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[-] Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network 106 points 1 month ago

tl;dr: Trump biographer Michael Wolff said : "[Trump] is going to sacrifice Ukraine for Epstein".

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago

Trump's been trying to loot and scoot Ukraine since his first day in office. Far too late to pin this policy on Epstein.

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[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

SHITZKRIEG BABY!🙃

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Shake hands with a black person

[-] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago

Well everybody’s had a go at Poland basically. They’re kinda used to it. Maybe now it’s the US’ turn.

/s obviously, just in case

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[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago
[-] bobbyguy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

The picture that's been posted everywhere?

[-] bobbyguy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

yeah i should have googled that before i asked sry!

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.”

[-] Hux@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

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

[-] clif@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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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[-] Strider@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] bobbyguy@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Scrawny@reddthat.com 11 points 1 month ago

It did. In one ear and out the other without hitting anything vital.

[-] hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Are you sure that would have even been fatal? He's not using anything up there.

[-] bobbyguy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

honestly thats probably true

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

no bullet went anywhere near his head

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[-] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago

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

[-] plyth@feddit.org 31 points 1 month ago

Everything is a distraction from the West giving up on liberty. It's not only the US.

tldr; new UK laws are extremly privacy invading requiering ID and face photos to acces any explicit material including sites like Wikipedia, similiar to some USA state laws and it looks like EU might just follow

https://feddit.org/post/17287420

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

These aren’t distractions, they’re just doing multiple awful things around the same time. Sometimes the timing is, sure, but these are all very real things that they’re doing. Calling it a “distraction” makes it sound likenthey wouldn’t have been so evil if they weren’t afraid but they love this shit.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 31 points 1 month ago

Bye Bye Alaska.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago
[-] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

Read this morning he wants to give Russia access to Alaska.

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

That’s psychotic. I want Alaska to re-join Canada - can be our 11th province.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

A civil one, at this rate. He already hates the people in the country and there’s no one to go to war with since he became but-buddies with all the dictators and, despite everything, attacking Europe would probably trigger a civil war anyway.

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[-] VM_Abrantes@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

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

[-] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 month ago

"No one is above the law" and other jokes you can tell yourself to feel better.

[-] cmoney@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

The hell with Ring alarm bells, keep banging the ~~Epstien~~ tRumpstein drum!

[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 16 points 1 month ago

My money is attacking Mexico without a declaration of war. Brown people are down there, it justifies the ICE budget, and other bullshit.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

How is this not the onion?

We live in clown world.

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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.

[-] runner_g 12 points 1 month ago

He wouldn't need a distraction from the Epstein files if he just released the Epstein files.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I bet he’s sending troops to back up Russia

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago

I said war! Huh! Good god y'all.

What is it good for? Doing this probably.

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I think Trump cares more about the Epstein files than his supporters do. He is actually the one making a big deall out of it.

I just don't get why.

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[-] GR4CELESS@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

I'm thinking he is being pressured by people with international buying power whose names are also on the list maybe

[-] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 month ago

Pedos gotta stick together. Eww.

I wonder what Trump the pedophile is planning to do?

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

It's just another show for him.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Can't just "cut to commercials" on this one.

[-] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

Distractions distractions Speaking of Y'all gonna love this one Facebook 🤮

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Let me see ... a big thing ... Oh! How about dropping (can I say it)?

Why don't presidents fight in war

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