When even MAGA’s most loyal conspiracy peddlers turn on Trump over the Epstein files, it’s not justice they crave; it’s revenge for being played like fools.
On Trump dodging the truth: Does anyone else find it interesting that a person on a blood-thinning aspirin regimen (and/or additional blood-thinners) would have bled so little as Trump did during the “assassination” attempt on him on the campaign trail? I am on a baby aspirin and Plavix regime following stent placement in my heart and I bleed and bruise profusely at the slightest cut or bump. Puzzling, to say the least…
Yes! I agree and as a nurse I thought that right from the gitgo! Just horrible that someone did die because it was staged and the shooter killed so his story couldn't be told. .... Just saying.
Good question! But wouldn’t even the top of the ear have created a lasting hematoma at the site of the fragment strike, if not more serious flow from the wound?
Yes. That is tragic. That kind of collateral damage - the death of an innocent person - ultimately should become the responsibility of the architects of this fraud. They should stand trial for manslaughter at a minimum. ….
The way I look at it is that He chose to do evil, and he ended up paying for it. It happens to many who do evil things that hurt many innocent people. Usually they are shot by police. This time not.
My husband is on Eliquis and even minor nips from our dogs cause excessive bleeding and very slow healing. And since head wounds bleed profusely it is odd that trump healed in mere days, especially at his age. I'm 66 and cuts take far longer to heal than they used to and I'm not on any blood thinners or aspirin regime or any meds at all. My husband thinks trump used the same fake blood that is used in fake wrestling. Since he's been involved in that sordid world for decades, this belief is not much of a stretch.
I have thought for some time that there was something Hollywoodish about that "assassination" attempt on Trump. One of the things was that woman who so elegantly covered Trump with her own body to protect him. I bet the farm she was an actress and the whole thing was well rehearsed.
When a horse’s hoof clipped my ear (when I was 30 yrs old in good health and no medication) it bled profusely. I continued to work but 24 hours later it was still bleeding a lot so I went to the ER and got a couple of stitches. I still have a small scar.
That's just where the capsule broke. It was almost all Hollywood. Wouldn't surprise me if the death wasn't planned also to make it seem more real. Keep in mind who we're talking about.
Agreed Dottie!! You never know with Trump. To top it off someone was killed!! I wonder who the killer was aiming for?? Did someone really need to die? How did THAT happen!!!
Hey I'm a retired RN. first thing I yelled was not just blood thinners, but ?heart failure, ?DMII, ?Poor circulation nothing to sluff off to everyone...😡
Yes. I am no Hollywood make-up artist or blood spatter expert, so all I have to go on is my own life experience and common sense. I’ve got to say, on blood thinners or not, fake blood pack or not, the picture of the wound he purportedly sustained just simply lacks authenticity to me either way… Just my opinion, but I figure because MAGA runs on opinions, beliefs and suppositions, not expertise or data, two can play that game.
A few questions. If this was a set up then who is the shooter on the roof? If he did fire the shot, could he have been that accurate to just clip the ear of Trump? If this was a set up then who or what killed one of the People that came to the venue?
He did make public comments. What's really disturbing is Biden reached out to the widow and she refused to take his call. She said her husband wouldn't have wanted her to. How deranged is that?
This is the one thing that greatly bothers me about all this publicity....for many many many victims of sexual abuse, not just trump's and the ones trafficked by Epstein but all victims every time this is mentioned it brings up horrible memories. For the millions of victims who have never gotten justice this is just a reminder that there is no justice for them, it's fine for the men to do what they did. For the millions of victims who have remained silent because they know there is no justice, this is a constant reminder of what happened to them and why they have to remain silent. E Jean Carroll is one of the bravest persons on the face of the earth and she does not get the recognition for that, but all victims know it. I was once the victim of an armed robbery and I never once was either told it did not happen or it was my fault, I asked for it, but this is what victims of sexual abuse face every day. Most people have no idea how many very strong women (and men) are walking around out there carrying this horrible burden, the shame, the fear, the total loss of control. The best stats we can come up with is that about 1 in 5 women have been the victim of an attempted or completed rape (as per the National Sexual Violence Resource Center which I know trump is hoping will go out of business) and of these, 1 out of 3 have reported that they experienced it for the first time between the ages of 11 and 17. That SHOULD make all the Christians sick to their stomachs but the evangelicals sure seem to be just fine with it as is the entire GOP Congress. Every one of them.
I'm convinced almost all of those holy rollers are involved some way or another. Let's face it..why was it OK for him to bury their mother on a freaking golf course for God's sake????
Aww darn.. the maggots got played! They were warned, but didn’t listen.. now the clown, that they voted for, is the head of the current regime. Aaand they better learn how to bend the knee to the new sh*tler! Aand get ready to take care of the relatives kicked out of assisted living. Ooh.. you got fired from your job? Blame tariffs.
Most of the files will be redacted if released. It looks like Trump will have them cherry picked and passed off as the meat and potatoes. Plenty of MEGAS are still defending Trump while posting pictures of Biden with girls, fake or just with his hands on their shoulders. They still call each other patriots for posting. The mirror hasn't broken yet.
let's hope this lasts. When the tapes of Trump talking about moving on women like a bitch, grabbing their genitals, all of the accusations by multiple women, the lawsuit with Jean Carroll, etc. have not convinced MAGA that the emperor has no clothes, I highly doubt that a birthday card or even being on 'the list' will influence them.
Michael has discussed this in one or more of his You Tube videos. Here is one in which he talks about it. There may be more, I just can't find them at the moment. Skip to 2:22:
Cohen says he was never aware of any of the young girls business, except that he heard trump occasionally say so-and-so likes young girls. I find that statement very surprising - how could he have been so close on a daily basis to trump & yet was not aware of what was going on with the island ? I'm not saying Michael is lying, it just seems so weird. Maybe he was not around trump on a daily basis as we imagine ? I guess an attorney would be mostly in his own office ? I'd be glad to have him explain that !
Whatever he can add in this moment would be insightful and useful. Not everyone has read his book or follow him here or on YouTube. I’m not yelling at him so much as I’m asking him to join the conversation again with his perspective.
It’s like Meryl Streep being torn apart because “she knew” what Harvey Weinstein was doing. I don’t know who or what was driving this, the publicity was sensationalized, like she had some part in it. But these comments about Michael Cohen make me feel the same way. WTF do people want?
tRump thinks his supporters are a bunch of morons that will blindly follow him and believe any thing he says regardless of how stupid or insane it is. And the problem is that a lot of them are.
Sucks when you've been played. I was by my Narcissistic ex. Once I caught on his behavior got worse. MAGA dug their own graves putting any faith in that Narcissistic toad. I hope they wake up but I am not holding my breath. They're not good people. Extremely naive too.
"These people were fine being lied to—so long as the lie made them feel special."
Brilliant observation and spot on. This is unfolding like a scene out of Shakespeare, Dickens or some Greek play I have yet to read but I know it's there. Our human foibles are as old as we are. What a moment. Keep the great writing coming, it helps us wade through the mess.
I wonder if those lists, etc., are being scrubbed of Trump’s name so he can present the “evidence” to the deplorables to reel them back in. I wonder if Ghislaine’s life is in danger.
What I don't understand is how Trump's MAGA faithful can look at the photos of him with Epstein and a bunch of obviously underage girls and think he's going to share any kind of a client list with them? They really are as dumb as they appear.
Exactly right Diane. I keep asking him to start a national 12 Step Program for former tRump supporters. No judgement, just healing, moving forward, working together.
It's not easy to realize something you believed it is suddenly ripped away. It's not easy to be humiliated and hurt. It's not easy to learn that something you truly believed in is suddenly gone. I do not want to believe that democracy is being ripped away day by day. I am humiliated and hurt to my core watching kind and gentle people being sent to jail, or detention camps or shipped out of the country for no reason but the color of their skin. It is hard to learn that the things that are written in the Constitution of the United States and I believed in are being destroyed by the Supreme Court of the United States time after time after time. There is disbelief and humiliation and pain spreading across the entire United States of America. Is there no way we can try to stop the fighting and start trying to put this country back together before it is totally destroyed for generations to come... if there are any generations to come.
We have to help each other get through this. We have to come together with people who voted for the con man, and we have to build a better democracy together. Thats the only way this country survives.
On Trump dodging the truth: Does anyone else find it interesting that a person on a blood-thinning aspirin regimen (and/or additional blood-thinners) would have bled so little as Trump did during the “assassination” attempt on him on the campaign trail? I am on a baby aspirin and Plavix regime following stent placement in my heart and I bleed and bruise profusely at the slightest cut or bump. Puzzling, to say the least…
Yes! I agree and as a nurse I thought that right from the gitgo! Just horrible that someone did die because it was staged and the shooter killed so his story couldn't be told. .... Just saying.
Good question! But wouldn’t even the top of the ear have created a lasting hematoma at the site of the fragment strike, if not more serious flow from the wound?
caq is a scammer troll. Reported and blocked.
Thanks for the warning.
Yes! And no lasting hematoma involving his ear or the side of his face and neck….
The entire side of his face should have bruised with that ear wound.
I’m a 40 yr nurse.
Wouldn't hearing be affected too?
probably not if the inner ear was not harmed, only the outer ear on the edge. But I am no expert.
Mine was when I got bit on the ear.
My thoughts, too!
Lots of things about him don't make sense. Even with all we know ABOUT him, I'm convinced " his thought-process is a continuous BRAIN-FART"
There is no doubt about that. Everything coming out of his mouth attests to this.
Yep, it was fake but, unfortunately a man lost his life.
Yes. That is tragic. That kind of collateral damage - the death of an innocent person - ultimately should become the responsibility of the architects of this fraud. They should stand trial for manslaughter at a minimum. ….
The way I look at it is that He chose to do evil, and he ended up paying for it. It happens to many who do evil things that hurt many innocent people. Usually they are shot by police. This time not.
It looked like a strategic smear or a red substance, not blood; there was no additional visible evidence of continued bleeding.
Since he’s on blood thinners he would’ve bled more than he did. All a set up for sympathy and raise money.
My husband is on Eliquis and even minor nips from our dogs cause excessive bleeding and very slow healing. And since head wounds bleed profusely it is odd that trump healed in mere days, especially at his age. I'm 66 and cuts take far longer to heal than they used to and I'm not on any blood thinners or aspirin regime or any meds at all. My husband thinks trump used the same fake blood that is used in fake wrestling. Since he's been involved in that sordid world for decades, this belief is not much of a stretch.
I have thought for some time that there was something Hollywoodish about that "assassination" attempt on Trump. One of the things was that woman who so elegantly covered Trump with her own body to protect him. I bet the farm she was an actress and the whole thing was well rehearsed.
I’ve cut myself worse shaving.
As have I, before blood-thinning meds! Good point.
When a horse’s hoof clipped my ear (when I was 30 yrs old in good health and no medication) it bled profusely. I continued to work but 24 hours later it was still bleeding a lot so I went to the ER and got a couple of stitches. I still have a small scar.
Maybe because it was just the top oh his ear?
Or a ketchup packet.
THIS!!!
😂
That's just where the capsule broke. It was almost all Hollywood. Wouldn't surprise me if the death wasn't planned also to make it seem more real. Keep in mind who we're talking about.
Agreed Dottie!! You never know with Trump. To top it off someone was killed!! I wonder who the killer was aiming for?? Did someone really need to die? How did THAT happen!!!
Someone didn't need to die and neither did the shooter, but to felon child rapist, they were just collateral damage for the sake of drama.
muahahaha! uh-huh, that’s it!
Hey I'm a retired RN. first thing I yelled was not just blood thinners, but ?heart failure, ?DMII, ?Poor circulation nothing to sluff off to everyone...😡
Puzzling in that his staged assassination attempt worked with the blood pack?
Yes. I am no Hollywood make-up artist or blood spatter expert, so all I have to go on is my own life experience and common sense. I’ve got to say, on blood thinners or not, fake blood pack or not, the picture of the wound he purportedly sustained just simply lacks authenticity to me either way… Just my opinion, but I figure because MAGA runs on opinions, beliefs and suppositions, not expertise or data, two can play that game.
Your experience is truly remarkable and your comments are spot-on believable. . . with thanks.
A few questions. If this was a set up then who is the shooter on the roof? If he did fire the shot, could he have been that accurate to just clip the ear of Trump? If this was a set up then who or what killed one of the People that came to the venue?
I’m on an 81mg baby aspirin daily. If I just look at my skin too hard, I create a black or blue bruise.
My wife takes Eliquis 2.5 mg twice a day and she has black & blue marks all over her arms and legs
He did make public comments. What's really disturbing is Biden reached out to the widow and she refused to take his call. She said her husband wouldn't have wanted her to. How deranged is that?
Magats are just that dumb and ignorant.
Not all of them. And until the Blues get that, they won't be winning many more elections.
Of course they're deranged...they were at a Trump rally.
Very
odd for sure. you mean trump made public comments?
Here's just one of many:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tribute-pennsylvania-firefighter-corey-comperatore-killed-rally/
thank you
Michael and Meidas mighty speak the truth. Trump is on the Epstein list, which is why he is desperate to cover it up. Here is all the evidence of his assaults on women: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/trump-epstein-list
Yup. Trump has definitely been involved with the sex trafficking!!!
That has been known every since Robin Quivers called Bone Spurs a preditor way back in the 90s on Stern......when he was going after Ivanka.
I agree, everyone knows he's a preditor and maga doesn't care (nor do all the good christian GOP members of Congress, they're all for it. )
Epstein survivor calls for release of files
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/18/teresa_helm_epstein_files
This is the one thing that greatly bothers me about all this publicity....for many many many victims of sexual abuse, not just trump's and the ones trafficked by Epstein but all victims every time this is mentioned it brings up horrible memories. For the millions of victims who have never gotten justice this is just a reminder that there is no justice for them, it's fine for the men to do what they did. For the millions of victims who have remained silent because they know there is no justice, this is a constant reminder of what happened to them and why they have to remain silent. E Jean Carroll is one of the bravest persons on the face of the earth and she does not get the recognition for that, but all victims know it. I was once the victim of an armed robbery and I never once was either told it did not happen or it was my fault, I asked for it, but this is what victims of sexual abuse face every day. Most people have no idea how many very strong women (and men) are walking around out there carrying this horrible burden, the shame, the fear, the total loss of control. The best stats we can come up with is that about 1 in 5 women have been the victim of an attempted or completed rape (as per the National Sexual Violence Resource Center which I know trump is hoping will go out of business) and of these, 1 out of 3 have reported that they experienced it for the first time between the ages of 11 and 17. That SHOULD make all the Christians sick to their stomachs but the evangelicals sure seem to be just fine with it as is the entire GOP Congress. Every one of them.
https://www.courthousenews.com/eight-epstein-victims-sue-fbi-over-failure-to-investigate-sex-abuse-tips-as-early-as-1996/
I'm convinced almost all of those holy rollers are involved some way or another. Let's face it..why was it OK for him to bury their mother on a freaking golf course for God's sake????
Nothing good about those particular Christians
Christians? Are you talking about Identity or Belief's actions?
Michael, you are one hell of a writer!
Yes he is. Very knowledgeable and great writer.
Aww darn.. the maggots got played! They were warned, but didn’t listen.. now the clown, that they voted for, is the head of the current regime. Aaand they better learn how to bend the knee to the new sh*tler! Aand get ready to take care of the relatives kicked out of assisted living. Ooh.. you got fired from your job? Blame tariffs.
ABOUT TIME!!!!
Demented Donnie Two-Dolls might, like his hero Al Capone, be done in by a relatively petty crime.
Remember, Donnie, time wounds all heels!
Petty crime? I don’t think so!!
Most of the files will be redacted if released. It looks like Trump will have them cherry picked and passed off as the meat and potatoes. Plenty of MEGAS are still defending Trump while posting pictures of Biden with girls, fake or just with his hands on their shoulders. They still call each other patriots for posting. The mirror hasn't broken yet.
let's hope this lasts. When the tapes of Trump talking about moving on women like a bitch, grabbing their genitals, all of the accusations by multiple women, the lawsuit with Jean Carroll, etc. have not convinced MAGA that the emperor has no clothes, I highly doubt that a birthday card or even being on 'the list' will influence them.
Why the transcript from the Florida Grand Jury is not widespread is tragic and unreal.
"The poor teenager screaming for Trump to stop and use a condom......Trump laughs and throws the girl some cash'
He may get away with it now.....but his place in the eternal flames of hell is secure and demons are waiting for his arrival.
They are spineless
@Michael Cohen
Where were you and what do you know of PERSONALLY about these girls and your old boss?!?
The public needs to know!!
Michael has discussed this in one or more of his You Tube videos. Here is one in which he talks about it. There may be more, I just can't find them at the moment. Skip to 2:22:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sikOhwSkjgg
In this moment, he needs to do a “come clean on anything he knows” interview 🛑💯
Thank you for the link.
Having followed Michael for some time now, I've found him to be very transparent. Subscribe to his You Tube channel.
Cohen says he was never aware of any of the young girls business, except that he heard trump occasionally say so-and-so likes young girls. I find that statement very surprising - how could he have been so close on a daily basis to trump & yet was not aware of what was going on with the island ? I'm not saying Michael is lying, it just seems so weird. Maybe he was not around trump on a daily basis as we imagine ? I guess an attorney would be mostly in his own office ? I'd be glad to have him explain that !
Exactly 💯🔥
He has been transparent. He testified before Congress. He has written a book. He writes this column. Not sure what exactly you want him to say.
Whatever he can add in this moment would be insightful and useful. Not everyone has read his book or follow him here or on YouTube. I’m not yelling at him so much as I’m asking him to join the conversation again with his perspective.
Good points. What exactly are people wanting?
It’s like Meryl Streep being torn apart because “she knew” what Harvey Weinstein was doing. I don’t know who or what was driving this, the publicity was sensationalized, like she had some part in it. But these comments about Michael Cohen make me feel the same way. WTF do people want?
Thank you for sharing this because I couldn’t imagine the Michael of now not sharing everything he knew.
Wow. Good point!!!
tRump thinks his supporters are a bunch of morons that will blindly follow him and believe any thing he says regardless of how stupid or insane it is. And the problem is that a lot of them are.
Sucks when you've been played. I was by my Narcissistic ex. Once I caught on his behavior got worse. MAGA dug their own graves putting any faith in that Narcissistic toad. I hope they wake up but I am not holding my breath. They're not good people. Extremely naive too.
🎯
Fantastic post Michael. Thank you.
"These people were fine being lied to—so long as the lie made them feel special."
Brilliant observation and spot on. This is unfolding like a scene out of Shakespeare, Dickens or some Greek play I have yet to read but I know it's there. Our human foibles are as old as we are. What a moment. Keep the great writing coming, it helps us wade through the mess.
I wonder if those lists, etc., are being scrubbed of Trump’s name so he can present the “evidence” to the deplorables to reel them back in. I wonder if Ghislaine’s life is in danger.
Maureen Comey is the one who can verify if 'those lists' have been scrubbed...let's hope she stays in the light.
I have been thinking the exact same things!!
What I don't understand is how Trump's MAGA faithful can look at the photos of him with Epstein and a bunch of obviously underage girls and think he's going to share any kind of a client list with them? They really are as dumb as they appear.
Michael Cohen is an excellent writer! I didn’t want to like him but I do. He is modeling redemption.
Exactly right Diane. I keep asking him to start a national 12 Step Program for former tRump supporters. No judgement, just healing, moving forward, working together.
Fighting against the trump regime!
Vote 🔵🔵🔵 this mid-term election!!?
It's not easy to realize something you believed it is suddenly ripped away. It's not easy to be humiliated and hurt. It's not easy to learn that something you truly believed in is suddenly gone. I do not want to believe that democracy is being ripped away day by day. I am humiliated and hurt to my core watching kind and gentle people being sent to jail, or detention camps or shipped out of the country for no reason but the color of their skin. It is hard to learn that the things that are written in the Constitution of the United States and I believed in are being destroyed by the Supreme Court of the United States time after time after time. There is disbelief and humiliation and pain spreading across the entire United States of America. Is there no way we can try to stop the fighting and start trying to put this country back together before it is totally destroyed for generations to come... if there are any generations to come.
We have to help each other get through this. We have to come together with people who voted for the con man, and we have to build a better democracy together. Thats the only way this country survives.
There needs to be accountability first!
A lot of fools who voted for the con man would vote for him again. It's hard to admit you've been so completely duped.
I suspect and hope that in about 10 years we'll all be feeling and talking about "MAGA" the same way our society viewed "NAZI" in the mid 1950's.
Life moves forward. Any political slogan involving the word "AGAIN" is not merely stupid, but insane!