Jo, what you wrote is 100% total cope.

Trump was utterly condescending for his "you're still talking about this guy" brush off.

Why is Ghislane Maxwell serving 20 years for trafficking and pimping?
Why did Virginia Giuffre get killed (as family says)?
Why did Prince Andrew basically get ejected from the royal family?
Jamie Dimon (CEO of JP Morgan) is claimed to have paid $290 billion to victims as payout because the bank supported Epstein's operation. Why?

etc etc etc

Again, and I know you will deflect:

This entire episode indicates that Trump is not to be believed literally or even in spirit. You disagree. You will find some crumb that exonerates him. NO. Trump == solid bullshit artist.

I don't have TDS. I'm saying his vulnerability to lacking logic and making stuff up as he goes is abundantly clear.

I don't believe the B.B.B. was formulated with a real notion that the deficits would be made up. A few days before this whole Epstein thing I was thinking "he knows what he's doing". I now think otherwise. Trump makes shit up as he goes. Period.

I think Thomas Massie was right to resist and is principled (unlike your take) and Trump went complete ass wipe in primarying him (we see the anti Massie ads locally here - they're nasty.) Trump attacking a loyalist. That says it all.

I suspect Trump will orient things for hyperinflation as a solution to the debt. While claiming he is fixing things. So I cannot trust him to keep us whole.

We're somewhat better off for many things Trump has done for the country, for some of the things being done to hold the last admin accountable, etc. We're maybe better off than with Kamala. There is marginally more justice now.

The Trump administration is pushing into dystopian territory.

I don't know, maybe I am just better informed and I am not being condescending.

I wish we had critical thinkers on this forum, and not just me.