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By Sunday morning, every Fox and Sinclair affiliate was repeating the same story: "Donald J. Trump, Anointed by the Lord, Survivor of Butler, has now cheated death a third time."
Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old Caltech-educated schoolteacher who tried to get past security two floors and over 800 feet from the President, was instantly made into part of the Trump Resurrection Triptych. Butler. West Palm. The Hilton. Father, Son, and Magnetometer.
The Trump team knew within seconds they had a chance to revive the MAGA base, guilt-trip the press into silence for weeks, and shock the easily paralyzed Democrats off their game as election season heats up. The thought "Finally, we can really change the subject from ... well, everything else."
And they tried. Bless their predictable hearts, they tried.
Until Trump utterly blew it.
"implicate me as supporting Epstein"
You support Epstein because you want to keep his crimes hidden.
That's how this works.