IT’S HARD TO imagine a worse moment for Donald Trump to be caught in the Epstein dragnet than at the tail end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, with food benefits rattled, “affordability” on everyone’s minds, and his own voters starting to wonder if the guy in the red tie is actually on their side.
On the same day Trump finally signed a bill to reopen the government after 43 days of chaos, a coalition of House Democrats and Republicans dropped a tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails that punches holes straight through the president’s carefully curated story about a distant, long-ago acquaintance, with Epstein alleging Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours at my house” with one of the victims.
While the messages don’t show criminal conduct by Trump, they landed at a moment when Americans are already furious with his handling of Epstein’s files, the shutdown, and the basic question of whether their government works for the powerful or for everyone else. Together, they form a pincer around a president who keeps promising transparency and law and order, then flinching the second those promises threaten him personally.
Exactly. There could be photographic evidence and a confession from Trump that he had sex with a 9 year old and His supporters would turn around and say pedophilia is actually good and a strong Christian value. These guys love Trump because He’s Trump. It doesn’t matter what he does and says because their entire world view is based on what He says. They worship Him as their true God.
The fact that he’s saying that the full files will be released now either means he’s like yeah, fuck it, there’s nothing I can’t get away with, or he’s already gotten away with scrubbing them.