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White House backtracks initial claims about Alex Pretti after intense backlash
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This administration is like Game of Thrones with the cast of Veep.
If these evil idiots had half a brain, they wouldn’t have immediately bum rushed the press and social media with half baked lies. They could’ve taken a beat to fully bake their lies.
They do not think they have to try, their guys usually pretend to agree with them. They never bother with plausibility now.
It's the eternal problem with echo chambers. Everything's smooth and good until you step outside it and someone laughs at you and points out the giant booger on your face that no sycophant could possibly have brought to your attention.
Epstein also met with Israeli intelligence regularly, he took private jet flights with the intelligence boss to Israel and back. Also prime ministers and other officials. It hasn't been much of a secret for a while. Yet everyone ignored us telling people about it until the right wing fringe picked up on it, grateful they did don't get me wrong we need the help. Carlsen and a MTG and Owens (I don't even know who that one is,) have all been pumping that fact.
Also Carlsen and Owens are I think on another one I believe, that Israel, or their factions in the US, were behind the Kirk killing. The official story is impossible, that rifle would've made a dramatically different hamburger themed wound at that range. Other problems. Why lie? Turns out the Israeli faction was on him to appoint a couple of their guys to the board, and wanted him to follow their vision, which is what they are doing now, hitler youth, policing schools, k12 and university, compiling information on students and teachers, etc. Kirk had his own vision, rejected theirs.
Anyway the Epstein one is pretty overwhelming evidence. If you are interested in the kirk one, check youtube videos of dudes firing that 30 ought 6 at different objects at that distance, to get a feel for how insulting to our intelligence the official story is. The rifle takes down bear, elk, moose. Exit wound would be fist sized, not the least in the soft neck. So whomever did it has the authorities covering for them.