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    “YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PAY FOR AN ENDORSEMENT. IT IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL TO DO SO,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post. “Can you imagine what would happen if politicians started paying for people to endorse them. All hell would break out!”

    So, I conclude that Trump pays people to endorse him regularly. Quick, we need to audit the Nuge and Kid Rock…

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    Beyoncé and Oprah own media production companies. These companies were hired to help produce and stream media events. If it’s a problem for the campaign to hire companies that are headed by people who have favor the candidate, then, oh boy, does The Trump Organization have a lot of ‘splaining to do.

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    It’s another tactic to distract the media’s attention away from the Epstein affair. Whatever Trump’s involvement in this must be something to behold.

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    Prosecute them for what? Also, I cannot put my finger on it…what is something all of these people share?

    Taco is really losing his mind over his child-raping scandal.

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    temporarily embarrassed fascist attempts distraction by offering famous black women as targets, how unexpected.

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    I guess Taylor Swift gets a pass because Trump figured she could not see it coming.

    /s or something

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        It’s because she suffers from a very weird problem:

        She’s the physical ideal of white supremacists, so no matter what happens, in their head they’re going to always find a way to rationalize that she’s on their side.

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    So this is the distraction you’re going to attempt, because you’re in the Epstein files and were briefed on that months ago… Release them!