Putin Declares War on Trump

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We wanted to know what's in the Epstein files. So we talked to three
unvaccinated QAnon members at a Wendy's in Toms River.

Cliff’s Note: The MAGA Brain Trust Doesn’t Know Who to Root For in the Putin v Trump Shooting War

So Trump says he’s gonna help Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky? Did I get this correct, or am I going through a Karoline-Leavitt moment here?

The guy who got impeached the first time for blackmailing Zelensky? Berated him in the Oval Office like a junkyard dog with untreated gonorrhea—is suddenly borrowing an outfit from Kristi Noem’s vast dress-up closet to perform pretend-Ukraine ally?

Are we f*king kidding here? Am I the next Pope? (Well, they do like American Popes at this point in history. Not sure about the whole *Jewish thing,* though). Well in any case, welcome to the Inception of MAGA foreign policy, where nobody knows WTF is going on and we all slightly suspect we’ve been unwittingly roofied.

So this guy, the tubby golf-cheater with a hard-on for strongmen, the one who spent years praising Vladimir Putin like he watched his shirtless horsey rides in slow-mo, is turning on him? The guy he bowed to at the Bowling Green Massacre in Helsinki?

And Trump started speaking out against Putin in the weeks following Putin’s beginning to publicly air his frustrations with the nincompoop. The one who Putin helped install in the White House, along with his rent-a-wife, to deliver him Ukraine. Except he can’t deliver him Ukraine.

Didn’t Putin see what happened with Trump Taj Mahal, Trump University and Eric? Did that give him confidence Trump could accomplish…anything?

Well, it seems there’s now some breaking up to do, as I predicted two weeks ago, while corporate-media thumbs twiddled. And, ya know, breaking up is hard to do, as Neil Sedaka crooned. So this is gonna be one fun custody battle over all the grift!

To get back to our story, Putin’s been needling Trump for weeks now—criticizing him over Iran, Syria, NATO, Ukraine — because, let’s face it, Putin was pretty confident he owned Trump. And he did. Until now.

Now Trump’s out here pretending he’s pro-Zelensky, and with Trump, you just need to ask the simple questions: It’s either *how’s he making money off this* or *who convinced him this will fix his Hades-level polling numbers* or *has the narcissistic injury of Putin ripping him a new one the last month finally led to Trump’s Waterloo, with respect to his love affair with the St. Petersburg pirate?*

These are questions inquiring minds want to know. But it’s definitely one of those, and here are some things we absolutely do know.

Charlie Kirk? Glenn Beck? Jack Posobiec? Elon Musk? Megyn Kelly? Even disgraced General Michael Flynn—Trump’s Q-adjacent, NSA in his first term for like two Scaramucci’s? They’re ALL attacking Trump. Candace Owens? Laura Ingraham? Alex Jones? Laura Loomer? Yup. (Side note: What an excellent cast for a “Con Air” reboot).

Lemme say that again: they’re all attacking Trump!

While still vociferously and vivaciously waving their little Kremlin flags. These are the same geniuses who’ve spent years downplaying Russia’s war crimes, their cyberwarfare against a U.S. election and luridly lying that Ukraine attacked Russia.

They’ve pushed every single talking point this side of the Moskva River—when not embarking on a fun shopping trip at the супермаркет, like Tucker Carlson, and accidentally delivering us some quality parody straight out of “The Americans.”

These are Putinites who suddenly can’t decide whether they’re America First, Trump First, or Moscow First. They just so very confused.

But one thing’s clear: a movement that once goose-stepped in lockstep behind Trump was already splintering into various factions over his budget bill, bombing Iran, tariffs and who has to deliver Don Jr.’s magic 8-ball. And now Putin just lit a fuse.

After pouring a gallon of kerosene all over the area. With some borscht, for the F of it.

So what do we call this? A civil war of traitors? A lovers’ quarrel between despots and their once-favorite hand puppets? Or just another truculent Tuesday in the cruel, anti-social-disordered, MAGA cinematic universe?

Who knows, and who really cares. Because while Trump and Putin slap-fight over who has a bigger nuke, with Ukraine embarrassing Russia daily and Trump’s Epstein implosion, the rest of us are watching the walls close in on both of them.

Which, if you’re counting, would be the first wall Trump ever actually built.

If the world can benefit from the fascist division, and find a way to depose both Putin and Trump? That is America’s reincarnation. And a world I can 100% get behind.

There is no strict Constitutional amendment against having sex with
minors, being blackmailed about it, murdering the person who is
blackmailing you, and altering the videotape of the murder. So
it's hard to see why some on the left are so upset with Trump.

by Jonathan Turley

…Yo, Check This Out!

Trump’s Epstein Flip-Flops: From “I’ll Release Them” to “Shut Up or Get Lost”

• “I’m gonna release them!”
  – For months, Trump rode the conspiracy wave, promising to drop the entire Epstein file—including that rumored “client list”—as a centerpiece of his MAGA mystique. Then… radio silence.

• “They don’t exist!”
  – In a 180° pivot, the DOJ and FBI leaked a memo: no hidden client list, no evidence Epstein was murdered. Trump’s camp has since embraced this denial, insisting the whole thing was overblown.

• “It was written by Obama/Biden/Comey!”
  – Trump retreated into full-blown conspiracy mode—blaming “Comey and Obama and Biden” for cooking up the documents, as if they had a shared, undying grudge against him .

• “It’s a ‘hoax’, a ‘scam’, ‘boring’ — and only for ‘bad people’.”
  – He’s called the Epstein saga “biased” and “boring,” dismissing anyone curious as “pretty bad people.” On Truth Social: “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax… hook, line and sinker… weaklings”.

• “If you care about this, I don’t want your support!”
  – In a vindictive rebuke, Trump openly yelled at his base: if they’re still mouthing conspiracies, “I don’t want their support anymore.” He even called them “weaklings” and claimed they were “doing the Democrats’ work”.

• Latest twist – meltdown over “supporters”
  – Just today, he erupted on Truth Social, labeling loyalists who won’t drop the Epstein files as past supporters, saying they’ve “bought into this bulls‑t” and he wants no part of them.

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