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JVL and Sarah say Trump’s “hang them” posts are both escalation and distraction: he melts down whenever anyone reminds the military that their oath is to the Constitution, not to him, and this triggers his long-standing obsession with total obedience from “the guys with guns.” At the same time, he’s seizing on this outrage cycle to smother the Epstein-email story that was starting to corner him. The real danger, they argue, is how normalized this level of presidential extremism has become.