Jeffrey Epstein

The Epstein Truth Has to be Much, Much Worse Than We Think

/ Rich Wilkins / Leave a comment

Let’s just take the Epstein situation in context for a moment. For many years, my belief is what they had his contact book and maybe some emails with some not famous rich guys who were pedophiles. People like Epstein, or Jerry Sandusky before him, love having other famous people around them, partially for cover, partially to be able to blackmail them if they’re in trouble. That’s basically what I made of Epstein’s relationship with Trump and other famous people. It was no different than Sandusky’s relationship to Andy Reid or Peyton Manning. So I expected that if we ever saw the files, we’d be greatly disappointed by what was in them. After all, this is what happens every time a major conspiracy theories government files get released.

Well, I am wavering in that opinion. If that were the case, Trump would have released them to clear himself and taunt his enemies. If the files contained damning information about Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, or any of the other Democrats he claims were Epstein friends, Trump would release them. Trump could release all the files with an executive order today. He’s not. Even if the files cleared Clinton or anybody else, he’d still be releasing them and claiming otherwise. There’s only one reason plausible for why Donald Trump is not weaponizing the actual Epstein files- it’s suicide. If he releases these files, he’s opening himself up to trouble.

Let’s be clear, the government has not released anything so far. The House Oversight Committee Dems released a couple of e-mails in which Epstein flat out says Trump knew what was going on, and the estate of Jeffrey Epstein released 20,000 or so pages of e-mails. The e-mails dampened speculation that Clinton and some others went to Epstein Island or were involved, but I wouldn’t say the book is closed there. The e-mails were clear as day on Trump though- whether he took part or not, he knew. And Epstein told Maxwell to use that to her advantage, to blackmail him. Trump isn’t disputing the authenticity either. Hell, the only argument coming from his supporters is that “Bubba,” who Trump gave a blow job, was not Bill Clinton. I mean cool, that’s big to know. How about the rest of it?

We don’t know enough to know how bad this story is. If there are really files implicating Trump, God knows who else they are going to drag in. Every “CC” on an e-mail is being combed through now. It could get ugly. The e-mails are the tip of the iceberg. We need the rest of the emails, and not redacted. We need all of the other seized evidence, which was most of this guy’s apartments. We need all the texts too. We need everything. I think it’s becoming at least partially obvious where it would lead. I think we need the real important question answered though- when it’s obvious that Donald Trump at least knew what was happening, will anyone actually change their minds on him?

As the Epstein Shoe Drops, Does Any of This Matter?

/ Rich Wilkins / 1 Comment

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.