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Dwight: Trump doesn't know Epstein. Video evidence says:
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Are you retarded? Seriously?
No one has ever claimed Trump didn't know Epstein.
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UMass/YouGov poll | 7/25-7/30
President Trump approval
Disapprove 58% (+5) Approve 38% (-6)
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NBC “News” segment on DOJ opening of Russiagate grand jury probe.
The “reporter” apprises the viewer that:
- Russiagate is a distraction
-All Gabbard’s claims are unsubstantiated
- *RE-EMPHASIZES* There is zero evidence to back up claims
- It’s all politically motivated
- Trump just wants to attack his political foes
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Independents Drive Trump's Approval to 37% Second-Term Low
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63% Of Voters Disapprove Of The Trump Administration's Handling Of The Jeffrey Epstein Files, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Nearly Half Of Voters Would Consider Joining A Third Party, Just Not One Created By Elon Musk
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The CBO says Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will add $4.1 trillion to the deficit, $700 billion more than previously estimated
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how does this contribute to making America great ?
let alone the safety of people all around the world.Comment -
Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair.
Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake.
Sex trafficking is bad, unless the traffickers will blame your enemies.
Crime is bad, unless the criminals are pro-Trump.
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Is she credible?
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This will do wonders for tourism in advance of the World Cup and Olympics eh?
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Has there ever been a greater failed election promise?
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Totally
Keep hitting us with some more Daily Beast podcasts .
Lol
Late winter of 1993 I was on a walk with Jeffrey [Epstein] from his brownstone on the Upper East Side down Fifth Avenue, when Jeffrey looked at me and said "You know let's go stop by and see Trump"."
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The sky is falling !
The national online I&I/TIPP Poll, taken by 1,362 voters from July 30-Aug. 1, show Trump holding steady, with 45% giving him a “favorable” rating, and an equal 45% giving him “unfavorable.” Another 6% answered “not familiar enough to say” while 4% were “not sure.” The poll’s margin of error of is +/-2.7 percentage points.
Amid the tumultuous events during month of July, including ongoing tough tariff negotiations by the Trump administration, mixed signs from the economy, growing violence against federal ICE agents, and stunning recent revelations about the Democrats’ “Russian hoax” scandal, Trump’s standing among the voters edged up during the month by one point.
By comparison, with his leadership widely questioned, President Joe Biden left office earlier this year underwater with a 38% favorable grade but 51% unfavorable, for a net favorability score of -13 points, compared to Trump’s current break-even
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Wonder why he isnt suing this one.
Totally
Keep hitting us with some more Daily Beast podcasts .
Lol
Late winter of 1993 I was on a walk with Jeffrey [Epstein] from his brownstone on the Upper East Side down Fifth Avenue, when Jeffrey looked at me and said "You know let's go stop by and see Trump"."
Strange: Epstein only moved into the Wexler mansion on 9 East 71st in 1996.
She is out there right now repeating it.
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This should make you happy.
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We have a president who is fundamentally ignorant of the most basic and incontrovertible economic principles, as evidenced in his latest round of foolhardy tariffs (and in so many other ways).
President Trump has been told over and over again by economists of all political persuasions that tariffs are much like a sales tax and will ultimately be paid by American consumers; he likely would have been taught that concept during his time at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
And while the overall inflation rate has only been edging up since Mr. Trump began imposing tariffs, the cost of many imported items has been escalating. In June, prices for furnishings and durable household equipment — a category with high import exposure — rose by 1.3 percent, the biggest increase in more than three years. Prices for recreational goods and vehicles, which are also frequently manufactured abroad, increased by 0.9 percent, the largest jump since February 2024.
And tariffs likely played a role in the sudden slowdown in payroll growth announced on Friday, with the economy having created just 106,000 jobs in the last three months, far less than its monthly average in recent years.
Mr. Trump’s response? Shoot the messenger: He directed his team to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which compiles the figures.
Mr. Trump’s ignorance goes far beyond the tariffs-are-a-tax concept. He believes trade deficits are tantamount to “losing” money to other countries. Losing money is what happens when $100 falls out of your wallet. When you spend $100 to buy new earbuds made in China, you haven’t lost it; you’ve spent it on earbuds.
(Unsurprisingly, Mr. Trump also regularly misstates the size of the trade deficit. It’s not the $2 trillion he claims; last year it was under $1 trillion.)
Moreover, the tariffs that Mr. Trump is imposing reflect no rhyme or reason. What is the point of imposing a 40 percent tariff on poor Laos? The country is hardly in a position to buy much from us.
Mr. Trump’s fervent belief in tariffs seems to have originated in the 1980s, as Japanese cars flooded into the United States and wreaked havoc on domestic car manufacturers. Yet those same carmakers — such as Ford and General Motors — have been among the most vociferous opponents of his tariff regime today. Their latest financial results suggest that they stand to lose somewhere between $1 billion and $4 billion in earnings this year from Mr. Trump’s tariffs.
Mr. Trump has demonstrated his economic ignorance in many other ways — with potentially even greater adverse consequences. His most recent, and potentially most dangerous, transgression has been his harsh and wrongheaded criticism of the policies of the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Jerome Powell.
Mr. Trump insists that our interest rates are too high and should be as low as Europe’s (2 percent versus our 4.5 percent). Yet when he pronounces our economy “the strongest in the world,” as he regularly does, he is unconsciously citing one of the reasons for our higher interest rates: Robust economies need higher interest rates to restrain inflation.
Indeed, Mr. Trump seems not to understand inflation. He repeatedly — sometimes on multiple occasions in a single week — pronounces that we have “no inflation.” In fact, in the most recent 12 months, prices rose by 2.6 percent over the prior year, still modestly above the Fed’s 2 percent target and perhaps accelerating.
Another reason for our elevated interest rates is the massive budget deficits that we have been running, deficits that Mr. Trump made worse with the tax cuts he pursued in his first term and continues to push in his second. His signature domestic policy law will increase the deficit — and therefore our borrowing needs — by an estimated $3.4 trillion over the next decade.
Mr. Powell’s term is coming to an end next year, and the prospect of Mr. Trump picking his successor is downright scary. In his first term, Mr. Trump tried to appoint several individuals to the Federal Reserve Board who were so manifestly unqualified — with views that were so wildly outside of any accepted principles of monetary policy — that many Republicans refused to support them and they were forced to withdraw.
Mr. Trump now clearly regrets his decision to appoint Mr. Powell in 2017. A more unbridled Trump 2.0 might try for a far less responsible candidate whose selection to the most important and powerful economic position in our government could easily upend financial markets and perhaps the entire economy.
The president barely seems to comprehend supply and demand, which are among the most basic concepts in economics. He evangelizes for lower oil prices but simultaneously calls on the energy industry to “drill, baby, drill.” Lower prices discourage drilling; the number of rigs in operation has been falling as oil prices have softened.
In a similar vein, while he acknowledged that tariffs would raise the prices of imported cars, he argued that Americans could avoid tariffs by buying cars made in America. But it is well documented that when the price of an imported item goes up, domestic producers are then free to increase their own prices — and often will.
To be fair, the president occasionally shows glimmers of economic comprehension. With regard to the dollar, for example, he understands that the mantra of many Treasury secretaries that “a strong dollar is in the national interest” is more complicated than that simple sentence suggests. While a strong dollar has many advantages, a weak dollar makes our exports more competitive and restrains imports by making them more expensive (admittedly potentially creating inflationary pressures).
“I know better than anybody what’s good for the Market, and what’s good for the U.S.A.,” Mr. Trump proclaimed in a recent social media post. “People don’t explain to me, I explain to them!” Perhaps he should consider flipping those two clauses.
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This may seem like a true statement, depending which political side you lean. In every case so far, other than a TDS left leaning political left leaning Judge. Trump has been exonerated. As were the attacks on Supreme Court Judges and all other Trump appointees.
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Who is going to tell pavy that every single one of those outlets, among others, chose to call the Hunter laptop a conspiracy. Amazing how EVERY SINGLE ONE got the story wrong that might have helped Trump.
What are the odds, pavy?
And 51 accredited intelligence leaders ... all said simultaneously that the whole story resembled a Russian intelligence operation.
0-for-51 ... the odds, Pavy! Incredible coincidence!Comment
