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Trump worked to kill a story about his friendship with Epstein. Now we know why (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by griff to c/uspolitics@lemmy.world

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It’s not just that he really, really wants this scandal to go away since it has been turning swaths of his normally cult-like base against him.

No, there’s another element – and a brutal one for the president. It’s where the story was published: in the Wall Street Journal, whose conservative opinion side has often backed him and whose news side has a reputation for ensuring that explosive stories are bulletproof: accurate in their facts and fully prepared to stand up under legal scrutiny.

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And I doubt that Trump really wants to put himself through legal discovery, with all the ugliness that might be exposed.

This won't be the first time he chickened out on a lawsuit when discovery reared it's head and probably not the last time either.

[–] griff 10 points 1 week ago

King TACO!