Trump urges MAGA supporters to forget about Epstein files – DW – 07/13/2025
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A US Department of Justice and the FBI memo concluded that Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a client list involving high-profile associates. It frustrated Trump's supporters who criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi.
  • A joint DOJ–FBI memo reaffirmed that no “client list” of high-profile individuals existed and found no evidence Epstein blackmailed anyone.
  • MAGA hardliners (e.g., Alex Jones) and some Trump allies lash out at AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, demanding disclosures.
  • President Trump urged supporters to stop attacking his team over “Epstein Files,” calling Epstein “somebody nobody cares about” and insisting his administration is “PERFECT.”
  • Internal friction reportedly flared between Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino (who threatened to quit) and Bondi, though Trump insists DOJ/FBI are united.
  • Trump wants the FBI to refocus on his unproven 2020 election–fraud claims rather than “the same old…documents on Jeffrey Epstein.”
  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
    158·
    2 days ago

    If conservatives gave a damn about kids and sex crimes, these lists should have caused enough public rage to burn the party to the ground.

    It didn’t. So republican are unassailably the party of sex offenders and those who support sex offenders.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      924·
      2 days ago

      The civil war never ended. The South just kept waging it through other means.

      And now they’re in control of the government and do what they always wanted- destroy it. That has been the outspoken agenda of the right wing conservatives for the better part of a century.

      Starve the beast, small government, all that shit is them saying: we don’t want democracy, we want to rule as colonial lords, own slaves, and to hell with elections.

      How people still don’t realize this is fucking mind boggling.

      There is no “two party state”, there is only one party that believes in democracy and rule of law at all, the other is a christofascist-anarchist terrorist cell hellbent on unraveling society where might is right, so that they can rule with impunity like feudal lords.

      That’s it.

      Lincoln should have had every single one of them rounded up and shot after the war. You don’t skip the last dose of penicillin or you might as well not have taken it at all.

      • Baron Von J@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        2 days ago

        Lincoln should have had every single one of them rounded up and shot after the war

        Given that he was killed during Reconstruction, I’d put that on Andrew Johnson (a Southern Democrat) and the Congress.

      • Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zipEnglish
        121·
        2 days ago

        100% this.

        The children of Confederate losers have been stropping their knives for decades, undermining our institutions, and fomenting dissent along every avenue. They are a cancer.

      • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
        131·
        2 days ago

        tbf, Grant was pretty ruthless in his post-war pursuit of Confederate holdouts. He didn’t have them shot, though, they were mostly hung.

        The problem is that it is very hard to eradicate an idea violently. It just goes into hiding and bides its time, unless you just want to do a full genocide or something. I mean, it’s not like people stand up and volunteer for their own execution when they know certain folks are being executed.

      • onslaught545@lemmy.zipEnglish
        53·
        2 days ago

        As an aside, there’s growing evidence that not taking the full course of antibiotics if the infection is already resolved is the best course of action.

        I believe the theory is that by continuing to take the antibiotics, you kill off the bacteria that isn’t drug resistant and just leave the drug resistant bacteria behind.

        • lad@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          1 day ago

          And you have sources? Because last time I checked this was the worst way of doing it, as you leave enough bacteria to try and mutate into resistivity.

          If you already had resistant bacteria, taking antibiotics wouldn’t heal you for long anyway, tried it first hand a few months ago.

          • onslaught545@lemmy.zipEnglish
            4·
            22 hours ago

            https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-the-full-course-of-antibiotics-full-of-baloney-2017081712253

            There you go. And some quotes from the article:

            Compared to those who received longer courses of antibiotics, patients who received fewer antibiotics had either the same or a slightly lower risk of being colonized by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

            In most conditions, shorter courses of therapy resulted in cure rates that were the same as longer durations of antibiotics.

            • lad@programming.devEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              This is an interesting finding, but there are two important things to keep in mind: they only reviewed some illnesses, and even there one had better cure rate for longer treatment, this means we need a lot more studies. And another one I will quote from the article you linked:

              You should still follow your doctor’s instructions about the length of antibiotic therapy.

              If you are feeling better and think that you may not need the entire course, be sure to ask your doctor first.

              Considering that many will not be able to ask a doctor on time to stop early, both because it may cost extra and because there’s usually a waiting list of who knows how long, it seems unrealistic to expect real change soon.

              So, I partially agree with you and will try to spread the info and ask doctors about this, but I think it should rather be seen as a need for more studies. Maybe there already are more, the article is from 2017, but right now I don’t have time to search for that.

              Thank you for the information