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Hugin

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4. In the midst of this was a hacker releasing...

Reply to Martin68 (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:43 AM

Jul 18

The so-called Panama Papers. Among a few other related releases.

Follow the money, as has been said.

At least we now have the Why and Why Now of much of what has occurred during the Trumpist era.

Roll this around in your head for a minute, by 2015 Trump knew that he was running on fumes with respect to his close association with Epstein and the dogs were howling at his door. What to do? He famously consulted with his recently charged daughter and rode down the escalator. The rest is in the history books, unfortunately, for us all.