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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · Nov 11

We’ve been tracking long-term lawbreaking and corruption by Donald Trump & his allies since 2020. Looks like we’re not done. Thanks for having us at BlueSky! trumpfile.org

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𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 2h

{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿}: Peter Thiel’s ❝𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕤❞ reveal less prophecy than projection. 🕯️💭 The billionaire rails against power while basking in it, cosplaying philosopher as he toys with apocalypse. His theology isn’t Revelation — it’s 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗮𝗯𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗱𝗼-𝗺𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘀𝘁. 🌀💰

Peter Thiel’s private ❝antichrist lectures❞ reveal a man wrestling with his own power under the guise of metaphysics. Across four off-record talks in San Francisco, the billionaire tries to channel his late mentor René Girard’s dense theological style, but instead delivers what Adrian Daub calls ❝Dan Brown with a venture fund.❞ Thiel denounces academia even as he courts it, lecturing scholars on apocalypse, sovereignty, and AI regulation — casting critics of Silicon Valley excess as ❝legionnaires of the antichrist.❞ His musings on empire and Armageddon double as a veiled autobiography: a man trying to distance himself from the very systems he built. For all his talk of evil, the portrait that emerges isn’t prophetic but self-revealing — a tech mogul mistaking his reflection for revelation.

{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} If I had my way, those hopelessly vain souls —so enamoured with their own reflections— would face a categorical ban on mirrors, and anything else shiny enough to indulge their self-obsession.

❝You realize… who runs the world is something like the antichrist.❞
Peter Thiel, off-record lecture, The Guardian, Fri. 10-Oct-2025

❝Here’s a man who… helped return a sundowning caudillo to a presidency he is obviously unsuited for… and funds far-right movements that seek to remake the very face of liberal democracy.❞
Adrian Daub, The Guardian, Ibid

❝In all times and all places, people want to always scapegoat the Christian God for our problems.❞
Ibid

❝The Antichrist might present himself or itself or herself as the Katechon… that withholding element that forestalls the apocalypse.❞
Ibid

❝The description he gives of the antichrist might also apply to one Peter Thiel.❞
Ibid

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 8h

Chicago, United States, 2025.

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 8h

There are people who genuinely believe Israel had to kill over 67,000 people to beat a terrorist organization that killed 1,200.

How many Americans do they think will have to die to beat Antifa, a non-existent terrorist organization that has killed 0?

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FiveToePhil @fivetoephil.bsky.social · 14h

Terrifying

Leiendecker told Axios that his purchase and rebranding of Dominion Voting Systems will bring “a new chapter for American elections” as his company “rebuilds” the machines that worked just fine in 27 states last year.

TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 2d

A MAGA entrepreneur who owns voter ID software has taken control of Dominion Voting Systems, rebranding it Liberty Vote and promising to "rebuild" the secure voting machines.

Republicans to 'rebuild' Dominion voting machines

The new owner of Dominion Voting Systems has a plan, but he's not saying much.

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 9h

Today in 2016, Don Jr. met with a French group that was a known front for Russian intelligence. They paid him $50,000 for the meeting. Unrelated, the hosts previously nominated Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Donald Trump Jr. is paid $50,000 to meet with Russian assets in Paris (October 11, 2016)

Donald Trump Jr. is paid at least $50,000 to attend a private event paid for by a French think tank known to be a front for Russian intelligence. The 30-person event at the Ritz Hotel in Paris is hosted by the Center for Political and Foreign Affairs (CFPA), which France's…

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 10h

Today in 2001, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal gave NYC Mayor and current Halloween decoration Rudy Giuliani a check for $10 million, made out to a charity for 9/11 victims. Previously, the Saudi prince saved Trump from bankruptcy. Twice.

Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal gives Rudy Giuliani $10 million for 9/11 (October 11, 2001)

New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal visit the site of 9/11. The prince hands Giuliani a letter and a check for $10 million. In the letter, bin Talal writes that he is sorry for "the loss of life that the City of New York…

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

“Do we really want armed 18-year-olds on ICE raids?” 10/10/25 www.pilotonline.com/2025/10/10/c...

Column: Do we really want armed 18-year-olds on ICE raids?

In its rush to expand, ICE is placing immigrants, citizens and its own agents in harm’s way, immigration attorney Raul A. Reyes writes in an LA Times column.

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 1d

ES&S, a voting machine company founded by Republicans, has been connected to issues in nearly every election this century. Here's what you should know since another Republican just bought Dominion. trumpfile.substack.com/the-electron...

The electronic threat to U.S. democracy

Some voting machines connect to the internet, and Republicans refuse to protect them from hackers.

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 1d

DHS posted this voicemail as actual evidence that "Antifa terrorists" want to kill ICE agents and their families. The caller says what happened to the Nazis after World War II will happen to ICE. (Most Nazi agents went to prison or had to pay fines.)

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 1d

Today is World Mental Health Day, so for anyone who needs to hear it, please remember that your mental health is important. Being an informed citizen needs to be a top priority right now, but take break days from the chaos if you can. The regime will still be here tomorrow.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

I knew something was afoot in Missouri: On 9/30/25, Judge Kacsmaryk transferred a long-standing suit re: the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone from TX to the eastern district of Missouri. “All but one of the current full-time district court judges in [that district] were appointed by…Trump.” 1/

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 1d

Nope, not sure at all!

TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 1d

Today in 1989, three top executives at Trump’s Taj Mahal casino died in a freak helicopter crash. The casino had yet to open, but Trump later blamed the crash for his financial struggles.

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 2d

The White House filmed this ad after the "Antifa roundtable" yesterday. I fear there's simply no way any of us can compete with the millions of dollars they're spending to make people believe Antifa is real.

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 2d

A MAGA entrepreneur who owns voter ID software has taken control of Dominion Voting Systems, rebranding it Liberty Vote and promising to "rebuild" the secure voting machines.

Republicans to 'rebuild' Dominion voting machines

The new owner of Dominion Voting Systems has a plan, but he's not saying much.

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 2d

This week in 2020, Donald Trump told Reince Priebus that he would declare victory on election night before the votes were counted. (When election night came, he famously demanded that election officials "Stop The Count.")

Donald Trump: I'll say I won on election night (October 9, 2020)

Sometime during or after the second week of October, Donald Trump tells Reince Priebus he plans to claim victory for himself on election night. His former chief of staff Reince Priebus told a friend he was stunned when Trump called him around that time and acted out his script, including…

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 3d

Reporting from 2020, the first time Trump accused "Antifa" of terrorism:

Of ~900 politically motivated plots in the U.S. since 1994, just one attack staged by an anti-fascist led to fatalities. In that case, the single person killed was the perpetrator. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/j...

Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in the US in 25 years

As Trump rails against ‘far-left’ fascism, new database shows leftwing attacks have left far fewer people dead than violence by rightwing extremists

www.theguardian.com

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 3d

Read. This.

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 4d

How to communicate safely when the government is using A.I. to monitor your social media

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 4d

Today in 2016, the world heard Trump say that he grabs women "by the pussy." In response to this leak, the Trump campaign ordered WikiLeaks to release more DNC emails as a distraction.

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 4d

"He's not trying to stop left-wing terrorism. He is staging it."

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 4d

Two judges have told ICE to release Leqaa Kordia. They’re keeping her on accusations that she supports Hamas, because she sent money to help family members stuck in Palestine. She’s been locked up in an ICE detention center for over six months.

She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.

To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 4d

Today in 1999, Donald Trump started teasing his second campaign for president. Running as a third-party candidate with no game show audience yet, Trump never passed 7% in the polls. His first campaign, in 1987, ended as soon as it began.

Donald Trump & Roger Stone plot next presidential campaign (October 7, 1999)

Donald Trump announces that he's created a presidential exploratory committee and would like Oprah Winfrey to be his running mate. Soon after, he begins a campaign managed by Roger Stone. Trump runs as a member of the Reform Party. He releases a book of his policy proposals, including single-payer health…

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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 5d

Today in 2020, DHS released a report confirming two issues the Trump administration attempted to cover up. 1) White supremacist groups are the most lethal threat to Americans. 2) Most disinformation online comes from Russia.

DHS: White supremacists & Russian propaganda are the greatest threats to the U.S. (October 6, 2020)

The Department of Homeland Security (finally) releases the completed version of an annual threat assessment identifying white supremacy groups as the greatest lethal threat to the nation. The report also states that Russia is the top source of disinformation (a.k.a. "fake news") in the country. Over the past several months,…

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