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In Surprise Reversal, Trump Now Supports GOP Release Of Epstein Files www.zerohedge.com/political/stunning-reversal-trump-now-supports-gop-release-epstein-files

466 sats \ 28 comments \ @siggy47 4h Politics_And_Law

"As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics," Trump posted to Truth Social. "The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the Public on “Epstein,” are looking at various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein, and the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON’T CARE!"

Except he cared enough to excommunicate Massie and MTG for wanting the public to know which elites were likely ensnared in a honeypot operation, while both Reps. have also been highly critical of Israeli influence in US politics. And based on widespread condemnation among the base, Trump clearly miscalculated.

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72 sats \ 18 replies \ @Cje95 3h

Yeah I am not surprised for two reasons....

The general base was getting more and more mad at him. He was the hold up so getting him to move it along was a benefit himself and the Republican Party
They are going to be so redacted that all we are going to get is names we already know were associates. Republicans last week dropped 28k pages after Democrats dropped the one set that they used to try and say he was guilty of at least knowing stuff and it didnt land.

14 sats \ 17 replies \ @siggy47 OP 3h

You and I obviously have very different opinions on Trump and the whole political system, which to me is a carnival that looks more and more like a full blown psyop. Putting that aside for a moment, as a Trump partisan, do you think he is growing more unhinged by the day? Is it possible he is approaching Biden level dementia?

36 sats \ 5 replies \ @kepford 2h

Is it possible he is approaching Biden level dementia?

Nah, it's just Trump being Trump. He's been protecting people. I haven't seen evidence of mental decline. Just a political man.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 OP 2h

In his first term he was unorthodox, but he always had an uncanny sense of detecting which way the political winds were blowing. He would go off script and cause himself a little pain once in a while, but always recover. Now, he seems to have lost that sense, and is causing himself real political damage with his base.

36 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 2h

He's losing moderates with the heavy-handedness of his ICE enforcement (which I predicted would happen if he went down that route). He's also losing some with his tariff chaos, but I'm not as convinced how large this effect is. Moreso if the economy isn't doing well he's gonna lose support among everyone.

As for his base, I'm not sure what they're upset about... is it really the Epstein files? I know there are some fractures amongst the base over Israel (recent drama regarding Tucker Carlsen)

98 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 1h

Regarding his base, I would say these:

Israel First policy. Yeah, that really matters
Epstein flip flop. He stoked the issue, then waffled.
Abandoned Isolationism

He preached America first, then got pulled by Israel into Iran. Now, it looks like there isn't an international conflict he's not willing to pursue (as a distraction?)

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 1h

I don't think it's as a distraction. I think he wants his legacy to be foreign policy. Plus I think his family has tons of business interests in the middle east, all of which align with Saudi Arabia / Israel, and not with Iran / Palestinians

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 1h

Yeah. That very well may be. Thinking about support among his base, I think Israel is a real problem for a few reasons. Number 1, of course, is that nobody wants to see pieces of dead babies. But, I also think that Trump's support is closely tied to his image as a strong leader. Netanyahu has repeatedly made him look like an ineffectual errand boy.

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43 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 3h

a full blown psyop

It's a meta-psyop to disclose it's always been a psyop

Drip drip drip > Flood

53 sats \ 1 reply \ @sudonaka 36m

Psyops are a psyop

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 23m

Indeed, each psyop is just a battle in the psywar

36 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 2h

One of the things I would say that Trump has that Biden doesnt is he has advisors close to him who do come out and disagree with him. Then there are also meetings to try and change his mind (the Sec. of Energy, Pentagon people, and National Labs are meeting with him this week to talk him away from actual nuke testing). That was something I just didnt see during the Biden Admin.

Another difference I just thought of is how often Trump talks to the press. That wasnt the case with Biden and so I think we see more of Trump and the way he moves and because we see it we react more as opposed with Biden we just didnt really see or hear from him towards the end.

All of this is to say I am part of the group of Republicans that are also getting sick and tired of his antics. It annoys the hell out of me that they sadly seem to work more than they dont.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 1h

I heard that the only people who spoke to Trump against the Iran war were Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 2h

I would agree re accessibility. The Biden "administration" really was a Soviet style dystopia.

Let me ask you. Doesn't it seem obvious at this point that a bi -partisan back room deal has now been cut regarding Epstein files to ensure that no allegations against anyone powerful in either party will be released?

36 sats \ 4 replies \ @sudonaka 43m

Putting aside your opinions on politics, do you think you are allowing yourself to be emotionally triggered by this character? Is it possible that he is actually funny? https://rumble.com/v71tc4s-trump-on-tucker-interviewing-nick-fuentes.html

7 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 38m

Maybe I misunderstood your reply. Are you asking if I think Trump is funny? Yes. I have to give him that. I have laughed like hell over stuff he has said over the years.

53 sats \ 1 reply \ @sudonaka 36m

I'm glad, enjoy the show, don't worry about the Jesters too much

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 35m

Good advice

7 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 39m

Managing the decline of an empire does require a certain ability to distract and obfuscate from reality. China has won the trade war. USA military industrial banking combine is unable to function, let alone fight wars without rare earths.

136 sats \ 4 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 3h

like that? ~lol

166 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 OP 3h

Reminds me of the government "discovery" I used to get in criminal cases. It was comical.

whatever they are legally entitled to

😀

36 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 15m

The thing I saw someone do in the EU was to do a FOIA¹ request around the execution of their FOIA request whenever returned information seemed overly redacted.

From what I gathered, that truly pissed the functionaries off.

its called different there but same principle applies there too. ↩

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 9m

In the US you can challenge the redactions pre-trial. The judge listens to the arguments, does an "in camera" (secret) review of the evidence, and then decides that the government's proposed redactions are justified. The opposing team and the ref wear the same uniform.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 49s

I've heard you say that more often (I think last time was when you said that the SDNY judges are basically a second prosecutor team re some samurai/tornado news) and this is worrying.

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