One might almost think that Trump’s calling all of the accounts coming from the Epstein survivors a hoax would be a story that had legs. Oh, how naive I am.
Trump called it a hoax (see yesterday’s Substack) ….
…. and the next day RFK Jr. was all over the news. Add this to Trump wanting to rename the Defense Department, and throwing in teasing a federal takeover of the 911 Museum, as well as what was meant to be more media attention grabbing, the meeting on AI chaired by Melania. Because it was planned for the Rose Garden, but was rained out, it was meant to get more coverage. So what happened to the Epstein story in the media?
Trump is master at dominating the news. Perhaps knowing the poor jobs report would come out today or maybe just a fortuitous coincidence, already this morning we have these two reports:
So far the RFK Jr. story is reverberating.
If it sticks around long enough and begins to damage Trump in ways he cares about there would seem to be only two ways be could put the story to bed. He could fire him or he could mount an even bigger distraction.
It would have to be bigger…. let’s say
than just illegally murdering 11 drug smugglers by blowing up their ship in international waters. Perhaps Venezuela just gave him an excuse to mount a most major distraction:
Trump could order a military strike against one of their air bases. More likely is his bloviating against their messing with him “or else” and instead ordering a military strike against Chicago and in a what he’d see as a terrific twofer send troops to New Orleans where Jeff Landry would welcome them.
It’s become a cliche to even say that with Trump it is all about the theater (taking over the Kennedy Center is a literal example). He knows how to mount a distraction when he needs to do so.
He has armies with guns and armies with legal briefs at his beck and call. This is just the most recent example of the latter.
Readers of this can be excused for despairing when they see all of this. After all, Trump is the man who had the presence of mind to get up after getting shot by a bullet and give the world one of the greatest money camera shots of all time, and posed for a mug shot very possibly knowing he could make it as iconic as the Iwo Jima photo,
Our good friends R and D just sent us an email asking if we’d be interested in going to yet another anti-Trump protest (here).
I don’t know if we’ll be able to go to this. It’s only a 21 minute drive but parking may not be easy. I admit that I have moments when I think along the lines of “why bother.” I haven’t thought of stopping writing this Substack, but I can easily sit here every morning and write it and hope that as an individual I can offer a hopefully unique perspective to an audience that already agrees that Trump is a dangerous dictator on his way to destroying democracy.
Goddamnit, Trump who famously, or infamously, said we (meaning his people) would get tired of winning so much, has worn me down with his never ever ending victories.
I suspect that like everyone reading this…
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