It looks like Trump now has his Stormtroopers (Stoßtruppen)

Chocolatelovinggran

It will be interesting to see Ms Maxwell's next steps. I feel a pardon coming on...

It’s suspected that a pardon was promised when she was convicted. That’s why she kept quiet.

It will be interesting to see Ms Maxwell's next steps. I feel a pardon coming on...

Trump is being very “kind” to Maxwell in his rhetoric. Wishing her well etc.

I reckon that he is hoping that Maxwell will do him a favour (which could be reciprocated?) and deny Trumps involvement in anything to do with young girls.

Whitewavemark2

iamaround are you OK?

Missing your posts🙂.

So Trump is suing Murdoch over the rude Epstein birthday card.

Two ancient idiots with too much money throwing insults at each other, while the life for ordinary folk in the USA gets tougher and tougher.

I don’t think this is going to go away for Trump, I was reading CNN this morning, and more details are emerging, there’s a second interview with Ghislaine Maxwell today.

We now know the next group of people who Trump plans to kidnap off the street.

Homeless people.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

Trump's demands from Harvard.

I haven't even read the entire article yet. The synopsis I saw of what Trump demanded is insane.

These people are insane.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/23/harvard-trump-memo/

I'm here! My volunteer event starts today and runs all week, so I will be popping in and out.

It would be fitting if Trump and Murdoch end up taking each other down. Wishful thinking, I know.

iamaround are you OK?

Missing your posts🙂.

So Trump is suing Murdoch over the rude Epstein birthday card.

Two ancient idiots with too much money throwing insults at each other, while the life for ordinary folk in the USA gets tougher and tougher.

Aely it is indeed I have lymphoedema because my hear can't push the lymph around properly. At this moment I am sitting at my computer with my feet up on a cool breeze block form the garden.

The US is fast becoming an uncivilised country.

WWM I like the bit about Trump rode the tiger and now sees his error of judgement.

Mum has problems with swelling and was advised to not sit down but to always elevate the feet when resting.

Swelling in the legs and ankles due to veins is something that affects lots of older people isn’t it?
Trump does so many visits to far flung countries from the US that flying could well be the problem.

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“Trumps legacy is the destruction of truth. He lies as he breaths , and his lies to his supporters has made him popular among his supporters, so it is beautiful that he may actually be crucified on one of his lies”

Walsh former congressman.

Good article in The Guardian today about how Trump is being devoured by a conspiracy theory of his own making and the Epstein files.

If he does lose control, then I suspect we will see some Republicans turning big time and going for Trump. I am sure many Republicans have been waiting for something like this.

Trump has successfully controlled his opponents, but does not seem to be able to control his base.

They have a lot to be disgruntled about.

The bombing of Iran.
The greater involvement in Ukraine
The stripping of health insurance from millions
Now the elite, entitlement and paedophilia. The republicans have always claimed to be the protectors of children, and this whiff or stench of paedophiles does not sit well with Trumps base.

Trump’s efforts at pointing the other way have so far been totally unsuccessful. He has even gone to the extent of allowing the doctors to publish information about his health.

Nothing so far has worked.

If they want more babies being born, maybe the should be helping pregnant women?

"Last night at a town hall in Jonesborough, Tennessee, a woman shared her story: she was denied prenatal care by her OB-GYN because the doctor objected to the fact that she isn’t married. She’s been with her partner for 15 years and has a 13-year-old son.

The doctor told her that because she was unwed, according to a new law in Tennessee, he didn’t feel comfortable treating her because it went against his “Christian values.”

Now, she’s traveling out of state to Virginia to receive prenatal care."

wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-woman-in-tennessee-denied

He is playing with fire, again, and this time he may get burned.

I think swelling of the legs, ankles in particular, is an early sign of the heart beginning to struggle, isn't it? I could be wrong of course.

Trump has ordered the release of "credible" Epstein files. Naturally, any mention of him will make a file "incredible", so it won't be released.

Apparently swelling legs because of rubbish veins is very common in people over 70?

Can’t be all that common in the U.K. as I’ve never heard of it, but sAying that I’m not very up on matters medical.

I think that photos identified bruising on his hands and perhaps the information was released after that?

Otherwise said his doctor “he is in excellent health”

🙄

Excellent update, imaround: thank you.
I understand that Ms Maxwell is making a few comments on what she might know...
In other news, large posters of Mr Trump and Mr Epstein together have appeared in London ahead of the proposed visit.

Here is his post.

Just found this from Heather Cox Richardson. An interesting take indeed. Sorry, it is long.

July 16, 2025 (Wednesday)

After years of covering Donald J. Trump, I am used to seeing stories that would have sunk any other president simply fade away as he hammers on to some new unprecedented action that dominates the news. So I am surprised by what appears to be the staying power of the recent Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

That Trump is panicked by the threat of the release of material concerning convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein seems very clear. After the backlash against the Department of Justice’s decision not to release any more information and to reiterate that Epstein died by suicide, Trump tried first to downplay Epstein’s importance and convince people to move on. When that blew up, he posted a long screed on social media last Saturday saying the files were written by Democrats and other supposed enemies of his.

This morning, Trump posted another long message on social media blaming “Radical Left Democrats” for creating the story of the Epstein files. “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax,” he wrote, and then he turned on his own supporters for demanding the administration release the files. “[M]y PAST supporters have bought into this ’bullsh*t,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Tellingly, Trump compared “the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” to “the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election.” But of course, the ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian operatives and Russian interference in the 2016 election were not a hoax: they were well established both by Special Counsel Robert Mueller—a Republican—and by the Republican-dominated Senate Intelligence Committee.

Ever since his campaign’s ties to Russia first came to light, Trump has hammered on the idea that the investigation was a hoax, not just to distance himself from potentially illegal behavior but also because if he could get his followers to reject the truth and accept his lies about what had happened, they would be psychologically committed to him. Although thirty-four people and three companies were indicted or pleaded guilty in the attack on the 2016 election or its cover-up, Trump loyalists believed Trump was a victim of a “deep state” run by Democrats.

Trump had successfully marketed his own narrative over the truth, and his supporters would continue to believe him rather than those calling him out. From then on, whenever in danger of being called out, he harked back to “Russia, Russia, Russia” and “the Russian hoax” to rally supporters to him.

Once again, he is reaching back to “Russia, Russia, Russia” to reinforce his ability to control the narrative. But this time it does not appear to be working.

As Jay Kuo outlined in The Status Kuo today, Trump owes his 2024 victory to QAnon followers, who believe a cabal of Democratic lawmakers, rich elites, and Hollywood film stars are sex trafficking—and even eating—children. PRRI, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that researches religion, culture, and politics, estimated that in 2024, about 19% of Americans believed in QAnon. CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten noted yesterday that QAnon supporters preferred Trump to Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 by 61 points.

More broadly, Enten noted that Trump’s political career has depended on conspiracy theorists, from his 2016 support from those who believed Trump’s “birther” charges that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States, to his 2024 primary support from those who believed President Joe Biden did not win the 2020 presidential election legitimately.

Those supporters followed Trump because they believed he was leading a secret charge against those child sex traffickers. Now that his administration says it will not release any more information about Epstein’s files, they appear to feel betrayed.

Trump seems to be in full panic mode over the idea that information from the Epstein investigation might come to light. He and Epstein were friends, frequently photographed together in the years of Epstein’s operation. After turning on his former supporters on social media, Trump continued his attacks in an Oval Office meeting today, reiterating his claims that the Epstein files were written by Democrats.

But then he continued to attack his own supporters, saying that “stupid Republicans,” “foolish Republicans,” and “stupid people” had fallen for the Democrats’ Epstein hoax and were demanding the release of the files.

Billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s sidekick in the White House before the two fell out, has been hammering on the issue to his 222 million followers on his social media platform X. “He should just release the files and point out which part is the hoax,” Musk wrote.

Trump’s political success has stemmed in large part from his projection of dominance, and perhaps part of supporters’ willingness to cut ties to him comes from his recent behavior, which projects confusion. On Saturday, at the FIFA Club World Cup trophy ceremony, Trump seemed to miss the signal that he should leave the stage as the winning team celebrated, and had to be maneuvered behind the players.

Yesterday he fell asleep on stage at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit. At the same event, Trump told what CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale called “an especially odd imaginary tale,” claiming that his uncle, a MIT professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had taught Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber. Trump recounted a conversation with his uncle about Kaczynski, but in fact Kaczynski didn’t go to MIT, and Trump’s uncle John died more than a decade before Kaczynski became famous, so Trump and his uncle could not have identified him as the Unabomber. Today, Trump called chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell a “terrible Fed chair” and added: “I was surprised he was appointed.”

Trump was the president who appointed him.

Finally, today Trump’s Department of Justice fired longtime employee Maurene Comey, who had prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. To bring things full circle, Maurene Comey is the daughter of James Comey, the Republican former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whom Trump fired for refusing to drop the FBI investigation into ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian operatives.

I haven't fully caught up yet, but he was apparently seen by doctors due to swelling in his legs. Surprising that it was reported.

And he is suing Rupert Murdoch and Wall Street Journal. Something about an article he doesn't like. It would be the best thing ever if he takes down the people who made him. Fox News says are numbered anyhow after the defamation verdict and him losing the lawsuit with his children. When he dies, I hope his kids dismantle it all.

He is also over on Truth Social talking about himself in 3rd person. Which could mean he finally went over the edge or he is incapacitated and his handlers aren't very good at Social Media. Either is plausible.

imaround

MAGA is still mad about the Epstein files and he keeps doubling down gaslighting his supporters.

I was expecting them to all fall into line, like they have for the last 10 years, but they seem to be escalating.

They are talking about midterm elections, which means we should start seeing him find ways to stop midterm elections. If they don't, it is going to be a blood bath for Republicans.

Yes makes for interesting reading.

With luck the chink in his armour will widen into a gaping hole!

Someone said last week I think it was that Trump had very likely reached the zenith of his power snd it was all the way down hilll from there 🤞