President Donald Trump is lashing out at his own supporters as he tries to clamp down on criticism over his administration’s handling of much-hyped records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, which Trump now calls a “Hoax.”

“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bull——,” hook, line, and sinker,” Trump wrote Wednesday on his Truth Social site, using an expletive in his post. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.”

“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,” he went on.

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    Every day the gymnastics needed for a Trump supporter gets more and more convoluted. First, he was speaking up in favor of H1B workers (so much for support of American workers), then his “no new wars” turned into broad support of Israel and military actions taken, now his “drain the swamp” has turned into “it’s not permitted to even talk about Epstein”.

    More proof that he is a shameless huckster with no honor in him at all. Sadly, much of his base is quite used to making excuses on his behalf and I’d imagine they can keep this up for quite a while. What a scumbag. I won’t be upset when he leaves the White House, whether that’s due to health problems, impeachment or running out the clock.

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        No, because HitlerPig is a text book psychopath who has no feelings or emotions other than greed and hate, and he teamed up with the two richest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs to RIG the election. All of the have no loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see it as a fat, lazy target, to be ruthlessly exploited.

        The election was rigged, and we all know it. HitlerPig and The Goblin have all but admitted it in numerous statements.

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        The gaslighting by Trump is absolutely insane, and what’s worse is the republicans who are supposed to be grown men copy catting his childish behaviour.

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    I just watched this scene like 2 days ago. Parker flips out and fires all his loyal henchmen because Clown asks him a question, and he’s an utter and insane moron. It’s a pretty cliche trope. But in that one, Riri beats beats the shit out of him with a mech suit.

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    Wait, wasn’t your whole political philosophy built around ignorance and spineless loyalty? If you train them to fall for scams and conspiracies don’t get shocked when they go for another conspiracy that you don’t like.

    …because I don’t want their support anymore!

    Damn, he’s gone “full Hitler in the bunker”. “Those damn traitors! They failed me!”

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    I’m guessing this is why they are working on rigging the elections. So he’ll be insulated even from people that peel off due to his pedophile platform.

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        He does need them, though he may not think so. Support isn’t just for voting. His narcissism needs people to like him, and his entire personality can collapse without it (possibly to suicidal levels). They support him in more tangible ways, as well, such as counter protest actions.

        Just in general, fascism needs to maintain the illusion of widespread, inevitable “populist” support. That’s one reason why big public protests are important even if they don’t have tangible results right away.

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    That’s generally what cult leaders do, they don’t bend to their followers, they beat them down as weak and fake believers until they fall back in line. And the ones who do get out immediately become the enemy and the devil in one.

    This is Jim Jones/David Koresh type shit

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      He needs to get the MAGA true believers to rat on any fake MAGA who changed their opinion so ice can deport them as a priority to Alligator Alcatraz for bullets and swamp burials

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      David koresh wasn’t in jim jones weight class. He was a pedo manipulator but those kids are dead because of the ATF and that piece of shit Janet Reno.

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        Watch koresh berate his followers for doubting him though, that’s the same type of manipulation even if they weren’t the same. Currently that dude who runs Twin flames is doing all that abusive “how dare you question me, your god” bullshit.

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    John Steward actually wrote a poem to conservatives about this situation, it goes like this:

    How, Does, My, Ass, Taste, Now ?

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    His supporters and the whole maga movement are born out of qanon and pizzagate. There’s no way he’s going to handwave his way into them giving up on their one unifying cause.

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    Man, it would be incredible if Epstein and Trump’s inability to shut up about it is what brings this regime down.

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    They are weaklings. Because they are gonna roll over and show their bellies till Faux “News” tells them their opinions. They’ll mental gymnastics Epstein Island into Yam Tits being on the lists because he was trying to save those kids.

    He’s a fucking pedofile and MAGAts are pedo-supporters.

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        When Berlusconi was rumored to have had sex with a minor most if not all members of Parliament and senators in his coalition voted to certify that a 17-year-old girl was Mubarak’s niece and that Berlusconi called a police station where she was being held in order to avoid a scandal.

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    This is interesting… In the past when Trump has tried to push back on his followers he’s followed the TACO principle. Like when he wanted to take credit for the COVID vaccines but his audience was anti-vax he quickly softened his language to “take it… if you want it tho. Maybe it’s poison who knows?”

    He’s never been a leader - he’s just been an amalgamation of all of the racism and conspiracy theories his followers have. He says “yes” or “maybe” to everything. I think this is the first time he’s really said “no” though?

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      He’s organized crime looking to continue his break into fascist dictator. His sycophants he’s surrounded himself with don’t care and prefer that he’s a rapist and a pedo to try to control him, but the people he conned into voting for him buy bumper stickers like this:

      silhouette logo of a person getting executed with a gun to the back of the head saying shoot your local pedophiles

      So what happens when the ranks push back on the orders? He’ll exile them if he thinks he can get away with throwing them under the same bus as his lawyers, AG, VP, etc or capitulate. But in this case capitulate means he’ll probably try to redact himself and his fluffers from the docs then share them and hope they’re dumb enough to accept the redacted reports.

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        I think it’s going to blow over eventually. Like half of the big social media people in his base have started accepting the narrative of its probably not as big as we thought and we need to Trust the leader.