Ok, so there they are. Epstein e-mails. A drop in the bucket out of the Epstein files. Damning as hell though. As a legal matter, this wouldn’t warrant conviction on it’s own, probably. As a political matter, they spent months blocking this. Basically, his whole Presidency. According to Jeffrey Epstein though, Donald Trump spent time with one of his girls. In plain black and white, he wanted Ghislaine Maxwell to use that as blackmail.

In a sane world, we’d focus on the blackmail and say this man is too compromised to serve as President. He is. That’s not what will happen though. Democrats will focus on the actual criminal act here, and well, I’m not even sure where that can go. Epstein is too dead to testify against Trump. Both he and Maxwell are convicts, and would be tough to put on a witness stand. Of course, there is the whole matter of Trump being sitting President now too. DOJ will take the position that they can’t prosecute their boss. Even the states, Manhattan basically let him go even after his conviction, because he had won the election. This is legally DOA.

Then there’s the politics. Ask yourself something- what would it take for Republicans to care about this? They didn’t mind his “grab ’em by the pussy” moment, his Muslim ban, his insulting John McCain, his election denial, or for that matter, January 6th. Now you think they’re just going to say “yep, he did it, he has to go?” There’s virtually no chance. They’ll question the authenticity, question if it’s as bad as it looks, complain about someone else they allege to be involved, or some other nonsense to distract from the black and white words in the email. Maybe a few of them get mad, but they will simply be ostracized by the party and left to die. If they had video of him sleeping with a young girl, hell if he got caught sodomizing a small dog or boy on 5th avenue, they’d move the goal posts. That’s what they’re going to do here.

Democrats and people who dislike Trump in general have spent a decade trying to find the magic bullet to “cancel” Trump. They don’t get it, you can’t. They can hope other Republicans eventually feel some shame and split with him, but why would that happen now? Oh sure, this is really bad. So was January 6th. It arguably strengthened him.