When you listened to the remainder of the media — each mainstream and social media — you’d suppose Donald Trump was on the skids, that MAGA was ultimately turning on the president over the so-called Epstein Recordsdata.
However nothing may very well be farther from the reality, in response to polling the president crowed about over the weekend and, additionally, in response to historical past. Each single time his enemies depend him out, Trump roars again with a vengeance.
The newest effort final week to attempt to smear him as a sexual deviant and harm his marriage by tying him to youngster intercourse predator Jeffrey Epstein is a living proof.
The Wall Avenue Journal story Thursday was tame by comparability to the lurid rumors and wishful pondering that ripped via Washington, DC, and newly anti-Trump Elon Musk’s X all week. The story claimed Trump had contributed a letter to a leather-bound guide created for Epstein’s fiftieth birthday in 2003 by the pervert financier’s gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell.
The typewritten letter reportedly concerned an imaginary dialog between Trump and Epstein that included the strains “Enigmas never age” and “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
In its description of the letter, which it didn’t publish, the WSJ stated there was additionally a doodle of a unadorned lady and Trump’s signature. Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the image, calling it “FAKE,” earlier than launching a $10 billion libel motion.
Trump stated: “These are not my words, not the way I talk.”
Ditched ‘creep’ way back
I can’t categorical my very own views in regards to the deserves or in any other case of the story for authorized causes since The Submit and the WSJ share the identical guardian firm.
However I can say it’s a nothing burger. So what if Trump wrote the letter, or not? The date is 2003, 5 years earlier than Epstein was convicted of prostituting a baby and was registered as a intercourse offender, earlier than the world came upon what a monster he actually was.
It’s no secret that Trump was chummy with Epstein in his heyday in Manhattan and Palm Seaside, when the late pervert was a social-climbing financier throwing star-studded events. Epstein was a fixture of elite East Coast social circles within the Nineties. It could be unusual if Trump didn’t know him.
However the saga reveals Trump in gentle as a result of, years earlier than Epstein’s 2008 arrest and sweetheart plea deal, Trump banned him from his Mar-a-Lago membership “for being a creep,” says White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
In accordance with authorized filings and a 2020 guide by lawyer Bradley Edwards, who represented a number of Epstein victims, Trump threw out Epstein round 2004, for sexually assaulting the daughter of a buddy and Mar-a-Lago member.
The New York Occasions claims Trump and Epstein additionally fell out over enterprise across the similar time after they competed to purchase a home in Palm Seaside, forcing up the value and annoying Trump.
Both method, there isn’t any dispute that Trump minimize ties with Epstein greater than 20 years in the past, which distinguishes him from different high-flying Epstein buddies, equivalent to Prince Andrew, former financial institution CEO Jes Staley and Invoice Gates, who stored up the affiliation even after Epstein was convicted.
It was throughout Trump’s first presidency that federal prosecutors got here after Epstein once more, charging him in July 2019 with intercourse trafficking and conspiracy to site visitors minors for intercourse. One of many fundamental prosecutors was none aside from Maurene Comey, the daughter of infamous FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump had sacked two years earlier. James Comey is now within the crosshairs of the FBI, together with former CIA Director John Brennan, after present CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred them for legal investigation two weeks in the past over freshly declassified proof that highlights their roles within the Russia collusion hoax.
Maurene Comey was fired Wednesday, sooner or later earlier than the WSJ story was printed, and sooner or later after the White Home was alerted to the story. She instructed colleagues in an e mail that her ouster was “unexpected” and unexplained.
Comey was additionally the lead prosecutor of Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021 over her position in Epstein’s intercourse trafficking. In accordance with the WSJ, the “birthday book” Maxwell compiled was within the information examined by the DOJ through the investigations of Epstein and Maxwell.
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There isn’t a indication of something greater than a circumstantial hyperlink between Comey’s ouster and the WSJ story, however the timing is intriguing.
Like every little thing else with Epstein, individuals are inclined to see hyperlinks the place there are none.
After the WSJ story broke Thursday, Trump requested Lawyer Common Pam Bondi to launch “any and all pertinent grand jury testimony, subject to court approval” that was gathered by New York federal prosecutors in 2019.
However simply because folks related to Epstein doesn’t make them complicit in his crimes. The DOJ and FBI have stated there isn’t any “Epstein client list,” as in a listing of males to whom he pimped out underage women.
What does exist is Epstein’s “little black book,” bulging with 1,971 names, uncovered in 2009 when his butler tried to promote it. It has been the topic of intense reporting, however you possibly can’t choose the names responsible simply because Epstein had their quantity.
“There are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein’s conduct,” broadcaster Invoice O’Reilly stated final week, quoting Trump. “They possibly had lunch with him or possibly had some correspondence.
“If that name gets out, those people are destroyed — because there’s not going to be any context. The media doesn’t care about context — so you can’t do that.”
Lots of the now-adult victims of Epstein had been cheated of their likelihood to confront their tormentor in courtroom as a result of he died in pretrial detention. However the choose allowed them to testify within the Manhattan federal courtroom the place Epstein would have been tried, to inform the world what his sexual depravity meant.
I used to be in that courtroom in August 2019 to witness this show of female braveness as 17 younger ladies lined up at a microphone, heads held excessive, to position their struggling on the file. Six others had their attorneys learn out letters.
By means of tears and shaky voices, they instructed their tales so we’d perceive the toll of damaged belief. “I was nothing more than a teenage prostitute. I was his slave,” stated one sufferer who was a 16-year-old virgin when she says Epstein raped her.
Essentially the most outspoken sufferer, Virginia Giuffre, who reportedly dedicated suicide three months in the past, instructed the courtroom: “Epstein did not act alone.”
Giuffre, who fell prey to Epstein at 16, alleged she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” to “powerful men,” together with Prince Andrew, who settled out of courtroom after she sued him for sexual abuse.
She accused different highly effective males, however by no means Trump. In reality, in her 2015 memoir, she explicitly dominated out Trump.
As a lot because the liberal media is salivating on the prospect of one other Get-Trump pile-on, there’s simply nothing there.
‘X is not reality’
In the meantime, the identical media is ignoring the most recent bombshell revelation within the Russiagate scandal unveiled final week by Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the place the proof of wrongdoing by President Barack Obama and his henchmen exists and is compelling.
Trump is having the final snicker, anyway, as CNN pollster Harry Enten identified final week.
“If anything Donald Trump’s approval rating has gone up since this whole Epstein saga started,” Enten stated. “He is at the apex or close to it in terms of his popularity [with Republicans], Epstein Files complaints or not. Who knew Twitter and X are not reality.”
It simply goes to show the noisiest loudmouths who declare to signify MAGA simply signify themselves.
