Sunday, August 10, 2025

Week six of the Epstein news cycle begins

He thought the Epstein controversy would last a few days.  It's been weeks.  And Chump still can't shake it.  Not only that, but those trying to spin for him -- like Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche or our cross dressing vice president Miss Sassy --only make Chump look even more guilty.  Although, if you dig deep enough, you can usually find Chump doing a better job of making himself look guilty.  J..D. Wolf (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) reports:

On January 31, 2024 during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump posted a link on Truth Social to a video interview between Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly in which Carlson defended Trump’s legal troubles by invoking the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

“They protect Epstein until they have to murder him in his cell,” Carlson said, comparing the alleged cover-up around Epstein’s death to what he claimed was political persecution against Trump. “The charges against Trump are not real… It’s insane, and it’s all on public display.”

Just a reminder that Epstein died in prison on Trump’s watch. Trump offered no pushback — instead, he amplified the message as part of his 2024 campaign, once again using the lack of Epstein transparency to deflect attention from his own indictments.

Yet in 2025, Trump has done nothing to advance the transparency he once implied was missing. He refuses to call for the release of the FBI’s Epstein files, has attacked supporters demanding accountability, and has shifted focus to grand jury materials that are harder to access.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s convicted accomplice, has been moved to a minimum-security prison to the shock of Epstein’s sex trafficking victims and their families.


The public past is not friendly to Chump.  Will Neal (DAILY BEAST) reports:


President Donald Trump’s shocking defense of a champion boxer who raped a teenage girl has resurfaced as the president faces intense scrutiny of his relationship with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

In a 1992 clip from Late Night with David Letterman being circulated online, the future president tells the show’s host that he doesn’t think Mike Tyson ought to have been sentenced to six years in jail for the rape of beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington, who was 18 years old at the time.

“It’s ridiculous,” Trump says, referencing the fact the crime took place late at night after Washington had been “dancing” for Tyson.

[. . .]

A second clip from Trump’s appearance the same year on The Charlie Rose Show features him questioning Washington’s account of the crime itself, saying she “was raped perhaps, perhaps not.”

Both videos have resurfaced at a time the president is facing public backlash over his administration’s handling of the Epstein files.


This story is not going away and Chump looks worse each day.  This is from a letter to the editors of THE SHEBOYGAN PRESS:


It is alarming that Trump’s former personal lawyer met with convicted sex trafficker (of minors) Ghislaine Maxwell while she is in prison. Why? This is not necessary. Just release all the files, immediately.

If we’re against corruption and want to drain the swamp, then that must include everyone, at all levels, left or right. This is about protecting children.

Sheboyganites don’t always agree on politics, but we strive to do our best, to tell the truth and do the right thing, even when it’s tough. Step up, call your representatives: U.S. senators Tammy Baldwin (202-224-5653) and Ron Johnson (202-224-5323), and U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman (202-225-2476), and tell them to release all the Epstein files. No exceptions. Let the chips fall where they may.

Ryan Holzem, Ph.D.


Maxwell.  The ugliest evidence against Chump.  He ignores the victims but sends a Deputy AG to meet with the convicted liar.   Anahita Dua (MSNBC) observes:


Indeed, amid the news of a prison transfer for Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and the latest developments over whether documents will be unsealed, the victims are still suffering all the same. While much of the focus lately has been on the prominent figures that may have taken part in the sex trafficking scheme, we must never forget to focus on the health of the victims. We must confront more than criminal wrongdoing; we must also reckon with the lifelong physical and psychological devastation wrought on the victims.

The stories of survivors and those trafficked by Epstein and his accomplices cannot be reduced to scandalous headlines or footnotes in celebrity exposés. Their experiences demand national reckoning and action to protect future children and bring justice to the victims.

One Jane Doe, speaking in court in 2019, testified that she and the other victims “will always carry irreparable damage and pain throughout our lives after this.”

Victims typically enter exploitation during critical stages of their physical, emotional and cognitive development. Many children are targeted simply because they are children: young, naive and vulnerable. Young girls who become victims of sex trafficking have been tricked or forced into sexual exploitation by acquaintances, employers or even family members. Epstein’s victims were coerced by wealthy and influential men and women. Staggering power imbalances make self-escape nearly impossible. In the case of Epstein’s victims, that is adult versus child, man versus girl, wealthy versus poor. 


At THE OC REGISTER, Rafael Perez writes:

Reportedly, some of these Trump officials have been resisting the idea of releasing the transcripts in favor of simply letting the story die on its own. The problem with this strategy is that the administration was incredibly vocal about how much transparency they were creating by interviewing Maxwell. 

By refusing to release the transcripts, they are only making the administration seem increasingly guilty of covering for pedophiles (in the minds of those who believe in the conspiracy) despite the fact that the transcripts are unlikely to contain any interesting information. 


 The plan's to let the story die out?  This is week six, they grasp that, right?  And the victims will be heard.  Chump wants this over but it's not over.


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