Trump is entering (or has already entered) lame duck territory. You're going to see layers of Repubs start to peel away and plan for what they hope is the next regime IMO. And he's not going to take it well.

And the only thing going to stop this if the Bannon and his crew really try to push Trump to a third term - which Trump may eventually come around to.

They either have nothing because there is nothing or the information truly damaging to Trump and many others has been removed or altered.

Then why was Trump so adamant about not releasing them?

Would you agree Trump and GOP leadership was going to great lengths to keep them under wraps?

Or is Trump just stupid and losing it?

....and the thing about this administration is, Trump has more lackeys working for him than in his first term.

Think Bondi would help him out?

I think so.

The files everyone so desperately wanted released are suddenly "scrubbed" because Trump wants them released?

Files everyone so desperately wanted released are suddenly "scrubbed" so Trump can now say release them because he knows he can't stop the vote.

Fixed it for ya!!! And why couldn't the delay have given them time to go to Plan B?

Let's see, Trump pays porn stars to not talk thru alternate means, tells Congress "stall the vote, I'll take care of the rest", "find me 11K votes", "I can declassify by just thinking it".

Sure, Trump would never "scrub"..........lol

Lamp - I think the fact that more House Repubs were going to vote for it than expected (much more apparently) is an indication that the Senate will have to as well - otherwise you're viewed as protecting potential pedo's. Not a good look and voters aren't going to stand for that.

So then it's on Trump's desk. I could see Trump bypassing all of it or some of it due to legal reasons - ie. the DOJ "investigating".

Right on cue, moving from one controversy to the next. Initially, it was the files will bury Trump. Now that he wants to release them, the files have been altered

Doesn't that seem like a Trump thing? Doing something illegal?

He literally went from a campaign promise (which he most likely was just spouting out of his ---), to threatening his own party to vote against it, to now, let's release it.

I wouldn't put anything past Trump in terms of doing something on the down low. He's got a track record of this.

Why has Trump did a 180?

Two reasons I suspect why.

Either

1. Files have been cleaned of anything extremely embarrassing, or

2. Much like his taxes and auditing, because DOJ will open up investigations into Dems - certain files will not be released.

Trump literally was trying to get reps to change their vote (apparently from the Situation Room no less) and said a vote for it is a vote against the White House.

Now he wants them released? LOL........only an idiot wouldn't suspect something is up because of that change of heart.

What you will get are some photos of Trump kissing underage girls, statements from underage girls talking about Trump walking in on them while they were changing, Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women.

I'm very doubtful of that, but if so, it's over for Trump.

Files are being released now apparently, 20,000K documents, per CNN. Not sure if that's from

I'm no Trump fan, not even close, but I have a hard time believing anything in this release or afterwards will directly connect Trump to underage women.

Was he friends with Epstein and knew exactly what he was doing...and probably thought it was wild fun. Absolutely.

If Trump had a connection to underage women it would have come out in at least one of his presidential runs. Other stuff did, but not this.

Defenders seem to keep wanting to point to Truman's overhaul of the White House, but that's because it was structurally troubled. It was a necessity.

No one else has done, to the degree, that Trump is doing now...and that's why it's getting this attention.

This is Trump being Trump. Leaving his stain on everything.

It's actually in such bad taste to build a structure that will actually be bigger than the residence itself.

Looks really bad w/ Trump talking about it everyday, getting money from doners while fed workers aren't getting paid.

Bad, bad look from all ends.

He WILL go down as the most corrupt president in our history.

People are going to do studies and documentaries on how it actually was allowed to happen.

Leave it to Trump to ruin a national residence.

I'm sure it will look gaudy because, well, that's Trump.

But know what would be actually funny? The next Dem president should shrink it down and remodel the entire ballroom......I know that's what I would do.

Would kill Trump.

I live near NY and would listen to Curtis and Kuby radio show on WABC at lunch (pre COVID). What a great show it was, and loved the 1pm hour where they dove into Trump and Russia every day!!!. Kuby was a liberal, but Sliwa is no Trump-lover as far as I know.

I don't know if he's qualified to be mayor, but he surely has the most street cred and knows the city like no one else (of those three).

As far as John Catsimatidis, he's a POS. Trump boot licker.

Party of Law and Order continues to sink and embarrass itself.

But the real problem is a large faction of the country likes it.

Lying under oath**

Much more to come out in terms of evidencea and defense, but this seems to be problem for Bolton.

HOWEVER, much like the mortgage fraud case and lying under case, you could bring charges like this against many different people on either side of the isle.

So yeah this seems like weaponization but Bolton could be in trouble in terms of being guilty.

When this term is up.

When this term is up? This is how bad it is.

When there's talk of Trump running for a third term, NO ONE in the Republican Party shuts it down.

Think about that? Whatever you think of Trump, what in the name of God brings up to the point where he gets to run for a third term?

The infactuation with this guy will go down in history as one of the great mysteries.

Why let him fire her - especially when there is already precedent?

Keep her in the position, and if its overturned, then fire her.

That makes more sense to me.

Just like in sports - you get suspended but if you appeal - you still get to play. IDK.

"Putin let me down"

Imagine a Democratic President using those words.

Here's Kimmel's quote:

"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

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You know, you could interpret that quote as Kimmel himself not denying the shooter isn't MAGA, but that MAGA will go to any length - factual or nonfactual - to not be associated in any way with the killer. And there is proof of this from social media posts and podcasters, which can be looney.

An example would be "Obama and the deep state are behind this because Kirk was a Presidential candidate".

It was narrowed to the women he was specifically referencing. He was pointing out their admissions that they were the product of AA.

Of course he prefaced that by commenting on a black customer service rep who is "mornonic" - and how did she get there.

And this wrap up that "they're coming out and they're saying it for us ... You do not have the brain processing power" is not what pro-AA are saying about it. That's what he's saying. That's Kirk's view.

And its reasonable to infer that his net encompasses more than just those three.

ABC/Sinclair/NextStar have a right to fire someone who is not meeting their standards of employment - have no issue with that.

The issue is - Trump has both on video and social media talked about "Kimmel is next". Long before the Kirk assasination.

Then the FCC chair says we can "do it the easy way, or the hard way".

We also know NextStar is trying to acquire other stations and needs FCC approavl (much like the CBS/Paramount/Skydance/Colbert fiasco).

Kimmel fired.

If the government is putting their finger on the scale, that's wrong. And dangerous.

On the subject of whether somone doesn't want to print a poster of Kirk - it seems many conservatives online are mad at Bondi (and Matt Walsh I believe) wants her to resign.

He makes the statement that 'we have fought this, and won where you can deny services'.

What exactly is he taking about? The SC said you can do this - I think - if it's religious beliefs - but would Kirk fall into this?

So many:

The Natural

The Sting

Day of the Condor

All the President's Men (good one for MAGA to brush up on)

The Way We Were