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    Oh boy, can’t wait for the consequences this time. I wonder if she will be “SLAMMED” or “DESTROYED” over this, since we all know they don’t seem to be interested in jailing these people.

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    Zampolli, meanwhile, told the Daily Beast: “I think it is a disgrace that she dares to say this about our marvelous first lady.”

    That’s about the fastest way to make me think your opinion means shit.

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      He was married to the woman saying the shit about Melania, so he’s just trying to cover his own ass and stay in Trump’s good graces

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    if I just get ahead of things and tell in a press conference that I did not rob a bank, nobody will believe I robbed a bank when evidence comes out that I did rob a bank

    Aaahh, the thought patterns of the mentally insane

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    Finally here it is: the thing she weirdly tried to deny a couple of months ago is surfacing.

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    Now it makes total sense that they want to build a pizza restaurant in the bunker under the ball room

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        Yeah, same here. There was a video circulating before his first term (long before AI and deepfakes) where someone took apart an interview she did talking about “doing business” as a “model” and all the various ways her responses were common to the jargon of prostitution.

        It wasn’t just one thing, it was many things, even one part where she put her hand up to her mouth like she knew she should not have said something the way she did because it was an obvious pointer to sex work.

        If I can find it I’ll post it, but I haven’t seen it since 2015 or thereabouts.

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        Not if you consume mainstream media. The oligarchs keep their employees muzzled when it comes to specific topics.

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        Trafficking involves coercion. We’ve heard a lot about the minors, but not all Epstein’s connections, sexual or otherwise, were coerced: many were legally of age who were simply paid.

        By all accounts, Melania came to the US of her own free will and was an adult when she interacted with Epstein. There is no evidence she was ever coerced, nor that she was pimped. She’s never said she was, and no one has ever suggested that about her.

        And to drive the point home, she is most certainly acting out of her own free will now, and to the same end: selling her [name, title, access to power, story] for money.

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          I am sorry are you suggesting that people of legal age who are trafficked have not been coerced. We have tons of first hand accounts of the manipulation that Epstein and Maxwell used regardless of age. Everything from exposure to sexual acts and nudity to wear down resistance to promises of connections and other benefits.

          Do you think she was in her right mind hanging out as a coked out escort for a human trafficker and pedophile? Also, her access to the Einstein visa is extremely suspect as she in no way qualified for it.

          Who was the one who helped her secure it. Was it Trump who she was supposed to be dating at the time. If so and if it was not a bribery situation, why has she not released her application.

          I think you may be purposely downplaying what happened to her to because of your own held personal beliefs. Remember, according to Maxwell Trump and Epstein never did anything wrong. Why should we put trust in what Melania says when she is a demonstrable liar.

          https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/20/blog-posting/claim-about-melania-trump-touting-false-credential/

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        Totally possible but being victimized as tragic as it is isn’t a justification for joining those that victimized you to victimize others

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          I dated a girl before she Turned Pro. Decades later she filled me in on her short stint, and this one gem:

          • if she’s waiting for you, she’s a whore
          • if you’re waiting somewhere for her, she’s an escort or a call-girl.

          One of them has more rules, too.

          But I dunno.

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            A high-class whore is still a whore.

            No shade, and do what you want - grab that bag if that’s what you want, but there’s little difference between a street walker, a call girl, or a porn star. You’re still being paid for sex, simple as that. If it’s consensual, and nobody is being exploited then whatever.

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            if you’re waiting somewhere for her, she’s an escort or a call-girl.

            if she is an escort, than you having to pay should have been a hint. and are you saying that normal girls and women are never late? this “wisdom” seems more like something someone read in a playboy and didn’t think about it much…

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                Read it again.

                yeah, lets try.

                I dated a girl before she Turned Pro. Decades later she filled me in on her short stint

                they talked to former hooker

                and this one gem: [gem]…

                and this one gem… sentence misses predicate, so i have no fucking idea what they are trying to say.

                One of them has more rules, too.

                one of who? what?

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                  Maybe there is some cultural gap.

                  Note: I am not saying this commenter is correct. I am attempting to parse the words for you to get a better handle on what I think they meant.

                  They are explaining how if you are paying for sex and you are waiting for the sex worker to show up (indicating that they hold some power in the transaction) then they are an escort or a call-girl.

                  If the sex worker was standing around waiting for a client (indicating less power in the transaction on their side) Then they are a ‘whore’ or ‘hooker.’

                  The ‘one of them has more rules’ comment is saying that the group being called escort or call girl has more rules about what you are allowed to do/have done to you than the group under the banner of hooker or whore.


                  Again - not my words, not my belief. I am only playing translator.

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    Good thing she got out ahead of it before by randomly announcing apropos nothing that she had nothing to do with it, which as we all know, is an obvious confession that something is coming. You love to see it.

    These people are the dumbest cunts to exist.

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    A former associate of Melania Trump has sensationally claimed the first lady was an “escort” for Jeffrey Epstein and met the president through the notorious sex offender.

    Honestly, we knew this. Even if we didn’t know he was connected. She was a sex worker and she lit his candle. What a surprise.

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      Melanomia - the anticipatory state of paranoia that causes you to inadvertently trigger your own Streisand effect.

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    Wait wait wait, I thought this was common fuckien knowledge at this point. Have y’all been fucking sleeping up till now?! WTF!?

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      Dude I can barely remember the scandals that happened just a week ago. The Trump regime is so rapid-fire with this shit you gotta make it second fucking job to stay up to date.

      The crimes he’s committed that we’ve forgotten about would have ended an entire political party in a sane world.

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        Every time Maduro comes up I have a hot minute of “oh shit, I forgot about that.”

        We kidnapped a foreign leader from his own country and are holding him without authority and putting him on trial and so much else has happened that it’s barely even talked about.

        Like listen, Maduro sucks, not defending his crimes, but what the actual fuck.

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          And don’t forget about that time just a few months ago when Trump’s personal militia literally occupied an American city, killing two innocent civilians in the process, while making hundreds more disappear without a trace. This is so much fucking fun!

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      I did think she was, but after that unprompted press conference where she specifically said she was not associated with known paedophile “Jeffrey Epstein and his associates” TM , i realised I’d been wrong about her

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      I literally had an identical thought while reading this. We’ve known this for like 10 years.

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        We’ve known speculation and allegations for like 10 years. Now we’re getting some further, more specific, info from someone who was close to her during the early part of her “career.”

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    It’s already known that Ivana Trump went out with Ghislaine to help bring girls back to Epstein’s place.

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      Wtf kind of behavior is that?? It’s like some Sauron shit or an old evil fairy tale with a witch queen.

      Yesssss the master needs your first born, fetch a youngling

      Fucking evil