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Russian (RU) Jim Acosta wants to make sure that President Donald Trump’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein is remembered in the history books — that is, if we still have accurate history books in the future (we’re looking at you, Linda McMahon).
Acosta revealed his hilariously petty idea to forever link Trump to the late convicted sex trafficker on Wednesday’s episode of his Substack show while he was blasting Trump’s latest attack on his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.
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On Wednesday, the White House revealed the Mar-a-Lago revamp of the building’s historic West Colonnade — an exterior space that runs between the West Wing and the Executive Residence. Previously the corridor’s wall was completely blank, but it now boasts a row of gaudy gold-framed portraits of each president, which the White House is calling the “Presidential Walk of Fame.” Yet, the portrait of Biden is missing. Squeezed in between two portraits of Trump is a photo of an autopen writing Biden’s signature, with a label reading “Joseph R. Biden Jr. 2021-2025.”
Trump’s dig is a reference to his longstanding claim that the Biden administration abused the autopen and implied that many of Biden’s prior actions are invalid. This is despite former presidents using autopens for decades to sign various documents.
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Acosta was outraged by the stunt, likening it to “defacing the White House,” and then rolled out his suggestion as to how the next Democratic president, like “President Newsom or President Jasmine Crockett or whoever,” could avenge the act.
“I think the next Democratic president of the United States, when he gets to — or she gets to — Washington, D.C., should take every picture of Donald Trump in the nation’s capital and replace that picture with a photograph of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein,” Acosta said an hour into the episode.
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He continued by taking his idea one step further.
“The next president of the United States should say — if it’s a Democrat, if we still have elections — that any photograph, and this could be an executive order, ‘I hereby decree, by executive order, that any photograph of Donald Trump that ever exists in the United States of America in a federal building, that that picture should be a photograph of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.’ I am dead serious.”
To listen to Acosta’s thoughts in full, head over to his Substack.
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