Trump wins the Epstein battle — as the left, – Latest News
If you listened to the relaxation of the media — each mainstream and social media — you’d assume Donald Trump was on the skids, that MAGA was eventually turning on the president over the so-called Epstein Files.
But nothing could possibly be farther from the fact, in keeping with polling the president crowed about over the weekend and, additionally, in keeping with historical past. Every single time his enemies rely him out, Trump roars back with a vengeance.
The newest effort final week to attempt to smear him as a sexual deviant and injury his marriage by tying him to baby intercourse predator Jeffrey Epstein is a case in level.
The Wall Street Journal story Thursday was tame by comparability to the lurid rumors and wishful pondering that ripped by way of Washington, DC, and newly anti-Trump Elon Musk’s X all week. The story claimed Trump had contributed a letter to a leather-bound e-book 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 bare girl 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’ long in the past
I can’t specific my own views about the deserves or in any other case of the story for legal causes since The Post and the WSJ share the similar mum or dad company.
But 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 Beach, when the late pervert was a social-climbing financier throwing star-studded events. Epstein was a fixture of elite East Coast social circles in the Nineties. It could be unusual if Trump didn’t know him.
But the saga exhibits Trump in a good 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 House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
According to legal filings and a 2020 e-book by lawyer Bradley Edwards, who represented a number of Epstein victims, Trump threw out Epstein round 2004, for sexually assaulting the daughter of a pal and Mar-a-Lago member.
The New York Times claims Trump and Epstein additionally fell out over business round the similar time after they competed to buy a home in Palm Beach, forcing up the price and annoying Trump.
Either method, there may be no dispute that Trump cut ties with Epstein more than 20 years in the past, which distinguishes him from different high-flying Epstein buddies, such as Prince Andrew, former bank CEO Jes Staley and Bill Gates, who stored up the affiliation even after Epstein was convicted.
It was during Trump’s first presidency that federal prosecutors got here after Epstein again, charging him in July 2019 with intercourse trafficking and conspiracy to visitors minors for intercourse. One of the major prosecutors was none different than Maurene Comey, the daughter of infamous FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump had sacked two years earlier. James Comey is now in the crosshairs of the FBI, together with former CIA Director John Brennan, after present CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred them for felony investigation two weeks in the past over freshly declassified proof that highlights their roles in the Russia collusion hoax.
Maurene Comey was fired Wednesday, sooner or later earlier than the WSJ story was revealed, and sooner or later after the White House was alerted to the story. She informed 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. According to the WSJ, the “birthday book” Maxwell compiled was in the recordsdata examined by the DOJ during the investigations of Epstein and Maxwell.
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There is no indication of something more than a circumstantial hyperlink between Comey’s ouster and the WSJ story, however the timing is intriguing.
Like all the pieces else with Epstein, people are inclined to see hyperlinks the place there are none.
After the WSJ story broke Thursday, Trump requested Attorney General Pam Bondi to release “any and all pertinent grand jury testimony, subject to court approval” that was gathered by New York federal prosecutors in 2019.
But simply because people related to Epstein doesn’t make them complicit in his crimes. The DOJ and FBI have stated there may be no “Epstein client list,” as in a checklist 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 sell it. It has been the subject of intense reporting, however you may’t decide the names guilty 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 Bill 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.”
Many of the now-adult victims of Epstein have been cheated of their likelihood to confront their tormentor in court docket as a result of he died in pretrial detention. But the decide allowed them to testify in 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 girls lined up at a microphone, heads held high, to put their struggling on the report. Six others had their attorneys learn out letters.
Through tears and shaky voices, they informed their tales so we might perceive the toll of damaged trust. “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.
The most outspoken sufferer, Virginia Giuffre, who reportedly dedicated suicide three months in the past, informed the court docket: “Epstein did not act alone.”
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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 court docket after she sued him for sexual abuse.
She accused different highly effective males, however by no means Trump. In truth, in her 2015 memoir, she explicitly ruled out Trump.
As a lot as the liberal media is salivating at the prospect of one other Get-Trump pile-on, there may be simply nothing there.
‘X is not reality’
Meanwhile, the similar media is ignoring the newest bombshell revelation in the Russiagate scandal unveiled final week by Director of National 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 snigger, 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.
