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Just a quick thing today about a comment from Trump that most people missed. Then I’m back in the research chamber finding out how the Trump administration, the Justice Department and others are working to interfere with next year’s election. But I wanted to flag Trump’s comment, made during a back-and-forth with reporters and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.Zelenskyy was asked if he’ll hold elections once peace is reached between Ukraine and Russia. Of course, Zelenskyy said. But he couldn’t safely guarantee “legal” elections while the war continues. That’s when Trump chimed in: Oh, you mean you can suspend elections during wartime? Imagine if I did that, Trump said. Joking? Not joking? It doesn’t matter because something like this is a reasonably foreseeable. If you don’t believe me, just listen to Trump’s own words about how maybe being a dictator isn’t such a bad idea, or how he can declare national emergencies whenever he wants, send the troops wherever he wants, and maybe even serve a third term.Anyway, share this post and video far and wide, because I don’t think everyone is paying close enough attention. It’s going to take a lot of work to expose the massive network of election deniers standing between the nation and a free election. Choose a paid subscription today to support my work. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.american-doom.com/subscribe

Will we have elections next year? I hope so but honestly, I don’t know! What I do know is that there are thousands of election officials and untold amounts of court cases that stand between right now and an honest-to-goodness, free and fair election next year. It takes a lot of work to stay on top of all that and expose bad actors, like I’ve been doing for years. If you want to support those efforts, please choose a paid subscription to American Doom or throw a few dollars in our Coffee Fund. It’s hard to imagine in today’s environment of non-stop authoritarian rumblings coming from the White House, but just less than five years ago, as Donald Trump tried to cling to power amidst an election loss to Joe Biden, the Trump administration hatched what was then a shocking and unthinkable plan.In a never-issued executive order, the most fervent conspiracy theorists and executive power absolutists that the American right has to offer drew up plans to seize voting machines — with the military, if necessary. Trump’s direct involvement in those plans — if any — has never been fully revealed. The plan never came to fruition, and what followed was Trump’s flailing and criminal attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The never-issued executive order was just a part of that attempt, helping conspiracy theories about voting machines to rise from the dregs of the election-denying American right to mainstream Republican policy. Since then, the election denial movement has continued its assault on all aspects of elections, including voting machines. Trump is firmly at the head of the movement. I’ve already touched on efforts by Republicans and the Trump administration to interfere with next year’s mid-term elections. Those efforts and more will only continue. In the coming weeks and months, and — god help me — years, I’ll be detailing developments that will be familiar to those who followed reporting by myself and others in the lead-up to 2024. Among the most extreme scenarios with which Trump and Republicans could seize something resembling absolute power are the cancellation of elections or the throwing out of votes entirely. It is not hyperbole to say that both events are reasonably foreseeable.That’s because Trump continues to accumulate unprecedented military and law enforcement powers.There are many troubling possibilities that arise from Trump’s increasing use of the military for both domestic policing and immigration enforcement, some of which we’ve been seeing for the last few months, since Trump first sent the military to Los Angeles. But since we’re not in an election year, we haven’t seen another scenario play out — yet. It is not implausible to envision Trump using the military or law enforcement to enforce his election demands. The never-issued executive order from 2020 shows that Trump and members of his administration already considered using the military to disrupt the 2020 election or throw out its results completely. Trump has shown no evidence of slowing down, despite the two-term limit that nearly the entirety of the nation’s media-academic complex continues to believe will not be somehow overcome to land Trump back in the White House in 2028.Trump’s election demands — in the form of several executive orders aimed at fundamentally remaking American elections in ways that benefit Republicans and the election denial movement — include completely eliminating voting machines. Trump doesn’t have the authority to do this, not that not having legal power to do things has ever stopped Trump and his administration from simply doing things. That’s why an executive order signed by Trump on Monday caught my eye. The order, which mostly lays out more authority for the National Guard and other agencies as they continue their “mission” in Washington DC, also created a special “quick reaction force” of Guard members to be quickly deployed to, well, what I guess we’ll have to call “domestic conflict zones.” Specifically, the new “quick reaction” forces of the National Guard will be deployed to assist “local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law.”As if that last part matters: recent history has shown that the Trump administration will deploy the Guard and whatever other military or law enforcement agencies it wants under the most legally questionable of circumstances. The order calls on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes.”In addition to ICE and other sub-agencies of the Department of Homeland Security, Trump is now waist-deep in perverting the mission of the National Guard. Clearly, the powers-that-be within the White House and the upper ranks of the American right view the Guard as a tool at their disposal.How that tool will be used is now apparently up to Trump and Republican governors, who hold tens of thousands of Guard members under their command. ***Please follow AD on our social media for a little more doom to your scroll. That’s what we all need, right?* Bluesky - @americandoom.bsky.social* TikTok - @americandoom_* YouTube - @americandoom_* Instagram - @americandoom_* X - @americandoom_* Facebook This is a public episode. 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In these times — that strange and insufficient phrase that we’ve all become accustomed to — balance is important, I’m told.I try to achieve balance and I think we all do. But sometimes things get out of whack. I’ve been mulling over a couple of things this week that I just can’t get past. First, how does one balance their life in the midst of such obvious turmoil? Second, how can we possibly get out of this?To answer the first question, maybe there is no balance. If this is it — and I’m beginning to believe it is — then we have to be on something of a war-footing. For me, this means being as engaged as possible, doing everything I can to share news that I think tells us where we’re going. To consume this amount of bad news takes a toll, but in what is beginning to feel to me like a wartime environment, I think it’s just something I have to do. I’ll explain why I think we’re on a path to domestic military conflict in a moment, but first, to how we get out of this: I’m not sure we can. That’s because there is no gray area here. This is black and white: you either believe that Donald Trump is right or you don’t. You either support mass deportations, military incursion on the nation’s streets, dismantling of the government, and all the other fundamental changes to American life that the Trump administration is putting into affect, or you don’t. I saw a video of a man in Washington DC confronting National Guard members yesterday. He told them they have “a duty” to disobey “unlawful orders.” Now, those Guard members in that armored Humvee are either going to go one of two ways: they’re going to come to agree with the man who had confronted them, or they’re going to continue obeying the orders they’ve been given. There is no third way, no gray area to retreat in to. I believe we’re headed toward that will make it even more difficult to come back from, which is to say, something that will make it nearly impossible for Americans on either side of this right-wrong, pro-Trump or anti-Trump divide: domestic military conflict. I believe we’re headed there because of what Trump said yesterday when asked about his takeover of Washington DC.He was asked by a reporter whether he was concerned that the federal law enforcement agents the president has deployed to DC streets would be pulled away from other, more important tasks. Like what? Trump asked. Well, counter-terrorism for one. “Oh, really, terrorism?” Trump scoffed. “They’ll stop terrorism as part of what they’re doing right now.”This means that Trump believes — as he has said repeatedly — that his fellow Americans are the enemy. Trump considers criminals on the streets of DC and, let’s face it, pretty much anyone who stands in opposition to his regime, a terrorist. There is only one way to eradicate terrorism, and that’s to eliminate it. This means domestic deployment of the military — or whatever paramilitary units of law enforcement Trump can employ to carry out his crackdowns. Lastly, this means that Democratic elected officials and law enforcement in places like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere, will have to start making very difficult decisions about how to respond to Trump’s military incursions.Trump has previewed his plans for further domestic military deployment, and some of his sycophants, like Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), spent yesterday laying the groundwork for these unprecedented actions. Comer called domestic deployment of the military an “experiment” whose time has come. But we don’t have to wait for troops to show up on the streets of, say, Chicago because it’s already occurring in DC and Los Angeles. Not only have Trump’s masked immigration agents been operating with impunity on the streets of LA and elsewhere in California for months now — likely ignoring a judge’s order to stop their racially discriminatory operations — but they went a step further yesterday. Masked agents showed up at a press conference being held by Gov. Gavin Newsom. They said they were there for immigration enforcement operations, but that was just pretext — the only immigrant the agents took during the raid was harmlessly delivering strawberries.Sending the National Guard and federal law enforcement into cities and states run by Democrats is not just an intimidation tactic, it’s effectively the launching of a military front against anyone who opposes Trump. What do you call that other than war? I’m not sure, but I know there isn’t much balance in war. ***Please follow AD on our social media for a little more doom to your scroll. That’s what we all need, right?* Bluesky - @americandoom.bsky.social* TikTok - @americandoom_* YouTube - @americandoom_* Instagram - @americandoom_* X - @americandoom_* Facebook This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.american-doom.com/subscribe

I continue to monitor events in DC from my home in Savannah but am ready to go should anything major go down. Trips like these cost money, though, so if you want to support my reporting, please consider a paid subscription or dropping a few bucks in the Doom Coffee Fund. Through next week I’m offering half off all Doom subscriptions, so you can support my independent, adversarial journalism for as little as $3 a month. - jgHere’s how this is going to go: Federal police from agencies like the U.S. Park Police — like the guy in the video above — and DHS sub-agencies are going to find themselves interacting with DC residents in the days and weeks ahead.With little in the way of training of how to carry out these interactions without violating people’s constitutional rights, these officers will inevitably do so. And they’ll be doing so primarily in Black communities. The best case scenario looks like what you see above — an annoying but mostly harmless encounter with a federal agent who is walking a fine line between harassing people for no reason and just doing what he’s told. The worst case scenario is that one of these agents — who I presume overwhelmingly support the president because they chose to enlist in agencies like ICE that are staffed with some of the most aggressive law enforcement this country has to offer — shoots or kills someone.Then, all hell breaks loose. Right now, things seem relatively calm. A photographer friend working the streets in DC today told me that nothing much is going on. He found National Guard members outside the DC armory carrying in fruit snacks. All that could change in an instant, and then we’ll be headed toward unrest. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.american-doom.com/subscribe

If you appreciate my journalism please consider a paid subscription to American Doom. I’m currently offering a 50 percent discount on Doom subscriptions, which means you can support my work and help fund trips to places like Washington DC to cover conflict there for as little as $3 a month.Whatever happens in Washington DC this weekend — and something will happen, because that’s the point in the swinging pendulum of American conflict at which we’ve arrived — it will probably be good for Donald Trump.He both desperately needs the media to be chasing fires and also probably doesn’t care. The reason he doesn’t care is because he doesn’t have to: his extremely powerful army of right-wing media and propagandists have followed their marching orders perfectly, spending the last 36 hours talking about in-depth crime numbers in Washington DC.Funny how none of them were talking about DC crime two weeks ago, when Trump was somewhat reeling from the fallout over Epstein. Funny how Republicans weren’t talking about the need to engage in racial gerrymandering in Texas and elsewhere until the last few weeks, after Republicans there were shown to have been out to lunch while hundreds of children died in flooding there.If there are large-scale protests in DC this weekend, they stand a good chance of being met with force. Scenes of conflict between National Guard members or local police and protesters will play on a loop across right-wing media, playing right into Trump’s hands. (Still, I hope DC protests en masse.)The level of authoritarian onslaught any given day really is overwhelming. I’ve been trying to find time to dig into the Justice Department’s work on behalf of the election denial movement, but the news just keeps breaking like waves on a beach that I can’t get out from under.Here are some alarming items from the last few days that you might have missed:* The Washington Post has obtained Pentagon plans to stand up a quick response force for deployment to domestic unrest zones. The force will be made up of a few hundred members of the National Guard to be stationed in two locations within the interior of the nation in order to respond to civil unrest within hours, the Post reports. Unprecedented doesn’t begin to cover it.* Not only does the Trump administration want secret police, but secret courts as well. Justice Department attorneys asked a judge to shield proceedings in a lawsuit between the state of California and Trump’s government from the public because it could expose immigration agents. The judge ceded somewhat and made access to the hearing audio-only.* Authoritarian crackdowns continue in Los Angeles, where local police continue to help Trump’s masked immigration agents violently confront protesters — and beat journalists.***Please follow AD on our social media for a little more doom to your scroll. That’s what we all need, right?* Bluesky - @americandoom.bsky.social* TikTok - @americandoom_* YouTube - @americandoom_* Instagram - @americandoom_* X - @americandoom_* Facebook This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.american-doom.com/subscribe

Hey, thanks for opening this email or clicking on the link. It’s good to have you here. Things are crazy. I know I keep saying that but it’s the truth so just get used to it, I guess. Anyway, if you appreciate this adversarial journalism as we continue to slide into a strange and troubling future of hyper-connected authoritarianism, consider throwing a few bucks my way. Basically, if you like what you see here, please pay for it. - jg***It’s late on Friday so by the time you read this we’ll probably know a lot more about the anti-vax shooter who, as of press time, killed at least one person — a police officer responding to the scene. I imagine I’ll be spending at least some of this weekend keeping an eye on this story. Meantime, here’s a rundown of the right-wing noise over a July 26 brawl in Cincinnati. Long story short: things aren’t quite adding up. I broke down the video and found a handful of Black men trying to intervene on behalf of a man who was actively yelling the n-word. And yet, the American right has mobilized around this “Black mob” who beat up white people as part of their efforts to beef up Trump and Republicans’ claims of rising crime. More on that early next week…***Please follow AD on our social media for a little more doom to your scroll. That’s what we all need, right?* Bluesky - @americandoom.bsky.social* TikTok - @americandoom_* YouTube - @americandoom_* Instagram - @americandoom_* X - @americandoom_* Facebook This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.american-doom.com/subscribe

Hey, thanks for opening this email or clicking on the link. It’s good to have you here. Things are crazy. I know I keep saying that but it’s the truth so just get used to it, I guess. Anyway, if you appreciate this adversarial journalism as we continue to slide into a strange and troubling future of hyper-connected authoritarianism, consider throwing a few bucks my way. Basically, if you like what you see here, please pay for it. - jgIt used to take months or years for the news to grind my brain into a fine, mushy enough pulp to necessitate rereading my own stories to remember what I’d reported. Now, that takes weeks or even days.What happened last week? Can’t remember. Feels like three months ago. It’s 2025? I keep forgetting. Last year never ended. Maybe it never began. The firehose of insanity continues to flood the American consciousness — at least for those of us who are still paying attention. To be very clear about why this continues to happen: it is not a distraction, from Epstein or anything else.This administration and the political machine behind it — a broad coalition of white nationalists, reactionary authoritarians, extremely greedy nihilists, just plain weird rich people, and common white trash — are not intelligent or organized enough to pull off something like a competent public relations campaign to distract the American public from the Epstein scandal, which at this point I think is fair to simply call a cover-up.No, the chaos of each day is a result of the enraged madness that has permeated the minds of millions of Americans, including nearly the entirety of the Republican party, almost all of its elected officials, and every single member of the Trump administration. All are engaged in a radical remaking of American society based on their desire for vengeance against perceived enemies and desperate need to dominate and oppress anyone who disagrees with them.As the authoritarian carnage continues, our institutions are just barely holding up. Even Democratic officials are capitulating to Trump’s authoritarian tactics. Orange County (Florida) Mayor Jerry Demings recently caved and signed an agreement for the county’s police to assist ICE in deportation efforts. Demings did so after Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s attorney general threatened to suspend local officials from office for refusing to cooperate with ICE.Meanwhile, the U.S. military is expanding its work at the southern border; ICE now has the funds to hire 10,000 additional agents; the FBI is now assisting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in locating state Democratic lawmakers who have left in order to prevent a quorum that would allow Republicans to carry out an unprecedented redistricting plan that will give the GOP five additional seats in Congress; immigration agents are lying in court as part of the Trump administration’s attempt to criminalize protest and stifle dissent; Trump is threatening to “federalize” Washington DC over a random carjacking of a 19-year-old DOGE official, even though crime was down there last year, just like it was across the country in 2024.It’s only $5 a month to support my work. You might as well so we can all have a little fund during the Decline. That’s on the bullets and blood front. Meanwhile in the information warfare space, Trump is once again leading the charge in the American right’s assault on free and fair elections, including open attempts to rig the 2026 midterms in favor of Republicans.Trump’s departments of Justice and Homeland Security are asking for access to the personal information of millions of voters, part of the administration’s attempts to identify supposed perpetrators of voter fraud. (This is really just an attempt to locate undocumented immigrants for deportation, as well as probably part of an effort to identify trans Americans for opaque purposes that are nothing if not concerning.) The DOJ voting rights section has essentially become the official government arm of the election denial movement.The voting rights section is now led by a woman who previously worked for an election denial group called the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF); the DOJ has asked for voter rolls from nine states and been granted the information by two; it has filed a statement of interest on behalf of right-wingers who would like to purge Black voters in Alabama; the department has also filed a statement of interest on behalf of Tina Peters, the Colorado election official who believed in Trump’s lies about election fraud so fervently she granted access to sensitive voter information to an associate of Mike Lindell; Justice has also filed suit in North Carolina, following the lead of frivolous lawsuits filed by the RNC there and elsewhere in the lead-up to the 2024 election, as well as California, where the department is suing to learn the identities of 16 noncitizens who were so honest that they informed local election officials that they were improperly registered to vote.Meanwhile, the main PAC supporting Trump had a record-breaking eight month stretch of fundraising — all for a president who we’re told is prohibited from running for a third term.This is just what I got to this week. Next week, we’ll dig into the strange case of a brawl in Cincinnati and an attempted carjacking of a DOGE staffer. Both events are being used as justification for more authoritarian power grabs by Trump, to be carried out by the military or local law enforcement. Whichever comes first, or is easier, I guess.******Please follow AD on our social media for a little more doom to your scroll. That’s what we all need, right?* Bluesky - @americandoom.bsky.social* TikTok - @americandoom_* YouTube - @americandoom_* Instagram - @americandoom_* X - @americandoom_* Facebook This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.american-doom.com/subscribe

I’m not going to get into the weeds of the White House’s latest “biggest scandal” that is clearly a distraction from Epstein. You can watch the video above to hear all about that. Suffice to say it’s all for show — throw “Obama” and “treason” into a sentence and it’s like chum in the water for our fellow Americans who just want to see a Black man on the gallows. At press time I don’t have the energy to break all this down in these paragraphs because I am pretty damn pissed off after learning about the arrest of two young journalists following a protest in Cincinnati. It’s early, and things may change, but as it stands right now: a judge has refused to drop misdemeanor charges against the reporters even though they were simply doing their jobs in covering what looks like an aggressively violent over-reaction to an anti-ICE protest by local police. Here is one officer beating up a protester, throwing haymakers like it’s a drunken barroom brawl. Man, today is one of those days where I’ve had enough of people. I’ve had enough the Americans who voted for this because their brains are so melted by Facebook and Fox News that they think poor immigrants are their problem — and not the millionaires and billionaires who run this country and don’t give a damn about the average American. I’ve damn sure had enough of guys like that cop — his name is Zachary Stayton and he’s thankfully on administrative leave from the Covington (Kentucky) Police Department, just over the bridge from Cincinnati — although I hold out little hope that he’ll be held accountable for his actions. I’m pretty weary, too, of every other cop like him who has abdicated their oaths to the constitution and has watched as Trump’s federal goon squad has run roughshod over cities and towns all across the country. A judge in California deemed that Trump’s masked immigration agents — essentially his personal army of lawless, secret police at this point — are engaged in widespread racial profiling and are violating the constitutional rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens. But police there and a lot of other places — when they aren’t outright helping ICE — are standing idly by like a bunch of aw shucks Barney Fifes.It’s past time for local law enforcement to actually do something right for a change and arrest the federal agents violating the law in their own cities and states. This is the stuff of failed states, but unfortunately that’s where we’ve gotten to.For a long time now but especially in the past few months, I’ve had quite enough of supposedly tough, anti-government right-wingers who’ve been salivating over the prospect of armed conflict with the government since the publication of the Turner Diaries and well before who haven’t said a damn thing about the masked thugs terrorizing our cities under the president’s direction. Clearly, when the American right said it was against government tyranny what they meant was they were against it unless the government was oppressing others on their behalf. Democratic mayors, governors and other elected officials need to tell the law enforcement agencies under their command that this has to stop. The longer all of this goes on, the more that people like Trump will try to push. They always want more. This is about control. Someone has to stand up to stop them or else they’ll keep going until there’s nothing left for the rest of us. They will rule over us in a way few will like — as they have been promising to do for years. By then it will be too late. If local cops in blue cities aren’t going to stop Trump’s agents, they should be replaced by those who will. Democracy cannot stand if lawless paramilitary organizations are allowed to continue acting with impunity. It certainly can’t continue if Americans who protest those agents along with the journalists covering those protests are arrested as rioters. We are heading down a dark path. Seeing things like what happened on the bridge between Cincinnati and Covington makes me think we’re speeding up. ***Follow the show:* Bluesky - @americandoom.bsky.social* TikTok - @americandoom_* YouTube - @americandoom_* Instagram - @americandoom_* X - @americandoom_* Facebook This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.american-doom.com/subscribe

Hey there, I’ve been doing my best to keep up with the news while also wrapping up my book. I’ll be back to doing some more investigative work once I’m through this bottleneck. Meantime, you can support my work holding the American right accountable through independent, adversarial journalism with a paid subscription (discount here) or a contribution to American Doom. Your support keeps this newsletter free for all comers. It’s all pretty obvious: reeling from the blowback from the decision not to release the Epstein files — after years of revving his supporters up with the prospect — Trump is now in peak distraction mode. His surrogates have been all over right-wing media in recent days pimping theories and possible indictments of Obama- and Biden-era officials, including the two ex-presidents themselves. Obviously, these indictments will never happen but some version of cooked-up “investigations” are sure to make the rounds in congressional committees overseen by the likes of James Comer and other Trump mouthpieces. This is all a desperate attempt to distract from the obvious: as part of its investigation into Epstein — which spanned the previous Trump administration and Biden’s term in office — the Justice Department surely found a ton of ties between Trump and Epstein. They found these ties for the very obvious reason that they quite clearly exist, as has been well reported publicly, and because they are investigators whose job it is to dig stuff up. There is plenty to be dug when it comes to Trump and Epstein, as last week’s Wall Street Journal story based on these investigative findings made clear. After Trump was re-elected, Attorney General Pam Bondi and others began going through the Justice Department’s files on Epstein and found all those mentions of Trump — the ones that Bondi and Trump had hundreds and maybe thousands of agents across the country flag in the voluminous material that the government had compiled on Epstein.All of this brings us to the reason why Trump can’t release the files in bulk, as he and many others in his administration have repeatedly promised: Trump is all over the files. To fully explain how all of this is a Democratic “hoax,” Trump would have to do a lot of explaining about his appearance in the files. That’s not likely something he’d be able to do very well, which is why you get people like Rep. Tim Burchett explaining away Trump’s appearance on the Epstein flight logs.You see, rich folks fly on private jets all the time, Burchett explained on CNN the other day. And when one of their planes breaks down, they just hitch a ride on another rich person’s plane! That’s probably what happened with Trump and Epstein, Burchett claimed. No mention of their decades-long friendship or any of the many, many instances of ties between the two men. No, Burchett wants America to reserve its judgment on Trump and give him the presumption of innocence. Trump is now going even further, insisting that he’s innocent and that Obama, Biden and other Democrats are guilty of an ever-expanding number of crimes that Trump’s Justice Department is now going to prosecute them over.Except they won’t, because this is all one big, desperate deflection of the very uncomfortable truth.**** Bluesky - @americandoom.bsky.social* TikTok - @americandoom_* YouTube - @americandoom_* Instagram - @americandoom_* X - @americandoom_* Facebook This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.american-doom.com/subscribe

I’ll have more on this over the weekend but for now I wanted to share a rundown of the completely nonsensical claims about the Epstein files that are being made by the White House, as well as Donald Trump’s 40-year history with Epstein himself. Check the video above for all that. And if you want to support my work, you can subscribe or support American Doom here. I’ll be honest: things have been a little tight lately and it’d be nice to have a few new paid subscribers to give me a boost. For those who haven’t been paying attention to every minute development in this growing saga, Trump and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt are claiming some impossible things. Mainly, they say that the Epstein files were created by Democrats — ostensibly to make Trump look bad — but also that those Democrats didn’t “do a dang thing” with the Epstein investigation.To put a finer point on this theory: Under President Joe Biden, Democrats who hate Trump and were facing off against him in last year’s election had compiled a dossier filled with extremely damaging information — all false — about Trump and Epstein. These same Democrats then “didn’t do a dang thing” with this intel, as Leavitt said yesterday in the White House press room. Does that make any sense? I didn’t think so. Regrettably, I don’t see a press conference scheduled for today at the White House. That’s a shame, because I was really looking forward to hearing how Leavitt explained the bizarre letter that the Wall Street Journal reported last night that Trump had written to Epstein on his 50th birthday.The letter included a tantalizing line about how Trump wished for Epstein that “every day be another wonderful secret.”Lots of secrets these days, it seems. More coming. - jg***Please follow AD on our social media for a little more doom to your scroll. That’s what we all need, right?* Bluesky - @americandoom.bsky.social* TikTok - @americandoom_* YouTube - @americandoom_* Instagram - @americandoom_* X - @americandoom_* Facebook This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.american-doom.com/subscribe