You screamed “fake news” while the real news was your chosen savior sipping cocktails at Epstein’s mansion, selling out your future, and laughing at what an easy "sucker" you were...
Thom, I can't imagine DT would be afraid of being revealed as a womanizer, or even a "girl-izer". Those kinds of scandals or immoral activities he's already survived and brushed off. So i couldn't imagine why he was getting panicked.
But - what I'm beginning to wonder is whether there's something in the E files that reveals DT as a Russian asset. A traitor. There had been some talk over the years of E being an intelligence asset for a foreign country, partly because it's hard to figure out how he amassed the wealth he had when he died - $600 million, multiple houses/real estate. a 72 acre tropical island where young women and girls were brought and trafficked.
Which might be why DT is now trying to pin the title of 'traitor' on Obama as of this week.
To be revealed a traitor and a Russian asset would answer quite a few suspicions - and wouldn't be something he could get out of. Now THAT i could imagine would panic him.
There is that whiff of money laundering that has been circulating around TACO47 for decades, as well as being groomed as a useful tool for Putin . Past time for a reality check for the magat/republicans and to face the truth of what that human scumbag is really about. But, oh wait, as long as immigrants, POC and women are treated inhumanly it’s all good!
Sure looks like it, but the Russian issue isn't on the griddle.
Obama has the capacity to bring it forward.
I hereby repeat and reference the remarks of Keith Habermann this morning as if set forth at length. WHITE HOUSE "PARALYZED"; NOW IS THE TIME FOR OBAMA TO DESTROY TRUMP - 7.24.25
Easy for Olbermann to say, even though I love his work. President Obama doesn't need anyone's input. He already risked his life being the first black man to serve this country in that capacity. He and his family will always be at risk.
I'd bet Russia is going to make a comeback before this is over.
Keith did Colbert a favor appearing, and he did not like that Stephen gave him some crap about giving a vague answer on his future plans. Petty really.
Colbert, Meyers, Kimmel, and Fallon are American heroes. The next Dem President needs to give them a medal. Literally.
Consensus is that late night talk shows are not cost productive. Scott Galoway, who is a market maven, says Colbert spends $100 mil with only $60 mil in receipts.
On the other hand the real value of CBS is in 60 Minutes and Colbert, so Redstone is not doing herself any favors.
This list/letter to MAGAs needs to be posted everywhere since nearly all MAGAs will never see it. Thank you for continually clarifying and summarizing the absurdities and tragedies facing American democracy.
Julie you are absolutely correct. I am thinking giving the list with the verifiable data would be good to hand out at the meetings of my neighborhood Republican Clubs, Rotary meetings, City Council sessions etc.
Sometimes it wasn't EPSTEIN'S pool party---it was a TRUMP party exploiting young girls from one of his "contests". A member from the band 2 Live Crew, Luther Campbell, was interviewed by Mark Thompson on Sirius Radio. Luther, Eddie Murphy, and Mike Tyson went to a TRump golf resort. The "party" had no music, just the pageant girls in various rooms doing sexual things he compared to the movie "Eyes Wide Shut". Campbell left as soon as he figured out the deal. He saw drugs and liquor as well. He was afraid of being exploited and blackmailed. Good for him, even if he was only worried about his own ass.
That too is the problem with these MAGA fools; they are only worried about the crimes, cutbacks, and deportations when the fall-out lands on THEIR doorstep. The financial repercussions and lies are plainly hitting home.
Who would have thought MAGA gave a damn about teenage girls?! Especially when they are literally for letting tiny children die when shuttering USAID and letting Netanyahu murder civilians. They are for our Afghan interpreters' and essential workers being deported. Deported doesn't mean what it used to, now it is torture, held in a concentration camp, and rendition-ed.
Epstein the hell out of TRump! Explain their SEXUAL BOND! Make that interview about our psychopathic president go viral. Lives depend on it. Can't thank you enough Thom and Company. See you in the streets.
Why would Campbell not report what he saw to authorities? He saved himself. Or would it have mattered. I mean authorities may have covered up for Trump. I know the police here in San Diego allowed targeting of me and have done nothing to stop the obvious. They participate.
I really hate that I need to use myself as an example but it is real.
I just watched a movie about an event that took place in Poland when the Nazis came for them. I have watched many of these types of accounts but for the first time last night I had a very visceral reaction as Jews were rounded up shot or placed in concentration camps. The Nazis were shown close up in their most brutal actions.
That the military permits close up a system that allows my neighbors to view me 24/7 in the privacy of my home and hundreds of people to stalk me shows how easy it can be done to control a nation. I will say it again. The excuse they use to target me is not criminal. This can be done to everyone.
I am guessing it was because Luther is a black man and TRump was a rich and powerful white guy even then, Carol. Hang in there---we are going to the light eventually.
Learned from a book recently about Winthrop Bell, a Canadian spy-analyst-scholar, the Nazis and Hitler actually planned to kill all non-aryans. ALL! And they meant to do it around the world. It is always worse than we think with these psychos. I get it.
That I didn’t take into account. Of course a powerful rich man would have squashed Campbell like a bug. As always you write with great insight and empathy.
My questions for Maxwell would be about 2006, when Acosta gave Epstein the deal of the century and others got get out of jail free cards.
Was she a witness in the Florida cases? If so, did she submit any statements? Was she represented by a lawyer at the time?
Lot of other questions. Did she have any interaction with the Trump family? The hired help at either Trump Tower ot Mar a Lago during the period? Did she attend parties at Trump properties? Was she involved in Trump pageants? Attend them?
Did she have any interaction with Trump Modeling agency? Did Epstein?
Ghislaine Maxwell ‘answered all questions’ from Trump DOJ official, attorney says
“She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.”
“He took a full day and asked a lot of questions and Ms. Maxwell answered every single question,” her attorney, David Oscar Markus, said just outside the courthouse following the meeting.
“She never invoked a privilege. She never declined to answer. She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.”.
Alis there is no reason on earth to have surveilled me for more than two decades 24/7. Anything ‘they’ wanted to know could have been down in a far less intrusive way in a few weeks.
David Long and Suzanne Long here in San Diego are using illicitly gained information from surveillance to distribute to others and caused me health problems and a loss of my profession. It is voyeurism for others delight as my step daughter over the years and the lack of a transparency on their part. Deniel that it is happening on their part.
Due to the divisive approach -what others told my husband cause us to have no safe place for communication and a great divide and conquer. So I don’t know what you mean by hang in there there is light. I have been denied a voice in all of this . I have need a lawyer.
ANOTHER CRACK PEOPLE- Wow an 8 to 2 bi-partisan vote!
The Oversight Committee is going after those files from the DOJ. Rep. Garcia and Rep. Pressley are kicking butt. They knew the Republicans would join them and got a vote through against all the efforts of MAGA Mike to quash this. Kudos to both sides of the aisle---boy that feels good to say!
The pucker factor just went up for Bondi and TRump. They're so sickening.
I just had to count--there were 13 straight paragraphs starting with the words "He lied to you". Trump took the power of the lie and supercharged it to develop his worshipful following. But it wouldn't have worked if people didn't love being lied to in a way that reflects their fondest wishes, for good or bad. Ultimately, truth, like gravity, returns everyone back to Earth.
This is OT. Thom I watch you on Channel 269, Dish Network 9-12. I love the music and understand that the songs are composed by your wife Louise, she is awesome, the songs are great, and would be a commercial success, much better than the Vietnam era protests songs, with appeal to the heartland because they have a country western air to them.
But who produces the music, and who are the singers
For readers of Thom he is on Free Speech TV on Dish (ch 269) and Direct Tv, also on Sirius, and many radio stations and even cable shows through out the country, at least those that carry Free Speech TV.
Alternative TV and Radio for truth seeking progressives.
It was party time for perverts and sexual predators in Palm Beach during the early 1990s. I lived nearby in Jupiter, FL. I am not surprised by all of this.
I marvel at your ability to do a talk show with maga callers. The guy is killing our country almost as quickly as Hitler killed whatever democracy Germany had.
While I, too, feel confident that trump has been implicated in the Epstein scandal it is imperative that the posts we make don't come too close to accusation as opposed to innuendo. Thom's opening statements concerning trump & Epstein appear to come very close to accusation. In today's litigious society it seems it would be best to avoid the hyperbole that comes close to accusation. I mean no disrespect & I'm a fervent follower of this Substack but for me I try even more to be careful how I word things. And it's not because I'm afraid, it's because I want to be able to defend my statements when the time comes & it will come in one way or another to all of us.
It's best to wait for those documents before we come so close to accusing someone, even though all things point to his involvement.
I just hope that we can indeed see all of this. Then I too, wonder what his followers will say/do? Will the Evangelicals still tell us he was sent by god & that god was the one who saved him in that assassination attempt? If they think that then perhaps they need to look for a more discerning diety to follow!
Why would you say that? I'm just stating a fact that it is best, in today's environment that we be careful with our wording. If not we come close to becoming what we are fighting against!
The legal precedent regarding defamation lawsuits against public officials and figures was established by the Supreme Court case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan in 1964.
Key takeaways from this ruling
Public officials and figures cannot sue for libel unless they can prove the statement was made with "actual malice."
Actual malice means the statement was made with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.
This standard was set to protect freedom of speech and the press, even when reporting on public officials and figures contains inaccuracies, allowing robust and uninhibited public debate.
Essentially, the Supreme Court ruled that to allow ample space for public discussion and criticism of government officials, it's necessary to have a higher standard for them to win defamation lawsuits. This makes it more challenging for public officials and figures to successfully sue for libel, but also protects journalists who report on them from being intimidated and silenced by the threat of lawsuits.
This why Trump wants to "open" the libel laws, to resemble those of the UK, where all you have to prove is harm.
All that is true, however, being taken to court has its own drawbacks, especially financially. I'm just saying that people should be careful on what they say in public or put in print.
And this Supreme Court has shown a tendency to reverse precedent when they want. So that court ruling you mention could be at risk in this time in our history.
On the contrary, it isn't a tough time for the True Believers: they'll keep drinking from the cup even when they realize it's poisoned. That's what True Believers do. It's the people on the fence whose faith will be shaken. Whether or not it's enough to spur them to action has yet to be seen.
The list is going to be "interesting". In the end, this really isn't about Trump, it's about the microcosm of very rich men who believe the rest of us are fair game for whatever activity they want to engage in. Pedophilia? No problemo (and I doubt that started or stopped with Epstein). Strip away Medicaid or assistance for our Vets in order to fund another tax break for the mega rich? Again, no sweat. We're low-hanging fruit for them. And this isn't about MAGA, this isn't about the Republicans, this is about the power elite. It strains credulity to imagine there are no high-ranking Democrats on that list, none of our "heroes". If the list ever does see the light of day, members of both parties are going to burn in the sun.
Unfortunately, too many of the cult is too far gone.
Some guy just yesterday jumped in my notes to tell me that the Minnesota legislator murderer, Vance Boelter is a "leftist Democrat." I sent him a link to an article that reported that Boelter is not and voted in the Republican primary in 2024. He shot back that it was "propaganda", all of the information disproving his claims are Democratic Party propaganda and parroted the lie that Boelter was appointed by Tim Walz.
These guys are in their own fantasy world, drunken on Agent Orange fumes. Too many of them see him as their totem and no amount of facts showing he's screwing them will break their fever.
Thom, I can't imagine DT would be afraid of being revealed as a womanizer, or even a "girl-izer". Those kinds of scandals or immoral activities he's already survived and brushed off. So i couldn't imagine why he was getting panicked.
But - what I'm beginning to wonder is whether there's something in the E files that reveals DT as a Russian asset. A traitor. There had been some talk over the years of E being an intelligence asset for a foreign country, partly because it's hard to figure out how he amassed the wealth he had when he died - $600 million, multiple houses/real estate. a 72 acre tropical island where young women and girls were brought and trafficked.
Which might be why DT is now trying to pin the title of 'traitor' on Obama as of this week.
To be revealed a traitor and a Russian asset would answer quite a few suspicions - and wouldn't be something he could get out of. Now THAT i could imagine would panic him.
Trump is a KGB assett known as Krasnov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-u4d6Zwdns
Lots of company too;. Jill Stein, Mike Flynn, Tulsi Gabbard
There is that whiff of money laundering that has been circulating around TACO47 for decades, as well as being groomed as a useful tool for Putin . Past time for a reality check for the magat/republicans and to face the truth of what that human scumbag is really about. But, oh wait, as long as immigrants, POC and women are treated inhumanly it’s all good!
The maggots (MAGAs) are a bunch narcissists not capable of examining their souls.
Sure looks like it, but the Russian issue isn't on the griddle.
Obama has the capacity to bring it forward.
I hereby repeat and reference the remarks of Keith Habermann this morning as if set forth at length. WHITE HOUSE "PARALYZED"; NOW IS THE TIME FOR OBAMA TO DESTROY TRUMP - 7.24.25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tUdpTr21zs&t=421s
Easy for Olbermann to say, even though I love his work. President Obama doesn't need anyone's input. He already risked his life being the first black man to serve this country in that capacity. He and his family will always be at risk.
I'd bet Russia is going to make a comeback before this is over.
I like the idea that Obama sue for defamation.
I am a big admirer of Olbermann, and MSNBC's credibility fell in my eyes when they cancelled him, then they doubled down and cancelled Joy Reid.
Back to Olbermann, I watched a youtube episode when he lit into Stephen Colbert.
What is that about. Stephen Colbert is one of the only faces on TV that will take down Trump, Jimmy Kimmel is the other.
I like both Stephen and Keith, so what is that animosity about. Does anyone know.
Keith did Colbert a favor appearing, and he did not like that Stephen gave him some crap about giving a vague answer on his future plans. Petty really.
Colbert, Meyers, Kimmel, and Fallon are American heroes. The next Dem President needs to give them a medal. Literally.
Consensus is that late night talk shows are not cost productive. Scott Galoway, who is a market maven, says Colbert spends $100 mil with only $60 mil in receipts.
On the other hand the real value of CBS is in 60 Minutes and Colbert, so Redstone is not doing herself any favors.
I botched "Olbermann."
Great summary Tom!
The first USA President to use Lies, Lies, Lies - to try to remain in POWER and have money rolling into his piggybank..
The coverup will kill his chances.. Bring on the truth... Thank you
Lies, lies, lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I_bG4VBHCU
I remember on our first date
You kissed me and you walked away
You were only seventeen
But, darling, you know that
YOU LIED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SndUjAzSSOQ
This list/letter to MAGAs needs to be posted everywhere since nearly all MAGAs will never see it. Thank you for continually clarifying and summarizing the absurdities and tragedies facing American democracy.
Julie you are absolutely correct. I am thinking giving the list with the verifiable data would be good to hand out at the meetings of my neighborhood Republican Clubs, Rotary meetings, City Council sessions etc.
It's always the coverup.....
Sometimes it wasn't EPSTEIN'S pool party---it was a TRUMP party exploiting young girls from one of his "contests". A member from the band 2 Live Crew, Luther Campbell, was interviewed by Mark Thompson on Sirius Radio. Luther, Eddie Murphy, and Mike Tyson went to a TRump golf resort. The "party" had no music, just the pageant girls in various rooms doing sexual things he compared to the movie "Eyes Wide Shut". Campbell left as soon as he figured out the deal. He saw drugs and liquor as well. He was afraid of being exploited and blackmailed. Good for him, even if he was only worried about his own ass.
That too is the problem with these MAGA fools; they are only worried about the crimes, cutbacks, and deportations when the fall-out lands on THEIR doorstep. The financial repercussions and lies are plainly hitting home.
Who would have thought MAGA gave a damn about teenage girls?! Especially when they are literally for letting tiny children die when shuttering USAID and letting Netanyahu murder civilians. They are for our Afghan interpreters' and essential workers being deported. Deported doesn't mean what it used to, now it is torture, held in a concentration camp, and rendition-ed.
Epstein the hell out of TRump! Explain their SEXUAL BOND! Make that interview about our psychopathic president go viral. Lives depend on it. Can't thank you enough Thom and Company. See you in the streets.
Why would Campbell not report what he saw to authorities? He saved himself. Or would it have mattered. I mean authorities may have covered up for Trump. I know the police here in San Diego allowed targeting of me and have done nothing to stop the obvious. They participate.
I really hate that I need to use myself as an example but it is real.
I just watched a movie about an event that took place in Poland when the Nazis came for them. I have watched many of these types of accounts but for the first time last night I had a very visceral reaction as Jews were rounded up shot or placed in concentration camps. The Nazis were shown close up in their most brutal actions.
That the military permits close up a system that allows my neighbors to view me 24/7 in the privacy of my home and hundreds of people to stalk me shows how easy it can be done to control a nation. I will say it again. The excuse they use to target me is not criminal. This can be done to everyone.
I am guessing it was because Luther is a black man and TRump was a rich and powerful white guy even then, Carol. Hang in there---we are going to the light eventually.
Learned from a book recently about Winthrop Bell, a Canadian spy-analyst-scholar, the Nazis and Hitler actually planned to kill all non-aryans. ALL! And they meant to do it around the world. It is always worse than we think with these psychos. I get it.
That I didn’t take into account. Of course a powerful rich man would have squashed Campbell like a bug. As always you write with great insight and empathy.
Very much appreciate that you read it, Carol.
There are dozens of witnesses.
My questions for Maxwell would be about 2006, when Acosta gave Epstein the deal of the century and others got get out of jail free cards.
Was she a witness in the Florida cases? If so, did she submit any statements? Was she represented by a lawyer at the time?
Lot of other questions. Did she have any interaction with the Trump family? The hired help at either Trump Tower ot Mar a Lago during the period? Did she attend parties at Trump properties? Was she involved in Trump pageants? Attend them?
Did she have any interaction with Trump Modeling agency? Did Epstein?
Ghislaine Maxwell ‘answered all questions’ from Trump DOJ official, attorney says
“She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.”
“He took a full day and asked a lot of questions and Ms. Maxwell answered every single question,” her attorney, David Oscar Markus, said just outside the courthouse following the meeting.
“She never invoked a privilege. She never declined to answer. She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.”.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article311344565.html#storylink=cpy
Alis there is no reason on earth to have surveilled me for more than two decades 24/7. Anything ‘they’ wanted to know could have been down in a far less intrusive way in a few weeks.
David Long and Suzanne Long here in San Diego are using illicitly gained information from surveillance to distribute to others and caused me health problems and a loss of my profession. It is voyeurism for others delight as my step daughter over the years and the lack of a transparency on their part. Deniel that it is happening on their part.
Due to the divisive approach -what others told my husband cause us to have no safe place for communication and a great divide and conquer. So I don’t know what you mean by hang in there there is light. I have been denied a voice in all of this . I have need a lawyer.
One time that he didn’t lie is when he said “I already have all the votes that I need”. He blatantly said that the fix was in.
ANOTHER CRACK PEOPLE- Wow an 8 to 2 bi-partisan vote!
The Oversight Committee is going after those files from the DOJ. Rep. Garcia and Rep. Pressley are kicking butt. They knew the Republicans would join them and got a vote through against all the efforts of MAGA Mike to quash this. Kudos to both sides of the aisle---boy that feels good to say!
The pucker factor just went up for Bondi and TRump. They're so sickening.
I just had to count--there were 13 straight paragraphs starting with the words "He lied to you". Trump took the power of the lie and supercharged it to develop his worshipful following. But it wouldn't have worked if people didn't love being lied to in a way that reflects their fondest wishes, for good or bad. Ultimately, truth, like gravity, returns everyone back to Earth.
Psy ops.
This is OT. Thom I watch you on Channel 269, Dish Network 9-12. I love the music and understand that the songs are composed by your wife Louise, she is awesome, the songs are great, and would be a commercial success, much better than the Vietnam era protests songs, with appeal to the heartland because they have a country western air to them.
But who produces the music, and who are the singers
For readers of Thom he is on Free Speech TV on Dish (ch 269) and Direct Tv, also on Sirius, and many radio stations and even cable shows through out the country, at least those that carry Free Speech TV.
Alternative TV and Radio for truth seeking progressives.
There my plug
He’s on the local Pacifica station where I live.
Bumper sticker:
MAGA loves liars.
It was party time for perverts and sexual predators in Palm Beach during the early 1990s. I lived nearby in Jupiter, FL. I am not surprised by all of this.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/look-here-no-over-there?r=3m1bs
I marvel at your ability to do a talk show with maga callers. The guy is killing our country almost as quickly as Hitler killed whatever democracy Germany had.
Hopefully Thomm has an impact on some level with the maggots and they begin to change their views and action.
While I, too, feel confident that trump has been implicated in the Epstein scandal it is imperative that the posts we make don't come too close to accusation as opposed to innuendo. Thom's opening statements concerning trump & Epstein appear to come very close to accusation. In today's litigious society it seems it would be best to avoid the hyperbole that comes close to accusation. I mean no disrespect & I'm a fervent follower of this Substack but for me I try even more to be careful how I word things. And it's not because I'm afraid, it's because I want to be able to defend my statements when the time comes & it will come in one way or another to all of us.
It's best to wait for those documents before we come so close to accusing someone, even though all things point to his involvement.
I just hope that we can indeed see all of this. Then I too, wonder what his followers will say/do? Will the Evangelicals still tell us he was sent by god & that god was the one who saved him in that assassination attempt? If they think that then perhaps they need to look for a more discerning diety to follow!
You must have a guilty conscience.
Why would you say that? I'm just stating a fact that it is best, in today's environment that we be careful with our wording. If not we come close to becoming what we are fighting against!
The legal precedent regarding defamation lawsuits against public officials and figures was established by the Supreme Court case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan in 1964.
Key takeaways from this ruling
Public officials and figures cannot sue for libel unless they can prove the statement was made with "actual malice."
Actual malice means the statement was made with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.
This standard was set to protect freedom of speech and the press, even when reporting on public officials and figures contains inaccuracies, allowing robust and uninhibited public debate.
Essentially, the Supreme Court ruled that to allow ample space for public discussion and criticism of government officials, it's necessary to have a higher standard for them to win defamation lawsuits. This makes it more challenging for public officials and figures to successfully sue for libel, but also protects journalists who report on them from being intimidated and silenced by the threat of lawsuits.
This why Trump wants to "open" the libel laws, to resemble those of the UK, where all you have to prove is harm.
All that is true, however, being taken to court has its own drawbacks, especially financially. I'm just saying that people should be careful on what they say in public or put in print.
And this Supreme Court has shown a tendency to reverse precedent when they want. So that court ruling you mention could be at risk in this time in our history.
Silence equals consent
Why is that treason never prospers for when it prospers none dare call it treason
Tyrants succeed only because of fear.
Millions of people held their tongues and wound up in Dachau or Auschwitz.
Evil succeeds when good keeps quiet.
On the contrary, it isn't a tough time for the True Believers: they'll keep drinking from the cup even when they realize it's poisoned. That's what True Believers do. It's the people on the fence whose faith will be shaken. Whether or not it's enough to spur them to action has yet to be seen.
The list is going to be "interesting". In the end, this really isn't about Trump, it's about the microcosm of very rich men who believe the rest of us are fair game for whatever activity they want to engage in. Pedophilia? No problemo (and I doubt that started or stopped with Epstein). Strip away Medicaid or assistance for our Vets in order to fund another tax break for the mega rich? Again, no sweat. We're low-hanging fruit for them. And this isn't about MAGA, this isn't about the Republicans, this is about the power elite. It strains credulity to imagine there are no high-ranking Democrats on that list, none of our "heroes". If the list ever does see the light of day, members of both parties are going to burn in the sun.
Unfortunately, too many of the cult is too far gone.
Some guy just yesterday jumped in my notes to tell me that the Minnesota legislator murderer, Vance Boelter is a "leftist Democrat." I sent him a link to an article that reported that Boelter is not and voted in the Republican primary in 2024. He shot back that it was "propaganda", all of the information disproving his claims are Democratic Party propaganda and parroted the lie that Boelter was appointed by Tim Walz.
These guys are in their own fantasy world, drunken on Agent Orange fumes. Too many of them see him as their totem and no amount of facts showing he's screwing them will break their fever.
Keep shouting this from the rooftops.
From comments and reels I have seen MAGAts dont believe Trump is a pedophile. Unless Fox says it, it is a lie