The Not-So-Fantastic Four (Part 2 of 2)
Answering Your Questions About Epsteingate
Given recent news, I decided to make my Epsteingate post, meant to be a one-and-done affair, into a two-parter.
If you did not see the last one, check it out. Like I say there, “I wanted to take the opportunity now to help people see Donald Trump for who he really is. So, after listening to talk radio—and the latest both on cable and online—I wanted to try to answer some of your latest questions on Epsteingate.”
Enjoy the latest…
Oh I don’t believe that garbage! Look at that WSJ hit piece they did on Trump. Even Elon Musk doesn’t buy it, and he said Trump was in the Files. If Musk doesn’t believe it, why should I?
Honestly, you don’t even have to. Even if the WSJ article you are talking about was 100% false, we have enough on Trump and Epstein’s close and unique friendship to make you puke.
Like, in 2002, he said, “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with.” Then, he added, “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life” (emphasis mine).
Strange, right? As one person put it, “If you think back to how people would talk about Harvey Weinstein before #MeToo,” it’s like Trump is talking about this weird, open secret known to him and Epstein. Sounds pretty consistent with the Weinstein vibe to me.
By the way, not even Bill Clinton (and, again, I do not like Bill Clinton)—or anyone else—has been on the record making comments like that about Jeffrey Epstein.
Is that it? No. In many ways, the WSJ piece is the tamest one to come out with new updates on the Trump-Epstein friendship. For example, here is an article with a very chilling title: “What Jeffrey Epstein Learned from Donald Trump.”
The article itself—written by Craig Unger, a senior editor of New York Magazine in the 1980s—tells us how the inspiration for and strategy of Jeffrey Epstein’s “scouting” and “recruitment” of young girls came from Trump’s own modeling agency.
For those who are not aware, Trump’s modeling agency often violated immigration laws to illegally hire “young foreign girls” in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Around the same time period, Trump hosted parties at the Plaza Hotel—at the time, his Plaza Hotel—where older men would meet with girls as young as fifteen with hopes of scoring a modeling opportunity.
You and I can only imagine how that went. No wonder Epstein saw this Trump-made cesspool as a model (pun not intended) “for a crucial part of his own operation.”
So, who is the hero of this story again? Because it’s certainly not Donald Trump.
Either way, I digress. We will see where Trump’s lawsuit with the WSJ goes.
Once upon a time, Murdoch was Trump’s buddy who ran—and still runs—The New York Post and Fox News. You really expect me to believe Murdoch is “the Deep State?”
Besides, look at Trump’s denial. Funny enough, it’s a non-denial denial.
“This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
Note that he never denied that he signed it, or that the signature on the document was his. Why does this matter? Well, couldn’t Trump have very easily had someone draft this out for him to sign?
If anything, if I was a conspiracy theorist, I would wonder whether Murdoch let this story out to help Trump. After all, Murdoch is an ally of Trump’s. Up to now, this story has largely run on MAGA’s own bullshit detector. It risks ripping MAGA apart.
Then, all of a sudden, a story from the Fox News guy’s newspaper causes all the MAGA satellite media to rally around the MAGA hat? Doesn’t that strike you as odd?
But I’m not a conspiracy theorist. This probably is just a case of the mainstream media hopping onto a suggestive story to take advantage of the public’s appetite for more on Epsteingate. It’s as simple as that.
Or, Murdoch set up his own news team to be the sacrificial lamb for reuniting MAGA again. It would be pretty scummy, but I would not put it past a scumbag like Murdoch.
Come on man, use your common sense. That man [Trump] would die [or maybe his family would die] if he released those [Epstein List] names. You are all so naive…no street smarts at all.
I have almost taken this argument word-from-word from the comments section of an Instagram post of a conservative satire site called The Babylon Bee.
Like the famous stand-up comic Richard Pryor once joked, “who are you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?” What makes more sense, that Trump the close Epstein friend is trying to stall the investigation, or that Trump the model for Epstein’s sex trafficking recruitment oppo is actually secretly working with “the good guys” to take down the big pedophile ring?
And, if you really buy this, and Trump’s life were really at stake here, why would he and his senior campaign people make a promise they so obviously could not keep? By the way, it is not like this is Trump’s first attempt at “taking down the Deep State,” right?
So, I encourage anyone in the MAGA crowd to use your own street smarts here. This excuse for Trump just does not add up.
Trump wasn’t “hiding” the Files. He was just being careful with them. And he’s trying to meet the concerns. Look at what he’s making Pam Bondi do now. They’re going straight to the grand jury testimony.
Trump? Careful? Do you remember when Trump’s Administration rushed out the JFK Files and accidentally doxxed more than 400 random public servants by leaking their Social Security numbers and other private information?
(Take it from Mark Zaid, who has fought for decades to make those JFK records public: “Completely unnecessary & contributed nothing to JFK assassination understanding”).
Trump is only careful with something when it could make him look bad. That’s it. You simply can’t deny that—even if you are the Trumpiest of Trump supporters.
But let’s move on. The grand jury testimony move looks like a classic delay tactic. The government has more materials that it could easily release right now. Plus, the Trump Administration knows full well that it will take a while to get that grand jury testimony, due to the court’s legitimate concerns and due to the slowness of any court action normally.
So, my simple message to MAGA about this? He has called you stupid for questioning his new story about the “Epstein Hoax.” Now, he wants to prove exactly how stupid he thinks you are.
Don’t fall for the next flashy distraction. Follow the truth. Wherever it may lead.