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I do not trust or believe Ms. Bondi. She lies like a rug.

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Dean breaking on Trump's Epstein what a bombshell! fucking pedophile!

Elon Musk. How much clout does the world’s richest man have in Trump’s party? None. Nada. Zip. The former DOGE master railed against the bill as a travesty and a disaster. He threatened to fund primary challengers; he promised support for dissidents. In the end, only two members of the house GOP voted against it. In other words: Elon’s new political launch had a rapid unscheduled disassembly.

Anne Applebaum from The Atlantic writes; The American president wrote, “Vladimir, STOP!” on his Truth Social account in April, but the Russian president did not halt his offensive in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian president called for an unconditional cease-fire in May, but the Russians did not agree to stop attacking Ukrainian civilians from the air. Donald Trump repeatedly promised, during his campaign, that he would end the war “in one day,” but the war is not over. He spoke to Vladimir Putin yesterday, and Putin responded with more drones and missiles than ever before. This morning, parts of Kyiv are burning.

The invasion of Ukraine does not merely continue. It accelerates. Almost every night, the Russians destroy more of Ukraine from the air: apartment buildings, factories, infrastructure, and people. On the ground, Ukraine’s top commander has said that the Russians are preparing a new summer offensive, with 695,000 troops spread across the front line.

Russian soldiers also continue to be wounded or killed at extraordinary rates, with between 35,000 and 45,000 casualties every month, while billions of dollars’ worth of Russian equipment are destroyed every week by Ukrainian drones. The Russian economy suffers from high inflation and is heading for a recession. But Putin is not looking for a cease-fire, and he does not want to negotiate. Why? Because he believes that he can win. Thanks to the actions of the U.S. government, he still thinks that he can conquer all of Ukraine.

................................................Putin sees what everyone else sees: Slowly, the U.S. is switching sides. True, Trump occasionally berates Putin, or makes sympathetic noises toward Ukrainians, as he did last week when he seemed to express interest in a Ukrainian journalist who said that her husband was in the military. Trump also appeared to enjoy being flattered at the NATO summit, where European leaders made a decision, hailed as historic, to further raise defense spending. But thanks to quieter decisions by members of his own administration, people whom he has appointed, the American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality.

Yes, we in the pro-democracy movement must force a serious debate in the coming days about Trump’s ongoing dangerous fealty to Putin and whether the American people think it is a good idea for America and young Americans to go to war with Putin against both Ukraine and our traditional European allies. The big conversation about Trump selling out America to Putin is long overdue, and it needs to happen now. America is weaker and more vulnerable to an outside attack than we’ve been in many generations, and it is time for us to go on offense here.

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