There are a lot of reasons to hate both of the President Grievance administrations but for me one of the top things is how these barely sentient boxes of hair have forced me into being a conspiracy theorist—because I simply do not believe in conspiracy theories. I don’t. Conspiracy theories are for stupid people who can’t apply reason to facts.

And yet during the first Grievance administration I found myself believing that the president was a wholly-owned Russian asset:  his campaign manager was Paul Manafort, he changed the GOP platform to be more Russia-friendly, Sergey Kislyak spent a lot of time with the campaign, and the president had already been a Putin fan boy since the late 1970s.

And now we get confirmation of a bunch of stuff. Let’s start with weird thing about this house in Florida:

The Maison de L’Amitie is a massive beachfront estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The 81,738 square foot mansion sits on 6.2 acres – with 475 feet of sandy beach facing the Atlantic Ocean. It belonged to Abraham Gosman, a millionaire who owned health care properties across the country – until he went bankrupt.

In a 2004 auction, Trump snapped up the property from Gosman’s Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Estate for $41 million, according to property records.

Four years later, Trump sold the mansion for $95 million.

The official deed on that deal says that Trump Properties sold the property to County Road Property LLC. But that’s just a front. The real buyer of the property was Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.

Well it looks like it really was a Russia op:

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal… and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2025-11-12T21:56:54.225Z

Oh and there’s more to buttress the Trump/Putin/and now Epstein connection:

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi http://www.politico.com/news/2025/11…

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-11-12T20:43:06.125Z

If you’re a conspiracy theorist, you might have thought that Putin turned President Grievance into Reek in Helsinki because he had dirt on him:

Turns out, Putin turned the president into Reek in Helsinki because he had dirt on him:

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi http://www.politico.com/news/2025/11…

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-11-12T20:43:06.125Z

And then Epstein finally ended up in jail. And then he was mysteriously found dead, with all sorts of anomalies at in the crime scene:

Inside the cell, piles of linens had been strewn about, mattresses were squeezed into a corner on the floor near his bunk bed and Epstein’s personal items were rearranged or moved, photos from the scene show. Experts who reviewed photos of the scene for CBS News said there were also inconsistencies between the investigators’ official reports and what the images show.

So Epstein sold Putin info about the president, Putin told Trump, Epstein got arrested and then he mysteriously died.

I can’t believe I just wrote that as a mostly serious proposition.

I hate that this isn’t something you can just dismiss out of hand. Because remember when Trump and Putin met in Alaska and this was one of the stories:

MSNBC host Antonia Hylton has suggested that President Donald Trump’s aides, particularly Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, may have been “frightened” by what they had witnessed during the president’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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“A lot of the press corps that was there, they reported in the minutes and hours after the presser that they saw members of the administration, like Karoline Leavitt, look ashen, almost frightened after what they had seen behind closed doors. What did that indicate to you?” Hylton asked McFaul.

Now think back to Leavitt’s being completely unnerved at her briefing on Wednesday about the release of these Epstein materials. Her usual slick lying wasn’t on display for once.

I hate that it makes sense.

Oh and remember the crazy conspiracy theory that a bunch of rich and powerful men were involve in a worldwide pedophile ring? Well, here’s the wife of former Harvard University president Larry Summers chummily recommending books that were like Nabokov’s Lolita:

Interesting email here from Elisa New, Harvard professor and wife to Larry Summers, to Epstein, reflecting on Lolita. "…it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."

— Josh Kovensky (@joshkovensky.bsky.social) 2025-11-12T22:19:04.669Z

Oh and the New York Times knew about Epstein’s and Trump’s possible crimes but decided not to publish anything about it:

“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein

— Ari Drennen (@aridrennen.bsky.social) 2025-11-12T19:54:22.236Z

I guess it’s not a conspiracy theory if it’s real. It is enraging and sickening.

I’ll leave you with this: