As I said on Friday night abord Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein Files, because we have nothing to hide, and it's time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat "Shutdown."
First sentence from a Donald Trump social media post regarding the DOJ's file on the late Jeffrey Epstein.
Well, no one will ever accuse Donald Trump of being the king of simple sentences, but we all have to admit that when it comes to the random use of caps, the man is an absolute prince. Beyond literary style what we see here is a rage filled tactical retreat. For the first time Trump's bullying, cajoling, and outright lies didn't work with republican lawmakers. The President was facing abject defeat in the House of Representatives, so, suddenly, in his words later in that message, "I DON'T CARE!"
Oh, really?
Just last week Trump attacked republican Congressman Thomas Massie, a co-sponsor of the Epstein discharge petition, on social media, saying in part, did he, "...get married already??? Boy that was quick!" (Massie's first wife died suddenly in June, 2024.) The President ended the post by writing, "His wife will soon find out that she's stuck with a LOSER!" In another social media message Mr. Trump claimed only, only very bad or stupid republicans would vote to release the files. When Marjorie Taylor Greene refused to back off supporting the house petition, Brother Don began calling her, "Marjorie Traitor Greene."
That's a lot of anger for someone who doesn't care.
Trump's sudden change of heart doesn't mean the files will actually be released. There are, let's say, other options. First, once the House approves, the measure becomes a legislative bill which must pass the Senate and be signed into law by the President. It's unclear at this moment if the republican controlled Senate will even consider voting on it. If they do, they can propose amendments and changes--something House Speaker, Mike Johnson practically begged them to do this morning. If there are changes the altered bill goes back to the House and the whole Mobius strip of American law making begins in earnest. When and if there is a final bill, Donald Trump has to sign off on it. He said he would, but the man just proved himself to be bipolar at best, so who knows.
Finally, Trump has the DOJ stopgap. Last week he ordered the Department of Justice to investigate democrats, past and present, who were hooked up with Epstein. Attorney General Pam Bondi can stop the entire process by saying the files can't be released because of the, "ongoing active investigation."
Meanwhile others have taken a different tact. Defense attorney, Alan Dershowitz, who hung out with Epstein--he admitted he got massages from some of the girls, but insisted he, "always kept my shorts on."--claimed Epstein's only conviction stemmed from paying for sex with a, "17 year, 10-month-old," girl.
Then there was FOX News/podcast personality, Meagan Kelly. She told her online audience she had talked with a confidant of Epstein who told her, "That in his view, Epstein was not a pedophile...he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls. I'm just giving you the facts that he wasn't into, like, eight-year-olds."
Ah, so there were some limits to all the depravity. Apparently, however, in that world, once a girl hit puberty, no matter what her age, she became--how should we say it--fair game.
Hopefully, Ms. Kelly and her source will excuse us if we all aren't as reassured by such steadfast moral restraint as they seemed to be. Not to mention Mr. Dershowitz's age technicality.
This morning, as MSNOW and CNN covered a news conference on the Capitol steps held by victims of Jeffrey Epstein, At the same time, FOX News was reporting the success of ICE raids in Charlotte, NC and running clips of alleged, "narco-terrorist," boats being blown up off the coast of Venezuela. Last night, FOX host, Sean Hannity focused on the bureaucratic snafus holding up the rebuilding of burned-out homes in California. In other words, on FOX, the Epstein affair isn't an after-thought, it isn't any kind of thought at all.
There is no telling where this will end up. There are too many variables, too many potential roadblocks. However, we have now seen the first real cracks in the solid red, MAGA wall. And we've watched the President, when faced with his first legislative defeat during his second term, go all TACO just like he did on some of his tariffs.
Suddenly the prospect of the guy coming irreparably unglued seems like a distinct possibility. In fact, while it might just be wishful thinking, ladies and gentlemen, from here it feels like, Donald Trump, his administration, and perhaps the entire MAGA cult have started to circle the drain.
11-18-25
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