Trump got a security briefing that Epstein was a Mossad honeypot that the CIA was complicit in helping.
The people on the list are patsies. They may have done naughty things with slightly underage girls (seventeen or whatever) but that was more-or-less entrapment and most of it was just stuff like massages. The scale of their crimes doesn't matter. Even clear evidence that anyone is on the list is enough to destroy them.
The right move is to rip into Israel for breaking uncountable laws and trying to leverage prominent individuals into supporting Israel over the USA.
Such a move would be foreign relations dynamite and it still wouldn't satisfy the MAGA base, who want rich people to be held accountable for the first time in history.
The MAGA base would be super satisfied with Trump going apeshit on Israel. The percentage of MAGA that is MIGA is similar to the percentage of the Tea Party that was neocon. The super minority of conservatives appearing on television (or social media) are astroturfed and not representative of the base.
I don't disagree; and Israel totally deserve to be called to task for their bullshit.
But that wasn't the campaign promise, and ripping Israel a new one wouldn't excuse Trump from not holding the rich and powerful accountable for having sex with underage girls on Epstein's island; which is what the MAGA base want to see.
They are sick to death of the rich and powerful being able to skate no matter how evil they are. There is a list of the bad guys. Why are they not held to account?
It wasn't evidence.
Trump got a security briefing that Epstein was a Mossad honeypot that the CIA was complicit in helping.
The people on the list are patsies. They may have done naughty things with slightly underage girls (seventeen or whatever) but that was more-or-less entrapment and most of it was just stuff like massages. The scale of their crimes doesn't matter. Even clear evidence that anyone is on the list is enough to destroy them.
The right move is to rip into Israel for breaking uncountable laws and trying to leverage prominent individuals into supporting Israel over the USA.
Such a move would be foreign relations dynamite and it still wouldn't satisfy the MAGA base, who want rich people to be held accountable for the first time in history.
The MAGA base would be super satisfied with Trump going apeshit on Israel. The percentage of MAGA that is MIGA is similar to the percentage of the Tea Party that was neocon. The super minority of conservatives appearing on television (or social media) are astroturfed and not representative of the base.
I don't disagree; and Israel totally deserve to be called to task for their bullshit.
But that wasn't the campaign promise, and ripping Israel a new one wouldn't excuse Trump from not holding the rich and powerful accountable for having sex with underage girls on Epstein's island; which is what the MAGA base want to see.
They are sick to death of the rich and powerful being able to skate no matter how evil they are. There is a list of the bad guys. Why are they not held to account?