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Zorro

(16,350 posts)
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 11:43 AM Nov 5

TV's Biggest Stars Smash Networks' Wall of Silence on Epstein-Trump Tapes

Two of television’s biggest names broke through days of silence from their networks about the bombshell tapes revealed by the Daily Beast in which Jeffrey Epstein speaks about his relationship with Donald Trump.

Rachel Maddow on MSNBC and Jimmy Kimmel on ABC both spoke of their shock at the tapes, with the late-night host complaining that they had not been widely covered by other outlets.

A tiny snippet of the tapes were first disclosed last Thursday by the author Michael Wolff, and on Saturday the Daily Beast published recordings in which Epstein made extraordinary claims about his friend of a decade.

The convicted pedophile suggested intimate knowledge of the West Wing. He alleged that Trump liked to cuckold his best friends, that Trump first made love with Melania Trump on Epstein’s “Lolita Express plane,” called Trump a serial cheat who boasted about “f---ing Black girls,” and claimed without evidence that Trump had had an affair while in the White House. The tapes were made two years before Epstein’s death in a federal jail cell, when he spoke to Wolff as a source for his bombshell international bestseller, Fire and Fury. Wolff said Epstein showed him a cache of pictures of Trump with topless young women in his lap.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tvs-biggest-stars-smash-networks-wall-of-silence-on-epstein-trump-tapes/

Network execs are just as cowardly as other major news outlets. They fear TFA/MAGA retribution.

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TV's Biggest Stars Smash Networks' Wall of Silence on Epstein-Trump Tapes (Original Post) Zorro Nov 5 OP
They also love to make us anguish hoping we will still watch them. GreenWave Nov 5 #1
You've heard of premature ejacu-publication BoRaGard Nov 5 #2
Perhaps the network executives names are in the black book MagickMuffin Nov 5 #3
There are so many pervs in the industry Dem4life1234 Nov 5 #7
I never believed the malaise Nov 5 #4
I don't either MorbidButterflyTat Nov 5 #11
He knew too much about too many of the filthy rich. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 5 #13
i've been surprised how little this has been talked about here. mopinko Nov 5 #5
So many grifters Cirsium Nov 5 #6
Gary Hart RANDYWILDMAN Nov 5 #8
TY Kick! Cha Nov 5 #9
Well..... MorbidButterflyTat Nov 5 #10
K & R BadgerMom Nov 5 #12
Nobody's shocked about any of this except a few MAGA dumbasses. jaxexpat Nov 5 #14

BoRaGard

(2,955 posts)
2. You've heard of premature ejacu-publication
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 11:57 AM
Nov 5

Now we got postmature ejacu-publication.

You missed the election boat Mr. Wolff. It has sailed.

Great stuff, but crappy timing...

MagickMuffin

(17,163 posts)
3. Perhaps the network executives names are in the black book
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 12:03 PM
Nov 5


Perhaps they too flew on the Epstein sexual abuse plane!


MorbidButterflyTat

(2,633 posts)
11. I don't either
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 02:20 PM
Nov 5

I think his death was faked and he's continuing his child trafficking gig. Perverts and sicko rapists didn't just quit being perverted and sick when Epstein "died." He had a lucrative business and the picture of him on the gurney supposedly dead... he looked asleep, and don't paramedics cover the face? Why take the picture in the first place, let alone distribute it.

That's just my opinion, not worth much.



mopinko

(71,879 posts)
5. i've been surprised how little this has been talked about here.
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 12:31 PM
Nov 5

remember- the transcripts of jeffy’s plea deal were released the day b4 his phony ‘assassination attempts’. that theater did a great job of knocking that story off the news.
and for anyone who missed that- he testified that the 2 of them brutally raped a pair of young girls together. he did that cuz they had EVIDENCE that they did just that and more, likely. he pled out to save his own hide.
that got a lot of play in the xitter, but very little here. part of how they get away w that shit- they know no 1 wants to hear about that level of ick.

RANDYWILDMAN

(2,914 posts)
8. Gary Hart
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 01:43 PM
Nov 5

Simple reports of an affair tanks his campaign, TFG has done all that and much worse and nothing derails his campaign.

Is he the first felon awaiting sentencing, while still running for president, I almost forgot cause the mainstream media quit telling that over and over on their coverage.

Convicted felon should have been said before his name 1000's of times by now but silence....FFS

MorbidButterflyTat

(2,633 posts)
10. Well.....
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 02:09 PM
Nov 5

"Rachel Maddow on MSNBC and Jimmy Kimmel on ABC both spoke of their shock at the tapes..."

I saw Jimmy Kimmel and he was NOT shocked, not at all. He joked about it and was pretty funny.

I very much doubt Rachel Maddow was shocked, either.

Who on this planet would be?

 

jaxexpat

(7,794 posts)
14. Nobody's shocked about any of this except a few MAGA dumbasses.
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 02:54 PM
Nov 5

The REAL reason there's a lot of "look the other way" denial and misdirection among media minions is because their mogul-bosses were/are part of that gang or, at the very least, complicit in ignoring its existence. No billionaire becomes and remains a billionaire without their own baggage of unmentionable histories, skirting the law and lawless excess. They're responsible for the rise of cottage industries created to secure evidence and silence the witnesses while hiding the huge skeletons.

Trump tried to blatantly coopt the Joint Chiefs, AG and Secret Service to perform similar rolls for his interests. Just as they were approached and used by "W" for other, but just as crooked, purposes in the 2000's. That's why the continued teasing silence of the whole lot of them has been so damn deafening. Their obvious corruption can only be prosecuted with an honest DOJ and USSC which we don't have. Many will escape unscathed into retirement this winter. All under the cover of billionaire network moguls who refuse to go against the "unwritten code" which insulates them all.

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