Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll look it up!

They also own their own ad company.

Game of Thrones style, please.

I canceled my renewal but I’be been putting off finding a replacement because what you said. It’s exhausting.

$385 for a 16 GB Pi seems crazy.

I found a $10 Pi4B at one of those overstock outlets. Keep an eye you there, it’s mostly junk but you can find that deals.

Oh that’s weird! Sorry for coming across as a jerk.

I’ll post it again here. Highly worth the read. It doesn’t make a claim whether it’s true or false, just says why we should be cautious about spreading this without any evidence.

If the link doesn’t work again, you can find it on the Snopes site. The title or the article is called What We Know About Origins of Trump Child Rape Allegations.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/09/03/trump-epstein-katie-johnson/

The report isn’t accurate.

It straight up says no one knew about Epstein in 2016, but that’s factually wrong.

I don’t think you provide the Snopes link, I’m saying I did in the original comment that you replied to.

I’m actually wondering now if we are using different Lemmy platforms and we’re fighting because maybe what you see in your site isn’t what I see on mine.

Like…are we mad at each other for no reason?

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You replied to me linking a Snopes article on this.

You didn’t even read what you replied to?

Lemmy be like:

“gossip site, Radar, that validates my bias?! Hell yah.

Snopes, The Guardian or other reputable sources? nah fuck off, I can’t be bothered to read more than a headline”

100% AGREE.

She would have to testify and the courts couldn’t reach her so the case was dropped. The filer gave a fake address.

Read the article, my dude.

Also I can tell you didn’t read my article because it addresses the sketchy video of the pixelated woman.

I can say Katie Johnson might not be real because if you had read the article I linked to, you would know that Norm Lubow is the person who actually filed the lawsuit, not Katie Johnson.

Norm Lubow was also pretending to be someone named Al Taylor, who was also aggressively pushing the accusation with journalist.

Even Radar Online, which is linked in the post here is a known gossip site that didn’t believe Katie Johnson story to be credible either.

The gossip site Radar Online published a short story on April 28, 2016, noting the filing, but even it was skeptical, highlighting the fact that the person filing the claim had given apparently bogus contact information, using the address of a foreclosed house whose owner had recently died.

The article in the link also says that no one knew about Epstein when Katie Johnson made her complaint in 2016 but that is false.

The article also neglects to mention how much Jerry Springer producer was involved in.

What We Know About Origins of Trump Child Rape Allegations

Please note, I am not defending Trump or arguing over any of the other accusers.

My issue is just that a lot of people keep using Katie Johnson’s testimony as an open and shut case, ignoring all the problems with that accusation to back up their own wish for Trump to be a pedophile.

That’s not really enough to prove much. There are two paragraphs on that page and one of them seems inaccurate.

Two facts reinforce the credibility of Johnson’s claims. First, at the time of Johnson’s

statements to FBI, Jeffrey Epstein was not yet the infamous public figure he was to become. Thus,

if Johnson had fabricated the incident in an attempt to embarrass Donald Trump politically—as

President Trump’s campaign claimed—it is unclear why she would have made Epstein the primary

and slightly more violent perpetrator in her account

Trump was running for office when this accusation occurred in 2016. And his relationship with Epstein was already known. Remember Epstein had already been in trouble for under age sexual assault prior to 2010.

I want to be clear, I’m not saying Katie Johnson is or isn’t real. I’m just saying it’s not the nail in the coffin that we think it is.

What is the source for this video? None of the links in the description include this video.

The link to the court case shows that Katie Johnson was completely unreachable by the court system and letters were repeated returned to sender.

Snopes and the Guardian researched Katie Johnson and neither were able to find credible claims.

I’m not saying she doesn’t exist only that there is reasonable doubt here.

The privacy part doesn’t bother me. it’s the Jerry Springer producer involvement. His whole job was to make up stories for the show. I’m not saying he is or isn’t lying but because he is such an untrustworthy person, the chance for doubt becomes significantly higher.