The president is attempting to keep calm in front of the cameras, but behind the scenes he’s fuming.
Donald Trump is reportedly getting more and more fed up with his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein drama that has consumed headlines for weeks.
Trump is frustrated that the scandal has overshadowed his agenda and dominated the news, two people familiar with his thinking told The Washington Post in a Sunday report.
Nearly a dozen sources close to the situation spoke to the Post about the issue, painting a picture of an administration adrift, lacking a clear strategy and blindsided by the intensity of the backlash—particularly from Trump’s own base. Many officials had reportedly hoped that Americans would move on from the unreleased Epstein files, underestimating the sustained outrage.
“two people familiar with his thinking”. What a farce. Is there any fact based news anymore?
Is there any fact based news anymore?
Nobody reads facts anymore. Nobody even opens an article anymore, people skim headlines because we long-since gave up expecting informative news programming.
I am well-versed in science and technology, but never read mainstream news stories about developments or discoveries because they’re complete dogshit. I read an actual news story and my eye twitches and I want to hurl myself off a bridge. I have to de-program friends and acquaintances who are so tuned out of science developments that literally everyone I know believes we’ve officially discovered life on Mars, contacted aliens, and that there are ancient ruins and pyramids in antarctica, among hosts of other batshit nonsense that spreads from MSNBC and FOX headlines.
So if it’s that bad about science, the thing I know something about… what about the things I don’t know something about? I have to assume they’re just as bad about politics, economics, social issues and even basic news reporting on current events.
This is worse than people believing wrong trivia facts; when people aren’t sure what to believe about the world, they start doubting actual science or news and that’s how we end up with millions of unnecessary deaths from pandemics or nazis being elected to the highest offices.
What I don’t get is why Trump even cares. Clearly his “Grab 'em by the pussy” remark is telling you all you need to know about him and just as clearly, MAGA doesn’t care.
Maybe it just really is the fact that his supporters have hyped up all those who are on that list not just as rapists, which they seem to have no problem with, but as the demonspawn in flesh. So Trump isn’t concerned that he may be labeled as rapist, as that label didn’t stick before, but as incomprehensible evil, or Clinton for short.
This is my concern once it officially comes out. Like every other silver bullet we’ve had, people will think this is what finally takes him down, but once he says “She told me she was 18!” they’ll be all “That happens to me all the time too! Damn lying women!” and that will be the last we hear about it unless they use it against Democrats. I can’t honestly believe anyone would be shocked his name was on the list.
This is a good point. It’s almost better that it hasn’t been released since the MAGA revolt appears to be from the idiot section that buys into conspiracy theories, not as much the conscious soul-selling for power section (i.e. the people who were to dumb to already know he was a creep vs the people who 100% knew and just didn’t care so they could win).
I want those people who were hurt by Epstein to get justice, but with the current situation basically being the president is protected from anything, having it come out now seems the worst outcome. Having the unknown eat away at them is likely the best realistic thing right now, unfortunately.
If this comes out and just “goes away” after a couple days, I’m worried what that could do to the present handling of similar crimes. If society at large decides trafficking is no biggie, I think that could be really bad.
Considering what happened with J6, the Mueller Report, and the dozens of other red lines that have been crossed and just shrugged off in a few news cycles, this would just be adding to the list of things that our society has tacitly played😭. Hope for justice and accountability, but I have doubts now.
“That happens to me all the time too! Damn lying women!”
— 43-year-old man still living at home
Don’t most of us live at home?
I live in my home except when I travel. I suppose there are more and more people without homes every day.
So every time you leave your house, do you no longer live there? Do you always live exactly where you are at that moment? Like if you are traveling and someone asks you where do you live, you say “right here.”
Honestly the creepiest stories I’ve ever heard are those where someone has been living in someone’s house without them knowing.
Dude!
How am I supposed to get to sleep now?
Booze?
Edit: well, whatever booze the homeless guy living in your walls left you, anyway.
“Demonspawn in the flesh” is definitely the case for some of them.
It’s not that they’re just molesting kids, there are theories that they’re “[harvesting adrenachrome[(https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/pseudoscience/qanons-adrenochrome-quackery)” from them.
The stage was now set for QAnon’s perverse fabricated tale that a pedophile ring of Democratic politicians and Hollywood celebrities is engaged in satanic sacrifices culminating in slurping the blood of massacred children.
There’s a joke that was going around a while ago about a conspiracy theorist who (somehow) made it to heaven:
When he arrives at the Pearly Gates, God is there to receive him. “Welcome. You are permitted to ask me one question, which I will answer truthfully.”
Without hesitating, the conspiracy theorist asks, “Who really shot Kennedy?”
God replies, “Lee Harvey Oswald shot him from sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. There were no accomplices. He acted alone”
The conspiracy theorist pauses, thinks to himself, then says “Shit! This goes higher up than I thought…”
See, the thing is that these conspiracy theorists will never believe the truth, whatever the truth is. They’ll always think the conspiracy goes even deeper.
So, even if maybe he could survive being linked to having sex with teens, the problem is that his base believes that the “sex with teens” is just a cover for something much worse. All he’d be doing by admitting to sex with teens is to admit he was part of the satanist cabal. So, his only solution is to deny and deflect. But, denials just make it seem like he’s hiding something. And, while deflecting normally works for him, this is a foundational conspiracy of the MAGA base. This isn’t just some odd side-conspiracy like Obama conspiring against Trump, or Twitter suppressing news about Hunter Biden’s laptop. If there is any one central conspiracy uniting the right, it’s the child sex trafficking stuff.
This is CRAZY! That the News is STILL covering this Non Story! Who CARES if Trump Raped Children? NOT his Followers or the MEdia!
Are we still talking about this? Unbelievable…
I wonder why he hasn’t gone on tv and yelled “PEDO PEDO PEDO!”
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER!
So what if a few hundred kids got raped, aren’t we gonna talk about these awesome tax breaks for billionaires? Trump is fighting for us!
He thinks it will die down if he pardons the pedo pimp Maxwell? I wanna see him do it just to watch the fireworks
The news cycle usually does move on as quickly as Trump itches to rape a new child.
So the news cycle will never move on since he says he never molested any child
painting a picture of an administration adrift, lacking a clear strategy and blindsided by the intensity of the backlash
I read this same thing - almost word for word - at least a dozen times in Trumpworld I. It all still ended up with a coup attempt, corporate news still at the service of republiQans, and half the voters still complete fucking morons.
I mean I’m glad that something is sticking in the news cycle…
Trump and the Republicans are ruining the economy while also exploding the deficit, kidnapping random people and smuggling them to random third countries. He’s preparing to silence dissent toward him in the media, on the street. He’s also set up and filling inhumane concentration camps. He’s done very little this month to end wars as he promised he’d do in a day, and really just inflamed tensions with Iran with a unilateral strike.
worse. he appears weak to other leaders, especially putin who played him for the fool he is
Release the Epstein files or impeach the Pedo POTUS!
Why not both?
Send him to El Salvador!
Good. May he rage himself into a coronary.
Guys, this is bullshit. He may be slightly annoyed, but he is totally protected, he and his administration have zero concerns about any consequences. They are untouchable. Particularly so due to the fact that both parties and their wealthy benefactors are implicated.
His political protection has cracked and faded slightly over this, and he’s upset that if it keeps up he will become exposed.
Exposed to what?
He is afraid of any kind of consequences. Public embarrassment, etc.
You think the most embarrassing man on earth, this guy:
You think he’s afraid of embarrassment?
Absolutely. He hates being booed or, worse, laughed at. He does this dance in front of adoring fans who love him no matter how cringe he looks to others.
Not really a “consequence” in the statutory sense
No, agreed. However, this issue is bad optics for him and he hasn’t so far been able to distract the media like before (partly because some of them have finally wised up to such tactics). He doesn’t like the situation and the media know it, so they are keeping the pressure up to see what happens.
To reality like the rest of us
Whatever that means. I don’t see any real consequences for anyone but us.
He isn’t worried about reelection but GOP members of congress are. If he loses their support, he’s toast. This the only issue on which they have ever wavered, because exposing an elite pedophile cabal is a foundational belief of some of their base.
But like you say, we’ve been in similar situations before and Teflon Don has so far always slipped between the fingers of justice. We’ll see.
if he loses their support, he’s toast.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
It means congressional Democrats would find it easier to flip Republican votes against his appointees and against him personally with impeachment and removal from office, amongst other things.
Idk, pissing off conservatives did get him shot at
To add, I think opposition to raping children is a pillar propping up mega as a movement.
Good. Maybe he’ll give himself a stroke or a heart attack.
Wouldn’t that be great? Though I don’t think Vance would be any better.
If he didn’t want to be called out on all the raping of women and kids then he shouldn’t have raped all those women and kids.
Fucking good, keep this fire burning.
Can we skip to the part where his crimes are exposed again and then either ignored or finally result in consequences
Is he painting the walls with ketchup?
