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Are we "great" yet? (Original Post) CousinIT 3 hrs ago OP
Yeah, what's not to be proud of? Hey Joe 1 hr ago #1
Great Question and Thread! Kid Berwyn 54 min ago #2

Kid Berwyn

(25,143 posts)
2. Great Question and Thread!
Tue May 26, 2026, 11:07 AM
54 min ago

The Traitor and Unstable Moron has had six years plus a decade of non-stop self-aggrandizement on the tee vee and all he’s done is work to destroy America, its Constitution, and Democracy.

He had help.



Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump

Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.


By KYLE CHENEY and NAHAL TOOSI
Politico, 11/12/2025

Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me.

“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time of the exchange. Lavrov was an apparent reference to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister.

In the email exchange, one of hundreds released Wednesday by congressional investigators, Epstein indicated he had previously talked about Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s forceful ambassador to the United Nations, before Churkin died in 2017.

“Churkin was great,” Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. “He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”

Continues…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919

Above, Lavrov in the Oval Office. “Blackmail. It works.”

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