• [deleted]@piefed.world
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      Every accusation is unsubstantiated until someone puts in enough effort to substantiate it. The point is that the FBI received a ton of complaints specific to Trump and never really looked into them.

      #metoo was started to address the fact that accusations by women are regularly ignored or dismissed without any follow up.

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        Also FBI reports are not casual - lying can be punished by up to 5 years in fedaral prison. It’s not a place where to go troll someone especially since you wouldn’t gain much from it either. Yet FBI here neither prosecuted the liers or investigated the claims.

        I’m not an american but this clearly reeks of either incredible incompetence or incredible malice.

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      It’s crazy how they unredacted the names of women still alive as a form of punishment. I’m betting the redacted names are buried on the various gold courses. They don’t want anyone going back and looking around.

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      Add it to the long list of accusations of rape and sexual harassment over the years, as well as his self-described disdain for women, his creepy comments about his young daughter, admissions of creeping on underage women at beauty pageants, etc. etc. on and on. and you can’t ignore it any longer.

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      yeah I was a bit hesitant to post it. Gets lots of upvotes… but not really what people want… and getting lots of upvotes obscures other things.

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      Yeah it’s just at some point when there’s so so soooo much unsubstantiated claims, that will never be able to be independently proven, it kind of starts to be believable.

      I’m not saying everything everyone said in the witness statements are true but you don’t have an avalanche of folks coming forward without there being some veracity to their claims.

      I trust the word of almost literally anyone else more than Trump, a proven and known liar, so I really don’t put any stock into his feeble attempts to dismiss these statements as false.

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      Worst take ever. Kinda seems like there was a lot of negligence by all the government agencies that are paid to substantiate these things don’t you think? Also witness statements, flight logs, emails and phone records are evidence