• harmbugler@piefed.social
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    Trump Model Management, later shortened to T Management, was a New York City-based modeling agency founded by Donald Trump as T Models in 1999. It was closed by Trump in April 2017, shortly after he became U.S. president.

    This is the only thing I can find where he took his name off something. Wonder why.

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      Holy shit, its wikipedia page is crazy, Melania was one of those models:

      In July 2015, it was reported that Trump Model Management and Trump Management Group LLC combined had requested US visas for almost 250 international fashion models.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Model_Management

      Alexia Palmer’s contract with Trump Model Management was from January 2011 to May 2014, which required her to come to the U.S. from her home country Jamaica and work as a model on contracts arranged by the agency. Palmer said she was paid only $3,880 from 2011 to 2013 and that 80% of her wages were taken away from her as “expenses.” She accepted that she had agreed to pay for “certain expenses and permits” based on a separate contract she later signed as “Trump Model’s Loan Agreement.” Palmer also argued that she was not even paid the “prevailing wage” for models, which she claims is $45,490 a year.

      https://www.forbes.com/sites/denizcam/2016/03/23/federal-judge-dismisses-case-brought-by-jamaican-model-against-trumps-modeling-agency/

      I’ve never seen this take before:

      The pattern is clear when you look at the broader network. All four men attended the same modeling contests, judged the same competitions, and hosted private events with teenage contestants. They traded girls across state and international borders using legitimate business infrastructure. Giuffre testified that Epstein bragged about sleeping with “over 1,000 Brunel girls,” while multiple witnesses described how Brunel would “farm out” models to Epstein and other associates.

      Everyone’s been obsessing over sealed documents while ignoring the unsealed ones. The modeling industry provided perfect cover for this network because it had legitimate business fronts. But the pattern of exploitation – recruiting vulnerable young girls with promises of fame, trapping them through visa violations and debt, providing access to wealthy men – was consistent across Elite, MC2, and Trump Model Management. Desperate teenage girls from poor backgrounds would do anything for a chance at modeling success, and these men systematically abused that desperation.

      While everyone chases phantom client lists, the documented evidence of his participation in this network sits in court filings, victim testimony, and public records. The cover-up isn’t happening in some government vault – it’s happening every time we pretend this evidence doesn’t exist.

      https://rachelandthecity.com/who-needs-the-epstein-files-trumps-modeling-agency-was-a-documented-trafficking-operation/

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      Which is why he’s putting it everywhere he can in hopes some slip through the cracks. Deep down he knows he’s not going to be remembered fondly by most.

      EDIT: Holy crap - confirmed the very next day after making this comment.

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      We still have monuments to Confederate Generals scattered all over the country. Some of them weren’t even built until the 20th century.

      Trump will be retconned and rehabilitated in the same way Bush and Reagan were. Republicans will spend the next ten years looking for the New Trump to replace him when he’s gone.

      He’ll be celebrated. He’ll be worshipped. In another fifty years, you’re going to have evangelical ministers canonizing him as the first Protestant Saint.

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      More than 1 million but they had over 1000 FBI agents working on redactions for months so should be almost 0 now

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    He’s always the rapist traitor liar, bragged about grabbing women by the P and they chose that.


    Just locker room talk,

    The voters said that’s for me!

    They elect rapist

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      Presidents have been raping kids since the Jefferson Administration. I would consider it horrible, but not unique to this president

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      I don’t know if people forgot, but you have people who should have done something about it who don’t care or support it , and you have a large voting bloc who don’t care or support it.

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    I would love to see the “Cleanup America act” introduced that requires complete erasure of the trump name from public view. Roads, buildings etc to be enacted the moment the turd passes. Get this through Congress now so he can see it and die knowing his legacy will be erased.

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    He’s sitting president. He was president before. People need to realise that no one will do anything ever. He may or may not be on the files. He’s a lying sack of shit, but when he said that he could shoot someone on the streets and nothing would happen, he was not lying.

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      People need to realise that no one will do anything ever.

      People are definitely doing things. That’s a big part of the problem.