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Jayhawk's avatar

The most amazing part of this entire story is how unbelievably clean Trump was. Can you imagine the dirt that would have been uncovered if they had wire taps on the Clinton campaign?

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Jayhawk's avatar

I am not sure if Karen is your given name or just an appropriate colloquialism. But, given the level of mental distress you are clearly suffering, as is common with the Wokester/TDS crowd, I am glad to let you engage in the delusion that you have the ability to produce my unhappiness. Tell your cat hello from me.

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Karen's avatar

Trump was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend and is mentioned dozens of times in the Epstein files. Trump is almost certainly a child molester and is an adjudicated sexual assaulter, but you admire rapists, don’t you?

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Jayhawk's avatar

I have the same eloquent reply to all TDS trolls who engage in this type of random, emotional and irrelevant rant - fuck off immediately.

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Karen's avatar

Why? You have no defenses agains the absolutely correct allegation that Trump is an adjudicated sexual assaulter and that there are about four times as many pictures of Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein that there were transwomen athletes ever in the NCAA.

You worship a many who rapes women and admits it, because you yourself hate all women.

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ResistWeMuch's avatar

you were abused as a child and now you have to shit yourself im front of the world. not a good look. get help.

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Karen's avatar

You worship the best friend of a child molester and you’re telling me to get help?

Please, tell me why Trump’s obvious, repeated, and admitted abuse of women doesn’t bother you? He has never denied any of it. We know ‘casting couched’ Stormy Daniels because he paid her to be quiet about it. He’s been adjudicated liable for sexual assault and then for slander based on what he said about the woman he assaulted. He clearly hates women. He hates YOU. What makes you worship a man who hates half of humanity?

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ResistWeMuch's avatar

you need to go into a loony bin. you're crazy.

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Frank A's avatar

" there are about four times as many pictures of Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein that there were transwomen athletes ever in the NCAA."

Which, once again, PROVES NOTHING!

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Karen's avatar

Less evidence proves that Obama was a traitor to you. No evidence at all was enough to convince Donald Trump that Obama was born in Kenya. You worship a liar.

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Frank A's avatar

I never said he was a traitor. Lying, empty-suit phony baloney? Yes. But traitor? No. So now we'll add Straw Man production to your bag of sophomoric tricks. Virtually everything you say is baseless and meaningless - classic troll. If you can't see the evidence being presented, it's because you don't want to see it. You continue to employ deflection and denial.

Once again "Karen-patra": The Queen of De-nial.

Go ahead and make another nonsensical response. I won't respond, so you'll have your precious last word. That should help assuage your existential anxiety...

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Jayhawk's avatar

Was I not clear the first time?

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John Oh's avatar

You don't understand . . . she has an "absolutely correct allegation" Not just an allegation but an absolutely correct one. So no need for any evidence or anything. Obviously, she didn't watch the episode or else she'd know that the "absolutely correct allegation" of Trump collusion eight years ago is just now being shown to be a complete fraud.

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Karen's avatar

What about the fact that Trump has been adjudicated guilty of 32 felonies and also held liable for sexual assault? (I note also that the judge in the E Jean Carroll case stated that the only reason he couldn’t call Trump a rapist is a technicality of New York’s law. Trump is definitely guilty of sexual assault.) Honestly, the Russia stuff bothers me a lot less than the fact that Trump has repeatedly committed sexual assault and quite openly hates all women and you celebrate him for that. What does Trump do for you that justifies him loathing half the human race?

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Karen's avatar

You’re a Trump Worshipper. Annoying you makes me happy. Not as happy as making you monsters cry, which I hope to see soon, but making you irritated has to be enough for a while.

I do want to see you suffer, though. Your misery will give me life.

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Boris Petrov's avatar

Bill Clinton was blackmailed by Epstein and he rejected a two state solution for Palestine. Shouldn’t Clinton and Hillary be prosecuted now that Russia-gate brazen hoax has been fully exposed?

I agree with you that the current genocide will enter the history as Trump Gaza genocide.

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BookWench's avatar

Colin Robinson, is that you?

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rob's avatar

Sure Karen

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MK's avatar

"Trump is almost certainly a child molester and is an adjudicated sexual assaulter"

Your assertion means nothing here, especially considering the weaponization of several systems to knock the man down.

Show the actual reciepts or STFU

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Patricia Gauthier's avatar

In my first reply I write “ Alan” referring to g to Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s lawyer in his first trial. Dershowitz has said he has read the files and seen the names and knows Trump is not one of Epstein’s pedophile friends. He said there are many people in the files because of Epstein’s associations with famous people he associated with in many fields of business of various kinds.

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Karen's avatar

Two jury verdicts aren’t enough for you?

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MK's avatar

Oh Hillary, the weaponization of the judicial system against POTUS puts any verdict in question - but hey, keep trying, maybe something will stick.

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Karen's avatar

He wasn’t president when those verdicts came down, and besides, doesn’t his conduct bother you just a little?

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MK's avatar

Lulz

No Hillary, he wasn't; however, those verdicts were weak on their face and were just two items on a long list of shit that were thrown at him in a failed attempt to sway public opinion.

"doesn’t his conduct bother you a little?"...

Compared to what?

Relative to the gas lighting that happened through the Democratic party during the last admin, not to mention the very undemocratic-like behavior of forcing a candidate down our throats, these (likely) false charges and questionable verdicts are a fart in the breeze.

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Patricia Gauthier's avatar

Have you read the files? What accusations! Best friend? No evidence of that. There are multiple people Epstein was associated with listed in Epstein files, says Alan who was his lawyer when Epstein was first charged. He has read the a Epstein files. He says that doesn’t mean they were all pedophiles or committed other crimes.

There is no guilt by association charge in existence. Epstein was a famous financial wizard and advisor and traveled widely and met with other famous people. But Trump did not travel to the famous island. You most certainly are suffering from TDS.

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Karen's avatar

I’ve read the public stuff, but of course I haven’t read all of it because Trump won’t make them public. Epstein said Trûmp was his best friend. There are dozens of pictures of them together ànd lots of testimony by Epstein’s victims. If Trump has nothing to hide thén he has nothing to fear from releasing the material, with anything showing child abuse redacted.

As for Epstein being a ‘financier,’ he was a college dropout with no special skills who landed a sweet gig teaching àt Tbe Dalton School frôm which he was fired for misconduct with the students. He then landed at a series of shady to fraudulent ‘investment’ banks ànd nabbed power of attorney for the creep who owned Victoria’s Secret.

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Patricia Gauthier's avatar

This is public knowledge. The dirty DOJ during Trump’s 1st term would certainly have exposed Trump if there was evidence of the accusations you are making because they had the Epstein files. Instead, they falsely charged him with other bogus, lesser charges. They also had plenty of time before Trump’s second term to add bogus evidence to the files. In fact, Jesse Kelly talked about getting this tip from a high source. You might want to catch that episode on his podcast or on the First TV. Why would Trump allow who knows how many innocent people to be falsely smeared, accused and the entire rest of his term be focused on that?

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Karen's avatar

So the people Trûmp hired to run the DOJ in his first term wanted to expose him ànd have him removed frôm office. If he’s that bad àt hiring people he SHOULD have been removed! You’re in a particularly stupid cult.

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The Dandy Highwayman's avatar

Ha, or the contents of HRC's "private server".

Just that data would be enough to gag a maggot.

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Nobody's avatar
2dEdited

Well there's two possibilities here. The first one is that Trump is not on the list or they would have arrested/impeached him already. After all, what good is a blackmail list if you can't use it to destroy your political opponents, right? Right?

But, what if, I dunno, the democrats weren't allowed to arrest Trump? What if there was some other powerful entity behind the scenes pulling the strings? They might want to keep Trump in power in order to control him. Hmm, I wonder who that might be? Who else had access to Epstein?

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Nobody's avatar

In completely unrelated news, Trump just announced that he will block federal disaster aid to cities and states that boycott Canada. How on earth can the Canucks exert so much control over the commander in chief of the most powerful military in the world? Things that make you go hmmm.......

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Patricia Gauthier's avatar

He did slap a 35% tariff on Canada though. They tried to control the amount of tariff Trump would put on the them but Trump couldn’t be “ controlled.”

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Nobody's avatar

It wasn't Canada he was going to block aid for. That was a joke. Do a bit of searching if you want to put the pieces together.

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ResistWeMuch's avatar

they probably did have her tapped and she probably knew it. an unspoken agreement, you get power, we get access, and if you break the deal, we have the reciepts.

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Patricia Gauthier's avatar

The Democrats did arrest Trump and change him with 34 felonies!

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Yoh's avatar

All the President’s Men…great book/movie. Fortunately, we can watch the movie concerning this escapade, which you have so brilliantly documented, already…and it stars Abbott and Costello.

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Troels Gudiksen's avatar

Matt: Will the outstanding concept of ATW allow for a third person interview, as a special feature, I’d love seeing you, Walter and Mike Benz talking about the Russian Hoax - and the deep state

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BananaSam's avatar

I second this, and would throw in Matt Kennard, in a similar vein, author of the (coincidentally titled) book THE RACKET. But yeah, generally, I think occasional guests could be great. Even/especially smart respectful guests with conflicting opinions. Good idea Troels!

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Bonnie Blodgett's avatar

I'd love it if Walter would let Matt finish his sentences.

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Russell's avatar

Love Walter, but he is an interruption machine. Matt is a man of extraordinary patience with that.

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Harris Warbington's avatar

Great idea! I endorse this completely.

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Dave F's avatar

Can’t agree more— we must wipe out the deep STATE before they take out the planet 🌎

So bring on any guests which can put forth a solid plan for achieving this

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mhj's avatar

Ignore anyone who says this is old news, move on. This was a coup to overthrow the elected government of the United State, STILL the subject of a massive coverup across the entire Democratic Party, the legacy media, and much of the current and former government and its supporters. It is the biggest story in American politics since the Civil War.

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Jayhawk's avatar

Matt, for the last time, the corporate press didn’t “get beat”, they were co-conspirators in the corrupt scheme.

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BananaSam's avatar

Are they mutually exclusive?

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Carlos Marighella's avatar

You two had better spend the whole two hours talking about Sydney Sweeney and the imminent collapse of society caused by her jeans(genes) ad. If not, you will both lose all credibility with me.

Just kidding. I promise this will be my last Sydney Sweeney joke, because I'm getting sick of this too.

Looking forward to more revelations about Russiagate.

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BookWench's avatar

I love all the brouhaha over Sydney Sweeney.

It cracks me up!

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Carlos Marighella's avatar

Me too. Watching the ad brings back memories of sexy models/actresses I used to see in commercials all of the time. I’m sure there were people complaining back then in the privacy of their homes, but now we have social media so those same people can share their meltdowns with the whole world.

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BookWench's avatar

I am so sick of seeing fat, ugly models in commercials.

I don’t even want to look at the screen. I always mute commercials, anyway, but I hate even looking at them.

I grew up during the era of the “supermodel,” and that’s what I expect to see on the screen. Even if they’re not abnormally beautiful, they should at least be attractive, and not 200 pounds overweight.

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Carlos Marighella's avatar

I don't watch much TV these days, and I when I do watch TV, I have a habit of zoning out during the commercials. Then again, maybe that's because there's nothing in those commercials to hold my interest.

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RAO's avatar

Lol

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Jayhawk's avatar

BTW, the guy Assange hinted he received the DNC emails from (a DNC staffer) was mysteriously murdered.

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ResistWeMuch's avatar

patience. we are getting there. it will come.

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Boris Petrov's avatar

Let’s hope

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Lori's avatar

This was a fun show! So great to see you processing the events together in real time. Thanks for covering this. No need to be apologetic.

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Patricia Reed's avatar

The reason that no hacking of the DNC (by the Russians or anyone else for that matter) has ever been established, is that no hacking occurred. DNC intern Seth Rich was a naive, idealistic kid from Omaha Nebraska who was enamored of Bernie Sanders. Rich was shocked to learn in the course of his internship, that the DNC had stacked the deck (in a bunch of ways) in favor of Clinton and against Sanders. Rich passed a bunch of relevant info to Julian Assange of Wikileaks. Assange has always refused to identify the source of the info (part of which was The Podesta papers) but also has consistently stated that the material had no evidence of having been hacked and that Assange is confident that it was not in fact hacked. If it was not hacked (as indeed it was not), then it had to come from an internal leaker. That leaker was Seth Rich. Rich was afterward murdered in a supposed "botched robbery" in which nothing was taken!! If it was an actual robbery, it was "botched" all right. As a murder, not quite so much. The crack metropolitan District of Columbia was just not able to solve the murder, surprise. I do not know if the FBI was even called in. We cannot say for sure, presumably nobody can say for sure that Rich was actually assassinated. But what anyone can say, if they examine the official examination of Rich's death..... NCI it was not!! There were tons of "anomalies" polluting the investigation. Anyone who takes a halfway close look at the "investigation" will conclude that it was an investigation designed to fail. Many leads unpursued, many willing--even eager-- witnesses never interviewed, etc. The media demonized anyone who questioned the sincerity of the investigation as being terrible people who were causing great pain to the family!

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Roger Holberg's avatar

Great show. Look, the NYT is just agenda-driven garbage. Look how they covered Gaza this past week. The agenda was to portray Israel as starving Gaza civilians. So they take this picture of a mother holding her emaciated son and run it. But they don't tell you that the picture is actually of a kid with cystic fibrosis and crop his well-fed brother standing nearby out of the picture. And when called out on it, they run a weasly worded clarification on a separate website of their's that has only 15,000 subcribers as opposed to the millions who saw the original story. It may look like a newspaper but it isn't.

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Sera's avatar

Can I have clarification on this? Is the implication that Israel starving Palestine children is an agenda, rather than a fact?

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Michael Taylor's avatar

NYT is like the car salesman, wife kidnapping husband ( William H Macy) in a posture of absolute denial right up to getting “dragged by the heels” in the final scene.

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Michael Taylor's avatar

From “Fargo”

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Chris's avatar

Love it!!

As the indictments hopefully begin to pile up I’m reminded of the scene from Bronx Tale when the bikers refuse to leave the mafia bar when asked and then they locked the doors and Chaz Palmetari says “ now youz can’t leave”. The usual media suspects will be trapped to either cover themselves and their role in the Russia Hoax or clean house of all the award winning stenographers. Hopefully Both.

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mhj's avatar

1:47:10 No evidence Obama was ever "a good lawyer." The Davis-Minor law firm never let him work on a case, and he got his adjunct lecturer position at University of Chicago through a clout deal.

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Just Plain Me's avatar

He was president of Law Review at Harvard, or so they say. One never knows these days what's campaign hype or truth.

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mhj's avatar

Iirc he was President but that was only the business side and not a big deal. Being the Editor with influence over content was the big deal, and he was not that.

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DarkSkyBest's avatar

He taught Con Law at UC, and I bet all the kids signed up for Cool Con Law Prof? The intellect nurtured by the Weather Underground, also UC tenured profs?

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mhj's avatar

Yeah, he was an adjunct (part-time.) The Department voted against hiring him but the Head pushed it through on orders from above. Never proven (as far as I know), but always was suspected that Michelle, who worked for Valerie Jarrett in Chicago's Mayor's Office, persuaded someone from the Mayor's Office to drop a dime to the high-ups at U of C. The book on him always was he was pretty bright (but no genius), zero work ethic, a world-class bullshitter.

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Frank A's avatar

Yup. Form over substance.

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mewritelaw's avatar

Thank you for keeping this story alive. There are a lot of us to whom it matters greatly.

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Kim King's avatar

I think Matt & Walter are handsome. No ugly journalists on this show!

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Christine's avatar

Even more important, they are two decent men.

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Carlos Marighella's avatar

Eh, they're cute, but they're not my type.

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Kresge's avatar

My life was interrupted by death. It’s poetic!

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Audrey's avatar

Put a Kremlin on it, this whole ball of wax is about making a boogeyman out of Russia, in order to get Ukraine in EU, hollow it out and stuff it with migrants, accomplishing demographic, cultural, economic goals of globalist Europe. Trump gets in the way of rules based globalism, managed decline of US, therefore he has to gotten rid of too.

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Bonnie Blodgett's avatar

Thanks for getting us back on track. Drives me nuts that Matt and Walter never address the big picture. The weeds are important but also important is to explain how the Deep State is aligned on this stuff and how corporate interests, whether Big Ag or Big "Defense," are running the whole show. Both parties, sad to say.

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Mister Delgado's avatar

"Everybody understood."

Barack Obama

Cue Leonard Cohen:

"Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain lied/Everybody got this broken feeling/Like their father or their dog just died/Everybody talkin' to their pockets/Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long stem rose/And everybody knows."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxd23UVID7k

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