For Trump, sexually abused underaged girls PALE in comparison to his friends "getting hurt" for abusing them

[Miles Archer]

" ( Marjorie Taylor ) Greene herself had never been sexually abused, but she knew women who had," the Times reported. "In her own small way, Greene later told me, she could understand what it was like for a woman to stand up to a powerful man. After the hearing, Greene held a news conference at which she threatened to identify some of the men who had abused the women."

The congresswoman didn't know those names herself but said she could have gotten them from the victims, and she told the Times that Trump called her to voice his displeasure with the threat.

"Greene was in her Capitol Hill office, and according to a staff member, everyone in the suite of rooms could hear him yelling at her as she listened to him on speakerphone," the Times reported. "Greene says she expressed her perplexity over his intransigence. According to Greene, Trump replied, 'My friends will get hurt.'"

"When she urged Trump to invite some of Epstein’s female victims to the Oval Office, she says, he angrily informed her that they had done nothing to merit the honor," the report added. "It would be the last conversation Greene and Trump would ever have."

https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-trump-2674834641/

[Whyisthisstillclose]

1. There is no morality, no conscience, no soul in tRump's psyche.

Just himself and rich friends and the fluffers that make him happy. Everyone else is an inconvenience.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Trump doesn't care about his friends getting hurt.

[Miles Archer]

4. Yeah, and he assumes he HAS friends

It seems like Epstein was the closest he ever got to having an actual friend, because they had shared values and interests. Other than that, I can't name one "friend" that he's actually got.

[Irish_Dem]

8. They were partners in crime. Not friends in the traditional sense.

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. He also assumes that meeting him is an "honor."

If there was ever a person who I'd go out of my way to avoid having anything to do with...

[tanyev]

3. And then Marjorie finally, FINALLY saw that the emperor had no clothes??

We'll see.

[Miles Archer]

6. She's feathering her next nest

As long as she sees the rapidly declining Trump as an obstacle to her getting there, I don't see a "hug it out" reunion in the cards.

Look at Rubio...Trump humiliated him, emasculated him, and then Trump had something he wanted, so he got on all fours and begged for it, and it was given to him. And the condition for his keeping it is that he's got to remain on all fours, forever.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. It's an inverted LE reality, the criminals are in charge

There are periods of history to study where this has occurred. It led to the rise of vigilante justice because the State was weak. Here is a link I read over the weekend, and while it's very very long, it explains an unregulated environment, weak State, vigilante justice, exploitation of labor.

For any who read it, ask, in general terms, is it a good fit for our times?

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11698-023-00272-1
Sicilian sulphur and mafia: resources, working conditions and the practice of violence

[Americanme]

7. trump couldn't bring himself to tell her "I will get hurt",

so he's pretending he has friends.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Exactly. He is the one will get hurt.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. He Has Friends?

I find that hard to believe.
(I saw others post a similar sentiment, but this was what I thought as I was reading the OP, so I thought I'd pile on.)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. I Was Just So Nave': Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene's Break With Trump (gift article)

How the Georgia congresswoman went from the president’s loudest cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic.

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/onboarding-offer?EXIT_URI=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2025%2F12%2F29%2Fmagazine%2Fmarjorie-taylor-greene-trump-maga-split.html%3Funlocked_article_code%3D1.AVA.dVI2.SSldBIDu0_EU%26smid%3Dtw-share&auth=login-google1tap&campaignId=7JFJX&login=google1tap

....Most significant, she defied the president and compliant House Republican leaders as she argued that all investigative material pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein should be released. “The Epstein files represent everything wrong with Washington,” Greene told me in December. “Rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting away with it. And the women are the victims.”.....

For Greene, the decades that Epstein spent eluding justice for exploiting and sexually assaulting countless girls and young women while amassing a fortune, and the seeming efforts by the government to cover up the injustice, “represents everything wrong with Washington,” she told me. This September, Greene spoke with several of Epstein’s victims for the first time in a closed-door House Oversight Committee meeting. She knew that the women had paid their own way to come to Washington. She saw some of them trembling and crying as they spoke. Their accounts struck her as entirely believable. Greene herself had never been sexually abused, but she knew women who had. In her own small way, Greene later told me, she could understand what it was like for a woman to stand up to a powerful man.

After the hearing, Greene held a news conference at which she threatened to identify some of the men who had abused the women. (Greene says that she didn’t know those names herself but that she could have gotten them from the victims.) Trump called Greene to voice his displeasure. Greene was in her Capitol Hill office, and according to a staff member, everyone in the suite of rooms could hear him yelling at her as she listened to him on speakerphone. Greene says she expressed her perplexity over his intransigence. According to Greene, Trump replied, “My friends will get hurt.”

When she urged Trump to invite some of Epstein’s female victims to the Oval Office, she says, he angrily informed her that they had done nothing to merit the honor. It would be the last conversation Greene and Trump would ever have.

[Conjuay]

12. Trump has friends?

That's news right there.

[randr]

13. He has no friends

More likely he is doing what Jeffrey was doing, being paid to protect the criminals. Much like he accepts, openly, payments for pardons.