Trump needs the Epstein ruckus more than he knows*
- pmcarp4
- Jul 13
- 2 min read
Trump's Truth Social statement yesterday afternoon: "Nobody cares about [Jeffrey Epstein]." Trump's proof of statement: "It’s Epstein, over and over again."
But no matter. Because — who "created the Epstein Files"? asked Trump. His answer: "Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration." (That really would matter.)
Shockingly, he then asked a logical question. "Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files?"
They would have, had they created them.
Somehow I doubt that Donald's snarling splatterdash Saturday afternoon put much of anything Epstein to rest. In fact, he created another conspiracy atop the original — which was what exactly? Damned if anyone knows.
He did so because flogging chestnuts beats the hell out of confronting Friday's news of the State Department Apocalypse — 246 Foreign Service officers and 1,107 civil servants fired on the spot.
"[It was] a reckless and destructive decision that will be welcomed in Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran," observed the national security council's former director for European affairs, Alexander Vindman.
"State Department diplomats and civil servants risk their lives serving alongside our armed forces.... The disrespect they endure from their leadership while sacrificing so much makes me sad, and angry," wrote former NSC spokeswoman Emily Horne.
Domestically, says the Yale Budget Lab, consumers are having to cope with an effective tariff rate of 18%. The Atlantic's Annie Lowery notes that "households will pay an average of $2,400 more for goods this calendar year, thanks to Trump’s policies."
These are but two, shall we say, significant developments of late. The first portends enormous blowback internationally; the second, a severe shortage of goods, runaway inflation, standards-of-living wreckage at home.
"I think this threatens to blow up the whole thing," said Tucker Carlson. "How can people be expected to have faith in Trump?" Added far-right "influencer" Benny Johnson, "I have never seen anything more ham handed or botched or destructive."
But wait ... Benny and Tucker weren't speaking about more and greater global threats to America's national security because of faithless Trump, or the financial destruction he is, at this moment, inflicting on 90% of American families.
They were speaking about what nobody who loves this country cares about. And what they, self-incriminatingly, can't stop talking about.
"They" include Trump, whose snarling splatterdash yesterday afternoon may have been meant to put everything Epstein to rest, but blew it all up instead. And that may work out just fine for Donald.
After all, if the nation weren't obsessed with talking about the pointless, the absurd, the imbecilic and latest ruinous distraction, its forehead would bead, its knees would buckle, and down it would go in the sudden horrors that matter.
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Well for the sake of the victims, I do hold some interest in this story. I don't care who Jeffrey Epstein's clients were. This isn't a republican/Democrat thing. This is a rich, entitled males exploiting little girls thing.
Those victims never got any justice. The males who exploited those girls are all walking around free and unbothered. At least one of the girls has died by suicide.
You may think this is just a stupid distraction, but there are real victims involved. Where is the justice for them?
If the American populace were predominantly logical and even moderately well informed, you would be right. But they are not. The State Department destruction (along with other destruction of our foreign alliances and interests) is just one of many, many dozens of very horrible things that this administration has already done. But those don't significantly reach, much less move, many minds. The Epstein thing does - its more visceral and more a subject of interest - particularly for those with a favorable view of Trump, some fraction of whom need to be moved (at least to no longer supporting him, even if they never switch over).