The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

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BREAKING: Hunter Biden gives the perfect response to MAGA First Lady Melania Trump after her attorney sends a letter demanding that he retract his claims linking her to Jeffrey Epstein and threatening a $1 billion defamation lawsuit: "F*ck that! That’s not going to happen."

He went on to call her bluff and welcomed the idea of Melania and Trump sitting for an Epstein deposition...

Yesterday, Fox News Digital reported on a letter that Melania's lawyer Alejandro Brito sent to Hunter Biden and his attorney. It asserted that Hunter is spreading claims that are "false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements." It demanded a retraction and threatened the aforementioned lawsuit.

The letter came in the wake of a conversation that Hunter had with Youtuber Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5 in which Hunter alleged that "Epstein introduced Melania to Trump.”

Brito accused Hunter of using an account from "serial fabulist Michael Wolff" whose claim was published and later retracted after Melania's lawyers disputed the issue.

Brito whined in his letter that the claim has now been "widely disseminated” on ....

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Time to order the popcorn ...

Trump STUNS THE WORLD With Nobel Prize BOMB


The countries involved don't agree ....

The cost per jail inmate in the US is significantly higher than the cost per person in a homeless shelter. In the US, the annual cost per prisoner in federal prisons is about $115,000, while a 2024 estimate suggests that the cost to provide shelter for a homeless person could be around $46,114 per year, according to Scioto Analysis. This means that, on average, it costs more than twice as much to incarcerate someone as it does to provide shelter for a homeless person.

BREAKING: Senator Dick Durbin drops a massive bombshell and reveals that Attorney General Pam Bondi "pressured" roughly 1,000 FBI personnel to sift through tens of thousands of Epstein documents to flag all mentions of Donald Trump.

And it gets so much worse...

In letters sent to Bondi, MAGA FBI Director Kash Patel, and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, Durbin revealed that his office has received "information" that Bondi has "pressured the FBI to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division" on 24-hour shifts to dig through 100,000 Epstein-related documents ahead of a possible document release.

The personnel were "instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned." No benign explanation has been provided for the frantic operation and it has supercharged allegations of a coverup.

Durbin is demanding more information about the administration's deeply suspicious handling of the files and for an explanation as to why officials are flagging documents that mention Trump.

In his letters, Durbin pointed to the now-infamous 2002 remarks in which Trump stated that he had known Epstein for 15 years and thought that he was a "terrific guy" who was "a lot of fun to be with."

He also mentioned the "bawdy" letter that Trump sent to Ghislaine Maxwell for inclusion in ...

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Re #1.255

BOLO: Short, round, orange man with tiny hands on the loose. Answers to the words Tariffs and Deals. Don't approach. His aromas of toxicity from are extremely unpleasant.

Shiftless2 said:

"... Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors ..." #1,255

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Shiftless2 said:

Re #1.255 Kennedy Center #1,265

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Donald J. Trump has a compulsive, insatiable craving for attention.
He's found another one at the Kennedy Center.

The obvious risk here is "zero sum". By Trump attempting to lift himself up @Kennedy, he shoves @Kennedy down.
It's a dark day in the limelight.

Trump admin live updates: DC attorney general sues to block Bondi order removing police chief​

While everyone is focused on Trump's meeting with Putin ....

BREAKING: A Princess Diana bombshell drops in Donald Trump’s worsening Jeffrey Epstein scandal and it involves a perverse competition between the two longtime friends.

This Trump and Epstein rabbit hole gets deeper every day…

“They had a competition, Trump and Epstein. Of who would be the one, the first one to sleep with Princess Diana?” revealed journalist Michael Wolff on a Daily Beast podcast.

The two men believed that a sexual conquest of the beloved princess would help cement their own celebrity status, an incredibly mercenary motive from two men who show all of the hallmarks of being sociopaths.

“They just understood, what could you get from these people? Both Trump and Epstein,” he added. “What can you get from somebody, is the question you would always ask about anybody.”

While the princess was of age unlike most of the women in Epstein’s orbit, this story hammers home just how much he and Trump viewed women as objects rather than people. It also highlights how close of friends they were, despite Trump’s desperate efforts to downplay the relationship in recent years.

Trump attempted to date Diana after she was divorced in 1996, but she responded with a simple thank-you letter when he sent her flowers and reportedly told British TV anchor Selina Scott in private that Trump “gives me the creeps.”

Wolf, who extensively interviewed Epstein at one point, also said that “Epstein and Trump functioned as a duo” and that the two of them plus alleged sexual predator Prince Andrew, Duke of York, were like the “three musketeers.”

“They were, you know, grifter buddies, basically,” Wolff added on Trump and Epstein. “I mean, they had the same interests, interests in women and also in money. How do you get money? How do you, these two guys, who don’t work for major corporations, don’t have relationships with major banks, or don’t have good relationships?”

Clearly, the American people are still not getting the full story about Trump and Epstein. Until the full files are released, we must assume the worst.

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Until the full files are released ....

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And not the ones that Bondi et al have scrubbed of references to Trump

Did anyone expect anything else?

More on the story that will not die



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You have to worry about Karoline Leavitt's mental health .....

At 9.20am on June 24 in downtown Los Angeles, 32-year-old Andrea Velez was heading into work at a footwear company when men in gaiter masks jumped out of their car and started chasing vendors and other people on the street. As people fled, Velez froze and held on to her bag.

Suddenly, she recalled, one of the men slammed her to the ground and placed her into his car. The men had “Police” vests, but otherwise were in plainclothes and didn’t identify themselves. She didn’t know why they had taken her.

The men, it turned out, were ICE deportation officers. They were looking to question people about “whether they were lawfully present” in the US, an agent later wrote. Velez is a US citizen who grew up in downtown, not far from the incident.

“They just came out ready to attack anyone,” said Velez, in her first interview since ....

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The more things change - 1933 Germany v 2025 USA




"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" – "One people, one nation, one leader" – encapsulates the spirit of Nazi Germany. In the spring of 1933, student supporters of Adolf Hitler initiated an eight-month campaign of book burning across Germany, aimed at purging the country of ideas and writings deemed "un-German." While the book burnings targeted a broad spectrum of so-called un-German thoughts, there was a pronounced focus on Jewish contributions. One notable target was what was derisively termed "Jewish Physics," particularly Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Some classical physicists dismissed Einstein’s revolutionary work as mere intuitive thought experiments, lacking support from laboratory experimentation. Jewish Physics faced particular ridicule in post-WWI Germany. In reaction, most (but not all) German physicists promoted "Deutsche Physik," or German Physics. This movement was not merely a scientific school of thought; it was a nationalist agenda that aligned with Nazi ideology regarding the superiority of the Aryan race.

Figure 1 depicts a book burning on May 10, 1933, in Munich, organized by students from Ludwig Maximilian University and the Technical University. The event was attended by 8,000 students, as well as numerous faculty members and university administrators. It is documented that many copies of Einstein’s papers were fed to the Nazi bonfires.

The burning of these texts did not diminish the extraordinary significance of the Theory of General Relativity. However, the politicization of science and academia in Germany largely decimated theoretical research in the country, leading to a substantial brain drain. The Nazis believed science was only valuable when it aligned with the political objectives of the party. A year after the Munich book burning, Bernhard Rust was appointed Reich Minister of Science, Education, and Culture, tasked with ensuring that only scientific work conducted "in the spirit of party ideology" would be endorsed.

Fast forward to 2025, 92 years after the German campaign to "disappear" scientific thought that ....

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Shiftless2 said:

"The burning of these texts did not diminish the extraordinary significance of the Theory of General Relativity. However, the politicization of science and academia in Germany largely decimated theoretical research in the country, leading to a substantial brain drain." #1,276

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There are similarities.
There are dissimilarities.
Reports indicate the way Trump RFKj have defunded ongoing research needlessly squanders the $money already paid. They do so under the guise of conservatism.
The reality is it's troglodytic suppression.

Shiftless2 said:

The Nazis believed science was only valuable when it aligned with the political objectives of the party. A year after the Munich book burning, Bernhard Rust was appointed Reich Minister of Science, Education, and Culture, tasked with ensuring that only scientific work conducted "in the spirit of party ideology" would be endorsed.
Fast forward to 2025, 92 years after the German campaign to "disappear" scientific thought that .... #1,276

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Nvidia and AMD’s ‘special treatment’ from Trump is shaking up an already tangled global chip supply chain​

Nicholas Gordon

Donald Trump’s decision to let Nvidia and AMD export AI processors to China in exchange for a cut of their sales will have repercussions far beyond the U.S.

The semiconductor supply chain is global, involving a wide array of non-U.S. companies, often based in countries that are U.S. allies. Nvidia’s chips may be designed and sold by a U.S. company, but they’re manufactured by Taiwan’s TSMC, using chipmaking tools from companies like ASML, which is based in the Netherlands, and Japan’s Tokyo Election, and using components from suppliers like South Korea’s SK Hynix.

The U.S. leaned on these global companies for years to try to limit their engagement with China; these efforts picked up after the passage of the CHIPS Act and the expansion of U.S. chip-export controls in 2022. Washington has also pressured major transshipment hubs, like Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, to more closely monitor ....

No question this story is not going to die

I'm going to post this in the Headlines thread as well.

Trump has ordered a complete data blackout from all federal agencies