President Donald Trump is lashing out at his own supporters as he tries to clamp down on criticism over his administration’s handling of much-hyped records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, which Trump now calls a “Hoax.”

“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bull——,” hook, line, and sinker,” Trump wrote Wednesday on his Truth Social site, using an expletive in his post. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.”

“Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he went on.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    This is interesting… In the past when Trump has tried to push back on his followers he’s followed the TACO principle. Like when he wanted to take credit for the COVID vaccines but his audience was anti-vax he quickly softened his language to “take it… if you want it tho. Maybe it’s poison who knows?”

    He’s never been a leader - he’s just been an amalgamation of all of the racism and conspiracy theories his followers have. He says “yes” or “maybe” to everything. I think this is the first time he’s really said “no” though?

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      He’s organized crime looking to continue his break into fascist dictator. His sycophants he’s surrounded himself with don’t care and prefer that he’s a rapist and a pedo to try to control him, but the people he conned into voting for him buy bumper stickers like this:

      silhouette logo of a person getting executed with a gun to the back of the head saying shoot your local pedophiles

      So what happens when the ranks push back on the orders? He’ll exile them if he thinks he can get away with throwing them under the same bus as his lawyers, AG, VP, etc or capitulate. But in this case capitulate means he’ll probably try to redact himself and his fluffers from the docs then share them and hope they’re dumb enough to accept the redacted reports.

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        I think it’s going to blow over eventually. Like half of the big social media people in his base have started accepting the narrative of its probably not as big as we thought and we need to Trust the leader.