A resurfaced clip shows sex offender Jeffrey Epstein pleading the Fifth when he was asked during a deposition if he ever socialized with underage girls around Donald Trump.

The video clip, unearthed by left-leaning outlet MeidasTouch, shows Epstein responding to questions during a March 2010 deposition. The disgraced financier was questioned by an attorney of an alleged victim, Vice News previously reported.

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    2 days ago

    I’m really confused why this is all of the sudden a big deal. Everyone is rehashing things that we already know/knew.

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      Theory is that this is maga realizing they’ve been played. Trump ran on Epstein files and when they decided the files weren’t real, maga realized he’s been lying to them.

      But who knows.

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        But t lied about a lot of things… It’s really interesting that this is the hill where maga becomes woke.

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          They’ve built conspiracies about child predators up to the point where it’s a foundational principle of the movement for many. They make movies about pedophile hunters and spread conspiracies that inspire people break into pizza stores with rifles. Maybe this is a coordinated threat to Trump to get him to bend on tariffs and deportations, maybe they just didn’t realize the themes they were using to rile them up actually stuck and wasn’t something they were going to reverse course on when it became politically inconvenient.

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            Is the media pushing this story to maga, or is maga pushing this story? It seems like he’s trying to distance himself from it, but it keeps coming back. Who’s pushing it? Maybe it’s a chicken and egg question.