[odawg]

I don’t know what is going on up there. Don’t the Trump administators know they can fire people. Why sit around and let them conspire.

[MeanWestTexan]

It takes a while.

Undoubtedly, some cabal is sitting on the Epstein list, too.

[Political Junkie Too]

I don’t know what is going on up there.

Here is what's going on.

Deep-state Obama/Biden holdovers are repeating the 2017 playbook that ultimately caused the dismissals of Mike Flynn and Jeff Sessions.

1. Attorney General Pam Bondi said publicly that the FBI gave her the totality of the FBI documents on Epstein, only to find out from a whistleblower that the FBI was withholding thousands of documents from her, undermining her credibility with the national public in the first six weeks of the Trump administration.

2. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before Congress one month after her confirmation that Iran had no program to develop nuclear weapons, only to be publicly rebuked by Israeli intelligence and President Trump before the Fordow air strike.

3. Someone leaked a low-confidence intelligence assessment that suggested that the Fordow strike did not destroy the uranium enrichment facilities to influence the immediate media narrative, something which was proven wrong just days later.

Both the Bondi and Gabbard incidents seem to be cases of entrenched deep-state holdovers working to undermine the Trump administration by making the most important and trusted Cabinet officers seem unreliable and incompetent. The objective is to create a wedge between these officers and President Trump with the goal of him ultimately firing them. Someone seems to be trying to recreate the incidents in Trump's first term that led to his firing of Michael Flynn and Jeff Sessions.

The playbook is:

1. Using legitimate investigative tools to collect compromising material. They are opening pretextual investigations to gather compromising material.

2. Releasing selective information to create scandals. They are feeding false information to create public embarrassment.

3. Undermining appointee credibility to pressure resignations. They are coordinating with the LAAP-dog media to amplify negative narratives.

4. Creating wedges between President Trump and his trusted advisors by exploiting bureaucratic processes to undermine his administration's effectiveness.

President Trump keeps saying that the target is the rest of us and he's just in the way. Since they can't seem to touch President Trump, they're targeting his closest advisors.

1. They also tried to get rid of Pete Hegseth with the Signal scandal, and he's turned out to be great at the DoD. It's ironic that they tried to create an intelligence scandal over Signal, and then they resorted to leaking a worthless intelligence assessment out of desparation.

2. They tried to get rid of Elon Musk because of his close friendship to President Trump. The irony is that they didn't have to waste that political capital and credibility; Musk was going to blow up the friendship all on his own.

3. So far, they've kept a hands-off on Marco Rubio. He's actually surprised me at how effective he's been as Secretary of State.

4. They're now targeting Bessent, but he seems to be holding his own.

5. Steve Witkoff is untouchable. He's Donald Trump's best friend and he's been yugely successful on Trump's behalf.

6. Howard Lutnick is similarly untouchable. His relationship with Trump doesn't go as far back as Witkoff's, but he's a trusted friend, too.

-PJ