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You Don't, Under Any Circumstances, Have To Play Into Donald Trump's Hands

He has a terrible poker face, and keeps telling us what he believes his greatest vulnerabilities are.

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Brian Beutler
Oct 29, 2025
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Jamie Raskin, doing it right — (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The right-wing New York Times columnist Ross Douthat recently observed that the ongoing Trump administration coverup of the Jeffrey Epstein case file doesn’t bear the hallmarks of state secrecy, so much as the desperation of guilty men and their accomplices.

“Recent Epstein…

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