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If there was any doubt CNN has zero clue what people around the heartland believe, this was erased Thursday.

The Blaze reported Friday that CNN hosts Dana Bash and John King were left “perplexed” at Iowa voters’ answers to the most pressing issues of the day including the Trump prosecutions, Ukraine, and 2020 election fraud. They simply could not understand why voters no longer trusted them.

The segment opens with King making a recent visit to Iowa to speak with voters. As it begins, King haughtily intoned that the voters’ “reverence for Ronald Reagan” and “optimism” has been overridden by Trump’s grievances, “disdain of big government” and “Trump’s distrust of just about everything.” Their answers below certainly explain why King was so triggered.

One man said that he completely agreed with Trump’s claim that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen from him.

I think he (Trump) thinks he (Biden) stole it from him. And I and and lot of people agree with him.

The voter also went on to blast the disgraceful Trump prosecutions being carried out by the Biden regime and their cronies.

Nothing about that deal is the American way.

One of the more notable moments in the video occurs when King asked the voters to raise their hands if they think the voters should be supporting Ukraine in the fight against Putin.

Not a single one raises their hand!

WATCH:

WATCH: CNN reporter visibly stunned into silence after Iowa Trump supporters take turns shooting down CNN, Biden Regime Psy-Ops to his FACE

“A few days here makes clear Trump’s grip is very strong.” pic.twitter.com/D2UspRNTws

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 10, 2023

One voter raised an interesting theory that all the money being spent over in Ukraine is being used to cover up Hunter and the Biden Crime Family’s corruption.

Is the war over there being used to cover up sins committed (by the Bidens) so they can cover their (the Bidens) tracks? There’s too much money that’s been thrown over there.

Another man then noted you cannot trust anything the government has said because they have “shut down Twitter and Facebook” and ordered them to “not show certain news stories.”

Once the segment concluded, King and Bash could not understand why the voters were not buying the falsehoods their network has propagated for decades. Surely they would use these next moments for some introspection?

No, they instead started insulting the voters and said they were the problem. Bash started off by ranting about how these intelligent Iowa residents were “seeped in these completely conspiratorial questions and thoughts.”

One of the things that struck me first and foremost, obviously, was — and it really, in my gut, in my heart — was just how seeped in these completely conspiratorial questions and thoughts are in the zeitgeist, particularly when you are talking to Republicans who consume conservative media who don’t tell them the whole truth

CNN’s John King:

Listening to Republican voters who are skeptical of support for Ukraine is “like watching the open of an old Tucker Carlson show…”

“They’re good people…They go to Church! But they believe things that would break our fact-check machine…And they don’t trust… pic.twitter.com/oVrKSRGTlK

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 10, 2023

King was a bit more sympathetic toward the voters but still quite condescending. He implied that the voters were completely brainwashed by Tucker Carlson, particularly on Ukraine.

When you hear the Ukraine exchange there, it’s like watching the open of an old Tucker Carlson show. He’s not there any more, but that’s what it is.

They’re good people. They raise money for the Girl Scouts. They go to church. But they believe things that would break our fact-check machine. That’s just a fact. And they don’t trust us. They think we’re part of the problem.

That is because they are part of the problem. As the Blaze notes, they hardly bother fact-checking Biden’s numerous lies. 11 of the 12 recent fact-checks have targeted Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and one even sought to defend Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal.

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A long, deep and demonstrable association to the late ‘king of pedophiles’ has become like a bad stench that never goes away.

In the days when he held court like a Jay Gatsby from hell, an Epstein connection could facilitate business ventures, or show the way to tax relief – but also could mean that he set the rich and powerful with something else: sex-trafficked young girls – sometimes underage.

Read More here:

Jes Staley Versus Jamie Dimon: Wall Street Giants Play the Blame Game Over Epstein Trafficking Ring Association

Ever since his arrest in 2019 and his suspicious death in jail while awaiting trial for sex trafficking, the floodgates were opened by a myriad of lawsuits, mostly by his trafficking victims, with one of them being moved by the government of the US Virgin islands territory.

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Jes Staley Versus Jamie Dimon: Wall Street Giants Play the Blame Game Over Epstein Trafficking Ring Association

Lately, a string of lawsuits in New York Federal Court has produced an astonishing amount of discovery, leading to part of it leaking to the press and generating an avalanche of reputational damage for a host of household names of the industry, finance, and entertainment.

The latest disclosure in this saga came from a May deposition from the already-pleaded out class action suit from Epstein Victims against JPMorgan Chase bank.

It involves a testimony by Richard Kahn, an executor of Epstein’s estate.

The New York Times reported:

“At least one longtime sexual abuse victim of Jeffrey Epstein who received a monetary settlement from his estate can also pursue separate claims against two powerful former Wall Street executives who had ties to the convicted sex offender, according to two people briefed on the matter.”

The victim’s settlement with Epstein state included a ‘carve out’ provision involving Leon Black, a billionaire private equity investor, and James E. Staley, a former top executive at JPMorgan Chase and Barclays.

It’s suggested that the arrangement could set a precedent and expose Black and Staley ‘to further scrutiny and liability’.

“’She was a victim, potentially, to these individuals’, Mr. Kahn said in the deposition, according to one of the people. Mr. Kahn said that Mr. Epstein’s estate agreed to the carve-out provision so that the unnamed woman could potentially sue for ‘harms that she incurred’.”

The NYT source said that Khan’s testimony states that ‘at least one other victim’ had reserved a similar exception from the estate, and other victims might have asked for the provision with regard to other men.

“In settling claims with victims, Mr. Epstein’s estate had sought to limit the potential for litigation against anyone with ties to Mr. Epstein. A settlement carve out provides a victim with a limited exception from such a broad release to pursue other litigation.”

This latest round of disclosures add to the recent woes of Wall Street giant Leon Black.

“Susan Estrich, a lawyer for Mr. Black, said the leak of Mr. Kahn’s deposition testimony ‘is baseless character assassination’ involving ‘anonymous women who have never brought a claim against Mr. Black’.”

Black is being sued in Federal Court by Epstein victims who accuse him of rape in Epstein’s mansion, and simultaneously investigated by the Senate over his financial links to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Jes Staley Versus Jamie Dimon: Wall Street Giants Play the Blame Game Over Epstein Trafficking Ring Association

and here:

Jes Staley Versus Jamie Dimon: Wall Street Giants Play the Blame Game Over Epstein Trafficking Ring Association

As for Jes Staley, whose vast correspondence with Epstein revealed a deep friendship and raise questions regarding his awareness of the doings of the Epstein Trafficking ring.

In June, JPMorgan agreed to pay $290 million to settle the class-action lawsuit from the victims, but it continues to fight the suit by the Virgin Islands.

JPMorgan is also suing Mr. Staley in connection with that suit, claiming he could be liable for damages they suffer.

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Jes Staley Versus Jamie Dimon: Wall Street Giants Play the Blame Game Over Epstein Trafficking Ring Association

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