As MAGA world focuses on Epstein, Trump seeks focus on anything else

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/21/trump-epstein-distractions/

Over the past 48 hours, President Donald Trump has asked his Truth Social followers “How did [former USAID administrator] Samantha Power make all of that money?”

He said he might scuttle a stadium deal if the Washington Commanders football team doesn’t change its name back to the Washington Redskins.

He highlighted a memo from his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, that said Obama administration officials planned a “treasonous conspiracy in 2016” aimed at Trump. Emphasizing the point, he posted an AI-generated video of Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office.

During a fusillade of posts on the social network he owns, Trump even released a three-minute mash-up of clips that would seem more at place on-screen at a sports bar than in a president’s official feed: a woman snatching an approaching snake from the grass, a car sliding under a truck barreling along a highway, and no fewer than four people doing tricks on motorcycles and jet skis.

On Monday, Gabbard added another item to the list — announcing the release of hundreds of thousands of documents related to the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.