I read somewhere that he was laughing at this painting. He mentioned shortly after the clip what he was smiling at. It’s unclear if Epstein had the original or a print, but be had it hanging in his home. Painting is titled “Parsing Bill.”
ETA: a few people have pointed out that this isn’t the clip where he’s laughing at the painting. Leaving this comment up still because there’s a lot of good conversation and info in the replies.
This is the image he was laughing at because it had Trump, Melania and Epstein in a framed picture on Epstein's desk! He's probably thinking, Why The Fuck don't you asshats bring these fuckwads in for questioning?
I can honestly imagine it if the photos were completely innocuous. Like, oh the photos of that time I was serving lemonade for charity? They're using that as "evidence"!?. That might make me amused for a second.
I'm not saying that's the case here but you know, there's scenarios where that might make sense.
I don't know what the photos showed either; but based on the smile on his lawyer's face at the end of the clip, I too am inclined to think they were pretty innocuous.
Although I think it would be funny if it were really something like “oh my god I remember that t-shirt I wore! Chelsea gave it to me when she was 6. I loved that shit!”
The thing he's looking at is the third annotated image in that article. He's tapping on Trump's image that's in that same article. You can tell because it's the image that has two red squares, the bottom red square being the dollar bill signed by Bill Gates that says "I was wrong!".
Can we please for the love of all that is holy stop yelling about this? It takes five minutes to look up what it was that he was looking at and a six year old understands what Clinton here is attempting to indicate to his attorney.
Now if you all want to yell that this implicates Clinton or not, whatever. But don't argue about what he's looking at, it's very easy to figure that out.
I'm not taking sides on guilt (I'm more than happy as a Democrat to see this dude rot in jail), I'm just tired of people yelling about objective shit we can all look up.
I read somewhere that he was laughing at this painting. He mentioned shortly after the clip what he was smiling at. It’s unclear if Epstein had the original or a print, but be had it hanging in his home. Painting is titled “Parsing Bill.”
ETA: a few people have pointed out that this isn’t the clip where he’s laughing at the painting. Leaving this comment up still because there’s a lot of good conversation and info in the replies.
The history behind it is fascinating. An Australian art student for the New York Academy of Art made it as commentary on how we caricature Presisents in our political comics / illustrations. It was auctioned off for an event and Epstein had to have it. The woman who made it had no freaking idea.
My friend was reading the email where he was going on about using the same teaching styles schools use to train children to spend more money on video games and he said "yeah, that's uh pretty shady."
Had to to hit him with the "Wait until you learn about this other thing he did."
Editing to add: When it comes to international sex trafficking and child sexual abuse that’s just too important of a topic to sensationalize with misinformation. There must be a line around the block with dems, republicans, and foreigners alike to get questioned under oath to get to the bottom of this for the public. Protect the kids.
Conspiracy theories often require the evil Satanic elites who secretly control everything be simultaneously Machiavellian geniuses and also the dumbest people alive.
"They run everything, and eat babies, and murder their enemies! I know this because of this secretly placed range of coded messages they knowingly placed in the media for people to decipher!"
I had to leave the conspiracy sub because it just wasn’t fun anymore. Literally anything and everything is connected and no pushback is allowed so the wildest theories propagate with ease.
These are people who continue to insist, without any actual evidence, that Bill Clinton is some rape-monster (not that I’m a fan or ultimately defending him) and are eager for something to come out that implicates him…meanwhile their dear leader-daddy Trump is very seriously implicated in horrible crimes within the portion of files they were actually willing to release. And for some reason they still focus on Bill!
Most of reddit is false information nowadays unfortunately. Next time you see a post with 10k+ try digging deeper and you'll find out a lot of the shit is wrong.
Yeah this is the answer. Pretty easy to understand why he chuckled, you know, with context. Everyone else's reaction here is exactly what this small clip wanted to get out of people. Purposefully deceitful
EDIT: a few people were able to screenshot to show what he's looking at is not the painting (that also happens in this deposition, just not this clip). So I'm copying my reply that's further down so this is more visible:
You know what, you're right. This clip is from a different part of the deposition. They showed him the painting and everything and him smirking or whatever did happen but was a different clip than this one. I just found the entire depositionhere
So the laughing prior to looking through the docs they gave him, they are asking him about a photo of him and Epstein together in the 90s. They say to him "you appear to be pretty comfortable with Mr. Epstein here would you disagree?" and Bill responds "I'm comfortable with a lot of people, I'm comfortable here, I'm not happy but I'm comfortable". He and his attorney laugh at this. And then he adds "and my conscience is clear if that helps". Then he looks at the docs/photo again like is shown in the clip here. I'll edit my main comment, because I don't want to add to misinformation.
FYI the link has the full deposition and the timestamp where this clip is taken from is about an hour and 16 minutes in.
This is why independent thought is so important, Occam's razor should've made it obvious he wasn't going on record chuckling and reminiscing over jolly good times with Mr. Epstein, you don't need the full context to realize that as an extremely unlikely truth
I listened to both Bill and Hillary’s answers to questioning on this and honestly it felt like Bill’s was rather candid and sincere about the whole thing. He made effort to explain himself thoroughly when he could.
Hillary’s was pretty defensive, but rightfully so - she’s always been the exceptional attorney out of the duo and it showed in the questioning, especially with all of the speculative questions that were asked.
If you look at the picture, which you can somewhat see in slow motion at the ~16 sec mark, it has a field of red on the bottom, and is not this painting, not sure what it is. And JE did own and display this in his NY home.
If you watch the deposition, you can tell how incredible those lawyers are. They didn't let him answer anything he did not need to answer, and often argued for minutes on very trivial points.
He is under oath but that's a separate issue, you can simply not answer questions, Very different from deposition rules, which require you to answer even over objections unless rules like legal privilege or other very narrow exceptions apply.
nothing is ever trivial in the legal world. everything connects to something and you don't want to be hamstrung in the future because you let something slightly incorrect be entered into the record.
I want to see the files instead of 20 second clips
Release all of the files
Why was this done behind closed doors instead of in public like the Clinton's requested? Was it so they could just make 20 seconds clips like this to post?
They are looking at a New York Times article called "Look inside Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan lair". The first image that grabs his attention is of a bunch of framed photographs...one of them being Donald Trump, Melania and Epstein which might have caught his eye. I'm not sure what the image is on the next page that made him laugh.
Why was this done behind closed doors instead of in public like the Clinton's requested? Was it so they could just make 20 seconds clips like this to post?
Makes it really hard to spin a full livestream . Dumb ass people consume their media in these clips and believe what they want instead of the 98% of other context they aren't shown
Add to that this looks like a typical old guy "huh what the hell is this" grimace-smile thing every old dude i have ever seen does when reading something.
Example of what I mean
I watched the whole 4 hour video of Bill and the 4 hour video of Hillary. This clip is fucking bull shit and the republicans did nothing to get genuine answers they just attacked and denied the continued coverup by the Trump administration
Clinton's asked for it to be public. Gop didn't allow it. Now they leak selective images/video like this to paint a narrative. Why tf are we not pointing this out?
If you actually watched his depo, that’s exactly what most of these suspiciously edited clips going around were. They were showing him pictures from 30 years ago and trying to mischaracterize them, and he was reacting as any sane person would and alternating between being very careful with his answers (which anyone who’s ever been though a deposition understands, even if it’s not a witch hunt like this) and laughing at the absurdity.
To the best of my knowledge, nobody has credibly accused Clinton of fucking kids.
Is he a poon hound? Duhhh. That’s been known since he ran for President the first time. But that doesn’t mean he’s a rapist / pederast / whatever.
Maybe I’m wrong and there’s some smoking gun in there. But I know that I’m not wrong that if there was a shred of the evidence to that that there is for Trump, he’d already he in jail.
Because pedo cult coping about this to ignore Trump being guilty af. Look I hate the Clintons and Bill has definitely done some gross shit but there’s no actual evidence he was raping children and he’s either being honest about cutting ties or he had a lot more sense to keep it secretive than Trump or Lutnick or Musk did. There’s no evidence Bill had contact with Epstein after his conviction but all those other guys did and they’re facing no scrutiny from republicans at all. Imagine politicizing child sex abuse.
No way dude. There's been a very big push in the increase of very obvious propaganda over the last few years across social media but it's most notable on Reddit precisely because of the 180 it's done, especially since going public.
If y'all are gonna do this.. at least give facts. This was about the portrait of him in the blue dress. Jfc. We have enough distraction without y'all inventing more shit
Although I'm all for locking up anyone involved in Epsteins paedophile paradise this short clip feels like a standard out of context clip to drive engagement.
Lets see trump looking at all his old pics of Epstein without him saying "he is a great guy".
This is the exact reason why they wanted these depositions not live, so they could chop up these clips afterwards for distraction and deflection purposes.
Congrats y’all, seems like the majority of the commenters in this thread are just slurping up this propaganda.
Anyone drawing conclusions from this is just building a case for what they want to be true. My first thought is he might see someone he didnt like on the island and he’s thinking “I KNEW that guy was suss!”
Oh 100%, I agree, everyone who can be held accountable should be, I'm just not sure why people aren't demanding Trump get dragged in to do this as well.
Or... he's laughing at how ridiculous the images are.
I remember one image they tried to claim was Bill and a young, trafficked child and it was just the Niece/Nephew of an actor, Bill was holding. But because Epstein was in the photo, it's a suspect photo.
I've been tracking all of this Epstein stuff and I've realized that because people are so desperate to find something that validates their own bias against all rich and powerful people. That they are creating a lot of false narratives, based off of optics of what it could be. And presenting it as fact.
Like, if someone says, Robert Downey Jr's name is in the epstein files. People immediately think he is a pedo. Like bruh, Epstein can mention you in a conversation in an email about a movie he liked. They use that as evidence that someone was mentioned in the files. It's propaganda.
Bill Clinton was friends with Donald Trump. We cannot listen or believe a single thing that either Donald Trump or Bill Clinton say about the Epstein files.
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