Can’t this man be removed from power? To have a madman in command of the most powerful military and of the most effective nuclear arsenal on Earth is itself insane.

The man is utterly pathetic but lots of people die as a result. That is sick.

So, the logic is, if you try to discuss Epstein some other poor country gets bombed?

The Republicans have clearly never read the Sermon on the Mount. If they had they would realise they are not followers of Jesus.

Straight from Orwell’s 1984

In an authoritarian state (and you are in one) the friends of the authority can do what they like while those who are not friends are all guilty and may be persecuted at the whim of the authority.

FSB and MOSSAD

State sponsored corruption.

Maga accuse Velensky of corruption but for their own man, or Putin it’s just fine.

As an outsider it will be very interesting to see where SCOTUS goes from here. It will take real courage from the Republican members of the court to stand for the rule of law but if they do not the risk of the US falling to its fascist regime seems very high.

Regretfully support for Trump is probably higher than the pollsters record because, increasingly, people polled will be ashamed to admit that they would vote for him.

The men who are so keen to ban abortion in any shape or form: what is the betting some of them are hypocrites who have fathered children and then pressured the women to have abortions.

Speaking as a man surely the debate on abortion should be in the hands of women. They have to carry the burden. Men should shut up (except me of course).

So far as the American department of justice and ms Bondi goes the law is what Trump says it is.

The purpose, presumably, is to get the MAGA crowd on their backs threatening their lives and their families lives so they are not “disloyal” in the future.

Yes but some of them are corrupt or stupid or, more likely, both.

It may be even worse than that if I understood Robert’s judgment correctly. He said that no enquiry could be made into the President’s motive for an action. So if POTUS declares the rape of a woman an act of state that appears the end of it.

It is quite clear that the object is to ensure that the great and not so good of the US are protected from Epstein disclosure and the little people, the victims, pay the price for that.

”He took to pig sticking in quite the wrong way. I wonder what happened to him”. Noel Coward

It is one of the great betrayals of history and history will remember Trump for it

The danger is that there too many in the Trump regime, including POTUS himself, who have to much to lose economically, politically, socially and, not least, criminally if power is lost to allow that to happen And, therefore it has to be prevented by whatever means necessary.

Mountbatten has not been arrested for anything to do with young girls but for sharing confidential government documents with Epstein.

Also they protect against interference by big powers: North Korea and would Russia have invaded Ukraine if it had retained its nuclear weapons in 1994 in exchange for dishonoured guarantees of its borders from Russia, USA, and U.K. ?

I wish you all success!

And yet, I understand that for some technical reason this does apply to Fox News.

The problem is that Trump and friends now run such high risks politically, socially, economically and, not least, criminally if they lose power that they must do everything necessary to retain power whether criminal or not.

You are assuming that your tax should be used to benefit the people. This regime’s aim is to run the country for the benefit of POTUS and his friends. Trump is not there to drain the swamp. He is the swamp. Your duty is to pay your taxes into the swamp.

The government is sacrificing the little people in order to protect the great and not so good.

The populist right wing want us to hate when we should love, to take when we should give and to be divided when we should be united. In short they appeal to the worst side of humanity.

If this is true it is truly disgusting.

I think Putin would have been able and would have been prepared to kill on the scale of the Iranian regime. Trump is not in a position to do that and, just possibly, would not be prepared to.