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Old Crank
(7,272 posts)He is so guilty.
This action.
Intimidating house members.
The slaughter in the Gulf of Mexico.
allegorical oracle
(6,594 posts)just about anything. More like pitiful.
BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 3, 2025, 07:16 AM - Edit history (1)
to try and distract from the women he and his BESTIES (r) violated and abused. Just going to call more attention to his pedophile republicon pals.

BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)"a dumb fuggin evil-intended, stupid counter-productive shit move"
marble falls
(72,543 posts)no_hypocrisy
(55,384 posts)johnnyfins
(3,993 posts)be alert today. Especially DC residents. This "flyover" stinks to high heaven. This president will stop at nothing to hide secrets.
vapor2
(4,925 posts)Chasstev365
(8,131 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)House of Roberts
(6,635 posts)rambler_american
(938 posts)Just what does he think that will accomplish? Seems like an admission of guilt to me.
Buns_of_Fire
(19,222 posts)if he'd like to try for a real distraction, burn Mar-el-Lardo to the ground.
It still wouldn't be a distraction, but it'd be fun to watch.
Submariner
(13,437 posts)Jane Doe aka Katie Johnson 1994. Lawsuit filed June 2016, refiled October 2016 as reported by Buzzfeed and others, then dropped in November 2016.
Jane Doe is an unnamed plaintiff, who has also gone by Katie Johnson in legal papers. She claims she was repeatedly raped by Trump and Jeffery Epstein at Epsteins New York City apartment in 1994, when she was 13 years old.
A witness, also given a pseudonym Tiffany Doe said she recruited Jane Doe and others. Doe, using the name Johnson, gave an interview to the Daily Mail in which she said she did not know who Trump was at the time of the alleged attack but identified him later when she saw him on television. It is not known why she withdrew the lawsuit. She has not spoken publicly or withdrawn her rape allegation since then.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/assault-allegations-donald-trump-recapped
Sounds like a big STFU payoff occurred back in 2016.
FakeNoose
(42,426 posts)The real woman represented by the fictitious name "Katie Johnson" is living in the US and she's still undercover. She's probably married by now, and I believe she changed her name almost immediately after the (alleged) rape by Chump. Chances are that her entire family did so, to protect her identity.
The important thing is that Chump KNOWS she's out there. The day is coming when she will speak out.
The rape didn't happen in 2016, but I believe that's when Chump paid her off so that she wouldn't embarrass him during his first presidential campaign. Either Steve Bannon or Michael Cohen handled the payoff (that's my guess) so I'm waiting to hear whether either of them will be called as witnesses.
Epstein definitely knew about "Katie Johnson," and I don't believe Ghislaine Maxwell was involved, but she most likely heard all the details after it happened.
marble falls
(72,543 posts)Arazi
(8,887 posts)They willingly look away. Deliberately look away. Ordered to look away.
RVN VET71
(3,224 posts)What Trump says happened, they say they saw. What Trump says isn't happening, even if it is occurring before their very own eyeballs, they simply cannot see and look at you like you're the crazy person.
77,000,000 of them.
GoCubsGo
(35,000 posts)I don't know what does. Is he really THAT stupid to think this stunt will stop this press conference? Or, intimidated them?
Paladin
(32,354 posts)riversedge
(81,549 posts)sir pball
(5,352 posts)I live here and I get alerts for Capital Region flyovers a few times a week. Pretty much every Nats game, and Arlington is pretty common too.
The timing on this one is a bit odd, though unless they're doing the presser outside and the planes circle directly overhead the entire time it's really no disruption at all. It's not like they unleash a sonic boom over the entire city, they just buzz a specific location and then head off.
riversedge
(81,549 posts)MadameButterfly
(4,159 posts)what are they claiming this is supposed to accomplish?
Does he ever have to have a budget for any of this, or is the US Treasury his piggy bank for whatever he pleases?
eppur_se_muova
(42,520 posts)MadameButterfly
(4,159 posts)Military parades and flyovers
Occupying cities
Deporting immigrants especially using military carriers
Immigrant detention camps
Trump golfing vacations
Future subsidies to farmers (to make up for tarriffs)
(and of course billionaire tax cuts)
This needs to be hammered home repeatedly and publicly.
Then it needs to be compared to "savings" from:
Firing of Federal workers
Cuts in Medicare
Cuts in Scientific research (kids cancer, NIH, etc.)
Cuts in other agencies such as US AID, etc.
People need to understand how fast he is bankrupting the country for things that are cruel and have no benefit
bdamomma
(69,629 posts)he is, competing with China, Russia and North Korea, he's not in the dick-tators club.
Oh by the way, Release the Epstein files. We know your name is all over it.
twodogsbarking
(19,353 posts)NBachers
(19,575 posts)themaguffin
(5,416 posts)BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)
C_U_L8R
(49,534 posts)like a madman.
LetMyPeopleVote
(182,091 posts)
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