Hmmm. . . that's interesting. Trump's now okay with it.
Trump and his acolytes went from demanding their release, to absolutely opposing it. Now they're in favor of it again.
What gives?
Well one thing may simply be that so much time has gone by, these files are now scrubbed. Sounds conspiratorial, I know, but files can be scrubbed, or lost.
The problem here is that the whole thing sounds so, well, all over the place that an effective scrubbing might be impossible.
Another one is that Trump might already know it won't get past the Senate. Just yesterday loyal flunky John Barrasso stated he wasn't sure if they'd vote on it or not. Figures like Barrasso figure their Senate seats are so safe that they're untouchable. They aren't, and he was running pretty scared last time, but they tend to think that way.
Or it just isn't worth the political capital that it was burning up. That would suggest that whoever is getting protected just isn't worth this level of damage, particularly that some formerly loyal MAGA's have gone overboard into the lifeboats. The Republicans only barely control the House now and are set to lose them in the midterms. If only two or three more Republicans in the House abandoned ship, Mike Smarmy Johnson is done for and the GOP would start to break free of King Donny. Two Republican House members, including amazingly Marjorie Taylor Greene, are openly poking the king and he's been able to do nothing about it.
Yet another is that, related to above, Trump just intends to lie his way out of whatever they say, if they're damaging to him, and so far we have no reason to believe that in spite of his personally gross behavior towards women, that he's implicated in kiddy diddling. At the worst, it's possible that he knew what was going on and didn't do anything about it, and there's likely a lot of rich and powerful people in that boat. Or maybe he actually didn't. Epstein was a creep, but just having young bikini wearing women on the premises doesn't necessarily mean that diddling is going on. So whatever is in there, he may be confident won't touch him directly, and whomever it does, well he can always say it includes Democrats too, which it probably does.
Which may be, after all is said and done, the biggest lesson. Since Ronald Reagan this country has followed the absurd notion that's what's good for the wealthy is good for everyone. As Oliver Bullough has stated; "All money corrupts, and big money corrupts bigly".
Businessmen plotted to take over the government and install fascism in the 1930s. The plot failed, and nobody was prosecuted. Reagan sold the American public the idea that vast wealth trickles down.
Epstein hung out with the rich and powerful. Some of them he supplied with teenage girls. The money didn't trickle down, and its not trickling down. Rather, it's morally corrosive and effectively the Business Plot ultimately won out with the election of Donald Trump, aided by the Democrats prime strategy being a judicial coup rather than an oligarchic one.
There's still time to reverse that. This might be a good place to start.
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