• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    If the Epstein stuff is what finally brings down Trump, it would be peak irony. Its a low bar, but at least some of these MAGA ding dongs draw a line at diddling children.

    I honestly thought there was no line for MAGA at this point.

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      It was what started the revival and rise of political Trump, QANON was all about stopping diddling children. Or so many of its believers were told.

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      there isn’t, they want to legalize deportation to active warzones, ice also has a racial bias (obviously), plus they let some trust fund billionaire who wasn’t even part of the American government make massive budget cuts that will have massive concequences.

      and technically there is a law that says no president of the united states can be convicted of a crime (for declaring wars and other crap) the side affect being that a 36 times convicted felon (and non-convicted rapist) can run for office, win, and then have all charges dropped

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    What does a big thing even mean to someone enacting the American Nazi agenda? Invade Poland?

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    Ha, when you’ve already pulled so many crazy stories that it’s not working anymore. Nice.

    Also Epstein did not kill himself.

    Release the Epstein files.

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    Consider linking the original source instead:

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-plotting-this-desperate-move-to-distract-from-epstein-wolff/

    And putting the repost in the comment? It’s more direct and includes, among other things, official responses:

    House. In response to questions from the Daily Beast Tuesday about Wolff’s reporting that Trump was willing to sacrifice Ukraine to distract from his Epstein crisis, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told the Daily Beast: “Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s— and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”

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      The “official response” sounds like official confirmation of Wolff’s reporting.

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      Quotes I highlighted from Wolff’s book on trump’s first term, most of them quotes from trump or people in his orbit that came up in interviews for the book.

      “I don’t get it,” Trump said.

      Of course the United States manufactured things, but reality did not match the vision in Trump’s mind.

      “I just do,” Trump replied. “I’ve had these views for 30 years. That doesn’t mean they’re right,”

      It was clear Trump had no clue what that was or who Porter was.

      As far as Porter was concerned Navarro was a member of the Flat Earth Society on trade deficits, like the president himself.

      No answers were forthcoming. But Trump soon forgot his questions.

      “I don’t want to hear that,” Trump replied. “It’s all bullshit.”

      Trump seemed not to comprehend the value and the necessity.

      The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire.

      “He’s a fucking moron,” Tillerson said so everyone heard.

      Cohn concluded that Trump was, in fact, going backwards.

      It seems clear that many of the president’s senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views

      "I can’t sit around and listen to this from the president. He’s just a moron.”

      It was clearly Russian propaganda, McMaster said. He and the NSC and intelligence experts had concluded that. But the president had picked it up and shot it out.

      Trump seemed not to remember his own decision because he did not ask about it. He had no list—in his mind or anywhere else—of tasks to complete.

      “The president has zero psychological ability to recognize empathy or pity in any way.”

      Trump had no understanding of how government functioned.

      Trump liked signing. It meant he was doing things,

      The president thought special assistant sounded a lot better, not realizing it was an even lower position.

      Kelly said of the president, “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in crazytown."

      “Can we change the libel laws?” Trump asked

      He had told the West Wing staff and even some on the Hill that the president didn’t understand what DACA was, that he was ignorant of both the policy and the mechanics.

      The president can’t do this on his own, he’d told West Wing colleagues, because if he does it on his own, he’s going to screw it up.

      “He’s a professional liar.”

      “Mr. President, I cannot, as a lawyer, as an officer of the court, sit next to you and have you answer these questions when I full well know that you’re not really capable.”

      He could not say what he knew was true: “You’re a fucking liar.” That was the problem.

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    that bullet should have gone through his head, not his ear, we were two inches away from a better world

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          My understanding is that glass from the screen likely shattered and hit his ear?

          In any case, a little better aim and we would have a better world.

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          My understanding is that glass from the screen likely shattered and hit his ear?

          In any case, a little better aim and we would have a better world.

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            i found this in an article after three minutes of research

            https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/photos-of-trumps-ear-before-and-after-his-rally-shooting-arent-what-we-expected/ar-AA1p4Azy

            Seeing the Republican candidate’s ear intact had some questioning the source of Trump’s wound. “This is so strange, does anyone else think trump didn’t actually get shot?” an X user commented. Others were quick to point out that while the flesh damage was not substantial that it was clear Trump had in fact sustained injury. “Disagree, there is evidence of damage at the top,” one X user replied. “How grown adults can’t understand that a 5.56mm hole in your ear can be sewn up and properly heal is beyond me,”

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                there was no hole, the top of his ear was taken off, he was almost killed but gout out with what is effectively a fancy scratch, i don’t think any sane person would ever go look mommy i have a booboo also if you actually read the article a shared a link to you would have read that his ear bled a lot, which might not have been super kid friendly when being viewed on public tv

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          My understanding is that glass from the screen likely shattered and hit his ear?

          In any case, a little better aim and we would have a better world.

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    He’s going to float the idea of giving Alaska to Russia, distracting people from the Epstein fiasco.

    In other words: drumpf is a RAPIST and a PEDOPHILE

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    Legitimately surprised that he hasn’t staged another “assassination attempt”, it worked so well for him last time.

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    Ok Donald. If you get Putin to leave Ukraine on Zelensky’s terms, then maybe we can talk about something other than Epstein for 5 minutes. Maybe.

    However, if you fuck over Ukraine, and then try to claim a victory for authoritarianism as a victory for peace (which you almost assuredly will) we double down on Epstein so fucking fast even JD Vance will start to regret betraying you to Rupert Murdoch before the midterms.