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Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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But by now, everyone either knows or refuses to acknowledge that the President is a notorious pedophile.
A sudden spike in unemployment followed by waves of debt default, foreclosure, and police actions on the unemployed would seem to be the more pressing issue.
This just feels like the Iran "Today's bombing a girl's school distracts from who the President was fucking in 1997" Epstein War bullshit.
He certainly doesn't think so from all the redactions to the disclosures to Congress and the sweetheart deal he gave Maxwell (the co-conspirator who is still in prison today for the crimes he committed and advances).
He had Epstein killed just 10 years ago, and there is no statute of limitations on murder.
Also, its not just him. He's surrounded by the Epstein class who all went in on raping children together.
The line of people who potentially greenlit Epstein's murder goes down the road and around the block.
Not that it matters, because pedophilia is apparently legal - even encouraged - at this point in US history.
That's been the joke of all these "Release the Epstein Files" folks tossing aside the orgy of evidence on the grounds that "it's not enough". We have a rogue's gallery of Epstein associates who remain untouchable. And the "Release" folks keep pretending there's some extra bit of evidence that's been held back that will finally bring the cops in to arrest everyone.
It's a fantasy. Just like the Mueller Report shit libs were hung up on in 2019. Nobody is coming to arrest the President or any of his close confidants. No organized agency is coming for the billionaire class. There is no secret kabal waiting for that next shoe to drop. There is no X-Files esque revelation that's going to bring about societal change that we haven't already all passed around on social media.
I'd wager Trump could publicly do it again, livestream it, and gain more fans because he's "relatable" to those fans