Trump, Running From Epstein

THE BREAKING NEWS, evidently, is that Donald Trump is mentioned hundreds of times in the notorious "Epstein files", just in the relatively small part of them which have now, over the past forty eight hours, been released. I have this habit of turing the volume of the flatscreen down,and just watching the news headlines while listening to hard classic rock on the radio to distract just a tiny bit fro teh harsh realities of today's news. Call me crazy. and, sure enough, on CBS very early this morning, the headline flowed past that Trump is all over the Epstein files. It was a long story; the headline stopped and remained on the screen for a full five minutes, while they gave detailed information, but I didn't listen. I'll get filled in later. On the TV screen, the camera zoomed in to words on a page, evidently the words of Jeffrey Epstein, talking about how extremely interested Trump was in the very young girls frollicking in his pool. Now, we've been hearing about this so called "Epstein Affair" for what seems like a very long time now, and, I'm not going to lie to you, I have long since grown tired of it all. I am quite satisfied that Donald Trump is a low life sleaze bag pedophile, disgusted but not surprised, and disgusted most of all, actually, by the continued support Trump enjoys among his base. It is now established that Trump knew, for years, all about Epstein's sleazy involvement with underage girls, and yet, continued to have a friendship with him. Disgusting. I have said it from the beginning and will keep saying it: Trump's supporters are no better than he, and their support for Trump, tragic though it is, is, in a way, quite appropriate, because Trump's supporters tend to be intellectually and morally as well as ideologically similar to Trump. There is, however, trouble in paradise. A certain percentage of Trump supporters, are demanding the full release of the Epstein files, and, with mounting evidence that Trump is indeed a pedophile, are not happy with the early revelations. It may be that his very tolerant and patient evangelical support base is starting to lose its patience and tolerance with Trump's increasingly hard to hide immoral past sexual behavior. The Trump camp is already in damage control mode, claiming that the entire business regarding Epstein is a fraud, an elaborate hoax. The problem is, there are far too many photographs, personal testimonies, and all manner of proof of Trump's long standing association with the ultra wealthy sexual predator pedophile Epstein. Trump ended the association and started trying to hide it from the world far too late, and has been caught. Trump's failure to hide his criminal activity may yet prove to be his downfall, to whatever extent former presidents can fall down. Nixon did not deserve a pardon, and Trump deserves one even less. It may be, however, that he does not live long enough after he leaves office to fully experience the consequences of his crimes, and goes to his grave largely unpunished. The rest of Trump's life will be a continuation of the seeming feeding frenzy of investiations into his many crimes committed during his second term, crimes he hasn't even committed yet, but most certainly will, in the remaining three years of his administration. Historians a hundred years from now will still be sifting through Trump's crimes, and analyzing the strange phenomenon of his political movement. Maybe they'll have more answers than we do.