Thursday, February 26, 2026

CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 120th Edition. The smoke edition

Throughout the Epstein files saga, we've repeatedly heard that "there's nothing to implicate Donald Trump. . . "

Well now there is.

It's been affirmatively revealed that the FBI scrubbed interviews of a woman who accused Trump and Epstein of abusing her when she was an underaged teenager.

As we've noted in a recent edition of this series, we've been told that we should not doubt the women.

Did Trump screw underage teenage girls?  We don't know, but at this point, there's more than enough of a suggestion here to raise the question.  Frankly, given the people he was hanging out with, their proclivities, and his own demonstrated ones, it would be surprising if he didn't cross that line.  He'd be like a vegetarian that was hanging out repeatedly in the butcher shop.  Perhaps more accurately, he'd be like a guy with a taste for drinking declining as they didn't have his favorite brand.

We don't know, of course.   But we do know what his behavior is with adult women and that has hardly been chaste.  We also know that it's been scientifically demonstrated that men who reach a sex partner tally of eight start looking below 18 years old for them, and Trump is at an approximate third of that number just in wives.  If we add Stormy Daniels, we know he's at least at half that number, and only a fool would think the number isn't higher.

We can be confident, however, that this is just going to be ignored, at least for the time being.  It'll be another thing that will be discussed in Trump tell all books after he's dead.  None of the topics that will be revealed will be pleasant.  We can have some hope that, as the Epstein victims were all so young, that something resembling the truth might ultimately be revealed about what happened to them.  Having said that, the truth on John F. Kennedy's dalliances took decades to really fully come out.

We might also note that Mimi Alford (née Beardsley) was 19 years old when John F. Kennedy started screwing her, and Kennedy at least publicly pretended to be a moral man, even if his affairs demonstrate otherwise.  The implications for the affair being revealed in the public would have been devastating to Kennedy.  Likewise, Harding's affair with Nan Britton started when she was about 20 years old, and Britton was known to be the second mistress Harding  had.  The point in both instances is that cheaters not only cheat, they cheat downwards in age.

Melania Trump was 28 when she started dating a 52 year old Trump. Even now, outside of the wealthy, that would normally be regarded as weird.  

So, did Trump hang around where the teenage entrées were on the menu, or was he never offered the menu?  Maybe.  But by now, certainly the questions are legitimate.

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CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 119th Edition. Comments on Culture. A Galwaywoman's comment on men and women, Rubio's comments on Western Civilization, and Hegseth hosts a Christian Nationalist.

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