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No, but also consider that these arrests are a VERY deliberate action related to the efforts to distract from the ties between Trump and rape/pedophilia.
Legacy media's current objective is to inflate EVERY story they can, let the public ruminate on it a bit and use engagement to either push it more or let it die out. The adminstration managed to capture the broad audience with faux mystery about how the liner failed, so everyone knew and was talking about it. Then they made arrests to drag attention to innocent people being scapegoated by a fascist government. So now we're forced to choose between spending the time correcting the record so innocent people don't end up in prison and bringing the focus back on Epstein with the understanding that its very likely nothing would come of it anyway. At least one of the 2 options helps free innocent people.
To be clear. I really wish we could force media to talk about both in equal length and with equal vigor, but they're in on it. I really hate where we are right now and found myself watching the World Cup trophy presentation despite actively disliking both countries in the final just on the non-zero chance I could see the feed interrupted by his assassination.
God that ending to the world cup would have been amazing. Too bad, but I like the way you think.
I didn't watch the world cup but I watched Trump's 4th of July speech in hopes he'd have a heatstroke or be hit by lightning. It was delayed a few hours due to a thunderstorm. Too bad his handlers probably talked him out of doing it in the thunderstorm