In Hitler’s Germany, many Christians sought out Hitler and offered their support as Christians. Other Christians stood by while Hitler took over and did and said nothing, sometimes making excuses for Hitler.
“The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution says, with only a handful of exceptions: “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury.” In practice, though, grand juries rarely fail to indict. The entire process is nonadversarial, meaning prosecutors make their case to jurors without an opposing attorney making any counterarguments, and the burden of proof is much lower than it would be at trial. As the old saw has it, a prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. But failing to get indictments has been a hallmark of the second Trump administration.”
“Trump is carving out his own brand of capitalism — launching extraordinary federal interventions in the economy through ownership stakes in private companies alongside sweeping tariffs, tax cuts and deregulation. But the way he’s using these tools isn’t really guided by a discernable economic strategy
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Trump’s policies, taken together, are more like “an idiosyncratic hodgepodge.””
According to an Epstein email, Trump spent hours at Epstein’s house with a victim. This is where Epstein called Trump “that dog that hasn’t barked”.
In another email between Michael Wolff and Epstein, Wolf suggests that Trump has been on Epstein’s plane and at his house in such a way that Epstein could save Trump by keeping secret about it.
This is all in the context of Trump being uncharacteristically resistant to releasing files about Epstein, even pressuring Republican congress people to not do it; in the context where Trump openly said that Epstein likes them young; in the context where Trump has had many many sex scandals; and in the context where the Trump administration has moved Epstein’s coconspirator to a more comfortable prison.
It looks like Trump was either involved in Epstein’s crimes, or knew about them and kept silent when he should not have. It’s possible that Trump didn’t really do or know anything, and just doesn’t want Epstein or Maxwell to make him look bad.
“In a 2019 email to Wolff, Epstein wrote that “Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. [O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”
The message appears to reference Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted Epstein co-conspirator currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for crimes connected to Epstein.
The following year, Epstein and several associates received word that Reuters was readying a story about a lawsuit filed against the disgraced financier and Trump over an alleged sexual assault from 1994.
“Well, I guess if there’s anybody who can wave thus [sic] away, it’s Donald,” Wolff wrote. “Let me know if there’s anything I can do.”
These quotes seem too vague to draw strong conclusions from.
“President Donald Trump has sought to justify the summary execution of suspected drug smugglers by arguing that the United States is engaged in an “armed conflict” with criminal organizations that supply prohibited intoxicants. Yet the Trump administration also insists that U.S. forces are not engaging in “hostilities” when they blow up boats believed to be carrying illegal drugs.
Those positions are consistent with Trump’s disregard for legal limits on his use of the military to prosecute a literalized war on drugs. But they are otherwise hard to reconcile with each other, and their implications underline the immorality and lawlessness of his bloodthirsty antidrug tactics.”