• Pungent Llama@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Haha no surprise there. I said a few weeks ago in a comment this is what will happen and got massively down voted. Because if he admitted that he knew of the crimes, then he is 1. guilty for doing nothing about it despite being in power or adjacent to powerful people, or 2. is a pedo himself. So all he can do is say he knew nothing in order to save his own ass.

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      10 hours ago

      The issue with doing this under oath is that if any evidence comes out to the contrary it’s an easy conviction. Not that he hasn’t weasled around lying under oath before, but it is higher stakes than just making a public statement.

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          9 hours ago

          ??

          It either means he legitimately didn’t know anything or that he doesn’t think there is any evidence to support he did know/did anything. I’m pretty sure if they had anything concrete on him, the Trump admin would have gone after him, simply to divert away from everything theyre doing.