Playing Hide and Seek with the Epstein File

 

Pssst. Donald…It ain’t working.

Donald Trump is in trouble. And Donald Trump knows it.

The Teflon Don, able to convince his followers to shrug off and ignore every scandal, every mocking of the handicapped and the unfortunate, every lie, every inconsistency, every act of stupidity, every law he has violated, the bragging of sexual assault and leading a violent attack on Congress to steal an election, has finally found himself sinking in a political tarpit …and his method of pulling himself from the tarpit is less than grabbing a rope to pull himself out but instead using a shovel to dig himself deeper and deeper.

That tarpit is the Epstein file and whether or not he is included in the file. Despite Trump’s claims that he is not, the circumstantial evidence says he is.

When asked if he ever observed Trump in the company of underaged girls, Jeffery Epstein’s response during a disposition was “though I’d like to answer that question…I am going to have to assert my 5^th, 6^th and 14^th amendment rights.” You have to think a “no” answer, if Trump was never engaged with underaged girls, would have been an easy response if that were the case.

In Trump’s own words, something he and Epstein had in common was that “he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” How young?

According to Trump in a Howard Stern interview, he acknowledged liking younger women but did have a line he would not cross: “…(not) like Congressman Foley, with 12 year olds.”

Trump bragged about walking into dressing rooms while teenage girls were undressed at his Miss Teen USA beauty pageants. “As the owner, you sort of get away with things like that.”

Trump was caught on tape lusting over an underaged girl as they each rode the escalator in opposite directions. A friend of Trump’s shared the story of how when they were playing tennis Trump mentioned to him that he found the teenage girl playing in a nearby court attractive and the friend had to advise Trump that the girl was his daughter.

Even with adult women he is immoral. He brags about sexually assaulting women. He was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman. Epstein shared that Trump would use Epstein’s Manhattan apartment to “f### his friend’s wives.” Epstein says when he asked Trump why he is obsessed with having sex with these women, Trump’s reply was “because it’s so bad.”

The question then, is how bad can “it’s so bad” be to pleasure him? One woman has said Trump and Epstein “raped” her when she was 13.

While Trump says he never visited Epstein’s island, in clarifying this he said “I have never had the privilege to visit.” It should be noted that it came out during Epstein’s legal proceedings that underaged sex also occurred in his Manhattan apartment. You don’t have to literally go to the island for Epstein’s services.

So how suspicious is it that Trump not only might have had inappropriate relations with underaged women but also in connection with Epstein? Trump and his administration’s own words and actions make it more and more suspicious.

His Attorney General Pam Bondi stated she had the Epstein file with all its damning evidence on her desk. She said she would soon be releasing it. But then Elon Musk tweets that the reason the file had been withheld is that Trump’s name is included in the file. Bondi’s eventual response to that: there is no such client list. It doesn’t exist.

Trump then fired the prosecutor in the Epstein case.

Trump, who pledged to his base who long sought the release of the files that he would release all the files once elected, now says it is all a hoax. A client list doesn’t exist. When his base objected and continued to call for its release, he condemned those in MAGA who keep pursuing the issue as “fools” and “losers” and instructed them to drop it. His daily obsession and anger with their pursuit for more information, as well as his practice of deflecting questions about the Epstein file by redirecting reporters to wild accusations against the likes of Barak Obama and Oprah Winfrey, only make him appear to be hiding something.

Trump insisted he knows his name does not appear in any Epstein file. Now we know that he was advised by the DOJ in May that his name appears in the file multiple times. That is how Musk learned Trump is included.

His explanation of a file changes frequently. It exists and has been hidden by Democrats because Democrats are listed. It doesn’t exist. It exists, but it is a fake file created by Democrats to frame Trump and Republicans.

On one hand he says no file exists and he has never seen a list of Epstein clients. But then he claims he has seen the evidence that certain Democrats have been on the island, including Bill Clinton “28 times.”

When it became obvious that the House had the votes to order the release of the files, Trump had House Speaker Mike Johnson cut the House off at the pass by closing Congress early. It will not resume for two months. What is happening during this pause? Trump has sent the Assistant Attorney General who served as Trump’s personal attorney during the Stormy Daniels case to meet with Epstein’s convicted partner in the sex crimes for private discussions.

What could be the objective of these sudden discussions? Given Trump’s history of giving pardons to convicted felons who agree to support him, is it unreasonable to believe a pardon is being discussed if she supports his claim that he was never involved?

So, what should happen when Congress returns? Any testimony by brothel madam Ghislaine Maxwell may now be questionable. She may lie in exchange for a pardon. But she can’t change the file itself and an unredacted file won’t lie. Congress must return to ordering the release of the file.

And if Speaker Johnson and Republican Congressmen refuse to do that? That is something they must answer for in next year’s elections.