GOP Rep. Thomas Massie accuses Donald Trump of attempting to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal by launching new offensive overseas

A Republican lawmaker has warned Donald Trump that the joint U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran “won’t make the Epstein files go away.”

Operation Epic Fury began in the early hours of Saturday morning and saw airstrikes on Tehran and other Iranian cities that ultimately led to the killing of the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and a wave of retaliatory strikes by the regime across the Middle East.

At least four U.S. soldiers have already been killed, three American fighter jets have been brought down over Kuwait in an apparent friendly fire incident, the exchange of hostilities has spread to Lebanon, and Trump has said he is anticipating the mission continuing for “four to five weeks,” urging the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to surrender and the people to rise up.

  • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com
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    People are moving the Epstein files but I think the real enemy is America. Still go after the files… But remember who pulls strings. The Epstein files are the banana peel from Mario kart. The real enemy is up higher and probably more like the intelligence agencies agreement of the 5 eyes.

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      I think the downvotes are from people with good intentions but haven’t been able to give up on their ideas of what America is.

      It’s a means of identity that they have. They feel the insult is directed at their position as “an American”. It’s something that has been told to them since birth. It’s hard to disconnect that from what “America” is to the rest of the world.

      They focus on Epstein alone because it gives them a means in which to maintain that identity and focus it on “the elite” or whatever. They think “The system is capable of justice. We just need to fight within it”.

      But, what they don’t understand, is that that’s exactly what “America” is. They don’t control America as “an American”. They Iran war is not a distraction from the Epstein files. It is an EXTENSION of them. It serves the same interests of the ruling class.

      It feels comforting to focus on a single issue. It makes the problem seem fixable. We just need to stay focused and bring justice to the pedophilic elite.

      Well, I think it’s clear at this point that the entire ruling class of our nation are built upon the structures that allow an Epstein to exist.

      Epstein is not the entire iceberg. We have a president in power that is rounding up children with ICE. ICE is not a distraction from Epstein. It is an EXTENSION of it.

      No one that understands this is “distracted” by something. They are working for the revolution that would require a justice to occur.

      We will not get justice for the victims of Epstein. We will not get justice for the children trafficked TODAY by those same powers. Do you think these pedophiles stopped when Epstein was exposed? No. They have no fear. They have no fear because “Americans” are still believing that the current systems of government will bring them to justice. Stop believing that lie.

      Please don’t be distracted by your hyper-focus on Epstein. You are missing the forest for the trees and we won’t ever have justice under the power structures we have today. Stop waiting for “the evidence” for that justice to come. It will not come. This “America” is not capable of that until you as “an American” understand this; and you fight for a revolutionary change.

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      THE EPSTEIN FILES WERE MADE FOR WAR. They were made by a blackmail campaign waged over decades by the CIA and Mossad. This blackmail trove along with an aggressive software strategy has made Israel the most powrful nation in the world with the US, UK and others as vassal states. They’re not a distraction. They’re a lever of power used to control the richest and most powerful people on earth and by extension everyone else.

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      You state the real enemy is several different things. Try to get it together or you’re gonna sound crazy

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        I think if you think the “5 eyes” nations is anything but an extension of US power in an international way; you might be the one misunderstanding the commentor for “crazy” because you don’t get what they are trying to get you to understand.

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        The real enemy is the piece of shit who cut me off on the road today.