Juan Orlando Hernndez, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. read more
Donald Trump's drive to secure peace in Ukraine must not let Vladimir Putin off the hook for war crimes committed by Russian forces, a top EU official has warned, effectively setting a new red line for a deal. read more
President Trump lashed out at the New York Times for a story this week that pointed to his advanced age and a diminished White House schedule. "Trump, 79, is the oldest person to be elected to the presidency, and he is aging," the Times reported. "He does not get regular exercise, in part because he has a long-held theory that people are born with a finite amount of energy and that vigorous activity can deplete that reserve, like a battery." read more
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says "all orders" from President Trump are "lawful orders," and troops have no right to question him. read more
Dismissing the swashbuckling sci-fi romp as "a total hoax" amid growing scrutiny over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump made remarks Tuesday denying that he had written a 36-volume comic titled Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles. Obtained last month by the House committee investigating the late financier and child sex trafficker, the Time Pedophiles saga depicts Trump and Epstein journeying through various historical eras aboard Epstein's Chronolita Express time machine, taking on Edo-period samurai, ancient Roman legionaries, and Wild West gunslingers in their never-ending quest for underage sexual partners. read more
From The Guardian:
Trump's pardon of Honduras's ex-president shows counter-drug effort is based on lies and hypocrisy'
Tom Phillips
Latin America correspondent
Why has Trump blown up alleged narco boats in the Caribbean and at the same time decided to let a big time trafficker off the hook?
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Boy, I had a lot of bad jobs when I was young. New York City was full of bad jobs in the 70s. You could get a different bad job every week, and I did. I used to think, "I hate this job. I'm going to get a different bad job." And then I would hate that job. Finally, I realised, and this is the truth " "Fran, you just don't like to work". I would have been a fantastic heiress.
Fran Leibowitz
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Trump, even as senescent as he is, thrashes around to distract from his association with Epstein.
Lately, he's even taken to falling asleep in public, hoping that might quell the insatiable demands of his inner demons.
It's lost on him, of course, but his spiraling decline really is loaded with all manner of literary themes.
Historians are going to think they died and went to heaven.