Epstein

I have many reasons to despise Donald Trump. As someone who lived in the Northeast for a couple of decades prior to 1988, he was regularly in my media feed in the 1980's, as a promoter who spent all of his time telling other people how great he was.

I have more reasons than his being obnoxious: his refusal to pay the electricians and other workers who renovated his Atlantic City casinos unless they settled for 10 cents on the dollar (threatening to bleed them dry in court with his army of lawyers if they sued); his scam university; his sadism during his first term; his attempted coup on January 6, 2021; his treason with documents stored in Mar-a-Lago; his much more efficient sadism in his second term. It's a long list that he adds to daily.

But, here is the trigger when I hear his voice: I would never want him alone in a room with my daughter.

It's patronizing---she can defend herself, I know. But when he owned Miss Teen USA he bragged about going into the dressing rooms to see the young ladies dressing. He bragged on The View about finding his daughter attractive. Over two dozen women have accused him of sexual assault and have not yet seen their day in court. E. Jean Carroll was one of many and the exception.

And then there's a whole lot of video of him partying with Jeffrey Epstein, the sex trafficker and the very young ladies he surrounded himself with.

So the accused rapist took the presidency with a promise to reveal all the evidence ("the list" is vary reductive) about Epstein that the FBI captured and then said through his personal attorney/Attorney General that there was no evidence, then said that there was evidence but asserted (without proof, because he never furnishes a way to check what he is saying, as con artists are loathe to do) that the evidence was faked by his political rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

It is to laugh, it is to cry. Several young women have offered their testimony that Trump was intimate with them when they were below the age of consent; to my knowledge the FBI has not chatted with them.

Trump the rapist, our 47th president. His bragging on Access Hollywood that he could grab attractive women by the crotch because he was famous did not stop his election to his first term. The Epstein revelations did not matter enough to the voters to prevent his second term.

Right now there is a backlash among MAGA about the sporadic existence of Epstein's records. I don't think it will last long; the definition of MAGA is that everything that Trump does is right by them. Any Christians that joined that cult renounced their devotion to Christ's commands in the gospels a very long time ago.