Comments on: Alex Acosta is out https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/12/alex-acosta-is-out/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/12/alex-acosta-is-out/#comment-2442958 Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=88423#comment-2442958 The plot thickens (and sickens):
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-10/acosta-scrapped-53-page-epstein-indictment-2008-after-secret-negotiations-according

The claim is not disinterested; but is it accurate or is it spurious?

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/12/alex-acosta-is-out/#comment-2442947 Sun, 14 Jul 2019 11:11:37 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=88423#comment-2442947 Philip on July 13, 2019 at 1:10 pm said:
So, steve, got any stock tips?

Buy Disney.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/12/alex-acosta-is-out/#comment-2442946 Sun, 14 Jul 2019 11:11:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=88423#comment-2442946 If you want to be wrong, read and believe in Snopes.

If you want to not make wrong predictions… don’t make predictions.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/12/alex-acosta-is-out/#comment-2442938 Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:00:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=88423#comment-2442938 You are Fired!

]]> By: Philip https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/12/alex-acosta-is-out/#comment-2442738 Sat, 13 Jul 2019 17:10:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=88423#comment-2442738 So, steve, got any stock tips? 😀

]]> By: n.n https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/12/alex-acosta-is-out/#comment-2442737 Sat, 13 Jul 2019 17:06:21 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=88423#comment-2442737 “May you live in interesting times”

And it’s corollary: may you enjoy the liberal euphemisms.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/12/alex-acosta-is-out/#comment-2442735 Sat, 13 Jul 2019 16:33:37 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=88423#comment-2442735 Snopes is not an unbiased outlet. I have seen photos of Bill Clinton and Epstein. I haven’t searched recently, but then, I don’t use Google, either. Some enterprising person should compare Google searches to DuckDuckGo searches.

]]> By: Manju https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/12/alex-acosta-is-out/#comment-2442734 Sat, 13 Jul 2019 16:27:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=88423#comment-2442734 Re: Google removing photos of Clinton and Epstein

Snopes

Did Google Remove Photos of Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein from Search Results?

It is quite easy to hide something that apparently didn’t exist in the first place.

]]> By: Jeff Brokaw https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/12/alex-acosta-is-out/#comment-2442655 Sat, 13 Jul 2019 12:19:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=88423#comment-2442655 “May you live in interesting times” <== we are here

]]> By: Julie near Chicago https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/12/alex-acosta-is-out/#comment-2442525 Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:19:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=88423#comment-2442525 Aesop does it again! Thanks for the link to L.I., Aesop. :>)

Repeated here for our eddification, from the L.I. story — following a picture of Mr. Trump, a young girl, and Epstein, under which L.I. writes,

But there’s more — much more. There is this one, posted to Facebook by someone named Lisa Marie Durkot, who captions the image “Jeffrey Epstein and his buddy, fellow accused child rapist, Trump. Epstein smirks as Trump inappropriately touches a young girl.”

Well! I guess that puts Trump directly under the gibbet for inappropriately fondling a young girl!

–But wait. Not so fast! L.I. now quotes Politifact:

One such post shows what looks like a photo of Epstein, Trump, and a girl, who Trump appears to be kissing on the head with his hands around her waist.

[T]he purported photo of Trump and Epstein featured in the Facebook post is made up of two separate images. The one of Trump is from October 1993, when he was photographed with his daughter Ivanka — the girl mentioned in the Facebook post — at the grand opening of the Harley Davidson Cafe in New York City.

The photo of Epstein is from May 2005. He was attending the launch of RADAR MAGAZINE at Hotel QT, also in New York City. Trump is not in the picture.

https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/jul/10/viral-image/image-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-doctored/

The piece goes on to tell us,

The one of Trump is from October 1993, when he was photographed with his daughter Ivanka — the girl mentioned in the Facebook post — at the grand opening of the Harley Davidson Cafe in New York City.

The paragraph contains a link to the photo, at

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/donald-trump-and-ivanka-trump-during-grand-opening-of-the-news-photo/104969172

Very, very interesting. I notice that the anti-Trump piece says “inappropriately touching,” whereas the Politifact write-up does not suggest any out-of-the-way touching:

One such post shows what looks like a photo of Epstein, Trump, and a girl, who Trump appears to be kissing on the head with his hands around her waist.

The original allegation and doctored image were from a Facebook posting by a Lisa Marie Durkot. But of such minor editorializing, slanted writing are smears made, then spread, then deemed credible (at least by the credulous), and lynchings sometimes committed.

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