Let me get this straight

All right. Let me get this straight.

President Donald Trump campaigned on releasing the Epstein files, a list of people in positions of power who allegedly engaged in child sex trafficking with late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 under mysterious circumstances.

Trump campaigned on this promise despite countless rumors that he was one of the key people on said list, given his well-documented 15 year friendship with Epstein, inviting Epstein to be a guest at his wedding, and the fact that they were photographed together more times than I have been photographed period. Also, Trump said in 2002 that, “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

So then — just to be clear — after being re-elected, Trump does not release the Epstein files and continually gets annoyed when people keep asking about them, presumably because every other problem in his life has melted away to vapor if he ignores it long enough.

Then he has his U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announce that the Epstein files don’t exist, despite the fact that she had previously said they do exist and are on her desk.

Then — and again, I’m just trying to keep this straight — Trump begins to claim, depending on the day, that the files 1.) don’t exist, 2.) do exist and will be incredibly damaging to Democrats, or 3.) were created by the Democrats and filled with lies to destroy Trump.

Also, in the midst of all this, the FBI released a video from the prison where Epstein was being held on the day he supposedly died of suicide, but it had been edited to exclude one minute.

Also, House Speaker Mike Johnson called a recess solely to avoid having the House vote on releasing the Epstein files.

Also, Ghislaine Maxwell, the only living person who has actually faced any consequences for Epstein’s child sex trafficking and is currently serving a 20 year prison sentence, just had a secret meeting with the Justice Department and no one has any idea what was discussed, but shortly thereafter, she filed a brief with the Supreme Court to appeal her conviction.

And — just to make sure I’m getting this right — the party in question that is supporting Trump through this situation is the party of family values and protecting children?

And we are to believe that despite reams of evidence of a years-long friendship, Trump took no part in Epstein’s horrific criminal enterprise? And we are further expected to believe that Maxwell’s meeting with folks from the Department of Justice had nothing to do with them coaching her on what to say or who to implicate if she wants to taste freedom again? We are expected to believe both of these things uncritically?

Even Joe Rogan can’t believe how dumb this administration thinks the American people are. Joe Rogan! The most credulous person in America, a man who was convinced without evidence that teenagers were going to the bathroom in litterboxes at high schools across the nation. I could stick my thumb between my pointer and middle finger and successfully convince Joe Rogan I had stolen his nose, but EVEN HE isn’t buying what the White House is selling.

The Epstein scandal is massive in scope yet as thin and transparent as a piece of cling wrap. It’s clear that Trump is heavily implicated in the Epstein files. It’s clear that many wealthy people and politicians are implicated. No matter what side of the aisle they fall on, every last one needs to have their day in court. To do any less would be a miscarriage of justice.

As the saying goes: let justice be done though the Heavens fall.