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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    i wonder if this makes anyone go “hmm, i wonder what else he called a hoax just to cover his ass”

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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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    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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    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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    Hit em with the ole slammy whammy eh?

    Can we stop using this word? It’s not the WWE were talking about and it’s lost all meaning

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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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      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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      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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    Dude is freaking out because he’s finally being treated like any other politician, and his pathetic ego can’t handle it.

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      PLEASE let this be the beginning of the end. I’ve aged like 5 years in the last 6 months.

      Also for anyone seeing this comment, here is the testimony of Katie Johnson who claimed Trump raped her and other 13 year old girls multiple times. Fair warning: it goes into excruciating and brutal details:

      “Katie Johnson’s full testimony of 2/11/16”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

      Please save and spread.

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        Trump went on Howard Stern and boasted about barging into the dressing rooms at the Miss Teen USA pageant. He famously perved on his own daughter. This is nothing new

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          It’s nothing new to anyone not in the cult, but this could be the biggest chance of getting through to them. We need to get them to see the truth and use this tiny crack in their mental fortress to open it up: “well if he blatantly lied about this (based on all of this proof they’ve seen) what else has he been lying about?”

          I know that’s probably naive and overly hopeful, but I’m still doing my part.

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            I’ve been hoping for his people to see the light since 2015.

            They stuck with him when he admitted that Trump University was a scam…

            They stuck with him when Mexico didn’t pay for the Wall…

            They stuck with him when a million people died of Covid…

            I hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

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              I hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

              I think this is the best way. I lean a bit more towards hope because he not only did the Epstein thing, but he’s taking away people’s medicaid and social security. He also is going after people they know aren’t criminals or gang bangers, they’re not some vague other.

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            You’re basically asking cultists to turn against their cult leader.

            I can’t recall too many times in history where that’s ever happened. Sadly.

            This isn’t a logic or reason thing with them, this is an identity thing.

            If they do that, they will lose their sense of identity, and that’s something people who have few other things going for them are unlikely to do.

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              We should make up some group that can absorb all the crazies from MAGA and give them a healthier outlet, like the equivalent of a methadone clinic.

              Maybe we can kill 2 birds with 1 stone and make this new outlet where they can place their identity push for economic reforms and equality, positioning the ultra elite as an evil cabal that rules the world. It just so happens that in this new conspiracy group that the conspiracy is mostly true.

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          His production assistant told stories of him sticking his fingers in the pageant contestants’ mouths “to check their teeth”.

          It only gets worse.

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            That’s the amazing thing about Trump.

            No matter how low the bar is, he always manages to be worse than you could imagine.

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        let this be the beginning of the end

        Fascism doesn’t voluntarily give up power. There’s no way that scandal brings down the regime. They didn’t install tech bros as officers in the military because they intend to respect the will of the electorate.

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          I don’t mean the regime. I just mean Trump himself. It may actually be worse when someone more competent like JD Vance is in charge.

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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.