Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Our constitutional republic is groaning under the weight of 250 years of unconscionable political and moral mendacity. On July 4, Trump will make a fool of himself as he did with his incredibly misbegotten parade last summer. We can do just the opposite.
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On its 250th birthday, our constitutional republic is failing the people it was founded to serve
We have become way too accustomed to the idea that the founders of this country did not foresee the damage that could be done by a madman serving as president.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/on-its-250th-birthday-our-constitutional
about 11 hours ago
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Happy new year from Tracy and me and the menagerie in Milford!
Weāll see you next year, every one of us ready to go get āem.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/happy-new-year-from-tracy-and-me
2 days ago
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This country has dumbed-down and red-necked itself into a level of promiscuous depravity and dishonor that would have been unimaginable to my own parents and grandparents, not to mention my ancestors.
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Fuck this year
Everybody is doing their annual wrap-ups, cataloging the ups and downs of 2025, celebrating the rise of the resistance, predicting success in the midterms in November, trashing Trump and MAGA.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/fuck-this-year
3 days ago
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With his bullshit meetings at Mar a Lago, heās got his headlines. Heās got his photo ops. Hell, he pushed the Epstein files right out of the headlines. You remember the Epstein files, donāt you?
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Back to back nothingburger meetings at Mar a Lago: WTF is going on?
Do you know what week it is?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/back-to-back-nothingburger-meetings
4 days ago
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Pipsqueak Epsteinās long shadow is ruining Donald Trumpās Christmas. Heās ruining Donald Trumpās presidency. Bwwwaaahhhā¦sobā¦sobā¦
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The long shadow cast by a tiny man
Letās see nowā¦Iām trying to figure out how long Donald Trump has been a household name.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-long-shadow-cast-by-a-tiny-man
6 days ago
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My advice as an aging engineer: Channellock pliers can move smoothly from handling problems under the hood to problems of a culinary bent. When they go on sale, make sure that you buy two.
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Holiday emergency instructional: What to do with a recalcitrant zip-closure cheese bag
Lucian V (right) and Violet (rear) wanted cheese toast for lunch on Christmas day, so I got out a loaf of excellent sourdough bread from Better World, our local coffee shop/bakery/book and gift store ...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/holiday-emergency-instructional-what
7 days ago
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I was sitting on a pew in St. Markās just before the reading began when I smelled patchouli and felt a whoosh of feathers and fur to my right and turned to see Jimi Hendrix and his girlfriend and a couple of other friends as they slid down the pew.
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10 days ago
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Iāve been wondering what Donald Trump would be up to over the holidays at Mar a Lago besides playing golf and visits to special masseuses whom no one has yet āstolenā from him. Turns out heās all fired-up about the Naval version of āCall of Doodie.ā
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Uh-oh. Somebody has been playing with his Legos again.
Iāve been wondering what Donald Trump would be up to over the holidays down at Mar a Lago besides days of golf followed by pre-burger visits to special masseuses whom no one has yet āstolenā from him.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/uh-oh-somebody-has-been-playing-with
10 days ago
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We are already waist deep in waters that threaten to swamp the First Amendment, the 14th Amendment and every other Constitutional provision that Donald Trump doesnāt like, including the 22nd Amendment that limits a president to two terms in office.
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Bari Weiss is the Pete Hegseth of journalism
Do you have any idea how much of a bumbling just-picked-up-a-paintbrush amateur Bari Weiss is in her new job as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/bari-weiss-is-the-pete-hegseth-of
11 days ago
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Greatness will forever elude this small, pathetic creature in a suit and polished shoes, because greatness cannot be packaged and named like a product or a building. It can only be lived and then accorded by others.
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John F. Kennedy's stolen honor
I hadnāt given much thought to the meaning of the word āhonor,ā in years, and now I canāt think of anything else.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/john-f-kennedys-stolen-honor
12 days ago
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If the goal of releasing the Epstein files is to make those men who joined Epstein in sexually assaulting and raping underage girls accountable for their criminal actions, itās not going to happen.
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Whatās happening tonight with the Epstein files is exactly what happens in a completely corrupt police state
If the goal of releasing the Epstein files is to make those men who joined Epstein in sexually assaulting and raping underage girls accountable for their criminal actions, itās not going to happen.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/whats-happening-tonight-with-the
14 days ago
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Perfection is a series of mistakes that collects incremental bits of wisdom in a process that never ends. Progress is never quite getting where you want to go. You end up where life takes you. Thatās how you know youāre human.
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Musk and Trump and their AI master race
I was standing at the sink after dinner last night scraping a plate when I started thinking about the new iteration of the word, āscrape.ā You see it used all the time to describe how Artificial Intel...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/musk-and-trump-and-their-ai-master
15 days ago
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Susie knew the mainstream media would swallow her bullshit like a martini in some mahogany-paneled boĆ®te in Georgetown. Thereās your news for you.
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Susie Wiles states the obvious. Media swallows it whole.
Why is everyone surprised?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/susie-wiles-states-the-obvious-media
16 days ago
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It wonāt be death by a thousand cuts. A few deadly stabs in the back will do. The generals didnāt smile when he delivered right-wing applause lines at Quantico. They wonāt be smiling when they slip the knife in, either.
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Major Hegsethās stupid plan of revenge
All you really need to know about Pete Hegseth is that his rank when he left his service in the Army National Guard was Major.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/major-hegseths-stupid-plan-of-revenge
17 days ago
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This man, who refers to himself in the third person as āTrump,ā is our president. Making sense of him isnāt working now, if it ever did. We are in a race between his unraveling and the unraveling of our country.
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Donald Trump desecrates the memory of Rob Reiner and everything else he touches.
By now you have no doubt heard of Donald Trumpās post on Truth Social this morning about the murders of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-trump-desecrates-the-memory
18 days ago
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Lucianās battalion is in exactly the same area at the south end of the post at Fort Carson where I served back in 1969 and 1970. The Army, as my mother used to say, is just a ābig small town.ā
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Guarding the border, night and day
My son, First Lieutenant Lucian K.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/guarding-the-border-night-and-day
20 days ago
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This is so gross and creepy, I can't even.
The photo is one of a number from the āpersonal collection of Jeffrey Epsteinā released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee today.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-so-gross-and-creepy-i-cant
22 days ago
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Heās got portraits of himself on every surface in the White House. How long until we get in the car and drive down the street headed for the 7-ll in the mini-mall on the corner, and heās staring down at us from a billboard or the side of a building?
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This is what it must be like to live in North Korea
Somehow, we havenāt been told who or how or when, but someone in the White House talked Trump into struggling up the stairs into his big 747 Air Force One that he doesnāt like anymore, and going somep...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-what-it-must-be-like-to-live
22 days ago
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Snow has got us for the second day in a week, and Iāve been got by a bug as well, so Iām taking the night off. Soup and crackers and Pedialyte and early to bed for me tonight.
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Under the weather
Snow has got us for the second day in a week, and Iāve been got by a bug as well, so Iām taking the night off.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/under-the-weather-f37
23 days ago
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Our politics have gotten only as far as junior high school, but weāre all still in kindergarten when it comes to learning to live together. Sharing is hard because so few of us have learned that when you share, you gain as much as you give up.
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The most difficult thing to teach in kindergarten
What is so hard about sharing?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-most-difficult-thing-to-teach
24 days ago
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The only way any of these pardons makes sense is if Donald Trump was paid off to set these drug dealers and murderers free. This isnāt hypocrisy. It is terrorism committed against the American people and our system of laws.
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Trump is pardoning drug dealers like the White House has a drive-thru
Itās gotten really hard to say what the worst thing is about Donald Trump, but right up there near the top has to be the machine-gun rapidity of his criminality.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-pardoning-drug-dealers-like
25 days ago
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It's so cold, the Delaware iced up, and I'm taking the night off
As ever, I have plenty of help relaxing from Tuli and The Box Cat.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/its-so-cold-the-delaware-iced-up
27 days ago
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Trumpās staggeringly ignorant and juvenile introduction to the document is on White House stationery. It is enough to turn your stomach and make you cry for your country.
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Trump makes the racist Great Replacement Theory official U.S. policy
Trump did it with the nationās official National Security Strategy report that was published late last night on the White House website.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-makes-the-racist-great-replacement
27 days ago
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The press covers the Epstein story like its a football game, with one side or the other gaining or losing yardage. But it's not a game. It's a crime.
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We need more moral outrage about Epsteinās and Trumpās crimes
I had intended to write a column tonight about the pending release of the Epstein grand jury materials from Florida, where he was investigated, but not federally indicted, for crimes including solicit...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/we-need-more-moral-outrage-about
28 days ago
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It looks like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Jean Pirro, and Dan Bongino have arrested the guy who bought enough components to put together galvanized pipe, wires, steel wool and kitchen timers and produced two elaborate duds.
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Capitol bombing suspect arrested today has not been pardoned by Trumpā¦yet!
The far reaches of the wingnut-o-sphere have spent the late afternoon and early evening attempting to tie a 30-year-old man who lived with his mother in a four-bedroom Colonial in the suburbs of Washi...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/capitol-bombing-suspect-arrested
29 days ago
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Steel yourself
Unless I miss my guess, a new Big Lie is on the way.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/steel-yourself
30 days ago
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This is the way stories about the demise of a cabinet secretary classically begin: The knives are out for Schmucko at the Department of Mistakes Were Made. This time itās more like the bazookas are out for Champagne Pete.
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In the bunker with Pete
This is the way stories about the demise of a cabinet secretary classically begin: The knives are out for Schmucko at the Department of Mistakes Were Made.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/in-the-bunker-with-pete
about 1 month ago
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Thatās where all his payoffs are. No more paper trails. No more electronic trails. No more evidence of corruption. It all happens out there in a mysterious, impenetrable land called crypto. What other conclusion can you draw?
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Our president is a thief. What other conclusion can you draw?
News outlets are reporting this morning that former Honduran president Juan Orlando HernĆ”ndez has been released from a federal prison in West Virginia after Donald Trump gave him a āfull and complete ...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/our-president-is-a-thief-what-other
about 1 month ago
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I have been working on a column for tomorrow called āWhat other conclusion can you draw?ā I can report that a night off with the Box Cat and Tracy and the rest of our menagerie has been restorative.
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It may not look like it, but...
I have been working on a column for tomorrow called āWhat other conclusion can you draw?ā
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/it-may-not-look-like-it-but
about 1 month ago
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Crime pays. That has always been Trumpās motto. Crimes have victims, and the question this country faces every day is, when will enough of Trumpās victims in this county be mad enough to fight back?
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There is no such thing as a war crime to Donald Trump
Tomorrow, two of Donald Trumpās loyal underlings, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, will get on an airplane owned by the U.S.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-war-crime
about 1 month ago
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a fanatic who has hired other fanatics such as Vinay Prasad to carry out an ideological assault on the healthcare of more than 300 million Americans because Donald Trump empowered them.
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What is going on right now at the FDA will cause thousands to die
Most of the shenanigans and just plain idiocy involve this guy, Vinay Prasad, an RFK Jr.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-is-going-on-right-now-at-the
about 1 month ago
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Bullets donāt care who they kill or where. Sadness from loss abounds when war is made and even when it ends. It is equally sad that this fact is not remembered by leaders who inflict war on soldiers and civilian victims.
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The D.C. National Guard shooting is so wrong on so many levels
Letās begin with the egregious error that in August, the Capital and West Virginia and Louisiana National Guard were deployed in Washington D.C.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-dc-national-guard-shooting-is
about 1 month ago
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āTwas the night before Thanksgiving When all through the disgusting, gilded, marbled, half-demolished White House Not a Stephen Miller was stirring, not even a louse
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A Mar a Lago Thanksgiving
āTwas the night before Thanksgiving
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-mar-a-lago-thanksgiving
about 1 month ago
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Where is it written that speaking out in defense of liberty is an illegal act? In the minds and morals of these people who want to destroy laws and lives and the Constitution itself.
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Hegseth is not fit to carry Senator Mark Kellyās laundry
Oh boy, is Senator Kelly in trouble now.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/hegseth-is-not-fit-to-carry-senator
about 1 month ago
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Stay tuned. Donald Trump has been trying to get Comey charged with a crime for nine years. This may be the week when we learn whether or not the charges he has ginned-up will stick.
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Comey indictment dismissed in confusion of cases challenging Halligan's appointment and behavior
A federal judge in Virginia, Cameron McGowan Currie, dismissed the indictment of James Comey today in a ruling which involved whether interim U.S.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/comey-indictment-dismissed-in-confusion
about 1 month ago
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Trump knows Republicans are going to lose the House and might lose the Senate. If that happens, heās going to face another Bill of Impeachment in the House and trial in the Senate. Trump hasnāt got enough gold leaf to paper over his ego if that happens.
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Trump is vulnerable. Hit him. Then hit him harder.
The raging trash fire that is the so-called āpeace planā for Ukraine is all the evidence you need that Donald Trump has not only lost the narrative, heās lost the last clue he ever had about the locat...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-vulnerable-hit-him-then
about 1 month ago
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The whole thing sounds like a typical Trump cobbled-together total clusterfuck at this point. Stay tuned. By midnight, they might be pushing the line that Little Green Men threw the thing down from a hovering UFO.
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So-called "peace deal" already falling apart
The Witkoff-negotiated āpeace dealā is now being reported as not a U.S.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/so-called-peace-deal-already-falling
about 1 month ago
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Trump has his nose shoved so far up Putinās ass, itās amazing he can see enough to play golf. The question is, why? This week, we got our answer: Trumpās āpeace dealā will make him and his family and his gang of American oligarchs much, much more wealthy.
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Trump's so-called peace deal: It's an unmitigated, out in the open, in broad daylight slobbering kiss on Putin's ass
The āpeace dealā isnāt a ceasefire.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-so-called-peace-deal-its-an
about 1 month ago
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The way you beat a tyrant is standing up to his tyranny. Six members of Congress gave us an example of exactly that on Tuesday. Each of them is under special guard by Capitol Police because of threats to their lives by MAGA followers of Donald Trump.
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The Bill of Rights for soldiers
What you have to understand about the military is that it functions as a nearly absolute autocracy within the democracy that governs the rest of the country.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-bill-of-rights-for-soldiers
about 1 month ago
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Our future is somewhere in one of those multi-acre data-centers that are popping up everywhere there is a fallow field that used to grow soybeans before Trump killed that market with tariffs.
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How do we know the drug boat videos arenāt fake?
I had breakfast with my old West Point friend, Gary Moyer, this morning, and out of the blue he said we have entered a time when we wonāt be able to tell whatās real, and what isnāt.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-do-we-know-the-drug-boat-videos
about 1 month ago
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Comey will walk free one day soon, and he will be able to sit back and watch Donald Trump try to lie his way out of a whole bunch of evidence that shows his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein is the one corrupt thing he wonāt get away with.
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This is what you get when incompetence meets ignorance and tips the hat to arrogance
James B.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-what-you-get-when-incompetence
about 1 month ago
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It turns my stomach to say this, but we have not yet seen the bottom into which these wicked creatures have led us. Not even close.
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As my stomach turns
The House voted 427 to one to order the release of the files kept by the Department of Justice on convicted sex-trafficker, well-known pedophile, and friend of Donald Trump and other powerful men, Jef...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/as-my-stomach-turns
about 2 months ago
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Larry Summers steps away due to Epstein emails.
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This is a rather major Epstein development
From the Washington Post, this headline tonight:
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-a-rather-major-epstein-development
about 2 months ago
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He will deny that he is weak, but thatās the danger all autocrats face in the end. When you have to deny that youāre weak, everybody already knows it, and they will treat you accordingly.
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Heās weak: What that means for Trump and Republicans
Heās going to lose the Epstein file vote in the House tomorrow.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/hes-weak-what-that-means-for-trump
about 2 months ago
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It is not hard at all to say that Donald Trumpās long friendship with and personal business connections to the known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is the crime of the century.
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The deep dark secret behind the staying power of the Epstein story
Here is an ugly truth: practically every man, woman, and child in this country has either been a victim of sexual abuse or knows someone who has suffered abuse.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-deep-dark-secret-behind-the-staying
about 2 months ago
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The guiltiest words that ever came out of Trumpās mouth
Very, VERY, VERY bad day for Donald J.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-guiltiest-words-that-ever-came
about 2 months ago
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Refusing to vote to reopen the government unless the ACA subsidies are extended is maybe the single most popular thing Democrats have done sinceā¦jeez, I donāt even know when.
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Donāt lose sleep over the shutdown deal
Do not pass āGo.ā Do not collect $200.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/dont-lose-sleep-over-the-shutdown
about 2 months ago
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The Republican perfect storm over Nazi Nick Fuentes
Here is what everyoneās favorite Nazi has done: Heās forcing the Republican Party to pick sides, and to absolutely no oneās surprise, they have picked the side of Fuentes and the Nazis.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-republican-perfect-storm-over
about 2 months ago
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Weāll be back to gazing at our newsfeeds and holding our breaths waiting to see if our Navy and Air Force have begun bombing Venezuela, or Delta Force special operators have rappelled from a helicopter into a drug lord compound somewhere in Mexico.
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WTF is wrong with these people?
Iāve been walking around all day with that headline in my head because it is applicable across such a broad range of stories that have made headlines over the past few days.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/wtf-is-wrong-with-these-people
2 months ago
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So long as there are Confederate flags and Nazi flags and Nazi salutes and Jew haters and white supremacists walk proudly among us, we are a fallen country. We need to save ourselves from this horror before itās too late.
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MAGA extremism has shown its Nazi colors
Enough is never enough.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/maga-extremism-has-shown-its-nazi
2 months ago
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