But every so often something happens that still takes your breath away, not because it’s surprising, but because it is so ignorant, so filled with hate, so vile — and because it tells us EXACTLY what Trump is about.

This latest racist stunt by Donald Trump is one of those moments — reposting a meme on his Nazi-infested social media site in which the Obamas’ faces are superimposed onto the bodies of primates in the jungle set to the 1961 song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens.

That a popular pro-Trump account on X created this video and it has lived on that platform without consequence is disgusting in and of itself. But Trump — as our president, speaking in our voice — made it infinitely worse last night by promoting it to millions around the world.

Promoting a video that depicts Barack and Michelle Obama as non-human primates isn’t a joke. It isn’t satire or an accident. It’s the oldest racist smear in the book, dressed up in a cheap meme and now blasted out by a man who once swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

When the president of the United States does something like this, it doesn’t just insult two people. It tells a story about who, according to the most powerful man in the world, belongs in America and who doesn’t.

For centuries, racism in this country has relied on the lie that some people are less than human. That lie has been used to justify slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, and mass incarceration.

It’s the lie that made it easier for people to look away while their neighbors were brutalized. It’s the lie that justifies ICE’s brutal, racist behavior. When Trump shares imagery that taps directly into that history, he’s not being edgy: he’s reopening wounds that never fully healed.

When the President of the United States signals that this kind of racism is acceptable, it gives permission to others. It tells the kid being harassed at school, the family being targeted by a hate group, and the voter being pushed out of the polling line that the cruelty they’re experiencing is justified. That it’s their own fault.

It tells the bullies and thugs of ICE as they do their “Kavanaugh Stops” — targeting people based on their race — that they’re on the right side of power.

This isn’t just about harm to minorities, although that harm is real and immediate. It’s about what happens to democracy itself when the presidency becomes a megaphone for dehumanization.

Democracy depends on the idea that we’re all political equals. Once you start suggesting that some Americans are animals, that idea collapses. It becomes easier to justify taking away voting rights, ignore court rulings, or shrug when violence follows hateful rhetoric.

I remember a time, during the era of Eisenhower and Kennedy, when the presidency stood as a kind of moral North Star. Even when presidents like Nixon and Clinton failed to live up to it, there was at least a shared understanding that the office itself mattered. That it should pull us together, not rip us apart.

Trump has spent years doing the opposite, from the 1970s when he was busted along with his father for refusing to rent to Black people to his recent use of words like “vermin” and “shitholes” to describe Hispanic and Black people and majority-Black countries. Last night’s post is another brutally clear example of Trump’s deep, lifelong racism.

What’s even more chilling is the silence from Republican leaders and elected officials. If you can’t bring yourself to condemn something this overtly racist, where exactly is your line?

Silence in moments like this isn’t neutrality: it’s complicity. It tells people of color in America, already dealing with the burden of centuries of institutional racism, that their pain is irrelevant and their dignity a plaything in the hands of white people.

I know some people will say we should ignore it, that reacting “just feeds the outrage machine.” Trump’s propaganda princess, Karoline Leavitt, tried to downplay it by telling reporters this morning:

“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”

But pretending this doesn’t matter is how we normalize it and weaken our shared sense of humanity. And the end point of that is always disaster.

As California Governor Gavin Newsome just posted:

“Disgusting behavior by the President. Every single Republican must denounce this. Now.”

“Denounce” is a bare minimum. This country can do better. We’ve done better before, often after terrible struggle and sacrifice.

But we won’t get there by minimizing moments like this or waving them off as “just another Trump post.” We get there by calling it what it is, by standing up for one another as equals in our humanity, and by insisting that the presidency must reflect our highest ideals, not our ugliest instincts.

If this doesn’t provoke the 13 white billionaires in Trump’s cabinet — who would all instantly fire anybody in any of their companies who posted such an image on their company’s servers — to start 25th Amendment proceedings or endorse impeachment, it’ll tell us everything about who they are, too.

Assuming there is a Presidential election in 2028, the Democrat who is elected President must be MERCILESS and must appoint an Attorney General who also is MERCILESS.

Assuming it even happens, the process of recovery is not going to be discreet. It’s not going to be painless or easy.

It is going to be loud and necessarily bloody.

• Arms will need to be twisted.
• Careers will need to be ended.
• Indictments ought to fly, thick and fast.
• Sentences must be long and brutal.

The republic is going to need radical surgery because the malignancy is everywhere.

That is the reality of the next several elections.

Any Democratic politician who is not prepared to be merciless is unworthy of support.

Trump Administration Official, US Republican Senators, and Republican Members of the US House of Representatives:

I’m writing to you not as a political opponent, but as a concerned citizen who’s spent a lifetime studying what happens when democracies flirt with strongmen and otherwise decent people convince themselves that loyalty to Dear Leader today will be rewarded by safety and protection tomorrow.

It never is.

You’re out there defending Donald Trump’s lawbreaking, cheering his attacks on judges, prosecutors, immigrants, journalists, and even the Constitution itself. You defend his bribe-taking, the jet from Qatar, the violence of ICE, and his hotel and crypto grifts. You say it’s necessary for him to abuse power to “get things done,” that the other side is worse, that he’s strong and that’s what the American people need.

History is littered with people who believed the same things: let’s start close to home.

Richard Nixon didn’t go to prison: his loyalists did.

His attorney general John Mitchell did hard time in a federal prison. His chief of staff H.R. Haldeman did hard time, as did John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson, and his White House attorney John Dean. The burglars did time, as did the fixers. The forty Nixon officials who went to prison even included two members of Nixon’s cabinet, AG Mitchell and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans.

The people who “just followed orders” or egged Nixon on — like you’re doing now with Trump — were the ones who went to jail, while Nixon walked away to a quiet retirement.

That’s the pattern history shows us over and over, all the way back to the Roman Republic: the boss either dies or escapes while his helpers become the long-term fall guys.

Every authoritarian system runs on the same fuel you’re today giving Trump: people who believe that by protecting the leader they’re protecting themselves and their families. Tragically, at least for them, it never works out that way.

When Hitler’s regime collapsed, he was dead but his inner circle faced tribunals, prison cells, and even the gallows.

The men who signed orders, ran ministries, moved trains, seized property, and “made it all legal” discovered that when corrupt administrations fall, their paperwork trail lasts longer than their leader’s loyalty. Their defense of “I was serving my country” or “just taking orders” didn’t save them: it convicted them.

Mussolini’s story is even darker. As his own crimes caught up with him, his own allies turned and ran. He was executed by people horrified by his excesses. His son-in-law, once his foreign minister and a loyal insider, was put up against a wall and shot after a show trial. Dictators never go down alone: they take their flunkies with them and it’s typically the flunkies who bear the harshest punishments.

Chile’s Pinochet managed to dodge some justice himself, but the men who ran his torture chambers and death squads didn’t. Years later they were dragged into court, convicted, and sent to prison. Time didn’t save them, and neither did politics or the loyalty they expected from the good general. And it won’t save you.

The same happened after Saddam Hussein fell; his henchmen were tried and executed or died in prison. In Romania, the Ceauşescus were hunted down and shot but their senior officials faced courts, disgrace, and decades in prison. Across history, when the music stops, the people closest to the guy at the top inevitably find there aren’t enough chairs.

Here’s the uncomfortable (for you) truth: authoritarian leaders like Trump and Putin treat loyalty like a disposable resource. Just look at all the Republicans who served in Trump’s first term and he’s now trying to throw into prison. Loyalty, for narcissists and authoritarians like Trump, is always a one-way street.

So long as you’re useful, you’re protected, but the moment Dear Leader no longer commands power you’ll become a liability, an offering to be thrown out to appease the angry mob.

And when the prosecutors come calling for you after Trump’s gone, they won’t start with your elegant speeches or proclamations that Renee Good and Alex Pretti were “domestic terrorists.” They start with your memos, phone calls, pressure campaigns, documents, and quiet threats; they’ll go after your “find the votes” activities, the cooked reports, the arrests without cause, the orders that violated others’ civil rights.

They’ll start, in other words, with the people who made Trump’s crimes happen: people like you. That’s how conspiracies are proven in a court of law: not by vibes, but by nailing the insiders.

Right now you may feel powerful. You’re on TV, retweeted, and praised by Trump. The base cheers, the fundraising money pours in, the billionaires are chummy, and it feels like history is being written by your side.

But history has a funny way of circling back:

— Nixon’s aides told themselves they were protecting the presidency, but they destroyed their own lives instead.

— The senior-most Nazis told themselves they were saving Germany, but they were prosecuted as war criminals.

— Mussolini’s ministers told themselves they were stabilizing Italy, but they ended up dead or disgraced.

— Pinochet’s enforcers told themselves they were fighting communism, but they ended up in prison.

There’s a simple and perennial reason why prosecutors always say, “Follow the money” and “follow the paper trail”: abusive power always leaves fingerprints.

And there’s no statute of limitations on some of the crimes you’re now waving away.

Obstruction of justice. Conspiracy. Civil rights violations. Election interference. Murder under color of authority. Bribery. Abuse of power. False statements. Unlawful detention. Retaliation against whistleblowers. Collusion with foreign enemies.

These aren’t political talking points that I’m trying to wave around to score with public opinion or scare you, they’re criminal statutes.

You may tell yourself — like all those people before you told themselves — that Trump will protect you. But Nixon didn’t protect his people; he left the White House and never looked back to watch his underlings fall. History’s strongmen never look back. When the heat gets intense enough, they point at others, not themselves.

Already we’re seeing this pattern with dozens of people who’ve left Trump’s first term employ, from his Attorney General, CIA director, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Defense Secretary, and FBI Director all the way down to functionaries in the Oval Office: “I didn’t know he was that crazy.” “They acted on their own.” “I was advised incorrectly.” “They went too far.”

Every authoritarian uses the same script and Trump has already proven that he’s no different. Do you think he’s suddenly going to decide to protect you rather than run off with the goodies? If so, I have a bridge to sell you.

Seriously, here’s the part nobody in the cheering crowd has bothered to tell you: when regimes fall — or even just lose power, like Nixon did — the leader’s efforts become solely about his own personal survival. Your life, as a disposable underling, becomes a tool he can use to redirect blame and avoid accountability.

The courts won’t ask whether you believed in the cause: they’ll ask what you did.

Did you pressure an official? Did you sign that order? Did you participate in killing those fishermen with a missile? Did you move the funds? Did you authorize those deportations to foreign torture centers? Did you look the other way? Did you help cover up the child rapes?

That’s when you’ll discover the very real difference between a political appointee and the defendant you’ll become.

I’m not asking you to become a Democrat, to abandon your “conservative” principles, or even to leave your party. Instead, I want you to realize that the Constitution is older than Donald Trump and far more durable than any cult of personality.

There’s a reason the Founders feared concentrated power and split it among three branches of government: like their advisor Montesquieu, they’d also studied history.

Strongmen always promise protection to the people they con into doing their dirty work. What they deliver to those folks, though, is always collateral damage.

Right now you’re standing close to a light that feels bright and powerful. History suggests, however, that it’ll end by burning the people nearest to it. Including you.

Presidents can walk away, but staffers, lawyers, deputies, agency heads, cabinet officials, and enablers can’t.

You still have time to choose which side of history you’re on, and which side of a courtroom you never want to sit in.

Because the lesson of every fallen strongman is the same: abusive power-by-association today becomes criminal liability tomorrow.

If you want to know what Republicans are planning for the midterm elections, you should be paying close attention to Steve Bannon. He isn’t your regular, everyday right-wing conspiracy theorist and propagandist. He’s the smartest strategist in the MAGA movement, and most importantly, he is the Trump whisperer when it comes to election denialism.

It was Bannon’s hand pulling the strings back in 2016, sending Trump to the White House while installing himself as chief strategist. On Jan. 5, 2021, he told the world that “all hell will break loose tomorrow.” And on Jan. 6, it did.

While he may not be in the Trump White House right now, don’t be mistaken: Bannon is the single most influential person in the MAGA movement. What Steve Bannon says goes.

So, when he stood behind a podium today, we all needed to listen: “We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November. We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again… We will never again allow an election to be stolen.”

Bannon’s remarks weren’t pulled out of thin air, and the timing is no coincidence. It echoes what Trump said yesterday, when he doubled down in the Oval Office about his plan to take control of elections.

Calling states an “agent” of the government, he said, “When you see some of these states, about how horribly they run their elections, what a disgrace it is, I think the federal government [should get involved].”

This is not the first time Trump has said this. Last August, he wrote the same thing on social media: “The States, are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them … to do.”

Bannon’s remarks also follow Trump’s recent declaration that Republicans should “take over” elections and “ought to nationalize the voting.” House Speaker Mike Johnson also falsely claimed that elections were “fraudulent.”

Johnson, with a long history of election denialism, went further: “We had three House Republican candidates who were ahead on Election Day in the last election cycle, and every time a new tranche of ballots came in, they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost… It looks on its face to be fraudulent.” In true election denier fashion, he added: “Can I prove that? No.”

The implications seem clear: Nine months out from the midterm elections, we face a coordinated effort by Trump, his administration, congressional Republicans and MAGA leaders to normalize a federal takeover of elections, enforced by ICE and federal agents.

Many election observers have been sounding this alarm for months. Trump will use federal paramilitary forces to block voting access. After that, Trump may use the Department of Justice to seize ballots and take over vote counting.

Sending in ICE and federal agents to patrol elections isn’t just about immigration. We know that ICE won’t hesitate to go after American citizens, and just their presence alone will prevent people from going to the polls.

Federal officers can block roads, making it more difficult to get to your local polling location. They can use intimidation tactics to scare people who are trying to vote for Democrats. They may use violence against those who are campaigning, knocking on doors and doing same-day voter registration.

All of this, of course, is unconstitutional and illegal. However, Trump has no respect for the Constitution and no regard for the rule of law. He will eagerly deploy this plan if it helps him secure a Republican victory. If Democrats win the majority, Trump’s authoritarian plan will be foiled — and he knows that.

Voter suppression isn’t always done quietly through laws and the courts. Trump has figured out that he can normalize voter intimidation and election subversion by talking about it regularly in the open.

We cannot let him. We must not allow Trump and Bannon’s threats to become normalized. We must sound the alarm and insist that our leaders resist Trump’s efforts to take over elections and use federal officers to restrict voting and intimidate U.S. citizens from voting.

Most importantly, we cannot allow ourselves to live in denial about what is happening to our democracy. Republicans are planning to steal the midterms. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Governor Abigail Spanberger — a former federal law enforcement officer — today issued an executive order establishing state law enforcement policy based on “principles and policies that have long served as the north star for Virginia law enforcement.”

1. Law enforcement exists to preserve human life, protect people who are vulnerable, and uphold the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of Virginia.
2. Public trust is a prerequisite to effective policing and should be fostered through professionalism, transparency, accountability, and consistent engagement.
3. Virginia law enforcement does not engage in fear-based policing, enforcement theater, or actions that create barriers to people seeking assistance in their time of need.
4. Virginia law enforcement efforts focus on upholding the rule of law, investigating and stopping criminal conduct, and protecting public safety, not the administrative enforcement of civil status.
5. Investment in training, recruitment, and retention of top-tier public safety professionals ensures that Virginia law enforcement is supported by clear standards and sound training necessary to serve safely and effectively with the public’s trust.
6. Collaborative partnerships among local, state, federal, and tribal law enforcement, residents, educators, faith and civic leaders, businesses, and local governments are essential for safe communities, a strong economy, and positive educational outcomes.

Governor Spanberger’s executive order directs state law enforcement agencies to review all policies, training, and practices to confirm alignment with these standards. The Governor made the announcement today at a conference of the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police in Henrico County.

“As a former federal law enforcement officer and the daughter of a career law enforcement officer, I know that effective policing is built on trust. Like so many of Virginia’s law enforcement officers, I have serious concerns that chaotic federal law enforcement actions across the country are eroding years of trust built by our officers within the communities they serve,” said Governor Abigail Spanberger. “When state and local law enforcement are pulled away from investigating crimes and upholding our Virginia laws to do the job of federal agents, it weakens their ability to deepen trust within their communities. This contributes to a culture of fear and distrust that makes it harder for officers to do their jobs.”

Governor Spanberger continued, “Today, Virginia is taking important steps to both reaffirm the core responsibilities of our officers and help build public trust in Virginians who wear the badge.”

Click here to read the full text of Governor Spanberger’s executive order.

Through an additional executive directive, Governor Spanberger today directed Virginia’s state law enforcement agencies and divisions — Virginia State Police, Virginia Department of Corrections, Virginia Conservation Police, and Virginia Marine Police — to terminate all existing 287(g) agreements with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE). These agreements placed Virginia law enforcement officers under federal control and supervision to conduct civil immigration enforcement.

Governor Spanberger said her administration has been closely reviewing agreements state law enforcement agencies were required to sign in 2025. These agreements forced Virginia law enforcement agencies to hand over their men and women to be supervised by ICE.

“At my direction, the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources engaged with stakeholders to identify and understand agreements previously entered into under Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. These Agreements improperly ceded discretion and authority over Virginia law enforcement to federal authorities. I have full confidence that Virginia law enforcement agents are keeping Virginia safer when exercising their authority under Virginia law. Virginia always remains ready to enforce the law, and Virginia law enforcement will continue to exercise available authority under a valid judicial warrant.”

BACKGROUND

On her first day as Governor, Governor Spanberger rescinded Executive Order 47 (2025), which forced state law enforcement — and encouraged local police departments and sheriff’s offices — to deputize their officers to act as ICE agents. Governor Spanberger removed the directive that Virginia law enforcement agencies divert focus from their core responsibilities — investigating crimes, enforcing state and local laws, and keeping Virginians safe.

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RICHMOND, VA — Lieutenant Governor Ghazala Hashmi released the following statement in support of Governor Spanberger’s Executive Order No. 12, rescinding prior Section 287(g) agreements that directed cooperation of Virginia State Police and the Commonwealth’s agencies with federal immigration authorities:

“This action restores clarity and accountability to the role of state and local law enforcement and ensures their focus remains on public safety, justice, and community trust. Keeping Virginia safe means allowing law enforcement to focus on protecting communities and families.

“By ending agreements that cede discretion to the federal government, this directive reaffirms Virginia’s constitutional values and the integrity of our public safety institutions. I fully support this decisive step by Governor Spanberger’s Administration to ensure our agencies operate justly, lawfully, and in service of all Virginians.”

Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, was a British intelligence professional. He knew the warning signs of enemy action. Fleming told beginning intelligence officers that if they observe something “Once is happenstance; twice is coincidence; three times is enemy action.”

Trump has told us what he plans to do in the 2026 and 2028 elections 1, 2, 3, 4, . . . . god-only-knows how many times. This is not happenstance, it is not coincidence — this clearly is enemy action and Trump is the enemy.

Trump has harped on two themes:
1. “There are 15 places.” He often mentions one or more of Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, or other Democratic regions that often are majority minority.
2. He has said time and again he should have “sent the military” to seize ballot boxes in 2020.

These two frequent rants by Trump reveal his plan to steal the 2026 and 2028 elections.

15 PLACES.
Trump, Miller, and Bondi already have picked out 15 locales, likely 15 major, mostly-Black, solidly Democratic cities. We all know these cities include Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, Memphis, LA, NYC, Philadelphia — you add the rest.

SEIZE THE BALLOT BOXES.
I served 12 years as one of three members of the Electoral Board in a rural Virginia County. Our procedure when the polls close is the same thing that is done in every precinct in the country:

— during the day as people vote, the voting machines accept ballots, read the voters’ choices, records those choices,  and drops the ballots into an internal hopper.

— the machines count the number of ballots cast and produce a tally of number of votes for each candidate. Depending on the machine, the number of votes cast is displayed on a publicly visible counter while the vote tally is printed on a tape (similar to an old adding machine tape) that contains precinct name, date, time machine turned on, time turned off, number of votes for each candidate, etc., etc. — the people working at the polls can print as many copies of the tally as needed but only after the polls close.

— ballots drop into a hopper inside the machine. At the end of the day, officers of election close the polls (which means the machines will take no more ballots), look at the public counter, open the hopper, at least two officers of election (poll workers) remove the marked ballots, place them in special containers, seal the containers with seals indicating # of ballots (get from the public counter), date, time, etc., etc., then print and sign their name attesting that they did it right.

— unused ballots are sealed in separate containers. The precinct knows how many ballots were issued, how many were used, so simple math tells you how many unused you have. The containers of unused ballots are sealed same as used ballot containers.

— all this stuff goes to the registrar’s office where it is locked into a vault then removed to the Circuit Court vault the next day where it is stored for the required time (22 months in the case of federal elections) — in our county, sheriff’s deputies accompanied the material from the poll to the registrar’s office and observed it being locked. The next day, deputies escorted the ballots, etc., to the Clerk of the Court.

I guarantee you Trump will order some kind of federal force — ICE, active duty military, federalized National Guard, or a mixture — into the 15 cities where they will seize everything coming in from the precincts — they may seize it at the precincts — and either the military or a gaggle of Trump-appointed thugs will count the ballots, add the tallies, or somehow see to it that Trump wins.

And that folks, is what’s coming. Count on it.

How to stop it?
FIRST: The states must recognize Trump is SERIOUS.
SECOND: EVERYONE must recognize what I have described above is the plan.
THIRD: The states must decide what force they will use to stop it. And the only way to stop it will be with force — local cops, state police, National Guard. And the state forces must be ready to shoot.

 

 

Texas — a man in a red hat fights protesting kids

Kids win

The clip making the rounds in right wing circles is missing the beginning, likely to make the kids look bad — this clip has more

from Somali snaps: https://t.co/d3f4EW8n9n pic.twitter.com/RrDnQIKfma

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) February 3, 2026

The best part is when the girl wearing a “Choose Kindness” beats the shit out of this MAGAt asshole.

 

Background:  In Kyle, TX, kids walked out of school in a planned demonstration to protest ICE actions in Minneapolis.  The asshole in the MAGA hat pushed a few of them, grabbed a girl’s hair, and it didn’t go well for him.

 

 

District Federal Judge blocks order ending TPS status granted to Haitians (TPS:  Temporary Protected Status)

DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-venezuelans-shot-border-patrol-court

DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’

Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims

Mon 2 Feb 2026 19.09 EST

Immediately after a US border patrol agent shot two people in Oregon last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the targets were “vicious” gang members connected to a prior shooting and alleged they had “attempted to run over” officers with their vehicle.

In the weeks since, key parts of the federal government’s narrative have fallen apart.

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But court records obtained by the Guardian reveal a Department of Justice prosecutor later directly contradicted DHS’ Tren de Aragua statements in court, telling a judge, “We’re not suggesting … [Niño-Moncada] is a gang member.” An FBI affidavit issued following the incident also suggests that in the previous shooting cited by DHS, Zambrano-Contreras was not a suspect, but rather a reported victim of a sexual assault and robbery. Neither Niño-Moncada or Zambrano-Contreras have prior criminal convictions, their lawyers have said.

The British newspaper Daily Mail is out with a deeply researched investigative report, the result of a long collaboration between columnists Glen Owen and Dan Hodges, along with Mark Hookham (Assistant Editor Investigations), and Daisy Graham-Brown (Investigative Reporter).

It’s shocking in its detail and its implication that Vladimir Putin has basically owned Donald Trump for years, even before Trump ran for president in 2016.

They note of last week’s partial (about 50 percent) Epstein document release:

Essentially, they’re arguing that Epstein was running an operation on behalf of the KGB/Putin that lured wealthy and powerful men to Epstein’s New York and Palm Beach mansions and his island where they were surreptitiously filmed having sex with underage girls.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-russia-2675069424/