Just so we’re clear about what’s going on in American politics right now – the spin information war has escalated and entered a new phase. Trump’s daily spin show from the White House has maneuvered away from Trump’s BIG Peace Deals show and is now pivoting to a full-scale, scorched earth spin effort to divert attention away from the promised release of the Jeffrey Epstein files back to retribution against the Trump/Russian Collusion political dirty trick architects.
Tulsi Gabbard, who Trump was throwing under the bus and dismissing the intel she provided on Iran’s nukes in March, has now morphed into the Russian Collusion truth-teller, exposing all the 2016 Democrat conspirators… MAGA world loves this stuff and right-wing media has gone all-in on ranting about the dreaded “Deep State”… again. Tulsi is back from being distrusted by Trump on intel to Trump giving her a starring role in this latest White House spin war offensive.
Trump wants the Epstein files circular filed – permanently.
FOX News, most of right-wing media, and especially the Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, have joined Trump and his White House’s full-court press spin war effort. Speaker Johnson started the House summer recess early to avoid voting on Democrat-backed bills pertaining to the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Democrats and liberal media went from trying to figure out where they went wrong with covering up Biden’s cognitive decline and Kamala Harris’s ill-fated campaign to smelling blood in the water with Trump’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein (yes, they were friends and there’s a pile of video of Trump & Epstein together and Trump talking about that friendship).
Recently, Trump faced backlash from a segment of his base, when his DOJ did not release the Epstein files and the much talked about Epstein list. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, claimed there’s actually no Epstein list even though she had publicly stating the list was on her desk for review. Trump is trying to con his base, by diverting them to a sideshow promising “accountability” for the Russian Collusion hoax architects, even promising prosecutions, and let it be said, Trump knows his base’s love of chasing after Deep State evil-doers…
I don’t care one iota about the Epstein files, nor do I believe Tulsi Gabbard is acting in good faith with the release of all these new Russian Collusion documents and the criminal referrals of some prominent former FBI and intelligence officials. I believe this is all a political sideshow to divert attention away from the Epstein files and try to unite the MAGA base around destroying the “Deep State” – again.
America’s spin war is in high-gear again and we, the American people are just being manipulated by partisans on both sides.
The truth is powerful Democrats, like former President Bill Clinton, were close friends with Jeffrey Epstein and with Donald J. Trump. Trump is not a conservative, not honest, and despite right-wing media waxing on with endless “lists” of Trump’s amazing successes in the first six months of this term, things for America aren’t all going great. In fairness, things aren’t all going terrible either and most of us will just go about our everyday lives, regardless what’s going on in Washington.
Trump’s big tariff plan did not produce all these great deals for America by the beginning of July, as Trump promised, but never fear, Trump announced new tariffs, which will be followed by more conditions and amounts adjusted all based on Trump’s whims.
Trump is still appeasing Putin by giving Putin 50 more days to wage his summer offensive against Ukraine rather than impose harsher sanctions. Trump is also appeasing the thugs in Tehran by insisting he’s going to cut some nuclear deal with them and then the Iran problem is solved. This is delusional thinking, despite the success of the US bombing raid of nuclear sites in Iran. Iran will try to rebuild their nuclear weapons program and they are still aiding and abetting terrorists in the region. Here’s a story from a week ago: Yemen intercepts record number of Iranian weapons bound for Houthis, U.S. CENTCOM says.
The hold-up to peace in the Ukraine War is not Zelensky, it’s Putin, who invaded Ukraine and started this war. Putin still wants to seize control of Ukraine. Trump and many Americans have bought into lies about the Ukraine War sold by some prominent right-wing pundits, like Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon. A basic fact, like Russia invaded Ukraine, should not be controversial. The world watched Russian troops mass on Ukraine’s border and invade, yet many in MAGA world believe Ukraine started the war.
Trump was pressured by Republicans in Congress and our NATO allies to approve more military aid for Ukraine. Trump’s finally admitting Russia invaded Ukraine and he approved more military aid, but he’s still hedging and giving Putin 50 more days. This is a duplicitous and incoherent American foreign policy.
Trump’s trip to the Mid-East in May was touted as a stunning foreign policy success, with him making huge deals. As part of those deals, to appease some of those ME leaders, Trump met with Syria’s new president, Ahmad al-Sharaa: Trump meets with Syria’s interim president, a first between the nations’ leaders in 25 years. Trump recognizing Sharaa and lifting sanctions on Syria was hailed by both liberal and right-wing media and many political talking heads. On X, I disagreed with the US rushing to recognize this former terrorist and rushing to normalize relations with this new government in Syria. Trump’s approach to Sharaa is as delusional and misguided as Biden’s approach to the Taliban in Afghanistan. No matter how American politicians try to spin terrorist-led regimes, these leaders are not Thomas Jefferson in the making – they are still terrorists. Now jihadists in Syria are committing massacres of civilians and the Sharaa government is either too weak to control the jihadists or not inclined to deal with the jihadists.
My prediction is the “new” Syria will become a safe haven for radical jihadists, just like Taliban-led Afghanistan. Iran will rebuild and rearm. Putin will continue his aggression. And China is preparing to take action too.
Despite the right-wing media Trump cheerleading spin war effort or the liberal media Trump derangement spin war effort, I’m inclined to believe Trump’s BIG Peace efforts notwithstanding, unfortunately the world is headed toward larger conflicts
And America is still mired in a crazy spin information war being played out across the American media spectrum.
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Where to begin? First noting I’m not particularly interested as regards either the Epstein stuff or the particulars of the Gabbard revelations (other than to further note I, personally, consider what the IC – & recall the documented meeting: Obama, Rice, Comey, Brennan, “By the book!” – conspired to do to the first Trump term. Clinesmith you’ll recall was convicted (though interestingly, not disbarred) for ‘cooking the books’ on that Carter Page FISA re-authorization?
Insofar as my relative uninterest in the Epstein stuff you’ll perhaps recall hearing the old saw that, “In a grand jury proceeding any even halfwit prosecutor can get an indictment on a ham sandwich.”?
Recall, an indictment only means that, there will be a trial meaning, unlike a grand jury (eerily similar to a FISA hearing) where there’s absolutely NO contesting a prosecutor’s ALLEGATIONS – an actual and real trial guarantees that an accused has the benefit of counsel (a defense if you will)?
Dershowitz (according to radio news broadcasts I’ve recently listened to, addressed these issues announcing that he himself appears in the Epstein “files” as well, he was accused of notorious “hanky panky” and subsequently, took it into an adversarial proceeding [actual trial] and beat the charges)
Anyway Dershowitz makes a compelling argument (and completely in accordance with all preceding DOJ as well as all previous courts precedence and procedures and guidance) that Grand Jury Proceedings Ought NEVER be publicly exposed.
Put simply – AG Bondi royally screwed up. And as for the “MAGA Folks” – well they’re, as [if] a *real group, likewise royally as woefully ignorant. Some might accuse *them of actual stupidity. Unless of course there’s even the possibility of questioning “the actual motive” or possibility that, somebody/anybody *officially MAGA might well not be what they may be presented as being.
The four years the Biden administration held control of DOJ (Garland) and had that Special *Counsel guy Jack Smith running amok in all the files – why didn’t he ever bring up Trump’s involvement when he [Smith] was otherwise engaged in, among other odious exposures such as the contents of Melania’s underdrawers dresser drawer contents, already make a big deal of any supposed (alleged) Jeff & Don “good buddies” relationship?
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“Trump is still appeasing Putin … ” & “Trump is still appeasing [Iranian] thugs.”
While I can agree that Trump’s verbiage is delusional the characterization that it’s “appeasing” well … for me that’s a bridge too far. Hardly Neville Chamberlainian to any appreciable degree anyway. Bearing in mind (and yes I know General Mattis usually gets the credit for the quote but actually, it goes back much much further: Caesar to Pompey in fact)
“The enemy gets a vote.”