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CTYankee 1620's avatar

Just to throw another conspiracy theory into the mix, I see news coverage of the Epstein files have fallen off. I don’t know if that’s good or bad 😎

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Rick Newman's avatar

A new conspiracy theory is always welcome! Looks as if DOJ is way behind its required scheduled releasing all the documents. If there's evidence of a Trump crime in there, it will be impossible to distract the public away from it. Plus MTG is now a loose cannon enraged about this. But if there is evidence of a Trump crime Trump will never let it see the light of day. Ask me, there's never going to be an AHA moment as long as Trump is in office. Yet the Epstein scandal will stick around like a chronic disease....

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Fred Feldkamp's avatar

Actually, Trump’s most audacious act was at the end of 2019 when he declined to isolate travelers from Wuhan despite having means and facilities to do so and clear and obvious proof people in Wuhan had contracted a highly contagious and deadly viral pneumonia. That mistake correlates with his attempt to extract a favorable October 2020 sale of oodles of soybeans to China.

Soon thereafter, he compounded his year-end blunder by leaving interstate transmission up to the states despite constitutional restrictions on such authority.

Xi rightly refused terms that were unfavorable to China and reasonable analyses show Trump’s blunder needlessly cost 1 million U.S. lives.

This current foreign policy blunder will take years to evaluate, but cannot possibly match the impact of his Dec. 30, 2019, calamity.

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Rick Newman's avatar

Can we split the difference? Maybe Wuhan 2019 was Trump's most reckless or foolish act. He probably had no idea of the consequences at the time or was too thick to hear about it. I'm calling Venezuela audacious because he seems to know there are risks and not care.

Anyway, fair point.

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