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Joseph's avatar

Irate article as usual! I really appreciate your work.

Not sure if you would be interested in this, but I certainly would like to know whether the guards that slept through duty the night Epstein died have had any especially good fortune in recent years? Or maybe others involved in the prisons? Not sure whether anything about that has ever been published. I haven't seen it.

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GW B's avatar

Is everyone watching this series Zev Shalev is reissuing from 2019 during original Epstein reporting and Mueller investigation? Very enlightening reporting that has aged well.

Episode 2 link below:

https://open.substack.com/pub/narativ/p/how-proving-epstein-was-an-israeli?r=5a5n7z&utm_medium=ios

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GW B's avatar

Obama won’t be easy to find. Probably hard to arrest him, but maybe the FBI will have better luck than the rest of us.

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Rickie Elizabeth's avatar

Kind of ironic that they went for a narrative painting Obama as orchestrating a fake Russia hoax while Project 2025 proposes dismantling the core agencies (CISA, Cyber Command) responsible for preventing actual foreign election interference. If the threat was made up yet such a big deal, why gut the defenses that would make it easier for foreign agents to meddle with elections and spread misinfo?

Didn’t Hegseth order Cyber Command "to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions"? Is that part of why they now may need throw him under the bus? Convenient scapegoating.. they never cared about proving Russiagate false until right now, at the time of the Epstein debacle?

Meanwhile, what about the claims about China meddling in 2020 elections? They didn’t seem to gain as much traction in MAGA circles as expected. So are they setting up a narrative of “rigged/unfair elections,” while knowing Project 2025 seeks to strip away the protections that make foreign election influence harder?

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Nancy G's avatar

Curious about AI output if asked about Vance as President once Trump is removed or no longer in Office? Musk seems to think he can capture a significant number of MAGA and attach them to his America First party. Will Vance still support the anti-immigration efforts of Miller and Noem? Violations of court orders? Tariffs? Or will he think he could be impeached?

Also curious about AI response to 10,000 new ICE agents and the possibilities of citizens stopping them. Will work stoppages or strikes help? Are there some effective and legal approaches which could protect immigrants while keeping people safe?

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Barnation Station's avatar

Thanks Jim.

Murdock's liberal son probably authorized this release and story to the editor. My guess only. I don't know if that case is still ongoing.

Obama would be immune as would his staff. I think Roberts thinks taking a crap is immune if one can prove said crap is on WH duty and the POTUS directed it officially, of course.

Why would Trump, as citizen Trump, as this article is protected under the 1st Amendment for now, for personal actions taken pre-2003, the birthday book, sue for 10M, when Murdoch has already settled for lying about the 2020 election for 787M, with Dominion Voting Machines?

Aren't they both defamation cases, I'm truly not sure.

Did Trump have to testify or be deposed in any of the Epstein indictments?

I think that your fabricated a "Russian Hoax" hit me as funny as this is maybe when the lit match gets thrown into the gasoline yet the base thinks that oxymoron is true! He'll always try to escape the very essence of being a human.

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James Burnham's avatar

Great reporting, Jim. I think we should ask the following question. How does the release of the Trump birthday card to Epstein benefit the Wall Street Journal when it clearly is enough to blow up Trump's presidency, a president that they installed through endless fraud? Answer: Corporate America (Eisenhower's old military-industrial complex), the actual deep state, has had enough of Trump. They got their desired tax cut and the decimation of the federal government and are well on their way to imposing devastating austerity to enrich themselves to unimaginable levels. Trump and his idiotic tariffs must go. The letter to Epstein effectively assassinates the president, who is mentally and physically finished. They are ready to move on to the next guy, who will be worse. It has nothing to do with legal or moral justice, two aspirations that have no meaning whatsoever.

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Ann L MacNaughton's avatar

Laying the groundwork for a 25th removal ❓ Or a Putin-style (those ankles, CHF/COPD got him) exit ❓

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Old Enough To Know Better's avatar

Plenty of speculation out there regarding Putin wanting to move on from Trump, also.

Tulsi would, of course, be willing to give Vlad whatever he needed for his objectives.

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Nancy G's avatar

Think so, too. The donor class wasn't able to get Trump to understand that tariffs are a disaster. No one can get Trump to understand anything unless they offer him enough money. It took $83.3 million to get him to stop defaming E. Jean Carroll. The donors can see he will economically wreck them, too.

Scaramucci has called Trump a declining political asset; but, to me and others, it's clear that he's more of an extreme political liability and a threat to national security at this point. He's dragging more and more people down the spiraling drain with him. Trump may be offered an opportunity to resign due to "health reasons" instead of as a result of the cartoon comic cover-up of the Epstein scandal or he may just become a literal dead horse sooner rather than later.

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Blue Moon Pie's avatar

Read Seth Abramson just-released Substack. It’s an in-depth analysis of the birthday card. Conclusion: Epstein and Trump enjoyed raping underage girls. I believe this is the correct analysis and that our 2-term president and cult leader appears to have been be a predatory child sex abuser. Congratulations voters of the USA and the GOP who has enabled this dangerous sicko for years. Moving forward we should be more careful about who we elect into office and stand by through thick and thin. The girls deserved better. America deserves better. Release the entire Epstein files!

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