As Trump works tirelessly to protect the Jeffrey Epstein files, his administration has terminated more than 1,300 jobs in an agency that combats human trafficking.

Makes you wonder...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/human-trafficking-state-department-jeffrey-epstein/

The State Department guts its office combating human trafficking

The cuts come as Trump reels from MAGA anger over sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Mother Jones
A very related earlier thread on the actual stats showing that Republican politicians disproportionately commit more sexual assaults against children than other parties https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/114717290171567862

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What's the ratio with proportion of politicians per party? I'm assuming Republicans and Democrats have similar numbers but I'm pretty sure there are less than 1/4 as many libertarians as Republicans meaning that they are disproportionately even more likely

@gbargoud I agree with you here, although the overlap between Libertarian Party politicians and Republicans is effectively 100%. Most of the recent LP presidential nominees have been former Republican officials.

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At least they learned something from their Sunday school pastors.

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Doesn't make me wonder at all.

The top levels of the #GOP are #pedofascists. Full stop.

@mattsheffield trump is a pedophile like Epstein so it acting like that is not surprising.

@mattsheffield The Trump Administration not only looks the other way for human trafficking, they're an enthusiastic participant!

While I don't understand how, there are Q Anon folks who do genuinely believe that there's a massive child sex trafficking ring involving a number of prominent celebrities and government officials.

I'm very curious to see how those folks respond to this, given their prior support for this administration.

@mattsheffield The face of a man who realized he has lost his soul... But forgot why it mattered in the first place.
@sstrader I have to wonder if the guy ever had any principles

@mattsheffield Marco Rubio used to just look politician-dumb, stupid smile always ready. (I know little about him. I'm not saying he truly is dumb. He may be, he may not be, I don't know. Just that he had that classic salesman-of-anything-and-everything vacancy.)

Now? Man. He looks like his night job is murdering small creatures, human or otherwise, and he doesn't get any sleep in his day job either.

Dead man walking.