‘I never went to that island’: Trump on Epstein underage retreat in epic Clinton rant
www.independent.co.uk
Trump is visiting his golf courses in Scotland as questions continue to swirl around his former ties to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

Sorry again for changing the headline but wanted the interesting part out again. Full video in the story.

OG headline: ‘I never went to that island’: Trump says of Epstein’s underage getaway and tells reporters to talk about Bill Clinton

  • khornechips@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    2 days ago

    Wait, was the POW/MIA thing some kind of conspiracy? My dad always flew one of those when I was a kid. He was also a card carrying NRA member so it wouldn’t be that shocking.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Wait, was the POW/MIA thing some kind of conspiracy?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_POW/MIA_issue

      Considerable speculation and investigation have been devoted to a hypothesis that a significant number of missing U.S. service members from the Vietnam War were captured as prisoners of war by communist forces and kept as live prisoners after U.S. involvement in the war concluded in 1973. A vocal group of POW/MIA activists has maintained that there has been a concerted conspiracy by the Vietnamese and U.S. governments since then to hide the existence of these prisoners. The U.S. government has steadfastly denied that prisoners were left behind or that any effort has been made to cover up their existence. Popular culture has reflected the “live prisoners” theory, such as in the 1985 film Rambo: First Blood Part II. Several congressional investigations have looked into the issue, culminating with the largest and most thorough, the United States Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs of 1991–93, which found “no compelling evidence that proves that any American remains alive in captivity in Southeast Asia.”

      It was Ross Perot’s flagship issue during the early 80s

    • bigfondue@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      Yes the POW/MIA thing has it’s origins in a conspiracy theory that the US knew about thousands of American military members that were alive and in POW camps in Vietnam, but left them behind and lied about it.

      That is the origin. I’m sure a lot of people with the flags just think it’s a remembrance thing though.