KNOWN: President Trump moved two nuclear subs closer to Russia in response to provocative Moscow statements.
UNKNOWN: It isn’t clear to some if these are nuclear-powered or nuclear-weapon-equipped vessels.
BEST GUESS: Unfortunately, Trump and Putin could be headed for the kind of dangerous conflict that Joe Biden worked hard to avoid and/but which was always probably inevitable if the Ukraine conflict is ever going to end.
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KNOWN: The Gang of 500 is fully opposed to the president’s sacking of the BLS topper after he didn’t like her jobs report (via the Washington Post):
“The president is just shooting the messenger, it’s not more complicated than that,” said Doug Holtz-Eakin, president of the right-leaning American Action Forum and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office. “The data that were released today conformed in every way to the standards of past employment reports.”
UNKNOWN: Has Erika McEntarfer lawyered up?
BEST GUESS: There are at least two more shoes to drop on this one.
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KNOWN: The sources fueling the “Hegseth can’t last in the job” stories are just never giving up, as per this Wall Street Journal re-run/rehash.
UNKNOWN: If Trump-Vance-Wiles are now fully satisfied with the team around the SecDef.
BEST GUESS: Seven of the nine lives available to this cat have been used up, but he’s husbanding the pair of remaining chances.
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KNOWN: Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell secretly moved to a Club Fed prison in Texas.
UNKNOWN: Why she was moved, an absence of explanation from the Trump administration that is laughable, telling, inexplicable, inappropriate, and likely to cause more accusations of coverup.
BEST GUESS: A shocking deal is in the works.
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KNOWN: Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide.
UNKNOWN: Who killed him.
BEST GUESS: [REDACTED AT THE DIRECTION OF [REDACTED]].
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KNOWN: The Dominant Media is back to thumb suckers quoting John Bolton to explain Donald Trump’s erratic behavior.
UNKNOWN: How long it will be before Trump’s niece, his unofficial biographers, Sarah Longwell, and Stuart Stevens are trotted out to do the same.
BEST GUESS: Game on for the Resistance and the floodgates are about to open on this.
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KNOWN: New York Post:
UNKNOWN: How long does a pancake stay fresh in a pocket?
BEST GUESS: Syrup options will be developed soon.