Donald Trump’s signature has evolved over the years, but when signing just his first name, he often includes the same flourish at the end.

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    17 hours ago

    Trump says all kinds of shit, almost none of it true. Look at what you can see, not what he says.

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    Multiple people have confirmed it came from him and it is consistent with other things he has done amd said including bragging about his friendship with Epstein and how Epstein had all the young girls.

    It is absolutely his signature and his denying it just confirms it.

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      Seriously, who the fuck would that book have been given to to sign, that would forge a message from fuckwit nobody Trump back then? Who would possibly have anything to gain by both faking a message, and it being ‘that’ message, just a bland, shallow half inside joke sounding thing with a drawing?

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    Trump can say the sky is dark green and the fucking press would legitimize it by letting him debate it publicly for years while the owners sit back and collect the ratings and advertiser money.

    The entire structure of capitalism is fundamentally broken.

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      I’m sitting here wondering what approach would be better to media.

      Statefunded media isn’t much better because authoritarians will convert it to statefunded propaganda.

      Corporate media will only ever do/publish what is most profitable, so they’ll side with whatever viewpoint gives the most clicks.

      Non-profit media can’t necesarily compete, since they lack the needed funding to actually get to the stories.

      The answer is obviously to implement proper laws forcing media to have an unbiased angle on every story, but who will enforce that? Some government entity? Then we’re back to statecontrolled propaganda.

      I guess in the end making authoritarian-proof media isn’t really possible…

      This is of course all isolated within the current capitalist system. Profit or lack of funding isn’t an issue with other economic models, but those will have different issues I’m not gonna bother diving into right now.

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    I don’t know why people try to litigate this in good faith. Statements from Trump and the Whitehouse are not credible. The WSJ got at least two people to corroborate that drawing and the recollection of two randos, even possible pedos, still carries more weight than statements from Trump.

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    Again, stop asking the criminal if he’s guilty and start asking crime experts and the victims.

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    This is getting ridiculous. Everyone knows what’s up, this whole charade is utterly pathetic. God, Trump and his followers are truly the lowest of the low.

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    The guy who lies about everything needs to stop being quoted like an authority on anything, especially here where he’s done everything to distance himself from this story and his former bestie.

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      It’s just bland denial. Nothing is going to come of it. Nobody in his administration actually cares that he’s a pedophile. Hell, half of them are very openly engaged in sex pesting and nouncing, themselves.

      Liberals keep waving this shit around like its more than court gossip. I mean, sure. In this dark hour, I guess it’s fun to find the King’s pile of weird pedophile poetry and air the laundry. But he’s still the king and you’ve still got his guards looting your cities and dragging your people off to the dungeon.

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    I’m confused, are we on step 1 or step 4 of the narcissist prayer right now?

    1: That didn’t happen. 2: And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. 3: And if it was, that’s not a big deal. 4: And if it is, that’s not my fault. 5: And if it was, I didn’t mean it. 6: And if I did, you deserved it.

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    Welp, that’s enough proof for me, he’s such a pillar of truth!

    Why don’t people push back on a man that cannot physically tell the truth? I mean WTAF.

    Also reminds me of this. Why isn’t the media and everyone else calling this bitch out?

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    Again, what would the other theory be? That someone else faked this for Epstein’s birthday book way back when and no one noticed or said anything back then? When him and Donvict were good pals?

    You could tell that question earlier this week posed to the Spokes Barbie - a very simple question asking what is theory the administration is posing - very much annoyed her and she had no real answer other than to deflect and talk about Biden (FFS).