Pete Buttigieg Has A Name For What Trump Does When He's Desperate, And It's Spot On
Instead, Trump's base has begun turning on him over his administration's flip-flopping about whether an Epstein "client list" does or does not exist...
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And they're burning their hats to be heard.
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Amid the backlash, Trump used this time to bolster the unsupported claims of National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, who says she has evidence of an 'Obama Administration Conspiracy to Subvert Trump's 2016 Victory and Presidency.' (The Obama administration has denied this, and former CIA director John Brennan told NBC News, 'There is no factual basis for the allegations that Tulsi Gabbard is making.")
But, of course, that didn't stop Trump from sharing a fake, AI-generated video of Obama being arrested on his Truth Social account.
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Well, when asked about the chaos during his appearance on The Breakfast Club, former secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg called Trump's actions exactly as he saw them.
"So, Trump says, 'We're going to release the files, we're going to release the files, we're going to release the files.' And then he says, 'We're not going to release the files,'" Buttigieg told hosts.
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"And people are mad, including MAGA, saying, 'Wait a minute, you said you were going to release this information and you're not.'"
"And what does he do?" Buttigieg posed. "He's like, 'Uh, we're going to arrest Obama.'"
As hosts laugh, Buttigieg concludes, "That has nothing to do with anything," before adding a term for Trump's behavior anytime he's cornered, "It's the distraction machine."
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Viewers appear to resonate with the interview as a whole, which you can watch in full here.
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