Jeffrey Epstein. The man who never dies. At least as far as Donald Trump is concerned.
Just this Thursday, The Wall Street Journal, that commie rag, posted a story giving the details of a letter Donald Trump wrote to Jeffrey Epstein on Epstein’s birthday in 2003. The text was mostly in the outline of a naked woman drawn in marker, inside which was typewritten text of a dialogue between Trump and Epstein mentioning an “enigma” and asking “what is better than having everything” and the two men telling each other they know the answer to that question. The text concluded with “Happy Birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret.” One article had the followup “Far-right activist Laura Loomer, who has called on the White House to appoint a special counsel to handle the release of the Epstein files, also called the letter “totally fake.” “I’m calling bullshit on this Trump “birthday letter” to Epstein. It’s totally fake. Everyone who actually KNOWS President Trump knows he doesn’t type letters,” she said on X.”
A good point, actually. I mean from what we’ve seen, there aren’t enough typos.
I mean nobody’s traced Trump directly to Epstein’s sex crimes, other than a dismissed lawsuit with witness testimony, or the fact that Trump was president when Epstein was arrested – after he’d already been sentenced in a sweetheart deal by prosecutor Alex Acosta, who was later made Labor Secretary in Trump’s first term. (At the time, Acosta was serving under Pam Bondi who was Florida’s Attorney General and is now the country’s Attorney General under Trump.) When Epstein kicked the oxygen habit, the Attorney General was Bill Barr, whose father was the headmaster of a school that hired a young Jeffrey Epstein as a teacher. The facts of Epstein’s death are still suspicious, especially after the re-released tape of prison security footage turned out to be doctored.
The one valid point Trump made in all of his rantings was, IF the Epstein information is so damaging to him, why didn’t the Democrats release it when they had the White House? But then that gets to the question, if the information is so damaging to the Clintons and liberal elites like Bill Gates, why hasn’t Trump released it yet?
This story has more legs than a centipede. Why? There are only two kinds of people in this country: Trumpniks, and people who live in the real world. And the only thing the two groups have in common is: “Epstein didn’t kill himself.”
What I keep getting back to is this: Why is Trump so panicky, and so defensive, and so guilty, when he knows that the law will never touch him, and never would touch him even before he got control of it? (Oh by the way, THANKS, Merrick Garland!)
Pondering the matter, I have several impressions:
Trump is the reason Freud is still relevant. In the back of his mind, he must know just how completely inadequate he is, how he has never been a self-made man, how everything he had was given to him by somebody else (like his daddy, or Mark Burnett) and he has wasted what was given to him and always needed someone more competent (like his daddy, Roy Cohn or Mitch McConnell) to bail him out. That’s why he can’t have competent people around him, because that would only remind him of his inadequacies. That’s why all his henchmen have to give him more praise than Kim Jong Un gets from his government. And it’s why he can’t stand to hear anybody telling the truth about him. So any time somebody says anything bad about him or that might seem bad about him, he lashes out. Now, if as he says, most of Epstein’s nasty stuff happened after Trump quit being involved with him, and there’s no direct evidence Trump was involved in sex crimes, he could confirm this. But Trump’s reactions get to the next point –
Trump is not a smart man. Which is an understatement on par with “Maybe Napoleon should have brought winter supplies to Russia.” Like, one of the other developments this week was when the DOJ fired Maurene Comey (who just happens to be a daughter of James Comey), who just happened to be one of the prosecutors in the federal Epstein case. The press speculated that this was an attempt to cut off new revelations, which is odd in that during the trial, Ms. Comey argued against releasing details of the crimes, for the sake of the victims. She was also a prosecutor in the case against record producer Sean Combs.
Basically this is a case of a guy who might have something to hide thinking he can conceal the fact by making it seem that much more likely that he’s got something to hide. But given the fact that a lot of the outrage among the MAGAts is because they genuinely didn’t know Trump was associated with Epstein, that gets to the last point –
Trump knows his base. I mean, calling them sheep would be an insult to sheep. These are the same people who thought Mexico would pay for the wall, that vaccines spread disease and that tariffs will fix inflation. They must be the same people who thought Liberace just hadn’t found the right gal.
He has good cause to think that they’ll believe him both when he says that the files don’t exist and that the Democrats made them up, even when Pam Bondi said she had the files and then handed copies to right-wing influencers, when they were made up by Democrats and don’t exist.
But when I say Trump knows his base, there’s a sinister side to that. That’s the reason Trump is still scared when he’s above the law. It’s not the law he’s scared of. I had mentioned during the election that the same people who think Trump 2.0 is a dystopia by and large wouldn’t actually vote for Kamala Harris, who was the one chance we had to avoid this. And these were the same people who cheered when Luigi Mangione (allegedly) killed healthcare executive Brian Thompson in outrage over insurance company policies. These people have given up thinking the constitutional system works, so they’re ready for old-fashioned policy solutions.
Well, now look at the people who actually idealize violence. Pundits use phrases like “stochastic terrorism” in regard to Trump. There are the people who (say) break into Nancy Pelosi’s house and beat her husband half to death. Broadly speaking they are what Richard Hanania refers to as “Gribbles.” But while conspiracy thinking has a broad following, these are the guys who go the extra mile. Trump can tell them “You gotta fight like hell, or you won’t have a country anymore.” He doesn’t have to openly order “hang Mike Pence”. They get the drift.
And he got these guys to assault Congress for him because he told them they were all crooked and all in on an evil conspiracy, and now that we’re seeing the aftermath of an evil conspiracy, it looks more and more like Trump is at the heart of it.
Come to think of it, the two times we know of that some guy tried to kill the God-Emperor, weren’t both those guys Republicans?
It leads to a point I’ve been making on social media recently: It’s not a good idea for a movement to encourage private citizens to buy high-powered firearms to resist a tyrannical government, and then once they win an election, use that same government to piss off the whole country.