The center of the image reads “The Shady Bunch.” Along the same lines, Trump also posted a caps-laden message to his followers last week, demanding that they move on from the Epstein “Hoax” and calling it “bullshit” from the “Lunatic Left.” He is lashing out, on the defensive, and seemingly unable, or at best unwilling, to control his screen time. In May, he used the account to admonish Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggesting that “if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia,” and that Putin was “playing with fire!” His posting in the lead-up to bombing Iran was another example of Trump forcing the world to hang on his every word; eventually, he announced the strike via Truth Social. As my colleagues Ashley Parker and Jonathan Lemire reported over the weekend, “the limits of his power over normal allies became evident” as Trump failed to get Rupert Murdoch or The Wall Street Journal’s editor in chief, Emma Tucker, to stop the paper from publishing a story about a lewd 50th-birthday letter that Trump allegedly sent to Epstein.
Author: Charlie Warzel
Published at: 2025-07-22 20:41:57
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