kingofpol
26d ago
If there was solid material evidence that Trump had fucked 13yo's, then the Biden administration would have gone after him. They certainly tried to get him for everything else in the book (some of which was fair, other stuff less so).
I keep seeing this argument from "moderates" on both sides and I have no idea why when there's a very obvious explanation: because the collateral damage would have brought down a bunch of bigshot Democratic politicians and donors too like Bill Clinton. That's why the top congressional bigshots kept their heads down and the release was largely led by gadflies Ro Khanna and Tom Massie.
Same reason Dems never really pressed the Dennis Hastert scandal even though one would think that the opposing party's Speaker being exposed as a serial pedophile would be a great issue to campaign on. Everything falls into place if you operate under the assumption that most high level politicians from both parties are pedophile rapists, or at least pedophile rapist adjacent.
It wouldn't be "words from Trump" that would bring down Bill Clinton, proof that Bill Clinton is a pedophile rapist would bring down Bill Clinton.
Democratic leadership (and we should distinguish between the leadership and the voters on this, I'm sure your average Dem voter would happily sacrifice Bill and most of Congress to bring down Trump) would rather Trump be in charge than for their top brass and donors to wind up in prison for being pedophile rapists. It's a big club and you ain't in it.
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