic
The Republicans also used the question of sexual abuses on children as a political weapon, generally by promoting the theories of the baseless conspiracy to attack the left and all the institutions considered hostile to the conservative movement.
THE Pizzagate plot Now allegedly alleged that the eminent leftists trafficked children and inspired a potential stove in Washington, DC, the related Qanon plot – subcontracted by figures close to Trump – pushed concepts of the same dislowry and was the motivation of several crimes including murder.
Members in Qanon even made the baseless complaint This Wayfair furniture retailer was somehow involved in children’s traffic.
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Before his failed presidential race, the governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, led a campaign Accuse Disney Children “grooming” in order to affiliate the acceptance of LGBTQ + people with abuse. The campaign was highly promoted By Fox News, the first point of propaganda of the right.
Likewise, plots surrounding Epstein and his death have been invoked From the right as a means of attacking the Democrats and the elites that the Conservatives have linked to liberalism. Trump’s re -election was supposed to reveal once and for all the internal functioning of these networks.
Turn on
Now the right has been forced to rush. Instead of proving their plots on Epstein, it is the Republicans who suffer in the survey of public opinion.
Trump, an unconditional conspiracy theorist, is now the central figure deviating questions about Epstein files.
Republicans who have politically capitalized on public fears concerning children’s abuse are now trained by another pedophile scandal.
