Well, we have now been assured by the DOJ that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself, that he had no “client list”, and that there is no evidence that he ever blackmailed anybody.
As Sen. John Kennedy once said in a hearing: “Three things that don’t hang themselves: Christmas lights, drywall, and Epstein.”
What’s really special and heartwarming about all of this is that they’re so obviously lying to us because a great many immensely powerful people are threatened by the truth coming out; that everybody knows perfectly well they’re just lying; that they know we know they’re lying; that we know that they know that we know they’re lying; and that everybody knows they will just lie and lie and lie and that nothing at all will ever be done about it.
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Allow me to say this Malcolm: due to an understandable antipathy to the Left, too many Trump defenders allow him to get away with nonsense they would never tolerate otherwise. Reaction formation and all that. Perhaps the Right needs to walk and chew their gum at the same time more, condeming the president where it’s appropiate. We need to remember Solzhenitsyn’s admonition, that the line that divides good and evil cuts through the heart of every man.
Hi Jason,
I wasn’t even bringing this up in order to chide the president (although this is certainly chide-worthy). It was more, simply, to lament the immutable, depressing realities of power, politics, and propaganda in this fallen world.
Jason’s point is well-taken. The counter point, of course, is that in a war you must take sides and not give ammo to the enemy. We don’t have the luxury of floating above the fray like angelic spectators.
Malcolm,
I feel a bit sorry for Patel and Bongino, seemingly upstanding guys, who are forced by circumstances to go along with the charade.
What matters is that everybody everywhere knows without the slightest doubt that “nothing to see here” is a blatant, witheringly insulting lie. Everybody also knows there is absolutely fuck-all that they can do about any of it, so it corrodes the heart and spirit of the nation at a time when a lot of people were nurturing the hope that things were maybe going to get a little better.
It also feels particularly dark coming right on the heels of the wave of rising enthusiasm heading into Independence Day, after a promising week for the nation. Then suddenly we had all those young girls dying in Texas, Trump now waffling on mass amnesty, and now this flamboyantly audacious coverup, which obviously goes all the way to the top. It’s terribly dispiriting; I’m sure it feels to millions of troosting Americans like they’ve been hoodwinked, and that their trust has been betrayed. (Again.)
Bill, some are saying that Patel and Bongino — whom we all had confidence in — are still going to come through somehow, and that it’s Pam Bondi who can’t be trusted and needs to go.
Malcolm,
Here is a video of Alan Dershowitz, posted yesterday on X, in which the noted legal scholar, who gained access to the Epstein list during litigation, reveals the truth of the matter: “Documents are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them. But I’m bound by confidentiality” (https://x.com/i/status/1943322536189509719).
Vito
Posted on X this morning: “Please consider further that the REAL conspiracy is to destroy such success by making MAGAs rabid over Epstein evidence that may or may not exist, thereby wrecking DOJ leadership in the same manner as when Jeff Sessions was sabotaged.”
Too much success is uncomfortable to other powerful people.