@Mondoweiss:
As the U.S. moves closer to attacking Iran, the only ones who stand to benefit are Israel — and Trump, who’s hoping the media and the public move on from the Epstein files.
Cartoon by @LatuffCartoons
@invis4yo:
Call me crazy, but I think measuring a 13 year-old girl’s “tightness” with your fingers while auctioning them off should disqualify someone from being president.
@DarrigoMelanie:
“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
@fartingfascists.bsky.social:
The search function is completely down on the Epstein Library. It was worthless anyways, but totally not trying to cover anything up.TOTALLY.
New Mexico investigating allegation of 2 bodies 
of girlsburied outside Epstein ranch by Sophie Brams, Feb 19, 2026, The Hill
Authorities in New Mexico have reopened an investigation into alleged illegal activity at a remote ranch previously owned by the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the New Mexico Department of Justice confirmed Thursday.
An official said in a statement that New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D) ordered the investigation after reviewing documents contained in the final tranche of files released by the U.S. Department of Justice.
“Although the State of New Mexico’s prior investigation was closed in 2019 at the request of the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, revelations outlined in the previously sealed FBI files warrant further examination,” said chief of staff Lauren Rodriguez.
The New Mexico justice department sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last week seeking access to the unredacted copy of a 2019 email from an anonymous sender that alleged two girls were buried in the hills near the ranch, which is located about 30 miles from Santa Fe.
The department also requested the sender’s full identifying details, recipient information, transmission data, routing information, time stamps, and other data connected to the communication, as well as unredacted copies of all other records that reference Zorro Ranch.
“As with any potential criminal matter, we will follow the facts wherever they lead, carefully evaluate jurisdictional considerations, and take appropriate investigative action, including the collection and preservation of any relevant evidence that remains available,” Rodriguez said.
“We are moving quickly and deliberately on this issue and will provide updates as appropriate,” she added.
A request for comment to the Justice Department was referred to the FBI, which declined to comment.No loss, the FBI just lies under Trump’s ultra stupid Kash Patel and insults ones intelligence
The letter noted that New Mexico’s commissioner of public lands, Stephanie Garcia Richard, requested the investigation; she told Reuters that her office uncovered the email during a recent search of the Epstein files.
The email was sent to a New Mexico radio show host a few months after Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking crimes, according to Reuters.
The sender claimed to be a former Zorro Ranch employee and said two foreign girls who died “by strangulation during rough, fetish sex” had been buried near the property at Epstein’s direction, the outlet reported.
The reopening of the case comes as the New Mexico Legislature unanimously approved a measure on Monday to form a bipartisan special committee of state representatives to probe “Zorro ranch and the related allegations of criminal activity.”
Former Texas state Sen. Don Huffines (R), who is currently running for Texas comptroller, purchased the property in 2023 with the proceeds from the sale reportedly going to Epstein’s victims. Huffines said this week he plans to turn it into a Christian retreat.JFC! That’s disgusting. Does he rape, torture and murder kids too?
This below by Mr. Truscott is a must read.
Reflections of Trump in the Epstein files wilderness of mirrors by Lucian K. Truscott IV, Feb 25, 2026, Lucian Truscott Newsletter
This is a story about how difficult it is to maintain a coverup and what happens when it begins to unravel. The coverup of Trump’s appearances in the Epstein files and what he is accused of by victims is the most important coverup of them all, and it is beginning to come apart at the seams.
As you may have already read, Representative Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, learned of some missing victim interview files and visited the secure room in the DOJ where the unredacted Epstein files can be viewed by members of Congress. There he found FBI evidence logs for documents that were provided to attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell prior to her 2021 trial on charges of sex trafficking. The logs listed interviews with 325 witnesses involved in the Maxwell investigation and trial, but Garcia found that 90 of the interviews were missing.
The missing files are FBI “302” documents, which are produced each time an agent interviews a possible witness in an investigation. Maxwell’s lawyers apparently considered calling several dozen witnesses at her trial but ended up calling only a few of those in the logs of FBI “302” interviews.
There are references in the FBI interview logs to four interviews with a victim who called the FBI after Epstein was arrested in 2019. There are also references to three other “interview notes” with her, according to a report by CNN that was published yesterday. Only one of the four interviews with the victim is in the Epstein files. The other interviews with the witness, along with the “interview notes” are missing. A report on NPR, referenced by CNN, said that NPR had analyzed the serial numbers in the logs of FBI interviews and found 53 pages of “interview documents and notes missing from the public Epstein database.”
The woman who called the FBI in 2019 described meeting Epstein in 1983 in South Carolina when Epstein responded to an ad she had placed soliciting jobs as a babysitter. She was 13 years old at the time. In the interview found in the Epstein files, she described being raped by Epstein in South Carolina and then being flown to New York by Epstein, where she was abused and raped by several “prominent men.” She describes being forced by one man to perform fellatio on him, and when she hesitated, he hit her upside the head. She provided the FBI with a photograph of Epstein with Trump and asked if the photo could be “cropped” to hide the identities of other individuals – there was only one, Trump – because she was afraid of “retaliation.” The FBI interview notes that the photo was a “widely distributed” photo of Epstein and Trump.
NPR reports that the details in the FBI interview files “line up” with information in a victim lawsuit filed after the 2019 interview. The woman ended up withdrawing her lawsuit against the Epstein estate and was not part of the victim settlement by the estate, but she settled privately with the estate later.
There are other references in the FBI logs to another set of interviews with a second witness who described being taken by Epstein to Mar a Lago and being introduced to Trump. Epstein reportedly said, “This is a good one, huh?” to Trump as he introduced her. She was 13 years old at the time. The interviews, included in the “302’s” provided to Maxwell’s defense lawyers, detail abuse by both Epstein and Maxwell when the victim was 13.
NPR reports that this interview with the victim was deleted from the Epstein files after their initial release on January 30 and then returned to the files on February 19. Several interviews with other witnesses mention this 13-year-old victim. One “302” FBI interview with a mention of Trump by the victim was removed from the Epstein files database and then returned last week.
Elsewhere in the Epstein files is a note written way back in July when the FBI had moved 1,000 agents to Washington D.C. to scour the Epstein files. The FBI agent wrote that Trump’s name appeared in the files of FBI interviews for the Maxwell case in an interview with a victim who claimed that Trump had also abused her, but she “ultimately refused to cooperate” with the FBI investigation. This note appears to line up with the first 13-year-old victim, three of whose interviews are listed in the FBI logs but are missing from the Epstein files themselves. This was the victim who reached a settlement with the Epstein estate separate from the victims’ fund settlement. Many such settlements include non-disclosure agreements that may explain her later refusal to cooperate with the investigation after her initial interviews with the FBI in 2019.
And so the unraveling begins, and so the unraveling continues. There are FBI interviews with victims from the original federal investigation of Epstein that was begun in 2006 and ended when federal prosecutors signed a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein at the time of his conviction on state charges in 2008. There are interviews with victims, many interviews in fact, from the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021. There are more FBI interviews with victims who came forward after Epstein was arrested in 2019.
All these interviews exist on “302” interview forms that were logged at the time they were conducted. When Pam Bondi ordered a thousand FBI agents to Washington D.C. last year to go through the FBI files, the “302’s” are among the files they went through. Apparently what happened is that they were instructed to flag those that mentioned Donald Trump. Some of those “302’s” were deleted or otherwise not included in what we now know as the Epstein files, but the mentions of them in the FBI’s logging system were not deleted.
Now the DOJ is scrambling to re-insert some, but not all, of the “302” interviews back into the Epstein files, but they are still withholding the interviews with victims that mention Trump.
For the FBI agents that were tasked with going through the gigantic Epstein files, the whole thing became a confusing mess in which they couldn’t keep straight what they had deleted or why the deletions had occurred. They apparently missed references to Trump that were hidden in interviews with one victim who spoke of other victims who had been introduced to Trump by Epstein. It would be like going to a big party and then later trying to remember not only who was there, but who talked to who, and what they talked about.
This is the problem with coverups. It happened during Watergate, when employees of the White House and Nixon’s reelection committee were so numerous that they couldn’t all get together and strategize a way to keep their stories straight, so information began to leak out piecemeal. But when it was put together, the information began to point to specific crimes by specific individuals.
That’s what is happening now. Victims who did not know each other, were abused at different times by Epstein and Maxwell and “prominent men,” and they grew up and left their teenage years, so they were replaced by new teenage victims, who also didn’t know each other, who were abused and raped by Epstein and the same or different “prominent men.”
When the FBI got involved in 2006, and then again in 2019 with the Epstein investigation, and again in the investigation of Maxwell in 2021, it became almost impossible to keep straight which victim had been interviewed when and whom they had implicated. Rudimentary efforts were probably made to cross-reference the interviews during and between the various investigations – that is probably what the logs are – but there were so many underage victims over so much time involving so many alleged abusers that the whole thing became a wilderness of mirrors.
Donald Trump’s problem is that his reflection appears in too many mirrors. This is a very, very big development. Watch this space.
Tom Twain:
To me trump admitted his conduct when, early when the trump Epstein relationship came out he rationalized that, “the ’80s were a different time.” The implication I took from that was that trump saw no problem in forcing sex onto underage children. After all he’d already survived the allegations of what, twenty-some women, that he’d sexually abused them. He promised to sue all of them but of course, has not followed through.
He has continued to ignore the verdict in the two E.Jean Carroll cases of 88 Million, which of course is subject to one of his endless appeals while it continues to accrue daily interest.
Bottom line, of course the Epstein files reveal the depth of his pedo conduct but will continue to deny, delay, and double down. Don’t let him off, reveal the full files in accordance with the law which trump already signed.
Tom Twain:
trump famously agreed with Howard Stern in a 1997 interview that surviving STDs was his personal Vietnam, saying, “It is my personal Vietnam, I feel like a great a very brave soldier.”
Judith Testa:
No matter what new horrors are revealed, it won’t make any difference. The only thing that will end t-Rump’s reign of vulgarity, lies and terror is when he stops breathing. Not a moment before.
ROBERT EVANS:
The problem with all this is that presumably the most damaging files implicating Trump and others are being retained under the guise of “Privileged” or “Under Investigation.
What we need is a justice department to investigate the justice department.From outside USA, and not under UN which USA, Putin and Israel control.
I guess the Congressonal Oversight Committee can only wield so much authority, which is one problem with our political system – the so-called equal branches of government.
And to complicate things even further, Trump appointed his own personal lawyers to be in charge of law enforcement which of course automatically protects him even though each individual is guilty of obstructing justice for these poor girls, and there is no one to prosecute them, at least until the Democrats gain power again, which is why Trump is never going to give up the presidency if hs cheating attempts fail
But whether that happens or not, Congress needs to pass a law that personal attorneys cannot be appointed to be in charge of the DOJ. Of course the GOP Cogress is guilty of approving their nomination in the first place.
Bruce Kopetz:
This has all the trappings of Hitler’s cover-up of his half-niece’s “suicide” in 1931, as he attempted to become German chancellor. His National Socialist Party (NSDAP) managed the incest scandal so successfully it never gained traction and he took office one year later. “Geli Raubal, Adolf Hitler’s 23-year-old half-niece, was found dead from a gunshot wound in his Munich apartment on September 18, 1931. Officially ruled a suicide, rumors persist that she was murdered or forced to take her own life due to a controlling, incestuous relationship with Hitler. She used his gun.” [source: Wikipedia]
ROBERT EVANS:
That is really interesting, Bruce, I knew vaguly about the niece. I had read once about him have another relative put to death who was handicapped as they called disabled people back then.
Bill Corbett:
Drip, drip, drip. Why does justice move so slowly?it’s controlled and run by kid rapists, with judges selected for their dark desires and massive misogynyUnfortunately it does to our detriment, but it still moves. I ultimately believe the wheels of justice will hasten his demise both politically and physically. I know we’re in the phase now of the train picking up speed, now think of Jonny Cash, “I hear that train a-coming, coming round the bend”. Wooohoo!I believe Trump will never pay up and never be held accountable. The world is run by rich powerful kid rapists that want to keep raping, torturing and murdering to feed their insatiable religious driven hatred of women and girls and many men, notably religious, want to rape and get away with it so they see Trump as their hero. His fans hate non whites so much, they’d still worship Trump if he raped their kids in front of them on the dining room table.
@sethabramson.bsky.social:
Without question, a failed presidency.
Without question, the worst president we’ve ever had.
The entire world has contempt for this man, and that contempt is justified.
If you happen to be watching tonight, please keep in mind all the women Trump sexually assaulted and raped as he’s speaking.
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I’m going to tell you something as a Trump biographer. I mean it seriously. You need to understand that Trump get something close to sexual excitement from describing acts of violence.
If you wonder why his SOTU speeches always include graphic violence, that’s why. It’s for him.
Every Trump State of the Union is X-rated for violence, and that’s because he demands it.
He’s obsessed with describing extreme acts of violence, and again I’ll tell you quite clearly—as a Trump biographer and presidential historian—that it’s because he’s sexually aroused by it.
@richardhartley.bsky.social:
Trump’s signal character trait is his sadism.
His greatest joy in life is hurting as many people as possible, as much as possible.
@jamesmpope.bsky.social:
That’s why Epstein said he didn’t know anyone as bad as Trump.
@treesquestionx451.bsky.social:
He’s raping the US and world, because rape is how the rapist relates to everything.And the GOP and too many of the dems are all in on the raping
@swankyaf.sheshed.rocks:
Trump has revealed, even long before now, that our justice system is corrupt and rigged *for people w/the money who pay them to look the other way.
Photo by Kenny Holston (Getty)
Al Green at Trump’s Statement of Lies Address: Black People Aren’t Apes!
“If the president invites you to the White House or the State of the Union Address, you go.”
James Fell:
“If a pedophile invited me anywhere, I tell them to fuck off.”Me too, but in nastier language
I fear that most Americans think child predators and rapists are scummydog and cat eating immigrants, young gang members or weird old uncles or neighbors.
Instead, we now know they include priests and other religious leaders and wealthy, famous, and powerful men – all of whom feel entitled to rape children and all of whom are emotionally warped. The film “Spotlight” delves into their psychology.
Given the scumbags Trump surrounds himself with, it’s no surprise he’d want to protect himself and all the other scumbags he knows by burying the Trumpstein files.
While we watch the unraveling of the cover-up, it’s time to sign up for NO KINGS 3 on March 28. Find an event near you at www.nokings.org. If there isn’t one, create one. You, a few friends, and a few signs will make a NO KINGS protest. More than 1500 already scheduled!
“Spotlight ” is a good movie. BHIt’s excellent, highly recommend
Lawrence Dietz:
You’re pulling on the right loose thread, Lucian, to unravel the DT47 codpiece. T***p has complained for years, asking “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Right now he should be pleading, “Where is my Rose Mary Woods?” (For non-geezers, she was Nixon’s secretary who swore she “accidentally” deleted portions of a most incriminating 18-and-a-half minutes from the White House “Watergate” tapes by turning into Plastic Woman, simultaneously pressing controls which were feet apart.) You closed with writing T***p’s “reflection appears in too many mirrors.” Goethe: “Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.” WAHR! (“true” in German)
William A Post:
When thinking about taco’s extensive criminal history, his stubborn refusal to return the classified documents he stored at Mar a Lago was perplexing. Why would he risk Federal prosecution to keep them? Perhaps, like Prince Andrew he wanted them to trade with Epstein.
Diana Hart:
Double like! Trump protected those file boxes in the bathroom at Maralago like his life depended on it. Remember and ask why. That’s some dangerous info in those boxes and I do not believe they became part of the Epstein inquiry.
Dick Montagne:
I thought he looked heavily sedated last night, my guess is that he lost it yesterday when all of this started coming out, and that they sedated him so that he could perform for the cameras, thing was that he looked completely different. I watched some of it last night just to see how he would react.
arne link:
He is always drugged up before he gets to the podium. You can see when the drugs start to wear off, he exits in a hurry. That’s what happened yesterday.
Ruth Josimovich:
Financial Times has an excellent (well, grisly but well reported) piece 2/24/26 “How Deutsche Bank Rolled Out the Red Carpet for Epstein” — thank goodness rest of world is investigating, arresting, prosecuting the enablers and profiters from Epstein’s dep’t of horrors. Trump can’t stop the juggernaut of truth.
bluerainbow18:
Can a minor actually sign an agreement (and be held to it) to not talk when the crimes of sex-trafficking, rape and assault have been committed against her? How is that possible?
GARY HENDERSON:
Idk, but I know that a minor can easily be frightened into not talking about things that happened to her or in her presence. BHThe “christian” married man that raped me when I was 8, and then raped me when I was 9 after my mother sent me to live with him for the summer (in another province), told me that if I told anyone, he’d murder my brother (4 years younger than me). That threat terrified me silent for decades; it still gives me regular nightmares.
tacy1946:
I’m pessimistic. No evidence–not even an adjudication of sexual assault–has withstood Trump’s blatant denials. If we find a photo of Trump flagrante delicto, he’ll claim it’s a fake and still be president. It will add to the general negativity that will help us in November, but I doubt it will lead to justice.Justice for rape, especially kid rape, does not exist. Religion and the patriarchy ensure it.
Allen L U Howell:
Baby Rapers need to hang!
Tramp has committed Rape, Grand Theft, Treason ,and Murder, all in full view of the general public, and he straight up DOES NOT CARE who knows what! (Who you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?) What possible heinousness could be lurking in those files to have him peeing his britches?!?
How bad could it possibly be?!? I just don’t get what he could be so damned afraid of … !
Ah, well, time will tell … ! And so will the (real) media!
FREEDOM!!
HI2thDoc:
Bondi and Blanche have turned the DOJ into the Department of Injustice, hellbent on obscuring the truth rather than uncovering it. They should be indicted, disbarred, tried, convicted, and incarcerated. Bondi definitely perjured herself last week.
Reva Potter:
In the past mere mention of behavior of this kind would result in resignations of all involved. Now we have just a trickle here in the US and there are still many who don’t believe Trump was involved!! Rape religions and the rich patriarchy are working to desensitize the masses to rape and pedophilia with the final plan to legalize both, as well as after birth abortion (murder of babies from rape). The rich are getting upset at the millions of dollars they must pay when victims are courageous enough to speak out and or file lawsuits, which puts their lives and those of their loved ones at great risk. Hopefully the truth will come out.
- Deutsche Bank maintained a banking relationship with Jeffrey Epstein from 2013 until his summer 2019 arrest, managing hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Internal compliance departments repeatedly warned Deutsche Bank about Epstein’s suspicious activity, including payments to women in Eastern Europe and Russia.
- Despite warnings, Deutsche Bank viewed Epstein as a gateway to ultra-wealthy entrepreneurs and approved increased cash withdrawal limits.
- Deutsche Bank paid $225 million in fines and settlements, acknowledging mistakes in onboarding Epstein and procedural weaknesses.
- A relationship manager was dismissed for a lack of expected diligence concerning Epstein’s account.
Deutsche Bank maintained a banking relationship with Jeffrey Epstein from 2013 until his arrest in the summer of 2019, managing hundreds of millions of dollars and approving new accounts and transactions, despite repeated warnings from its internal compliance departments about suspicious activity.
As reported by Financial Times, documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice include tens of thousands of emails outlining how the German bank onboarded and retained as a client a convicted sex offender classified as high risk—at a time when JPMorgan Chase had already severed ties with him in 2013.
A key role in bringing Epstein to Deutsche Bank was played by private banker Paul Morris, who had moved from JPMorgan to Deutsche Bank. In August 2013, Epstein wrote to him: “I will move all my accounts to you and Deutsche Bank.” Morris replied: “Jeffrey, excellent! I appreciate your loyalty and trust.” By October of that year, approximately $180 million had been transferred to Deutsche Bank. An internal message read: “Congratulations on the Epstein funding!”
Despite the client’s criminal past, a full enhanced reputational due diligence process for high-risk clients was not triggered. The onboarding proceeded on the condition that no additional issues would arise from know-your-customer and anti-money laundering checks.
Internal documents show that the bank viewed Epstein not only as a client but also as a gateway to ultra-wealthy entrepreneurs. A 2014 memo noted that he had “many important relationships” and described him as “a very good opportunity — we hope for a first-class kid-raping and torturing relationship.”
Reports recorded contacts with Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global Management, as well as other figures from the business and political worlds. Despite expectations, banking relationships with some of them remained limited.
Transactions That Triggered Alerts
During the relationship, internal compliance teams repeatedly flagged payments to women in Eastern Europe and Russia. In March 2017, a transfer to a “Russian model” based in Moscow was reviewed. The final assessment stated: “This type of activity is common for this client and is not considered suspicious.”I wonder how many kids they got to rape, in exchange.
Deutsche Bank later informed U.S. authorities that it had processed approximately $875,000 in payments to “alleged foreign models.”
At the same time, an increase in the daily cash withdrawal limit from $1,000 to $12,000 was approved.JFC, dirty fuckers The New York regulator recorded that Epstein withdrew an average of $200,000 annually in cash, concluding that the failure to recognize the associated risk constituted a serious compliance lapse.
In 2018, a request was made to establish a new trust named Caterpillar Trust. In correspondence titled “URGENT Executive Committee approval required,” it was noted: “The client wishes to fund the account as soon as possible. Please approve as soon as you can.” Around the same period, in internal communication, a bank executive referred to a media report about Epstein’s activities and asked: “What exactly are they doing for Jeffrey Epstein?”
Despite the gradual escalation of publicity surrounding the sexual exploitation case, the relationship continued.Pedos, gotta serve and protect pedos to keep the rapes going
The Termination Decision and Extensions
In December 2018, Deutsche Bank informed Epstein that it was terminating the relationship, giving him until February 29, 2019, to transfer his funds. However, extensions were granted and transfers continued. An internal email stated: “We were promised they would be fully exited by May 6, but we hope by the end of April. So please continue helping them send wires.”
In communication with a bank in Liechtenstein, a Deutsche Bank executive reassured counterparts: “No names were mentioned. Not even the name of the trust.”
The Arrest and the $33.77 Accounts
Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019, and charged with sex trafficking of minors. The following day, an internal email titled “URGENT!!! Accounts must be closed immediately” listed dozens of accounts that remained open, with a total balance of $33.77.
Deutsche Bank has paid $225 million in fines and settlements related to the case, acknowledging “a mistake in onboarding Epstein in 2013” and “weaknesses” in its procedures.
Relationship manager Stuart Oldfield was later dismissed for “lack of the expected diligence for a specific client,” according to regulatory filings.
The Fog of Epstein by Jonathan D. Simon, 02/13/26
With the crucial evidence all redacted, we turn to logic and common sense.
The proverbial fog of war has nothing on the fog of Epstein. Perhaps this is because Epstein is a war, just one whose weapons, instead of guns and bombs and drones, are lies and evasions and redactions.
Take, for example, poor Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump’s secretary of commerce, who was tripped up by some unredacted evidence in the most recent release of the Epstein files, showing that, in publicly addressing his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein last year, he had completely concocted his “Epstein who?” denial.
It seems Lutnick, unlike Trump, didn’t rate the Full Protection Package over at Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice. Like Lutnick, Trump just never thought his most damning Epstein-related lies and antics would come to light. Unlike Lutnick, Trump was right (so far).
Plenty has been written about the trench warfare over all the evidence one entity or another has sat on, long time passing — in some cases since Trump 1.0’s attorney general, Bill Barr, raided all of Epstein’s cubbyholes before his prisoner’s corpse had a chance to cool; in other cases, for decades.
I’m more interested in, as it were, the Big Picture. That is, what the hell do we really think is going on here? What is this whole circus of a war really all about?
C’mon. Does anyone not think it is about Donald John Trump? Okay, yes, there are the victims — the survivors — and various perps like Andrew and one or another Bill. But they are not why this has morphed into a political fight to the death.
It’s being waged to protect — or expose — Donald John Trump by concealing — or disclosing — just what he did and to whom he did it.
Which means, given that a massive operation has been undertaken to make sure those facts never come to light, we are free to use our “common sense” — one of Trump’s favorite expressions — to suss it out. Basic common sense and a little logic. Here goes.
Trump — whose m.o. with women is, in his own recorded words, to “move on them … kissing them … grab ’em by the pussy” — hangs out for years with bestie Jeff and wall-to-wall women and floor-to-ceiling girls. Surrounded, saturated, with zero compunction, and with assumption of complete impunity. And because, unlike a slew of Jeff’s other acquaintances, he’s such a remarkably well-behaved, self-disciplined, and “caring” individual, he doesn’t “do” any of them. Right.
And we know Epstein’s cameras were everywhere, and his m.o. was roll film, get the dirt, use it when necessary.Trump is a sadist, he gets off on hurting others, notably women and girls. His personal lawyer Todd Blanche publicly said that the DOJ excluded from their release of the Epstein files anything showing CSAM, physical abuse, torture, death (snuff films of raped kids?), which means the most damning material has been excluded from the released files.
So our spidey sense tells us there should be plenty of footage of Trump in flagrante delicto — yes, raping one or another of those ambient and ubiquitous girls, Trump himself having told us that his bestie “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Okay, where did it all disappear to — when the reportedly self-strangling Epstein breathed his last and Barr’s DOJ instantly raided every one of the no-longer-personally-dangerous pedo’s catacombs? Where, indeed? Is it too far-out to wonder whether some of it might have been among the truckload of other boxes of sensitive documents that found their way to Mar-a-Lago before Team Biden took over the DOJ in 2021? Maybe, but it is certainly reasonable to point out that no credible chain of custody has ever been established for all the evidence seized in the wake of Epstein’s death.
It took a reported cast of thousands at Bondi’s DOJ to pore through the files and flag all the stuff that might be dangerous to Trump — who appears in the less-redacted version of the files over a million times. This estimate comes from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), one of the members of Congress who was allowed to examine that version — while being spied upon by Bondi’s DOJ.
But — continuing with our common sense attempt to peer through the fog — you couldn’t have a cast of thousands do the actual scrubbing (leaks, anyone?). So it makes sense that it would take a long time for the Special Ops at DOJ to make Trump safe — hence the stonewalling, long delay, and piecemeal releases.
Trump is not just the Big Kahuna but the Whole Enchilada. No use wasting time protecting peons like Lutnick, let alone Democrats, moguls, and foreign dignitaries. Besides, if they scrubbed the records too clean, the cover-up would be too obvious, even for the MAGA faithful. Nah, MAGAts will never cease seeing Trump as Jesus, even if he admits to the public that yes, he’s guilty (but it was the 80s don’t you know), that he raped hundreds of girls, trafficked hundreds more, ordered after birth abortions of girls he and Esptein raped and got pregnant, and murdered some of the girls when his sadism got out of control
So the formula: Leave a lot of dirt on the expendables (some of whom, like Lutnick, were slated for post-release protection), and a little dirt on Trump — just enough to lend a shred of very strained credibility to the whole mendacious enterprise.
But make 100 percent sure Trump is in the clear when it comes to behavior that everything we know about him suggests occurred — any evidence of actions (say, raping a 13-year-old) that would send him spinning off to MAGA hell in a hurry.
And let people believe that when you put HCl and NaOH together in a beaker, the acid and base just sat there minding their own business. There’s nothing to see here, folks — not anymore. Just move along.
Suddenly, the fog lifts a little and the big picture comes into focus and — politically, at least — the whole circus makes sense.