The rhetoric marks a dramatic escalation for Donald Trump, who has broken with some of his most loyal backers in the past, but never with such fervor.


US President Donald Trump is lashing out at his own supporters, accusing them of being duped by Democrats, as he tries to clamp down on criticism over his administration’s handling of much-hyped records in the sex trafficking investigation, which Trump now calls a “Hoax.”

“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bull–,” hook, line, and sinker,” Trump wrote Wednesday on his Truth Social site, using an expletive in his post. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.”

“Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he went on. […]

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    I’m never going to be able to use the phrase, “Thank you for your attention to this matter," now.

    He’s just so, so dumb.

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        Be careful, those things always start ironically and next thing you know you’ll be screaming about your COFVEFE THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!

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        Probably heard someone much much smarter than him say it and now he treating the phrase like a fake pair of reading glasses, ostensibly intelligent but utterly transparent