For the kids going to Christmas parties and taking pictures with your friends, a word of advice. Dance like no one is watching, but take group pictures like they may be used to impeach you someday.
For a Christmas gift to all of us, the released “Epstein files” were accompanied by an announcement promising transparency. The files would “shine a light,” “close a chapter,” and “restore trust.” So far, it has been more like a predictable pair of socks in your stocking.
Did the release quell the circus of intrigue? No. The truth is often opaque; the complexity is trying to obscure it. D.C. is the best at this.
The legacy media covered as was expected, dropping Trump’s name around the release with no context, to implicate him.
Within minutes of the release, tens of thousands of documents in the files were downloaded by millions who had not read a document longer than a Xanax warning label since 2008.
I did not read them; I just do not have the attention span. I would bookmark a ransom note. So, the media cherry-picks anything they can find that implies Trump’s involvement and splash it into a headline. I read those, and when you do, you see that nothing in the article is factual. Just clickbait.
Like most rich New York/Palm Beach socialites, Trump knew Epstein. But in 2007 Trump banned him from Mar-a-Lago and helped turn in the pedophile (for which Epstein was convicted). Trump was the only one who talked to prosecutors openly and without an attorney present.
Trump and Epstein then hated each other. Epstein went on to help Democrats, including texting a Congresswoman while she questioned Trump’s attorney under oath.
Epstein was a big Democrat. He clearly was involved with the CIA, Mossad and other intelligence agencies. They protected him and his horrific pedophile ring. He was not a “hedge fund manager” as the media told us. He was an international extortionist with the CIA riding shotgun.
A lot of the releases were redacted by Biden for four years and perhaps by Trump for a few months. There is zero chance if there was a smoking gun on Trump in the files that Biden/Kamala would not release it, based on their sense of fair play.
Upon the release of the documents, people trolled through page after page of black rectangles, thoughtfully placed to protect “privacy/ national security.” The redacted black rectangle industry is really the only industry of color to which Trump’s Washington gives special treatment.
Politicians reacted on cue. A few took credit for the release, despite having been busy at the time working against it. The only politicians who were not worried were women. Women mostly knew where they had been for the last twenty years. And if we know anything about women, they can recount to a man a timeline.
As I have said previously, the release of the Epstein files would be a big nothing. The usual suspects were already mentioned in the press. Almost all the villains turned out to be Democrats.
The main players are Woody Allen, Kevin Spacey, Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton and the sex offender Olympic doctor Larry Nassar. Wow, you think you know a guy!
In the era of Weinstein, Epstein, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, Anthony Weiner et.al, none of this is a surprise. Those names are the reason women should cover their drinks at a bar.
It is not like we did not know Bill Clinton was a player. And we know Hillary will not divorce him and lose her spousal immunity that would let him become a witness against her. Hillary, when asked if this Epstein file release is as big a scandal as Monica Lewinsky, would probably say, “Close, but no cigar”.
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