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Trump’s betrayal—his treason—was never a single act, but a pattern: bowing to Putin in Helsinki, hoarding classified documents in his bathroom, inciting an insurrection, dangling pardons like candy for loyalists who’d help overturn an election, and now reportedly pledging to fire Jerome Powell just to distract from the Epstein fallout. That’s not politics. That’s a con man leveraging the levers of power for personal survival.
This isn’t about ideology. It’s about a man so hollowed-out by ego and grievance that he’s willing to sell out his country to stay on top. A man who praises dictators and undermines the very institutions meant to protect democracy. A man whose allies cheerfully call for “retribution” while scheming to replace civil servants with loyal zealots.
Treason doesn’t always come draped in foreign flags. Sometimes it wears a red tie, waves a Bible upside down, and calls itself a patriot while gutting the Republic from the inside.
Thank you for your coherent assessment of the regime! I was trying to put into words to my daughter, but I wasn't nearly as well spoken. I told her that every adult has a responsibility to know what's going on with our government.
It's scary as hell, but I was horrified that she (35 years old) and her fiance' who's 43, had no idea how close we are to fascism.
I wonder if this is why Trump was able to brainwash so many politicly ignorant people?
I'm ashamed that we haven't honored the gifts of freedom and liberty that so many died giving us a future.
I'll never understand how so many young people became utterly smitten with that traitor.
Keep talking to your family and friends about what the cost has been for our country to be free! We all need to continue fighting for our freedom and rights as well as those of immigrants who sacrifice their lives to make a better life here in these United States 🇺🇸
Well presented assessment of our nation’s failure to see Trump for what he is certainly not…a true leader of our democracy and the well being of our nation and it’s citizens.
Thank you for this astute synapsis of thr Trumpian presidential bowling ball curving to the far right side of the lane. A few more gaffs and it’s in the gutter leaving the ten pins of the USA’s important issues still standing, Gutter Ball!
The epstein files are important because of all of the young kids whose lives were destroyed by sick old white men who didn't know where they could or couldn't put their penis. While I agree that the other things are vitally importantx as well, those children deserve justice and we shouldn't lose l sight of that fact.
Lotta childhood sexual abuse survivors out there, but I think most would agree, this is bullshit, it's not about protecting children or justice for the surviving victims. It adds insult to injury to use the case as a political weapon, it further objectifies the victims, using them as pawns in Trump’s dirty games.
How dare you two make light of the fact that possibly hundreds of young girls, underaged girls were sex trafficked!!! What??? This is not just a "stupid conspiracy theory". Wow! What is wrong with the two of you???? This is just nearly enough for me, and I hope others to unsubscribe from Legal AF! What you are saying is disgusting! You said that this doesn't matter. WTF?
ALOHA... “Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought. Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place. A fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power.”
All stories are important. Democrats need to learn how to divide and conquer. Some take one story, some take another. that way if one is a distraction, the real one gets divulged. why is this so hard to grasp. Divide and conquer news stories. instead they all run to the same one, and the taking food and education away is ignored. BOTH are important. because if he’s the perv we know he is and has harmed people, THAT needs to be known too. divide and conquer y’all
The systematic sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls is a real problem and has been as long as men have been in power. The FBI supposedly confiscated all of Epsteins records etc in 2019 when he was arrested, under the Trump regime, and we get nothing? Maxwell gets 20 years. Now that's some real judicial bullshit.
More white men willing to dismiss the true victims make me suspicious. Stop referring to them as “young women,” too. At the time of the abuse, they were, at the most, underaged children.
I hear you guys talking about everything that has happened with the Trump administration especially with Obama's birth certificate I am a Puerto Rican American living in the state of Arkansas I have owned two homes in the state I'm trying to follow lawsuit against the state of Arkansas and the city that I live in and this is why I went to renew my handicap placards I'm 63 years old I'm disabled I hardly go out because of my disability I just go shopping and my doctor's appointment and go out to eat once in awhile and I go to Chinese restaurants I don't go to McDonald's or Burger King when I went to get my handicap placards renewed I had them over so many years now and I never had a problem until last year when Donald came into office in these red states everything changed The people in government started treating brown people with disrespect and they're acting like paranoia they did not trust nobody that was brown skin for some reason and I have dealt with these people many times before to renew my license plates to renew my driver's license I got a loan through the USDA Development loan I got the loan in 2008 and sold the house in 2017 paying off the loan balance in full so these people dealt with me many years never had a problem until I was asked to produce my birth certificate again when I first moved here I had to transfer my driver's license and ID I gave them a copy back then of my birth certificate they sent everything to Little Rock they have copies there never had a problem last year I was discriminated against my race and my disability I have all this on video the discrimination and the disability discrimination because I took out my phone to record when I took out the phone everything started changing somewhat but they were still making phone calls to ice about me they would not tell me who were they on the phone with I asked on video playing times to let them know that I needed to know they will not give me an answer they were being shady and slick about everything they were trying to do to me I spoke to the DMV regional supervisor she apologized to me like three times but I told her I need a letter of apology not just over the phone apology and she denied me that right she told me that I would never have this problem ever again but to be honest with you they shame me in front of people they discriminated me in front of people they were on the line getting their paperwork done And some of them smirked and some of them said that I should not be here and this all got started because of the DMV the Department of motor vehicles also I heard them mentioning the name Sarah Huckabee Sanders I don't know if she had anything to do with this because they were on the phone making their calls to check up on me on my birth certificate they had me go home get the birth certificate and bring it back because they were not give me my handicap placards without my birth certificate I have the blue placards not the red ones I got in touch with a few attorneys in my area The attorneys told me I have a case but they don't handle my type of case because they're not civil rights lawyers they didn't mention I did have a case but they would not guide me to any other lawyer that dealt with these kind of cases I got in touch with the lawyer referral service And every time they gave me phone numbers of lawyers all I got was accident lawyers basically telling me the same thing that I have a case but they cannot handle the case after they had me explain everything to them down here they have a system I believe they call themselves the good old boys system I do have evidence and proof on video of what happened to me My father served this country in the army I have two sons once a Marine the other ones in the Navy they could not help me due to the fact that one of them's in the Philippines and the other ones in Hawaii That's where their station and I don't want to keep giving them headaches about but I'm going through in this messed up state it's a beautiful state don't get me wrong The cost of living is fair are like the place that I live in but it is changing due to the hate the Donald Trump and the maga Republicans have spread in the last few years if you guys get to read this and you can help please get a hold of me I can give you a copies of the recordings I have two recordings One was when they sent me home to get my birth certificate My second one was when I came back and they deny me I went without my birth certificate for a few months they told me that my birth certificate wasn't good enough and they made me higher lawyer in Puerto Rico to send me my birth certificate because I could not fly and go get my birth certificate due to my health and my health issues
If you guys can help me I appreciate it if you have any connections I will make sure that it'll be worth your while to help me through them and I hope that I don't get an attorney if I get help that's not going to be a cut through the attorney thank you for listening
1000% there are much bigger problems. Per the comments, no one is denying that children were hurt, of course we care. However the hyper focus on Epstein. USAID ??? KIDS ARE DYING. Get your priorities straight.
You say kids are dying, and I say kids die under the hands of those who abuse by sex trafficking! Following up to correct both issues, Epstein's sex trafficking damage and damage done by defunding USAID, are not mutually exclusive. Both can receive equal attention and just as much effort to correct. We can chew gum and walk at the same time. The priority is to protect kids in any event! In doing so, the priorities ARE straight.
Trump’s betrayal—his treason—was never a single act, but a pattern: bowing to Putin in Helsinki, hoarding classified documents in his bathroom, inciting an insurrection, dangling pardons like candy for loyalists who’d help overturn an election, and now reportedly pledging to fire Jerome Powell just to distract from the Epstein fallout. That’s not politics. That’s a con man leveraging the levers of power for personal survival.
This isn’t about ideology. It’s about a man so hollowed-out by ego and grievance that he’s willing to sell out his country to stay on top. A man who praises dictators and undermines the very institutions meant to protect democracy. A man whose allies cheerfully call for “retribution” while scheming to replace civil servants with loyal zealots.
Treason doesn’t always come draped in foreign flags. Sometimes it wears a red tie, waves a Bible upside down, and calls itself a patriot while gutting the Republic from the inside.
Burnt-Ground.ghost.io — worth a look.
Thank you for your coherent assessment of the regime! I was trying to put into words to my daughter, but I wasn't nearly as well spoken. I told her that every adult has a responsibility to know what's going on with our government.
It's scary as hell, but I was horrified that she (35 years old) and her fiance' who's 43, had no idea how close we are to fascism.
I wonder if this is why Trump was able to brainwash so many politicly ignorant people?
I'm ashamed that we haven't honored the gifts of freedom and liberty that so many died giving us a future.
I'll never understand how so many young people became utterly smitten with that traitor.
I really hope we aren't too late.
Keep talking to your family and friends about what the cost has been for our country to be free! We all need to continue fighting for our freedom and rights as well as those of immigrants who sacrifice their lives to make a better life here in these United States 🇺🇸
Well presented assessment of our nation’s failure to see Trump for what he is certainly not…a true leader of our democracy and the well being of our nation and it’s citizens.
Thank you for this astute synapsis of thr Trumpian presidential bowling ball curving to the far right side of the lane. A few more gaffs and it’s in the gutter leaving the ten pins of the USA’s important issues still standing, Gutter Ball!
There is a list of victims that has gotten swept under the carpet...PEDOPHILES ITS REAL
It is to the Epstein victims who want some accountability for the high and mighty. Please, don't forget them...They are important
The epstein files are important because of all of the young kids whose lives were destroyed by sick old white men who didn't know where they could or couldn't put their penis. While I agree that the other things are vitally importantx as well, those children deserve justice and we shouldn't lose l sight of that fact.
I think it’s a big deal to the victims
No, I don't think Dems should just watch...the question is this: who is lying? Trump? Bondi? Patel? no we have to keep this front and center.
Lotta childhood sexual abuse survivors out there, but I think most would agree, this is bullshit, it's not about protecting children or justice for the surviving victims. It adds insult to injury to use the case as a political weapon, it further objectifies the victims, using them as pawns in Trump’s dirty games.
How dare you two make light of the fact that possibly hundreds of young girls, underaged girls were sex trafficked!!! What??? This is not just a "stupid conspiracy theory". Wow! What is wrong with the two of you???? This is just nearly enough for me, and I hope others to unsubscribe from Legal AF! What you are saying is disgusting! You said that this doesn't matter. WTF?
I agree with you. I am disgusted that they make light of the president’s close relationship with Epstein.
More like "We got Hold of the Files and—HO-LY SHIT! Every Republican Imaginable is There!
"Yeah, so are Bill & Hillary Rodham Clinton, but we Already Knew about Them...."
maybe Bill
Burnt-Ground.ghost.io — worth a look.
ALOHA... “Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought. Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place. A fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power.”
That's what the death blow to America will be.
The utter lack of outrage.
All stories are important. Democrats need to learn how to divide and conquer. Some take one story, some take another. that way if one is a distraction, the real one gets divulged. why is this so hard to grasp. Divide and conquer news stories. instead they all run to the same one, and the taking food and education away is ignored. BOTH are important. because if he’s the perv we know he is and has harmed people, THAT needs to be known too. divide and conquer y’all
The systematic sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls is a real problem and has been as long as men have been in power. The FBI supposedly confiscated all of Epsteins records etc in 2019 when he was arrested, under the Trump regime, and we get nothing? Maxwell gets 20 years. Now that's some real judicial bullshit.
Naturally, in trump world it's always women who pay.
And to think these evil assholes call themselves Christians. 🙄
Vote 🔵🔵🔵 this mid-term election!!!
More white men willing to dismiss the true victims make me suspicious. Stop referring to them as “young women,” too. At the time of the abuse, they were, at the most, underaged children.
I hear you guys talking about everything that has happened with the Trump administration especially with Obama's birth certificate I am a Puerto Rican American living in the state of Arkansas I have owned two homes in the state I'm trying to follow lawsuit against the state of Arkansas and the city that I live in and this is why I went to renew my handicap placards I'm 63 years old I'm disabled I hardly go out because of my disability I just go shopping and my doctor's appointment and go out to eat once in awhile and I go to Chinese restaurants I don't go to McDonald's or Burger King when I went to get my handicap placards renewed I had them over so many years now and I never had a problem until last year when Donald came into office in these red states everything changed The people in government started treating brown people with disrespect and they're acting like paranoia they did not trust nobody that was brown skin for some reason and I have dealt with these people many times before to renew my license plates to renew my driver's license I got a loan through the USDA Development loan I got the loan in 2008 and sold the house in 2017 paying off the loan balance in full so these people dealt with me many years never had a problem until I was asked to produce my birth certificate again when I first moved here I had to transfer my driver's license and ID I gave them a copy back then of my birth certificate they sent everything to Little Rock they have copies there never had a problem last year I was discriminated against my race and my disability I have all this on video the discrimination and the disability discrimination because I took out my phone to record when I took out the phone everything started changing somewhat but they were still making phone calls to ice about me they would not tell me who were they on the phone with I asked on video playing times to let them know that I needed to know they will not give me an answer they were being shady and slick about everything they were trying to do to me I spoke to the DMV regional supervisor she apologized to me like three times but I told her I need a letter of apology not just over the phone apology and she denied me that right she told me that I would never have this problem ever again but to be honest with you they shame me in front of people they discriminated me in front of people they were on the line getting their paperwork done And some of them smirked and some of them said that I should not be here and this all got started because of the DMV the Department of motor vehicles also I heard them mentioning the name Sarah Huckabee Sanders I don't know if she had anything to do with this because they were on the phone making their calls to check up on me on my birth certificate they had me go home get the birth certificate and bring it back because they were not give me my handicap placards without my birth certificate I have the blue placards not the red ones I got in touch with a few attorneys in my area The attorneys told me I have a case but they don't handle my type of case because they're not civil rights lawyers they didn't mention I did have a case but they would not guide me to any other lawyer that dealt with these kind of cases I got in touch with the lawyer referral service And every time they gave me phone numbers of lawyers all I got was accident lawyers basically telling me the same thing that I have a case but they cannot handle the case after they had me explain everything to them down here they have a system I believe they call themselves the good old boys system I do have evidence and proof on video of what happened to me My father served this country in the army I have two sons once a Marine the other ones in the Navy they could not help me due to the fact that one of them's in the Philippines and the other ones in Hawaii That's where their station and I don't want to keep giving them headaches about but I'm going through in this messed up state it's a beautiful state don't get me wrong The cost of living is fair are like the place that I live in but it is changing due to the hate the Donald Trump and the maga Republicans have spread in the last few years if you guys get to read this and you can help please get a hold of me I can give you a copies of the recordings I have two recordings One was when they sent me home to get my birth certificate My second one was when I came back and they deny me I went without my birth certificate for a few months they told me that my birth certificate wasn't good enough and they made me higher lawyer in Puerto Rico to send me my birth certificate because I could not fly and go get my birth certificate due to my health and my health issues
If you guys can help me I appreciate it if you have any connections I will make sure that it'll be worth your while to help me through them and I hope that I don't get an attorney if I get help that's not going to be a cut through the attorney thank you for listening
1000% there are much bigger problems. Per the comments, no one is denying that children were hurt, of course we care. However the hyper focus on Epstein. USAID ??? KIDS ARE DYING. Get your priorities straight.
Both issues are important.
You say kids are dying, and I say kids die under the hands of those who abuse by sex trafficking! Following up to correct both issues, Epstein's sex trafficking damage and damage done by defunding USAID, are not mutually exclusive. Both can receive equal attention and just as much effort to correct. We can chew gum and walk at the same time. The priority is to protect kids in any event! In doing so, the priorities ARE straight.