I'm in a position where I have to engage with Trumpy and mythical centrist voter types and dems straight up don't realize how much failing to nail Trump or anybody directly in Trump's orbit has solidified to them that Jan 6th was a hoax and dems continuing to rail on about it is "political" noise.

At this stage there’s literally no reason to believe the admin, even if it releases more than you’d expect, are being forthcoming. It’s the opposite of conspiracy theory to look at the proudly lawless pattern of deception and raw power that this trump admin has engaged in then to conclude they’d…

And it needs to be prosecuted as a bribe by the next administration if rule of law is to be restored.

It's a key tell that Trump propagandists are now claiming not just that he wants the Epstein files released, but also that they're getting released ONLY BECAUSE HE ORDERED IT TO HAPPEN. For Trump, the *perception* of his mastery over the GOP is what matters most.

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“Gayle Bojerski said she is not opposed to the government’s deportation efforts as long as they focus on the most violent immigrants – drug dealers and other “bad people.”

He was convicted of rape and larceny. The cognitive dissonance of MAGA somehow still amazes me.

The Epstein coverup is unraveling at the moment. But the likelihood of Trump and Pam Bondi using bad-faith revenge investigations to slow disclosure—or, worse, the destruction of evidence—militates for raising the specter of the dread i-word.
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The question that was asked was whether there was anything “incriminating.” The fact that he had to attack the reporter so intensely suggests that something(s) in his mental rolodex are immediately coming to mind that he knows is bad but he can’t stop it

My source is highly placed — to my understanding, no one with their level of knowledge about Heritage's inner workings has ever spoken about this publicly.

And they got very specific about multiple allegations of naked bigotry www.vox.com/on-the-right...