Nothing To See
Like a trailer park after a line of tornadoes, the landscape is littered with debris from awful presidencies. But few opportunities have been as wasted as the one Donald Trump is squandering. This shouldn’t be surprising.
Six months ago he re-entered office, bearing specific promises and broad support. The hope was that he’d learned lessons about the nature of the presidency, and about political enemies who use nefarious means to preserve their power.
What we’ve learned (again) is that Donald Trump isn’t capable of learning anything, and that many Americans aren’t either. Love him or loathe him, most insist on seeing Trump for what he isn’t.
In the minds of many, this shallow showman is either an unrivaled villain or unerring saint. Instead, he’s a fairly standard politician with boisterous style and overbearing flair.
The PT Barnum of the last half century, Trump is among the great marketers and most brash self-promoters this country has seen. Fortunately for him, plenty of suckers are born every minute. But not enough for what he tried this week.
“Someone Got to Her”
Doug Casey often quips that the economic collapse he foresees will be even worse than he thinks it will be. After watching Trump’s attempt to stifle the Epstein story, I can say the same about my expectation of government corruption.
The FBI that identified every 55 year-old grandma who was invited into the Capitol can’t find one elite client of a powerful pedophile ring.
Worse, after assuring us it had ample evidence they were primed to reveal, the “Justice” Department now disavows any knowledge of Jeffery Epstein’s Intelligence connections, insists there’s no reason to think he was murdered, and denies his child-rape racket even existed.
The latest from Attorney General Pam Bondi – who in February said she had a list of Epstein clients sitting on her desk – is that Epstein was a lone pervert who wallowed in kiddie porn… which may make Ghislaine Maxwell wonder why she’s sitting in jail.
Tom Woods recalled an interview Bondi did with Jesse Watters. Regarding the Epstein case, she asserted:
“What you’re going to see, hopefully tomorrow, is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information. But, um, it’s pretty sick what that man did.”
Waters adds, “And he had help.” Bondi answers, “He sure did.”
As Woods rightly wonders, “So what happened to all that? Where are the flight logs and the names?”
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