• DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world
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      I think you hit the nail on the head here. When he had an affair with Mrs Lewinsky, she was 24 while he was 51. Less than half his age, definitely looks bad. But she was well past the age of consent, not a child but an educated woman with a bachelor’s degree. He ‘liked them young’, sure, but not that young.

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        What was worst about it was that she worked for him. Even if she wanted him (which her texts before hand certainly imply), he had an ethical duty as the boss not to take advantage of his employees.

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          Yup. It’s very difficult for the president to have an ethical affair or romantic liason since there’s extremely few people that they don’t wield disproportionate power over.

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        To be fair, we don’t know that FOR SURE yet. He could be banking on either none of the files coming out or that he’s somehow protected.

        Whatever it is, all of the files absolutely need to be made fully public. This shit has gone on for far too long.

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        No one is disputing that Clinton is a garbage human being for using and probably supporting a human trafficer and pedophile. It’s just that he probably didn’t do something criminal - or at least nothing that can be proven. For that you would need to prove that he knew about Epstein’s criminal activities or did crimes himself.

        Also were all girls trafficked or just the underaged ones? I don’t know.

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          Not all were underage, but that’s what the Pervoids wanted.

          I just saw an email to Maxwell from “A,” who starts his email saying he was at Balmoral Castle, with the royal Family at their “summer camp,” so it is almost certainly Prince Andrew.

          In the email, he asks if she has any available “inappropriate friends,” and she replied that at the moment, she only had “appropriate friends.” Apparently, that was the code for under age or over age girls, implying that she offered access to both.

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            at least nothing that can be proven

            I think that’s the key bit. There’s a lot of deniability there.