President Trump, under fire over his administration’s handling of the Epstein files, escalated his distract-and-deflect strategy on Tuesday, accusing former President Barack Obama of treason and declaring, “It’s time to go after people.”

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    I will say, finally I am seeing consistent headlines that include how whatever dumbassery he’s doing is an effort to distract from Epstein. It’s like most of media finally got the memo not to just repeat his lies as the headline. They’re all tying it back to Epstein.

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      Be careful though. Most of them try to make child raping with Epstein an issue solely associated with Trump, instead of it being an issue associated with many US and some foreign elites, as well as it probably being a Mossad blackmail operation.

      Note how Trump has been fighting against his own base to do the bidding for Israel recently.

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        I don’t disagree with you. I was actually thinking who else might be on the list and if Trump is getting pressured from foreign and local elites to keep this buried. Just to clarify when I say I want the truth to come out, I meant I want those that have hurt a child get penalised regardless of who they are.

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          I was actually thinking who else might be on the list and if Trump is getting pressured from foreign and local elites to keep this buried.

          Biden didnt release it either so we know the elites are on both sides. Prince Andrew was on the flight logs.

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      That’s why I think it’s important we keep talking about this so the truth come out.

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    Obama is beyond reproach. And everyone knows bill was a frequent flyer, at this point I don’t think anyone cares about Bill one way or the other.

    RELEASE THE FILES!

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      Obama is beyond reproach

      The Deporter In Chief who built the cages, bombed a dozen countries, and expanded/legitimized the spying we all agreed was bad when Bush did it would be hanged if we applied the principles used at the Nuremberg trials. That said, I have no reason to believe he has raped anyone, unlike Clinton, Biden, and Trump.

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        …killed 12,000 civilians, bombed a doctors without borders hospital, ordered extrajudicial assassinations of American citizens. Obama is a lot of things. “Beyond reproach” sure as fuck isn’t one of them.

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      Next trump will expose the corruption of Democrat James Buchanan’s administration from 1856. Nothing is as important as shining light of truth on Democrat Presidential government corruption…even if it predates the civil war. This is far more important that whether trump was involved with Epstein. /s

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    Now THIS is the way everyone should be doing headlines right now. Add that part about Trumpstein at every opportunity.

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    Distraction, distraction, distraction. Why wont we stop with this Epstein thing? There must be more evidence than he can get disappeared.

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    Wow so Trump recons his pedo mate, Epstein, has all the dirt in his files! No wonder he’s frantic!

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    Gee. Bill Clinton. What pedophile was he associated with? He had a painting of Bill in his Florida home. Hanging right on the tip of my tongue…

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    He’s using this to deflect from Epstein which he’s using to deflect from the atrocities in Gaza

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      Do you really think Trump gives 2 shits about the atrocities in Gaza and is trying to cover them up? This man has only ever cared about himself.

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        No I don’t think he gives two shits, but I think it’s strange that he’s met with Netanyahu multiple times in the last 6 months and pandered to his insistence that the US bomb Iran out of the blue, particularly when Trump campaigned on a platform of not getting involved in more middle east bullshit.

        If there was evidence that Trump was involved in a pedo ring then the previous admins would have jumped on it, so Trump’s probably fat headed enough (or his handlers at the heritage institute are) to think it’s a good idea it as a way to chew up media time while more nefarious shit takes place (local concentration camps, workers rights being stripped, genocide in Gaza by their pals). Now it’s getting out of control (everyone thinks Trump is a pedo, and maybe someone will dig up something he already tried to bury) so they need a new distraction so people worry about being distracted from the existing distraction and forget about the other issues.

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      gaza and the BBB, unfortunately for him the epstein thing was part of his campaign, thats why his supporters arnt letting it go.