President Trump just announced that the Justice Department will be \u201cprobing\u201d the relationship between deceased billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and a host of Democrats.\u00a0\u00a0They include former President Bill Clinton, former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, billionaire venture capitalist Reid Hoffman, and banking giant JP Morgan Chase.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hoffman helped fund E Jean Carroll\u2019s successful defamation and battery suit against Trump. And JP Morgan facilitated Epstein\u2019s finances even after his child exploitation conviction in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My mother used to have an expression:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s the pot calling the kettle black\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not a racial commentary. In her childhood in England the main fuel supply for both heating and cooking was coal.\u00a0\u00a0Pots on the stove were constantly covered with a black coating of coal soot.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, both the pot and the kettle were black \u2013 coated with the same soot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emails released from the trove given to the House Oversight Committee by the Epstein estate, revealed that Epstein was both in communication with Trump in the last years of his life, and also making a living off of advising others how to manipulate Trump.\u00a0\u00a0He wasn\u2019t the only one; former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen early on in the Trump Presidency advertised that he could reach the President, for a fee.\u00a0\u00a0But these \u201cnew\u201d emails directly counter the White House narrative that, while Trump knew Epstein in the 1980\u2019s and 1990\u2019s, their relationship was severed in the 2007.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s when Trump claims to have \u201ckicked Epstein out\u201d of membership in his Mar-A-Lago club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Donald Trump, to use another old English phrase, is \u201ctwisting in the wind\u201d. The origin of that came from the English use of the gallows to execute criminals.\u00a0\u00a0Once they fell through the trap door, the body was left at the end of the rope, subject to the whims of the winds \u2013 \u201ctwisting\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0It now is used to describe someone who is fate is out of their control, at the \u201cwhim of the winds\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For years, the Trump \u201cteam\u201d tried to master the Epstein issue.\u00a0\u00a0Trump\u2019s re-election to the Presidency gave him ample power to gain control of the narrative.\u00a0\u00a0However, Trump also used the Epstein situation, including conspiracy theories about Epstein\u2019s death in the Manhattan Federal Correctional Facility during Trump\u2019s first term as President, to attack Democrats.\u00a0\u00a0He made a campaign promise, to get to \u201cthe bottom\u201d of the EPSTEIN FILES. And he implied that the Biden Administration was afraid to investigate because of involvement by high level Democrats, including Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both Trump\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and more notably FBI Director, Kash Patel, committed over and over again to open up and release the EPSTEIN FILES.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bondi even claimed to \u201cbe going through\u201d the FILES in a Congressional hearing.\u00a0\u00a0But both became strangely quiet, likely when they read what actually was in the record.\u00a0\u00a0Now, they deny that there ever were \u201cFILES\u201d, and are using the Obi Won Kenobi defense:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cNothing to see here, move along, move along\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
America isn\u2019t accepting that.\u00a0\u00a0Even some of the most avid MAGA members of Congress, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace, are standing against the President and demanding that the (now non-existent?) EPSTEIN FILES be released.\u00a0\u00a0The House is preparing to pass the EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARENCY ACT, calling for the Justice Department to release all of the information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, getting past the House will only be the first hurdle for such a law.\u00a0\u00a0The Senate will need to pass it, by a 60-40 filibuster-avoiding margin.\u00a0\u00a0And then the President would have to sign it. Or, the House would need to pass it again by a two-thirds majority, and the Senate by two-thirds as well.\u00a0\u00a0All of that is highly unlikely to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what Congressional action on the act will do, is pressure whoever is \u201cnext\u201d\u00a0\u00a0in line to vote for it, or explain why not.\u00a0\u00a0The President would ultimately face the same choice, one that would go completely against his own campaign promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And meanwhile, the White House is doing everything in their power to obfuscate the situation.\u00a0\u00a0After a record setting government closure, (that bought forty-six days) the issue is right back up. It’s front and center for Congress, the President, and the American people.\u00a0\u00a0Now the US Navy, the largest warship in the world the USS Gerald Ford is off the coast of Venezuela.\u00a0\u00a0The aircraft carrier, and all of the other ships part of the \u201cCarrier Group\u201d, threaten a neighboring country.\u00a0 There are multiple issues between Venezuela and the United States, (less so with Columbia). But none of them seem to rise to this warlike setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So here\u2019s one more expression, this from my more recent adulthood:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWag the Dog\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0It was a movie in the 1990\u2019s when the President of the United States invented a war in southeastern Europe, in order to distract from a personal sex scandal with a Girl Scout selling cookies in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pot is just as black as the kettle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Presidential strategy on Epstein is absolutely twisting in the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And, we seem to be on the verge of a war with neighboring South American countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0I hope Trump\u2019s not just \u201cwagging the dog\u201d, one more attempt to avoid accountability for his actions with Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s certainly something to see here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"