It is both. Use a thing you wanted to do anyway to distract from a crisis. It's just an optimization, really: if you are going to have to do something as a distraction it may as well be something that you intended for all along rather than something that you don't want to do because it is a more effective distraction. If it weren't it would be easier to see that it was in fact a distraction and now you have one more thing you wanted anyway.
I'm with you, it's almost like that has become another distraction where they know in the end, it won't matter. Meanwhile I can barely keep up with the wild executive orders based on outdated laws. Someone is just pulling the strings.
Miller, Bannon, Vought and Thiel would be my top four puppet masters. Trump only believes in himself, and they make use of that to pursue their agendas.
Trump's voting base don't care about overreaching federal powers, they care about epstein. You are not going to turn any new demographic to your side with this nuanced civil liberties narrative, which has been cried many times before.
"Epstein didn't kill himself" is the perfect meme to destroy confidence in trump.
The latest polling disagrees. The ministry of truth has been hard at work and 47% of conservatives now say they would still support Trump if he was found to be a part of Epstein's minor sex trafficking. 26% "don't know" what they would think (i.e. would still support him).
So... The window has been moved completely off of the house. Raping children is actually acceptable among the MAGA base and Epstein is no longer a concern for them. Woops.
To be fair, polling bias applies. Probably not that high, but still. Even among die-hard, that's bad.
