Billionaire Elon Musk and Prince Andrew are named in new files released by Congressional Democrats that relate to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The files turned over to the House Oversight Committee by the Jeffrey Epstein Estate appear to show that Musk had been invited to the financier’s island in December 2014.

Separately, a manifest for a flight from New Jersey to Florida in May 2000 names the Duke of York among the passengers.

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    My “favorite” part of the article is the last short paragraph. “Republicans on the committee accused the Democrats of “putting politics over victims” and said they would release the full set of documents soon.”

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    Cool, now start naming the Dems as well. This isn’t a political issue. Everyone related to this shit needs to be held accountable.

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        No, I’m demanding everyone involved be held responsible regardless of the political party, as I said in my comment. But apparently people here seem to not like that idea based on the downvotes.

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          Nobody is against outing all the perverts, but let’s start with the asshole that is clearly using the government to cover it up.

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            One doesn’t prevent the other. Congress can do more than one fucking thing at a time, despite what they try to make us believe with this type of bullshit.

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              Oh no. You are the Karen. You are having an argument with yourself. Nobody wants to protect pedophiles, or arguing that only Trump should be investigated. They are upset by the clear abuse of power in the cover-up perpetrated by Jeffy’s best pal.

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            Its possible, sure.

            But I’d also point out those aren’t the only three names in this new set of documents. Bill Gates is in there, another with Rich Kahn (Epstein accountant, who just last year along with Darren Indyke, espteins lawyer, tried to prevent themselves from being named in suits by victims), researchers like Joscha Bach, his lead attorney Reid Weingarten, etc.

            This is only evidence of association, and not of crimes. There are quite a few names in these ledgers, Thiel, Musk, and Bannon are notable because its new information and well known names.

            Edit: I’d add two other items - fully unredacted would just mean the victims will get targeted again, and that republicans are more than welcome to vote to release more details. They constantly keep blocking it.

            Probably because of things like this:

            https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/21/2339592/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-57

            Which is now up to part 57. I’ve yet to see a similar list of democrats, but considering the religious right, I do say its far more likely to see a lot of republicans with Epstein and committing crimes than democrats. So we’ll probably see a few more democrats at some point, but I think the numbers will lean heavily republican because they are just more likely.

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        They will genuinely attempt to explain it away with this reasoning. I’m calling it now. Once he saw the light and was blessed by the republican party it washed away this filthy democrat urge…

        I hope I’m wrong, but I sadly think I’m not.

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          Jesus fuck stop giving them ideas. If they try this then I blame Pissmidget for everything.

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          I never considered that approach, but that would sound like a convenient excuse and the religious “forgive the sins” people will eat it up, blind to how he acts the same now as he did then.

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        Everybody always seems to forget about the Southern Strategy, where Donald Trump realized that conservatives in the South were the dumbest people in America, even dumber than Trump himself, and that if he switched to the Republican party, and then talked louder and more confidently than other people, these dumb shit conservatives would worship him and do whatever he says.

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          It does work that way, but Trump never realized anything.

          Nixon, Barry Goldwater, and Harry Dent conceived of this idea, and Karl Rove helped move it forward into the modern era. Trump was just the right dumbass in the right place at the right time to help conservatives seize power after they completed almost 2 generations’ worth of propaganda and brainwashing our own people.

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      Fuck off with this. The VAST majority of people with half a brain don’t give a shit if it’s a D or R next to the name. I’m sure there are Democrats that are in there, however, the long list of rich/politicians that have been found guilty of sexual crimes, child rape/CSAM ARE majority Republicans.

      If you rape children, you should face the consequences, full stop.

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        That’s exactly what I said, idiot.

        I can only think that you had a knee-jerk reaction assuming my initial word choice meant something that it clearly didn’t. That reaction is a large part of the problem with online discourse getting nowhere and everyone arguing all the time. You’re arguing with people agreeing with you for no fucking reason because you’re not actually stopping to understand the comments before responding.

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          The way you worded your statement definitely made more than just me assume your intent, hence the down votes.

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            Not surprising that people here have terrible reading comprehension and just vote and post knee jerk reactions based on their biases just like everywhere else. Social media was a mistake across the board. It’ll be the downfall of our society.

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                I mean, yeah in this case that seems to be indicated by the evidence.

                I get downvotes yet the responses are agreeing with what I said.

                I can only assume that because I called out the Dems for bullshit politicas releasing only certain names and protecting their own, people are assuming I’m trying to make the opposite claim, yet the next 2 sentences prove otherwise.

                So they’re not actually reading and comprehending the comment, they’re just reacting to their own assumption of what the rest of my comment must be in their head.

                That certainly seems to indicate that people have terrible reading comprehension, vote, and comment without actually reading the comments fully.

                So you tell me… if they’re agreeing with my comments, then why the downvotes if not a lack of reading comprehension and impulse control on social media?

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                  It could just be that you’re getting down votes because your tone makes you sound like an arsehole, rather than it being specific to the content of what you’re saying 🤷

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    Also, the unknown Andrew has clearly stated via his Royal offices that he doesn’t sweat at all, perfectly normal medical condition, so it cannot be him. At all. The end. There is no more to say on the subject.

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    I admit I’m a little surprised (but not shocked) about Musk. Not because I didn’t think he would do that, just because he called out that Trump was in the Epstein files that time. Like I know dude has done all kinds of fucked up rapist stuff, just figured he was doing that stuff outside of Epstein’s sphere.

    But not shocked, because how can you be these days? Just really idiotic for Musk called attention to the Epstein files when he was in them. The guy is an idiot, but you’d think even an idiot wouldn’t talk about anything to do with crimes they’re complicit in.

    But ketamine is a helluva drug I guess.

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    white coffee mug with meme text "now that's what I call a distraction from the Epstein Files" as a decal

    Not nearly enough names. Keep going. I want to be shocked and dismayed. I want to find my blind spots. I want the names of people I thought were allies. And then I want us all to have a great, international cultural reckoning to ensure this doesn’t ever get this far again.

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    Where are we at with the file releases? I think they’ve released about 1%'s worth, so far. All heavily redacted and just enough spice to titillate the masses without giving any specifics. Oh Donald…will you burn the whole world down just to hide your special secrets with your very special friend Epstein?

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    Let’s be honest. At this point even if a list is released, can we trust it? It’s way more likely to be forged to frame political opponents.

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      It shows he planned a trip late 2014. Its not concrete evidence, and not all the files have been released afaik. I trust the evidence but am skeptical of jumping to conclusions. He’s a piece of shit for plenty of other reasons, and it’s worth looking into further along with anyone else in these files

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      Enough people have copies at this point I don’t think there’s much fucking with it. But I am also unconvinced it will result in anything meaningful.

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    On 11 May 2000, Buckingham Palace said on its website that Prince Andrew had flown to New York to attend a reception there for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Andrew returned to the UK on 15 May, a later entry said.

    Oh, the blatant hypocrisy…

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      You don’t even need to be an Epstein Guy for this. It was rampant all through the 00s.

      Mark Foley was chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, having been appointed by Dennis Hastert, who was in the middle of making hush money payments to one of his own victims.

      This was also when a bunch of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal was breaking into the news.

      Go back farther, to the 80s, and you might learn about The Franklin Scandal, a historic intersection of child prostitution and banking.

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    It is kind of funny, because during his meltdown in Indonesia, Elon called one of the cave rescuers a pedophile.

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      That was madness. Somebody putting his skills to good use to rescue a bunch of people stuck in a flooding cave and gets called a pedo for saying Elons robot is useless.

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      A lot of these articles only want to talk about the handful of people we already know associated with Epstein.

      Bringing up the same old names, because they are A) untouchable and B) barely even news anymore.

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    How do we know Lord Ruler isn’t forging the documents as blackmail against Musk?

    (Not that i believe they are, but it seems plausible)

    (I should probably point out that I’m not really paying attention to the details here)

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      According to this article musk was invited, but does not state that he went as it does with Andrew (whom also received a “massage” according to the article)