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Trump can't stop MAGA from obsessing about
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 7/16/2025 2:53:01 PM

Donald Trump is once again angry, but this time his ire is directed at a new audience: his own MAGA supporters. In a blistering post on Truth Social on Wednesday morning, Trump continued to push his backers to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein, an issue that has driven what appears to be one of the most significant rifts between him and the political movement he built. “Let those weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work,” he wrote. “Don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore.” Trump later told reporters in the Oval Office that he had “lost faith in certain people”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: chumley 7/16/2025 3:08:08 PM (No. 1978295)
This does not pass the smell test, but yep. Takes a mighty strong man to look the other way while children are being raped, and then to denigrate those who care. Nobody gets a blanket pass. Not even Trump. He's wrong.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Rumblehog 7/16/2025 3:19:57 PM (No. 1978298)
As for me, I “obsess” over Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Don’t we all?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 7/16/2025 3:23:49 PM (No. 1978301)
After researching previous news articles, we already know who the sexual deviants are. They will get theirs in the eyes of God. Just a matter of time. We all can do some homework before getting drawn in the wrong way by the press. Yeah, it's tough.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: billa57 7/16/2025 3:36:14 PM (No. 1978310)
It's starting to look like the victims have been paid off, leaving no one to charge. But it would be nice to see who paid who and how much. Any video or pictures of the people who went to Epstein Island would help shed light on that. Everything should be released.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Buzzman 7/16/2025 3:50:49 PM (No. 1978314)
We are not obsessed because we care about justice in America. It's not just about tariff money or jobs. America is not a business. Without justice and the rule of law we are nothing. Smarten up Mr. President.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: jalo1951 7/16/2025 4:05:40 PM (No. 1978324)
It was handled poorly.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: BarryNo 7/16/2025 4:22:33 PM (No. 1978332)
If WHAT TRUMP NOW says is true, I'm afraid we require proof. We've seen to much evidence of wrong doing disappear, when it comes to punishment. I support Trump for what he's accomplished. That doesn't mean I'll swallow anything he feeds me. It also doesn't mean I'll stop supporting his other efforts because he's having a tantrum. He's human.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: marbles 7/16/2025 4:53:57 PM (No. 1978348)
# 1 You don't know about what you don't know about. None of us do. Patience.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Catherine 7/16/2025 5:51:44 PM (No. 1978374)
Where was all this angst and gnashing of teeth while Biden was president? This stuff happened years ago. Why wait til now to bring it up and I seriously doubt MAGA is having hysterics over it. I don't care one way or the other. Biden was a sexual predator and we saw it every time he was around a little girl. He pawed and caressed her, sniffed her hair, and the media said nothing. But the biggest factor with this story is it's from NBC and they wouldn't know the truth about anything if it bit them in the behind.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 7/16/2025 5:52:30 PM (No. 1978376)
Nor should he. We have smelled corruption in the Biden DOJ and answers are expected. They did far more harm than to hide a few files and videos.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: danu 7/16/2025 6:10:30 PM (No. 1978384)
no weaklings here. just thankful blood sweat and tears patriots, who elected pdt to clean up the DS/BS. americans of good faith want to expose truths hidden over decades--as our duty, as good governance. when i think of JFK through epstein-- i think of JRR Tolkien. in the 50's he tackled the big question of whether the Great Wizards should use the palantirs, the 7 seeing stones--for divination or truth seeking . some of the stones were lost. others are used as tools of manipulation to induce obsession, madness, death-as in the case of Lord Denethor. several generations of us, WTP, proceed from love, for God, faith, country, family. [america first includes american children first]. we use prayer to unite, not divide. great evils have hurt and killed our children--seemingly w/ the aid of foreign and domestic 'leaders' who abuse our constitution and laws, as well as those we have chosen--such as pdt and his aides. we have responsibilities here to the future, and we know it. it can't all be on the president's plate--he does a yeoman's work every day and night.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: stablemoney 7/16/2025 6:23:34 PM (No. 1978385)
It is very simple. Trump ordered the Epstein files to be released, and they haven't been.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Turninggrey 7/16/2025 6:31:38 PM (No. 1978389)
Wow. #1. Yikes. 1. You know that "the list" is already out right? The list has been compiled by the press using flight logs and testimony. The only people holding out ALL the folks on that list are NY Judges. 2. It seems the list we were all hoping for....ie a list of "clients" Epstein and Maxwell blackmailed as spies of Israel or something......does not exist. Either this was actually destroyed by Comey/Wray FBI peeps, or actually it never happened. Trump would have absolutely have been in the dark on this. 3. Kash, Bondi and Bongino pumped this really hard. They thought there was a list...they said there was a list....they were so sure that they committed to this prior to the election, and put this forward as a major item. 4. Now that they are in, and have been sandbagged by the system and have pushed through that, they are finding.......nothing. 5. Either the Comey/Wray cabal destroyed the stuff or it was altered/diffused whatever, which means they "won". There is nothing to prosecute. 6. At this point, what is the point of feeding their victory? At this point, it just makes us look foolish for chasing something that can't be proved, and the left is using it as a wedge. Listen to Trump on this.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: joew9 7/16/2025 7:25:16 PM (No. 1978410)
The obsession should be over the Russia Hoax. The deep state. Trumps phones were tapped by the Obama government. His first term was crippled by a conspiracy involving the CIA, the DOJ, the FBI.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: earlybird 7/16/2025 8:42:35 PM (No. 1978444)
Have any of you seen the young women who were Epstein's "victims clamoring for "justice? They are mature women now, wives, mothers, professional women. Do you know that they want all of this dredged up and salivated over here and in social media and the MSM? My guess is that he's dead and they'd like it dropped..
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Reply 16 - Posted by: PChristopher 7/16/2025 10:04:49 PM (No. 1978484)
We have an absolute right to know who these sick 'people' are who claim some sort of moral high ground every time they tell us how to live our lives. They committed despicable crimes and they need to be punished!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: BarryNo 7/16/2025 11:26:12 PM (No. 1978501)
The problem is Eptein and Didy Combs for that matter, are pimples on the face of a horrific pustule of Pedophilia. There are people out there who chew through children like popcorn at a matinee. There is evil out there. Epstein is an obvious door to rooting it out. That's why we care. Not just for those who were affected in the past, but for those currently in this system having their childhoods and sometimes theri lives destroyed by human monsters. It must be stopped!!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by: mifla 7/17/2025 6:07:38 AM (No. 1978550)
Republicans who promise one thing and do another are no different from Democrats. Pam held one too many press conferences and Trump had to bail her out. Dems rejoice, as they now have something real to complain about.
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