General Discussion

Was he distracting from the Epstein Files? From economic decline at home? From plummeting poll numbers? Did he have some darker alternative motive? We can’t know. Indeed, all we do know is that his stated reasons for action changed so much—from concern about nuclear weapons to concern about missiles to concern about Iranian proxies in the region to support for Iranian protestors in the street to warnings of an urgent threat—were all embraced and discarded with such frequency that they certainly were just fabrications.