Spyke
TransplantedSconie
lemm.ee

Lmao. Come on.....no way.....

checks if it's The Onion

Lmao!!

Sweet Jesus this motherfucker is a peice of work.

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crawancon
lemm.ee

WHAT KINDA COUCHES DOES IT HAVE?

—JD Vance yelling, probably

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Rapidcreek
lemmy.world

Somebody has a sense of humor. There's no way the Trump team would have thought to look into this so this is the leasing entity being cheeky. But, it was probably just a matter of the plane being ready.

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Linktankreply
lemmy.today

Probably to continue pointing out what a pedophile rapist tRump is. If I had to guess.

Edit: Oh, oh! And by extension how gross and weird everybody is who defends him!

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NocturnalMorningreply
lemmy.world

I get that, I just don't see how getting a jet that used to be owned by Jeffrey Epstein matters. He's a creepy rapist, and pretty much everyone already knows that.

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EatATacoreply
lemm.ee

I agree with you. However, at the same time, (assuming) it's a fact and I'm all for repeatedly reminding people how similar he is to Epstein and how close of friends they were. So, with that in mind, I fully endorse the article.

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mad_asshatterreply
lemmy.world

"Trump's jet malfunctioned—its replacement appears to have been owned by Jeffrey Epstein"

I typed this one in Braille.

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ILikeBoobies
lemmy.ca

Records indicate that an aviation company, according to Reddit user u/shiruken, bought the plane from an LLC linked to Epstein in February 2021

Shouldn’t the journalist at least verify these claims before publishing an article?

How the fuck is a reddit user a source?

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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

Because the reddit user linked to a set of reliable sources for everything except the photo of the jet showing its tail number and use by the Trump campaign (which they provided)

The journalist then discovered that a local news outlet had published a photo of the same jet including tail number being used by the Trump campaign, so they had the full chain of evidence without depending on a reddit user's say-so.

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Hemingways_Shotgun
lemmy.ca

In his defence, it was a really good price. They gave him the black-light special pricing.

50% off if you promise to never shine a black light in there.

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Optional
lemmy.world

“According to reddit user /u/blyatcorp” - okay stop.

I need a news story to not have random redditors as the only source.

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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

That's why they included the links that person provided, which document the historical ownership of the plane.

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Optionalreply
lemmy.world

Fair, but two things:

* “The origins of the photo aren’t exactly clear. According to u/shiruken, the photo was first posted by the redditor u/ChuckBarley. Neither account responded to inquiries sent by the Daily Dot.” is still the problem as “the photo” is the linking evidence * All of the info was copy/pasted. The author could have referenced their own search, and it’d be easy to do but they didn’t.

Which isn’t to say it isn’t believable, it is, just that it’s conjecture because they ran the story without verifying it.

Edit: looks like they ‘confirmed’ it via an Xitter account, which - is something? I guess?

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Optionalreply
lemmy.world

Ah okay, thank you. I wonder if that was an update to the story - that was all I was looking for.

It’s still hinging on a social media account (The Air Current) but it’s corroboration at least.

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Optionalreply
lemmy.world

Gotta admit, the plane in the local news pic? Pretty pedo-y. Like the jet equivalent of a cargo van with “Free Candy” spray painted on it.

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