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The fall of the American empire happening live for all to see. A pedophile president, a government chopped into pieces and fed into a wood chipper, a bunch of self obsessed egotistic billionaires lobbying for child labor laws to be repealed, and a totally deranged political system that has gotten so high on the fumes of its own rotting corpse that it can't even tell it's dying.
The MAGA fascist movement built itself on characterization of its opponents as pedophiles. Its one thing for this to be obviously untrue, its another thing entirely for it to suddenly preoccupy itself very heavily on protecting pedophiles. The entire political elite of the movement are greedy narcisstic egomaniacal sociopaths. Their primary motives have always been personal gain. Attaching themselves to an obvious pedophile is very different than attaching themselves to one who has been documented in the public arena as one. The republican party fascist elite won't risk their own necks for that. I don't know how they will respond. He however is running out of options that aren't "create a police state, arrest all political opposition, and take state control of all media". Its do or die for his dictatorship.
That last line reminds me of Putin. No wonder Trump and Putin are friends.
They've done a fine job so far being attached to Epstein's well known best bud, so I doubt any more proof will change things
I feel fundamentally that "best buds with a pedophile" and "documented in front of the whole nation as sexually abusing children with Jeffrey Epstein" are just 2 fundamentally different things. Its never been a secret. But neither was Harvey, nor Bill Cosby. When it gained worldwide public attention is when associates dropped them. As soon as it became a risk to their public careers and their money.
That'll never happen to Trump. No rich people want to make an enemy of America's dictator.