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Trump's three angry Truth Social posts in the last hour suggest he may not be too happy about Melania's statement on Epstein. Melania doesn't bother defending her husband. And isn't her reminder that Epstein didn't act alone an encouragement to look again into what Donald was up to with his pal?

One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war

Unless I missed it, the one thing Melania didn't do is say definitively that her husband didn't do anything wrong relating to Epstein. Like it was fully a defense of her and her alone.

Thank you Melanoma For bringing #EPSTEINFILES back on top of social media where it belongs Your husband has spent billions to hide it away But YOU GO GIRL Btw, Sweetie You're so full of shit Ghislaine Maxwell is your BFF and let's face it You knew EPSTEIN #EPSTEINFILES #EPSTEINFILES

Melania and Donad's Epstein connections resurface following a bizarre speech; Trump crashes out as the so-called ceasefire hangs by a thread; Troubling economic data; and more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT!

If the goal of Melania’s speech was to make people stop talking about her, Epstein, and Maxwell—and definitely stop reposting all those photos of them—not so sure that was an effective strategy

Trump has apparently just posted a video of a woman being murdered on his social media account. I am not watching it and you shouldn’t either. You should, however, call your reps and demand impeachment.

How does James Comer have Hillary testify but not Melania?

Any fckn thing to distract from the media talking about Epstein

Got everyone to stop talking about Melania's Epstein post. It's all a big fucking circle or changing topics by more vile shit.

It’s not a ceasefire if the killing continues on one side. Mass atrocities are being carried out by Netanyahu in Lebanon with U.S. backing. (1/3)

We have never looked more feckless and ridiculous to the entire world.

The US is technologically inferior. BYD's new 'Blade Battery 2.0' can add 400 km range in 5 minutes (70% charge) or full (97% charge) in 9 minutes. If the US invested in infrastructure for people instead of war, like China does, we could also fill our electric car batteries up at 1500kW stations.

Trump is unfit to lead. It's time for the 25th Amendment.

NOPE ...MELANIA NOT FRIENDS YOU WERE ON THE MENU As her husband is bombing innocent people and children American Soldiers have died Billions of dollars wasted ALL TO KEEP ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES She chooses today to bring it back on top of the world stage WTG! #EPSTEINFILES

All this time I was honestly under the impression that Melania Trump met Donald through Putin. Melania's too old for Epstein. youtu.be/W9VxoTanvQw

Minutes apart— MS Now reports Trump didn’t know Melania’s Epstein statement was coming, as CNN reports he did 🤔🎪

NEW: Epstein survivor Dani Bensky, “It’s great to hear Melania Trump acknowledge the devastating harm to survivors But we need a serious legal mechanism that gets to the truth without putting survivors in harms way.”

Hey Vance, how much did you steal from the American taxpayers so you to fly to Hungary and campaign for a fascist?

tRump relationship with Epstein/Maxwell and activities with Epstein/Maxwell are documented in videos, photographs and victim's testimonies. Prosecute.

One more, Epstein’s ties to Bill Barr’s father to get him a job as a math teacher at a prestigious prep school (Epstein had no math degree), and Epstein died when Trump/Barr were in office. Also, Barr personally went to the prison in the wake of Epstein’s death. Why would an AG do that? Unheard of.

Even if you choose to meet in the middle and believe 50% of the stuff in the epstein files about him, it's still some horrific shit. It's not all true, it's not all untrue. That's enough for me. There are just too many bad people he associated with...

10. Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, said in February of this year that Epstein’s client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review.” Five months later, her agency said no Epstein client list existed. Trump defended her: “The attorney general has handled that very well.”

9. Trump was president and ultimately responsible for the federal prison system when Jeffrey Epstein died in custody in 2019, supposedly of suicide. Epstein had been on suicide watch, but was taken off the watch 2 weeks before he died.

8. Prosecutor Alex Acosta cut a secret, lenient deal with child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 and nine years later Trump named Acosta labor secretary. Trump defended Acosta as details of the Epstein deal became more widely known, but Acosta ultimately quit .

1. Child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein said: “I was Donald Trump’s closest friend for 10 years.” Trump said in a 2002 interview that he was friends with Epstein for 15 years. He added that Epstein was a “terrific guy” who liked females “on the younger side.”

🧵🧵🧵 In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.

🧵🧵🧵 Since the Epstein scandal is big news again, I'm re-upping my thread with damning evidence about sex predator Trump and his rapist friend. The documented facts in this thread remove any reasonable doubt about who Trump is and what he did. 🧵🧵🧵

Wow, great news: the CDC has a study proving COVID vaccines slashed hospitalizations by 55%. Bad news: RFK Jr.’s team killed it before publication because facts were inconvenient. They are literally hiding data that could save your life. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/208886/...

France accuses Hungary of ‘betrayal of solidarity’ over leaked call with Russian foreign minister – Europe live

Imagine it was the other way around? Imagine Iran had attacked the US or Israel out of nowhere then broken an agreed ceasefire. The world allowed Gaza and now more murder and expansionism into Lebanon. 1.2 MILLION displaced. Where’s the condemnation? The sanctions? The outrage? The disgust?

The insidious links between Palantir, which is being inserted into our public services, MAGA and Farage. 🔻

"ADF has been ramping up its spending and activities in the UK in recent years – their financial accounts published this week show an income of nearly £1.5m, up from more than £1.3m last year." These are Nigel's people.

cc: @nytimes.com

Ten years after Brexit, this is the UK: a divided nation frozen in time | Aditya Chakrabortty

Capitalism is benefiting everyone, right? CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978. CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021. www.epi.org/publication/...

📌 ICYMI — How the US Christian Right and Anti-Abortion Lobbyists are Reshaping NHS Policy A new investigation exposes a global network of anti-abortion groups and US Christian nationalists using UK courts to target bodily autonomy

Ya gotta know that as soon as the Iranian team mentioned Epstein files, the deal was made.

Tariffs on islands full of penguins is a lovely reminder that government incompetence can be both expensive and deeply stupid. Crikey.

This week's edition of the UK's New Statesman magazine isn't pulling its punches.

"Our school is being ROBBED of the money we need...And now we're seeing all this money...get put on these warplanes, be dropped in bombs, be burned up for nothing." - Teacher in Chicago on the economic crisis his school faces during Trump's Iran War LIVE NOW ⬇️

NEW: Scott MacFarlane spoke with Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky about the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi and breaks down the news that she’s trying to get out of her scheduled deposition before Congress next week. 👉 youtu.be/kdfT5Az5t0A?...

"If you want an argument for throwing Republicans out of power, it’s that they wouldn’t even [have stopped] Trump from committing genocide. That’s what toadies they are." On the pod, @jenrubin.bsky.social is so good on the need to keep the focus on Trump's unfitness: newrepublic.com/article/2087...

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

“I think the British public wants to be disassociated, not just in principle but in practice, from Donald Trump’s aggression against the Iranian people” Former RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch believes the UK should not allow the US to use its military bases “at all” #Newsnight

Is Lebanon 🇱🇧 not a sovereign state? Can just anyone go there and fight? International law has once again been trampled underfoot by Netanyahu, with complete impunity.

New in PN: TACO Tuesday's lasting hangover "For years, conservatives told themselves that Trump’s constant escalations were crafty gamesmanship. This barely-averted disaster in Iran cuts the knees out from under their creative fiction. Trump'’s not performing as a madman. He’s just barking mad."