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Faux Christian Franklin Graham defends Trumpf's Jesus image:


"I had received some questions about President Trumpf's recent idiotic posts, and here are my inane and useless thoughts.

"I do not believe President Trumpf would knowingly depict himself as Jesus Christ-- that would certainly be inappropriate.

"I'm thankful the Dotard-in-Chief backtracked, blatantly lying that this was not at all what he thought the AI-generated image was representing-- he wanted the American sheeple to think it was a doctor helping someone, and when he learned of the concerns, he immediately removed the post after good-for-nothing House Speaker Mike Johnson told him to delete it.

"When I looked at the sacrilegious illustration, I didn't jump to the same conclusion as some. There were no spiritual references-- no halo, there were no crosses, no angels, and surprisingly no references to underage girls that resemble Trumpf's comely daughter with the God-help-me awful name, Ivanka.

"It was a flag, soldiers, a nurse, fighter planes, eagles, the Statue of Liberty, and I think this is a lot to do about nothing, like my worthless social post that you are wasting your time reading.

"There is so much ill-intended speculation. I think his enemies are always foaming at the mouth at any possible opportunity to make the draft dodging oligarchic hypocrite look bad.

"And the illustration from someone else he reposted on Truth Social yesterday, I must say that I like the fact that this is a picture of Jesus whispering sweet nothings in Trumpf's ear like a lover, or at least His hand knocking dandruff flakes off his shoulder.

"We all need that-- we all need to be listening to Jesus, and that includes Sikhs, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, Zoroastrians, and super-wealthy oligarchs. Again, I think there is an attempt to spin this into something that it isn't.

"Remember, Dummkopf Trumpf didn't draw this, he didn't create it, he reposted it on his social media because he thought it was nice-- I would have to agree.

"I'm not a Catholic, I'm an evangelical phony Christian making money selling Christ to dopes, but I appreciate how the morbidly obese geriatric draft dodging pedophilic president has defended religious freedom for people of all faiths except for Muslims, including millions of evangelicals and Catholics in the US and around the world.

"He is the most pro-Christian, pro-life president in my lifetime, and he doesn't shy away from it. His ICE thugs have profaned churches, separated families, killed innocent people, all in a Christian manner Jesus would have approved of.

"I would hope that the Blasphemer-in-Chief and Pope Leo can meet at some point, and that the Pope would have the opportunity to scold the worst president in history for his pretend efforts to protect religious liberty for Catholics and people of all faiths."

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'He's a lot of fun to be with': Trump and Epstein were close friends for 15 years (2025)
www.theguardian.com

... As Trump tries to claim he was not a fan' of Epstein, photos, videos and anecdotes paint a picture of their relationship ...

It was a friendship that spanned three different decades. To Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein was a "terrific guy". Epstein believed himself to be Trump's "closest friend", and praised the future president as "charming".

The relationship would eventually break down, the men falling out over a bidding war on a property in Florida. And after Epstein was convicted of child sex offences in 2008, Trump distanced himself from the financier, claiming he was "not a fan" and wondering, in recent days, why his supporters would "waste time and energy" on demanding that FBI and Department of Justice files on Epstein be released.

But photos, videos and anecdotes paint a picture of a close friendship, of two middle-aged men who repeatedly partied together both alone and with their partners, including with Melania Knauss, who would go on to become Trump's third wife.

"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy," Trump told New York magazine in 2002. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

Trump's insight into Epstein's predilections would be proved true in macabre fashion, when Epstein was found guilty in 2008 of sexually abusing girls aged between 14 and 17 years old. When Epstein was charged with sex trafficking of minors, in 2019, Trump attempted to play down their relationship, insisting: "I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him." Trump said the pair had fallen out years earlier, and claimed: "I was not a fan of his."

But during the 15 years that the men were friends, there were plenty of incidents that displayed Trump and Epstein's closeness.

The New York Times reported that ...


FTA:

"The struggle over a fallen police barrier lasted less than a minute, but it has forever altered the course of student Muhammad Ali's life.

On 3 June 2024, the 21-year-old University of Pittsburgh senior was protesting in support of a pro-Palestine encampment in the center of campus. University police had set up metal barriers, held together with zip ties, to keep protesters from delivering food, water, and supplies to the encampment. Frustrated, some protesters tried to move the barriers.

Ali bent down to pick up a fallen barrier. An officer grabbed the other side and tried to pull it from his hands. After a brief exchange of words, Ali let go and stepped back, his hands raised. He thought that was the end of it. Weeks later, Ali was charged with multiple crimes, including three felonies. The most serious charges against him carry a maximum sentence of 34 years in prison.

Ali's attorney and supporters say he is being treated harshly because he is Muslim and brown. They point out that the Allegheny County District Attorney's office filed criminal charges against other protesters, but nearly all of them were offered plea deals with lesser charges, or a pretrial rehabilitation program that if completed would leave them with no criminal record.

But Ali and another community member, his co-defendant Cole Florkewicz, who is white, were not offered any deal. Both are still facing felony charges."

In 2024, Columbia University professor Keren Yarhi-Milo, a former Israeli military intelligence officer and diplomat at the Israeli Mission to the UN in NYC, began the notorious and successful national campaign to persecute and expel Palestinian students from America's colleges who were protesting the genocide in Gaza.

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