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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s all this talk about “evidence” but what exactly would make those files more credible as evidence than testimonies of multiple women? A list of names is just a list of names. It doesn’t prove shit. Having been on Epstein’s island doesn’t prove anything, either. Private conversations or a diary containing a detailed description of every incident could also just be people joking around or having fucked up fantasies. The only legitimate “proof” I could think of would be photo and video evidence (other than medical records, which don’t even exist in a lot of SA cases), but why the fuck would they ever release that unless it’s with the victims’ consent, which I doubt they’ll ever (care to) acquire? Never mind that even that won’t convince his most die-hard supporters because they (and Trump himself) will just resort to the claim that it’s all deepfakes. Even if you just hand out a list of the photo/video evidence that exists, how do you know those photos and videos actually do exist?

  If multiple women accuse a single guy who has said multiple highly questionable things in the past and was friends with/has had connections to a sex offender, then that’s pretty fucking damning, but I don’t remember the public caring much about it or heavily pushing for an investigation or a trial to look into it further (but I do remember that at least one woman dropped the case because she was receiving death threats), which is one of the reasons why people like him keep getting away it, and really just comes down to the public not believing women or taking them seriously enough, even if there’s multiple of them accusing the same man.

  It also makes you wonder what that means for cases where there’s no “concrete” evidence like medical records or photos/videos in the first place, which will be the majority of cases.