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muriel_volestrangler

(104,152 posts)
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 12:06 PM Jul 13

Really bad sanewashing of Trump over his "Democrats created the Epstein files" rant

When the US president rants that "Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration" (aka "Radical Left Lunatics" ) "created the Epstein Files", you'd think that would be the headline. But no, they've all gone with "Trump supports Bondi":

Trump defends US Attorney General Pam Bondi over Epstein files https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qxd2exqgno
Trump urges MAGA base to stop attacking administration over Epstein investigation https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250712-trump-calls-for-maga-base-to-end-epstein-files-obsession
'I don’t like what’s happening': Trump tries to quell MAGA blowup over Epstein https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/12/trump-epstein-investigation-pam-bondi-00449926
Trump defends Bondi amid MAGA fallout over her handling of Epstein investigation https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/12/politics/bondi-epstein-investigation-trump
Trump backs Bondi over Epstein probe criticism https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=123527438
Trump rips MAGA ‘boys’ and ‘gals’ in epic Epstein-gate rant: ‘Let Pam Bondi do her job’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-files-release-fbi-truth-bondi-b2787973.html
Trump defends Bondi amid backlash over Epstein files https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-defends-bondi-amid-backlash-over-epstein-files-2025-07-13/
Trump urges MAGA supporters to forget about Epstein files https://www.dw.com/en/trump-urges-maga-supporters-to-forget-about-epstein-files/a-73256296
Trump defends Bondi as “selfish” MAGA continues Epstein freakout https://www.salon.com/2025/07/13/trump-defends-bondi-as-selfish-maga-continues-epstein-freakout/
and as for the RW press, they are pretending that the 'conspiracy theories' here are people saying Epstein had guests who raped underage girls, not the claim from the fucking president that Democrats have made it all up:
Kash Patel insists Epstein ‘conspiracy theories just aren’t true’ as MAGA rages over docs https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/us-news/kash-patel-insists-conspiracy-theories-just-arent-true-amid-epstein-firestorm/

Those really are the news stories I get from Google News for a search of just "Trump" and "Epstein". You have to go to Rolling Stone or timesnownews.com (Indian) to get someone who has put the insane accusation in the headline:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-epstein-files-maga-obama-clinton-created-1235384494/
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/epstein-files-written-by-obama-clinton-and-biden-trumps-latest-truth-social-post-sparks-conspiracy-article-152271236

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Really bad sanewashing of Trump over his "Democrats created the Epstein files" rant (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jul 13 OP
Nailed it malaise Jul 13 #1
Krasnov saying that Dems created the Epstein files zorbasd Jul 13 #2
"hoping MAGATs will fall for his lie." MyOwnPeace Jul 13 #3
it's not 'proof' of anything IMO cuz Bondi will bury it... democratsruletheday Jul 13 #4
They've been sane-washing Donnie since the birth certificate lunacy unblock Jul 13 #5
Everyone sanewashes trump now senseandsensibility Jul 13 #6

zorbasd

(442 posts)
2. Krasnov saying that Dems created the Epstein files
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 12:15 PM
Jul 13

is proof, yet again, that he knows he's named in the files, and wants to associate it with Dems should it ever be revealed....pre-emptive self ass saving, hoping MAGATs will fall for his lie.

MyOwnPeace

(17,350 posts)
3. "hoping MAGATs will fall for his lie."
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 12:19 PM
Jul 13

and you can be sure they will - they've believed everything else he tells them!

democratsruletheday

(1,364 posts)
4. it's not 'proof' of anything IMO cuz Bondi will bury it...
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 02:05 PM
Jul 13

and she probly has already. Just another slimy distraction from the orange POS. Meanwhile Nazi Steve and his pack of shit gibbons continue to rob, plunder and deport at will. Of course the media and 'Merica is falling for it again.

unblock

(55,405 posts)
5. They've been sane-washing Donnie since the birth certificate lunacy
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 03:21 PM
Jul 13

Ted Cruz was born in Canada, and John McCain was born in Panama, in the u.s. Canal Zone. In both cases, due to having at least one u.s. citizen as a parent, they were both considered natural-born citizens.

Both matters received a small amount of media coverage, largely handled as a matter of trivia and curiosity. Neither was given the "scandal" treatment.

Donnie launched his presidential career with the insane theory that Obama wasn't a natural-born citizen, despite being born in Hawaii when Hawaii was a proper state, no longer even just a territory. No one ever denied that his mother was a u.s. citizen from Kansas, and that based on that, he was a natural-born citizen just like Cruz and McCain.

Yet the media give Donnie a crazy amount of airtime and print space over the lie that he has sent investigators to Hawaii and uncovered "evidence" of a "problem" with Obama's birth certificate, evidence he never produced.

It was an insane theory and even after it was completely debunked, the media never called Donnie out for fabricating the whole thing. You could argue that this was more truth-washing than sane-washing but the theory was insane.


Then there was the debate with Hillary, she called him a puppet of Putin, and he said, "no puppet! No puppet! You're the puppet!" That was one of the craziest things I've ever seen a politician say. The utter stupidity of accusing Hillary of being a Russian puppet based on zero connection with Russia, solely an immature, schoolyard retort to an insult, I'm not you are.... I was amazed he said it and even more amazed that the media didn't pounce on it and said it showed him to crack under the slightest pressure, make crap up, etc.


Much later, Donnie boasted about a cognitive decline test proving he's a genius. That's right, the "person woman man camera tv" test, which merely showed he didn't have Alzheimer's or other cognitive decline (or do he claimed, we don't get credible medical disclosures about him). Yet he claimed it proved he's was a genius. That alone is pretty convincing that he's not 100% up there. Most sane people know the different once between being a genius and merely not having Alzheimer's.

Then all the talk about Biden being old, f*ck off. Biden says "um" once and they go ballistic about him missing a step when 98% of Biden at his prime is still 100 times smarter and more connected to reality than Donnie.

But the media has long since decided to chuck journalism in favor of scribing for power. Access to republicans lies is more important than the truth or serving the interests of the people to them.

senseandsensibility

(22,940 posts)
6. Everyone sanewashes trump now
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 03:41 PM
Jul 13

with few exceptions. It is the go to norm even for MSNBC. Of course there are exceptions, but they are few and far between.

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