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Lots to chew on today. SCOTUS strikes down most of the president’s tariffs. Good luck cleaning up the economic mess that’s about to create. You do remember your guy’s history of bankrupting businesses? We may be living another one in real time. But this time it’s America. We’re gearing up for war with Iran. What could possibly go wrong? Do my elected officials support this involvement? Meanwhile, while plotting war, Trump held the first meeting in DC of his Board of Peace at the US Institute of Peace (USIP), newly renamed the “Donald J. Trump U.S. Institute of Peace.” Trump has made it clear he wants his new board to replace the UN. But the 27 countries who said they will participate (but so far none appear to have tossed in the $1B that would give them permanent status) read like a list you would want to check the State Dept. for travel recommendations before booking a vacation. He also extended invitations to Netanyahu and Putin, both of whom have been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Also, are y’all concerned that the president has trouble staying awake at his own parties? Even though he knows cameras are pointed at him the entire time? There’s something wrong with him. This is not normal and you should not be okay with it. Then he’s off to Georgia for a speech on the ‘affordability.’ But in amongst rambling about the usual fantasies and delusions and grievances he can’t help gnawing on, he was asked by Fox News about the arrest of ex-Prince Andrew... “Do you think people in this country at some point, associates of Jeffrey Epstein, will wind up in handcuffs, too?” Trump answered: “Well, you know I’m the expert in a way, because I’ve been totally exonerated. It’s very nice, I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it’s a shame. I think it’s very sad. I think it’s so bad for the royal family. It’s very, very sad to me. It’s a very sad thing. When I see that, it’s a very sad thing. To see it, and to see what’s going on with his brother, who’s obviously coming to our country very soon and he’s a fantastic man. King. So I think it’s a very sad thing. It’s really interesting ‘cause nobody used to speak about Epstein when he was alive, but now they speak. But I’m the one that can talk about it because I’ve been totally exonerated. I did nothing. In fact, the opposite—he was against me. He was fighting me in the election, which I just found out from the last three million pages of documents.” “I’m the expert in a way…?” Care to translate? I don’t think that reads the way he thinks. And the only thing sad, other than his massacre of the English language, is that Trump gets to continue to say he’s been totally exonerated when just the opposite is true. He is quite obviously using the DOJ to make sure he can continue to spout this BS. And how do we know this? Yesterday workers hung a banner with a giant portrait of Trump on the Department of Justice building. I guess that’s just until he can get the official signage changed to Donald J. Trump’s Department of Justice. It’s quite a ship of state y’all are trapped on. Are you counting the lifeboats yet?