The Trump administration has come under mounting pressure from the president’s make America great again (Maga) base to release files on the case, including a supposed list of Epstein’s influential clients.

Trump, in response, has variously dismissed the existence of such files or said they were invented by Obama and members of his administration, including James Comey, the former FBI director, and Joe Biden, vice-president in the Obama administration.

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    So the Russian asset is accusing the Obama administration of falsely accusing Russia of something that everybody knows they not only did, but do as a matter of course?

    It’s not even as if the accusations are particularly noteworthy, They explicitly did not accuse the Trump campaign of seeking out or cooperating with the Russian interference - they just accuse Russia of interfering. As they do in every election (and as virtually every major world power does in virtually every election everywhere).

    Trump is really desperate to shift attention away from Epstein, isn’t he?

    And Gabbard is really driving home the point that she has absolutely no integrity, principles or ethics.

    Just another day in the decline and fall of the United States…

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    Even if this conspiracy theory was even remotely true, and not a distraction to protect the pedophile-in-chief, wouldn’t Obama have immunity for everything he did as president based on Trump’s precedent?

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    I’ll be blunt: the fact that Obama did NOTHING when I’m fairly fucking positive there was a LOT of intelligence indicating orangeboi was the Manchurian Candidate is utterly damning. He was so fucking concerned about optics that he refused to move when a nascent existential danger with hostile external support was clearly rearing its head.

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      Then Trump was voted out 4 years later and voted back in again in 2024. People want a corrupt authoritarian ruling over them. Or at least they prefer that to a black lady.

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        I don’t blame him for making the joke at orangeboi’s expense that evidently formed the kernel of spite and rage that made him decide to go for it.

        I DO blame him for not taking the threat he posed seriously. Especially considering this is the standard dynamic between our two parties - one follows the rules and conventions and etiquette and expected decorum and wrings their hands about not being able to do something… and the other one doesn’t fucking care and just does it anyways.

        So: yes.

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      Do you honestly believe this? “The Americans” was a TV show.

      That’s probably the real problem with your country, you value entertainment over facts.

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      Buddy, I appreciate the enthusiasm, but no one will do anything about anything.

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      Really? Is that a sentiment American liberals really hold? Do you mean from Democrat politicians or from the general populace?

      For the former, I think they’ve more than demonstrated their inability to hold anyone to account. From Biden nominating Obama’s milquetoast, consensus Supreme Court pick to Attorney General, who proceeded to seemly slow walk Donald Trump’s multiple federal prosecutions just long enough to make them all irrelevant and eventually dropped. To the current Congressional Democratic leadership who seem to think leadership is just empty gestures and who appear to have learned nothing from dealing with Republican obstructionism, when the shoe was on the other foot.

      After the last six month though, I do have faith in Trump ability to exact revenge on this enemies and to get away with things previously considered to be an egregious overreach or illegal.

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    Obama was president in 2016 and therefore everything he did or didn’t do was perfectly legal. That’s how it works now, right? Unless you want to talk about 2021?

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    Aren’t the current and past Presidents immune from their actions while in acting position, according to the Supreme Court?

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    He seems to be rather desparate when you see what ideas he is throwing around to distract from his close relationship to Epstein.

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    Controversial statements keep the dicks and dickettes alive in the news cycle. That’s what you do when you have no plan, possess no ethics, and have no personality.