Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in MAGAville – mighty Donald has struck out.
-with apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer
True, there is not likely anywhere a little black book of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients. The Epstein file can’t even be stuffed into a bulging manila file folder to sit on Pam Bondi’s desk. For the lightly informed, there are various bits and pieces of journalism floating around on the internet that seem to make the whole Epstein issue a minor affair involving a list of a few people like Bill Clinton – and what surprise is there in Bill Clinton’s involvement in salacious things?
It is these lightly informed people whom Donald Trump wants to impress by comparing the “Epstein Hoax” to Russia, Russia, Russia and the other fake stuff that the DNC put out to bring Trump down in his first term.
No, if you were an investigator at the F.B.I., you wouldn’t start looking for a little black book. You would start with a question: How in the heck did this schmuck Epstein go from working in a bookstore to having billions of dollars, owning a private island among other expensive properties, and rubbing elbows with the rich and famous all over the world?
That would lead to other questions, like why was former federal Attorney General Bill Barr’s father the one that plucked Epstein out of the obscurity of the bookstore and set him up in the “financial services” business. And then why was Bill Barr himself the A.G. who ended up prosecuting Epstein? And why did Epstein’s consort, the awkwardly named and currently imprisoned Ghislaine Maxwell, “happen” to be the daughter of one of the Israeli intelligence agency’s chief operatives? And why was she sourcing underage girls for Epstein and his clients among other willing or not so willing sexual partners?
Those questions would lead you to many more, but at this point you would whip out your laptop and set up a spreadsheet to organize a mountain of evidence. One column would be labeled “Johns.” Another would be labeled “Victims.” Another would be labeled “Coconspirators.” Another would be labeled “Known Unknowns.” Another would be labeled “Unknown Unknowns.” And on and on.
And down the left side of the spreadsheet you would have over two decades of years listed. Hundreds and apparently even into the thousands of people, guilty and innocent, would be typed into the cells. Cells upon cells upon cells.
So it went. This is how the universe of Epstein files was built. But the prosecution that put Epstein in prison – and led to his “suicide” that was no suicide at all – focused on only a very few victims and johns in order to put him away, get him somewhere he could be conveniently suicided, and deep six the whole shebang. Pun intended. So grand jury testimony involves only a very narrow slice of the entire Epstein story.
The people involved with Epstein were very wealthy, very powerful, and indeed were the kind of people who turned the wheels of the world. Some still do. They misbehaved sexually in manifold ways and Epstein recorded it. And sexual blackmail is the ultimate weapon, kryptonite against not just financial power but especially against political power.
The Epstein “file” that is being concealed is too big for any one book or any one laptop. No doubt it is the kind of thing AI would be useful in tying together. And no doubt it is just one example of how our government has been compromised by enemies both from within and from without, and that is why despite all the other big things going on, any suppression of the Epstein files is as big a deal as big deals get.
That’s the history Trump wants you to think is a hoax. Not a story, history. If the Epstein files have been corrupted, then have the F.B.I. do the forensics, rebuild the files, and arrest the perpetrators in the files, and also those who corrupted the files. There is no hoax about Epstein and what he was doing over years and years with many, many people. Including Donald Trump.
Now that Trump is trying to sweep it all under the rug, it is clear that somehow Donald Trump is damaged goods, and somehow it involves the Epstein files. And it cannot simply be a birthday card. Which explains at least in part why it is six months in and we’re still feeding weapons and money into Ukraine. And why the self-proclaimed peace president just bombed the poop out of a country with whom we are not at war and Israel is bombing countries left and right with lesser bombs which they source from us. And why Hamas still holds hostages. And why not a single arrest has been made for the stolen election, the Biden mental health coverup, or any of the other abuses of power of the Biden years. Trump is owned somehow, by somebody, but not by the people who voted for him.
The time is now to plan for the post-Trump world, before Republicans lose their slight edge in Congress or Trump strokes out for real – he’s not looking so well lately and after all, he is nearly 80. He’s certainly acting erratically, contradicting himself and attacking ideological allies like Thomas Massie and Rand Paul and his own base. Perhaps a third party movement is the answer now. But by all means, we need to make sure J.D. Vance is all there and that the MAGA appointments hold fast. And do everything we individually can to obliviate the vestiges of the Obama/Biden regime.
Trump might still do some good for MAGA ideals before the midterms but most likely his goose is cooked and after that, America’s is.
Because mighty Donald has struck out.
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