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highplainsdem

(57,306 posts)
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 07:08 PM Saturday

Marc Elias on Trump's crazed "Don't waste time on Epstein" post

A few things are clear from this:
1. Trump has lost control of the narrative.
2. Trump is panicked about what is in the Epstein files.
3. When the files get released, Trump will say they are forgeries.
4. Trump is going to target Democrats with political prosecutions.

Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T21:34:01.063Z
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Marc Elias on Trump's crazed "Don't waste time on Epstein" post (Original Post) highplainsdem Saturday OP
Why didn't CNN continue reading the part where he accuses Obama, Hillary and Biden malaise Saturday #1
POS is panicking dalton99a Saturday #2
Captain Queeg has gone from the pages of fiction to real life in the White House Attilatheblond Saturday #3
Post Panicking 👿 could Cha Saturday #10
And this is how he rolls when the going gets tough... pacalo Sunday #25
O, you're the talk of the world, for sure. One year ago, we had an economy humming along nicely, Deuxcents Saturday #4
They will rewrite them and release them Johnny2X2X Saturday #5
I don't think so, gab13by13 Saturday #6
I don't think so. Justice matters. Saturday #14
And I was wondering when homegirl Saturday #17
I do think he's crazy (and scared) enough to try to VTderry Sunday #20
Anything for a buck Bondi? More a safe bet than a fear. Attilatheblond Sunday #24
You do realize, that the files related to Epstein's arrests, his conviction and all the investigative materials Wiz Imp Sunday #29
DU rec and bookmarking. Thank you. emulatorloo Saturday #7
When his suckups finish Figarosmom Saturday #8
This cringe thought salad by Pedrumpt is BREMPRO Saturday #9
KNR and bookmarking. niyad Saturday #11
Hit a nerve, have we? n/t dobleremolque Saturday #12
"a guy who never dies," this sounds like Marley's ghost Uncle Joe Saturday #13
Okay, let's quit dancing around this... GiqueCee Saturday #15
This guy doesn't know when to shut the f.ck up. And, I'm glad. Buddyzbuddy Saturday #16
This lengthy Trump screed is like a bad-acid, live version of Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do?" Efilroft Sul Saturday #18
Genius!!!! Iris Sunday #22
Thank you kindly! Efilroft Sul Sunday #23
Shakespeare was familiar with this phenomenon: "Methinks thou doth protest *too* much ... " eppur_se_muova Sunday #19
My gran would laugh it off... buzzycrumbhunger Sunday #26
I feel like this is somewhat coherent for him. Like ChatGPT was told to write a tweet using his "style" Iris Sunday #21
No. 3 isn't happening Stargleamer Sunday #27
He's right about one thing: it''s hotter than hell outside. sop Sunday #28

malaise

(286,475 posts)
1. Why didn't CNN continue reading the part where he accuses Obama, Hillary and Biden
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 07:10 PM
Saturday

of making up the list?

Attilatheblond

(6,643 posts)
3. Captain Queeg has gone from the pages of fiction to real life in the White House
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 07:17 PM
Saturday

And somebody seems mighty unnerved that Epstein won't stay dead as was planned.

pacalo

(24,778 posts)
25. And this is how he rolls when the going gets tough...
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 05:57 PM
Sunday

"Let's keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about."

"selfish people" are trying to hurt it (his PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD ) over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein."

Deuxcents

(23,026 posts)
4. O, you're the talk of the world, for sure. One year ago, we had an economy humming along nicely,
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 07:22 PM
Saturday

Infrastructure projects, usually hiccups with bureaucracy but no one terrorized like they are now.
Thank you for your attention in this matter? Yep, some are and have been paying attention and all the shiny object don’t work anymore.

Johnny2X2X

(23,056 posts)
5. They will rewrite them and release them
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 07:25 PM
Saturday

This is coming. The WH will rewrite their own “Epstein Papers” and release them. Trump’s name will appear nowhere. It will be a total fabrication to attack Dems with.

gab13by13

(28,821 posts)
6. I don't think so,
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 07:40 PM
Saturday

If they create a fabrication, and I was someone Impo-tent, I would go get Gloria Alred and ask her about the little girl who was suing Krasnov for raping her at Epstein's mansion, but she backed out when she got so many death threats. I would ask Gloria if she had a good case. There were witnesses.

Krasnov wants this to go away.

Justice matters.

(8,621 posts)
14. I don't think so.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 09:32 PM
Saturday

MAGA and Republicans never ask why Ghislaine Maxwell is still alive ... the answer is she probably has duplicates of the list and videos and audio of hundreds of influential people with friends and lawyers stored in safety deposit boxes a few Dems know about (its called her life insurance policy).

VTderry

(32 posts)
20. I do think he's crazy (and scared) enough to try to
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 03:41 AM
Sunday

release a forged version of the files with only his "enemies" appearing therein.

I don't think it would fool anyone after that unhinged tweet.

My real fear is that Bondi has already shredded/erased/burned/dumped in a vat of acid all of the genuine material.

Wiz Imp

(5,968 posts)
29. You do realize, that the files related to Epstein's arrests, his conviction and all the investigative materials
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 07:46 PM
Sunday

related to those investigations probably consists of 10s of thousands of pages? Along with probably many thousands of videos and photographs? Sorry, but the files can't realistically be faked. Now could they try to forge a single page or couple page document to try accuse Trump enemies of being involved.? Sure they could try it, but it won't work and for that reason I don't think they will try it. The most likely thing they would do to try to protect Trump would be to try to covertly destroy everything. But I don't think that will work either because too many people know what is in the files even if they don't know the specifics.

Figarosmom

(6,828 posts)
8. When his suckups finish
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 08:54 PM
Saturday

Investigating Russia, Russia, Russia and see the evidence against him, will they scrub it or become disillusioned that trump was guilty and the left was right about him?

I don't know for sure. Bondi will scrub I think because she's pretty stupid, but I think Kash is a true believer who's balloon will be burst. Idols fall hard when the veneer is gone.

BREMPRO

(2,337 posts)
9. This cringe thought salad by Pedrumpt is
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 08:57 PM
Saturday

stark raving mad delusional deflecting paranoia. So presidential I forgot to show respect. What an utter embarrassment he is to himself. Reeks of I'm Sooooooo guilty and f*cked.

GiqueCee

(2,532 posts)
15. Okay, let's quit dancing around this...
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 09:43 PM
Saturday

... Trump is stark raving mad, out of his fucking mind, and evil down to his DNA. And to all the Republicans, this is on YOU, and you will be branded with it for the next thousand years, if there still is a GOP, which I highly doubt. You're fucking DONE. You've screwed the pooch, BIG time, and there ain't no coming back from this monumental fuck-up of astronomical proportions. And you will deserve anything and everything that befalls you for this obscene treachery. You all deserve to die in prison for what you've done to America. It will take years to rectify all the harm you've done the country, but most of all, to completely innocent people who never did you any harm, but were dragged off the street and had their lives ruined, all so you could meet the insane quotas that Trump, Miller, Noem, and Homan set simply because they are unspeakable vile, hateful people who should never see the light of day again for the rest of their rotten fucking lives.

Buddyzbuddy

(1,161 posts)
16. This guy doesn't know when to shut the f.ck up. And, I'm glad.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 09:54 PM
Saturday

He talked his way into giving E.Jean Carroll a lot more money, and I'm glad that she's at least going to get some kind of monetary justice. But this moron is like O.J. "I didn't do it, but, if I did do it".

Efilroft Sul

(4,087 posts)
18. This lengthy Trump screed is like a bad-acid, live version of Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do?"
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 10:16 PM
Saturday

Woke up this morning with a cell phone in my hand
Whose phone? What phone?
What the hell did I whine?
Must have been a dream
I don't believe I knew Epstein
Come on, let's do it again
Do you — you! — feel like I do?
Do you — you! — feel like I do?

Pam Bondi on the keyboards! Pam Bondi!

eppur_se_muova

(39,408 posts)
19. Shakespeare was familiar with this phenomenon: "Methinks thou doth protest *too* much ... "
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 01:42 AM
Sunday

If he was really innocent, a simple dismissive comment would suffice.

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,217 posts)
26. My gran would laugh it off...
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 06:08 PM
Sunday

… as “smeller’s the feller!”

No one who makes this much noise is innocent. *eyeroll*

Iris

(16,499 posts)
21. I feel like this is somewhat coherent for him. Like ChatGPT was told to write a tweet using his "style"
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 05:50 AM
Sunday
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