President Donald Trump has reportedly been frantically calling aides and allies seeking a “big thing” to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, and he's purportedly considering a major geopolitical move to turn the page politically.Trump biographer Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast's new podcas...
  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Consider linking the original source instead:

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-plotting-this-desperate-move-to-distract-from-epstein-wolff/

    And putting the repost in the comment? It’s more direct and includes, among other things, official responses:

    House. In response to questions from the Daily Beast Tuesday about Wolff’s reporting that Trump was willing to sacrifice Ukraine to distract from his Epstein crisis, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told the Daily Beast: “Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s— and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”

    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      God, every time I hear Steven Cheung open his mouth, I think of Baghdad Bob or a North Korean news broadcast. I know that’s the point - he’s just poisoning the well - but I don’t get how anyone can listen to that response and think “Ok, that’s a legitimate response from an adult.”

      • macncheese@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        One time I looked up Steven Cheung to see what he looked like and oh man that is a face…not even a mother would love. I once heard Margaret Cho say that he’s so ugly, old Asian people would say he is bad luck. That got me good.