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Baitball Blogger

(50,502 posts)
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 07:59 AM Jul 14

What can we say about this new Trump stage

Where he seems to be cleaning up problems for himself and the bestie in Brazil? Is he cleaning up because he thinks he’s about to be removed or because he feels emboldened?

It’s not just the Epstein files that takes a problem away for himself and his Republican friends. But Bolsenero in Brazil. To us it is so beyond the pale that it looks like Trump has reached the jump the shark stage of this melodrama. Or is it that Trump feels so infalllible because of the Supreme Court’s ruling on immunity that he’s convinced that this will eventually go away?

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Walleye

(41,468 posts)
2. Ha. Trump thinks that God is protecting him so he can "make America great again". That's what he believes.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 08:05 AM
Jul 14

Irish_Dem

(72,537 posts)
3. He feels emboldened. He is doing things because he can.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 08:07 AM
Jul 14

He knows no one will put any limits on him or hold him to account.

Bettie

(18,596 posts)
4. SCOTUS has told him
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 08:07 AM
Jul 14

explicitly that he is not subject to any laws, rules, or norms.

He's taking advantage of it. He knows that he can literally steal classified documents and (probably) sell/give them to whoever he chooses and not only get away with it, be rewarded for it.

Why would he ever think he's not 100% immune to consequences? He's never had real consequences for anything he's done. Ever.

rubbersole

(10,129 posts)
6. The breakup with putin (if real) is the most important development in months.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 08:23 AM
Jul 14

The magats are genuinely pissed about the pedophile files, but we all should worry about tsf thinking he could go toe-to-toe with his idol /puppeteer on the world stage. A toddler with a loaded gun becomes a toddler with nukes.

Baitball Blogger

(50,502 posts)
7. Putin has one major card to play: The kompromat.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 11:03 AM
Jul 14

Problem for him is that he has to use it quickly because this Epstein thing will make Putin's photos less relevant.

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