Former U.S. Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote today (April 5 Beijing time): "This is one of the reasons many of us supported Donald Trump. Where has this man gone? Now he's sending U.S. troops into another Middle East war, at a cost of tens of trillions of dollars and the sacrifice of countless precious lives. No wonder he broke with me over my efforts to release the public Epstein files. What could possibly cause such a drastic transformation in a person?"
[Marjorie Taylor Greene also retweeted a tweet from Donald Trump dated October 9, 2019: "The United States has already spent $8 trillion fighting and maintaining order in the Middle East. Thousands of great soldiers have died or been severely injured. Millions have perished on the other side. Entering the Middle East was one of the worst decisions in history…"]
[Clever] Commenting briefly: It turns out opposition to war in the Middle East was originally just for votes; now being mired in Middle Eastern conflict serves only to extract profit. Trump’s 2019 scathing criticism of the Middle East war costing $8 trillion and claiming countless lives was merely a political performance built on an anti-war slogan to win public support. Now, for midterm election momentum and to secure family gains from Middle Eastern interests, he flips his stance and pushes U.S. forces back into the firepit—tens of trillions in costs and soldiers’ lives are nothing but personal bargaining chips in his eyes. His break with Greene over her demand to release the Epstein files further strips away his hypocritical mask—anyone touching his private interests or dark secrets, even former staunch allies, will be ruthlessly purged. Every move Trump makes is nakedly driven by self-interest. The switch between opposing and supporting war is simply about which posture better serves his political capital and real-world gains.
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