Apparently they’re scrambling in the wild house, meeting with lauren bobert in the situation room etc.

I think it just has become far more likely that trump himself had Epstein killed…

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    the slow drip of leaks is proving to be an effective strategy. Normally they flood the zone after a bombshell and the scandal gets buried. This time, whomever is conspiring against him is doing a much better job at keeping things tightly wrapped and leaking it slowly to keep the conversation relevant.

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    No. Nothing matters. He said it himself.

    I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?

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    It makes the existing situation worse for Trump. It could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back or another scandal to add to the pile.

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    If you’re old enough to remember the panama papers and how less than a handful of wrong doers had to face their consequences, you can basically expcet a rerun. The entire ruling class is a criminal enterprise.

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      The person who released them journalists Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017 and Ján Kuciak in 2018 due to their investigations  ended up being assassinated

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    He won’t “fall” until his supporters stop supporting him.

    To be clear, his supporters voted for him in 2024 even though he was already a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and insurrectionist.

    They will not care if they find out he fucked children.

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        Biden did a lot of things worth criticising , it’s wild u.s. patriots latch onto like, biting a babies leg on halloween

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        But Biden fucked children in the basement of that pizza place that didn’t have a basement

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    If he somehow does start getting held accountable for this, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries will twist themselves into pretzels to somehow throw him a lifeline. And it wouldn’t even make me assume Schumer or Jeffries are in the Epstein files, I think they’re just so cowardly and worthless they’d help Trump without getting anything out of it.

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    Let’s see…

    Dodged not one but two impeachments which should’ve done it for him. Is an active felon, hasn’t served jail-time. Allowed over 350,000 Americans to die to a pandemic that was horribly mishandled because of him.

    If neither of those things have done him in, which should have for anyone else, the rotten piece of shit is going to die comfortably. He’ll be able to leave office peacefully, if that’s assured, without serving any repercussions for anything he’s done during his first term and second term.

    What a fucking pathetic world and country.

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    No. I think it will get far less coverage than it should, will get pushed out of the news cycle early, and Trump won’t be held accountable. The only way anything happens is that someone who’s pissed off makes another assassination attempt and lands the shot this time.

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    The only thing that will take him down is a blob of cholesterol being dislodged during a particularly violent fart. He is surrounded by boot lickers who will excuse him literally anything, including raping children if necessary.

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    He’s like teflon … Nothing sticks.

    But once there is a minor scratch, it will become completely worthless in no time at all. Now it’s not IF but WHEN that scratch happens

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      I’d say he’s the opposite of teflon - he’s so fundamentally dirty that it’s impossible to make him worse than he already is. If who he is doesn’t move the needle then nothing else will make the difference.

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      We can hope. But everyday I lose more and more faith in my fellow humans…

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      Theres been more than scratches. Seems like multiple times a day theres a new thing, just one of which would have been enough to sink someone’s entire career 20 years ago.

      Im not sure if its due to constant access to unlimited news, a sign of the times we live in, or simply him being untouchable.