Donald, Jeffrey, and Magic Hats - The Epstein Files

 

Donald, Jeffrey, and Magic Hats. 

 

WITH THE SORID SAGA of Jeffrey Epstein back at the top of the news, the diligent blogger has once again set for himself the task of learning all he can. 

First, we should review the state of play, as it was in the heady, opening days of the second Trump presidency.

 

 

As we noted then, the American people had been assured that a massive investigation was about to commence. The forces of “truth, justice and the American Way” would soon be unleashed: 

 

“Lifting the Veil.” 

2/27/25:  Thank God, MAGA fans – this is what you voted for! The Department of Justice has announced that a massive investigation into the horrific actions of Jeffrey Epstein will now commence. 

Attorney General Pam Bondi and F.B.I. Director Kash Patel are so excited to spread the news that in official statements they put everything in bold. 

First, Bondi: 

This Department of Justice is following through on President Trump’s commitment to transparency and lifting the veil on the disgusting actions of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators. The first phase of files released today sheds light on Epstein’s extensive network and begins to provide the public with long overdue accountability.   

 

Then Patel: 

The FBI is entering a new era – one that will be defined by integrity, accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice. There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned — and anyone from the prior or current Bureau who undermines this will be swiftly pursued. If there are gaps, we will find them. If records have been hidden, we will uncover them. And we will bring everything we find to the DOJ to be fully assessed and transparently disseminated to the American people as it should be. The oath we take is to the Constitution, and under my leadership, that promise will be upheld without compromise.

 

Mr. Patel - old Department of Defense photo.

 

With that, the MAGA faithful began salivating. They knew – because they wear magic hats and believe in their hearts – belief to them being equivalent to being able to see secret truths – that Epstein’s co-conspirators would include all of the following, and more. In fact, those co-conspirators, soon to be exposed in lurid detail, were already loathed by the magic hat folks: 

Barack Hussein Obama (not a real American)

Michelle Obama (actually, a man)

Robot Joe Biden (controlled by Barack, of course)

Body Double Joe Biden (in lieu of Robot Joe, often deployed to cover up the fact that President Biden was already dead on “his” Inauguration Day) 

George Soros (a Jew!)

Hillary Clinton (Benghazi!!!!)

Chelsea Clinton (why not) 

– and –  

Bill Clinton (alright, he did fly on Epstein’s plane – a plane nicknamed, ominously, “Lolita’s Express.”)

 

And so, the veil was about to be lifted – rather, snatched away – and the magic hatters already knew who had been naughty and who had not been nice, either. 

The fun was about to begin!

The hat people could hardly wait to see Hillary in handcuffs.

 

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Thinking back to those happy times, we know that the days began to accumulate. Weeks passed, with nothing to show. Discontent grew. On a grim day in early July, we were forced to report: 

 

No list of clients! 

7/7/25: Attorney General Pam Bondi stuns MAGA World when she announces that there is no list of clients for Jeffrey Epstein. 

And Epstein committed suicide – a shocking conclusion – which was first reported soon after his demise, in August 2019. 

Weeping can be heard in all corners of Trumpistan. The MAGA faithful were sure a million Democratic pedophiles were going to be revealed. 

They were sure Hillary or Bill or Barack would be outed as the person who ordered Epstein killed in his cell. 

(Even though Trump was president when Epstein died.) 

 

It was almost as if all the right-wing talk about Epstein and Democrats, and child-trafficking rings was horse poopoo. 

And you had to wonder why Bondi once said that she had “the list” of Jeffrey’s clients on her desk. 

The denouement was so embarrassing that when the Justice Department and the FBI released a two-page memo announcing the end of the investigation, it was not signed by any big-name official. Not Bondi. Not Patel. Whoever got stuck writing the memo simply said, “One of our highest priorities is combatting child exploitation and bringing justice to victims. Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends.” 

The blogger could have told you that six years ago, when the right-wingers started spewing tall tales. 

(Still, the blogger would love to see every one of Epstein’s clients go to jail.) 

 

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Verbal rocks and bottles. 

When the MAGA faithful erupted at the news, and started attacking the attorney general, Donald stepped in and tried to quell the verbal rioting. On Truth Social he defended Bondi and told supporters “not [to] waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.” 

Only the magic hat people did care, and the verbal rocks and bottles continued to fly, bouncing off Trump administrators’ heads. 

Donald, who had had to duck a few missiles, himself continued. “What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’” he wondered. “They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening.” 

When a bottle just missed his pate, and broke against the wall behind him, he erupted in another social media post. This time he blamed Democrats for fueling the uproar over the Epstein Files. “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax,” he yelped, “and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘b*******,’ hook, line, and sinker,” he complained. 

When his “PAST supporters” continued to demand action, Trump turned on them, too. Now, Trump said, they were “stupid” and “foolish,” and they were “weaklings,” too. “Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work,” he complained, “don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”

 

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The free press is critical. 

Unfortunately, we know that in situations like this, people latch onto facts that bolster their existing beliefs. Snopes, the fact checking website, for example, has focused on a picture of Chauntae Davies, an Epstein accuser, giving Bill Clinton a shoulder massage. 

What does that picture prove, or not prove? If you cherish the truth, you can’t be lazy. You must do some reading to find out. You must think. 

You can’t just react, like an infant scared by a loud sound. 

(We do know, Davies was sexually assaulted by Epstein for four years before she managed to escape his control.) 

And before we go one sentence farther down this long path to the end of this awful story, we should point out that the free press is critical, if we want the truth, with reporters overturning every rock they can, and describing the creepy characters suddenly exposed to light. And if you don’t understand the importance of a free press in a free country, especially in this kind of situation – for example, when you hear President Trump go on the attack against “fake news” – you need to think a little harder about what kind of country you love. 

In a tape aired by NBC a few days ago, Davies can be seen talking about the “intense anger” she and other victims felt when watching Epstein’s elite lawyers defend the man. “You know, it’s hard to hear someone who caused you so much pain, being defended in any capacity,” she explained. Epstein had piled up hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of his career in “finance,” and by hiding behind tall stacks of dollars, he was able to keep his endless crimes from view. Epstein, Davies said, “preyed upon young girls who had no voice, and he knew that.” She was young and vulnerable at the time, they crossed paths, and he made her feel like she was “part of a family.” 

And then he began to strike. 

Maxwell, she added, played a critical role in luring her into the fold, or into Jeffrey’s clutches, you could say, and at that point in the interview Davies shook her head and asked, rhetorically, “As a woman, how do you do that?” 

Chauntae Davies.

 

Davies and a second victim, Teresa Helm, can be seen in another interview in a story aired by ABC. Helm was flown to New York for a “job interview” and met Maxwell at her $5 million home. 

Only later did she hear about “Jeffrey,” and only then was she told would have to meet him, and Ghislaine “told me to give Jeffrey what he wants, because Jeffrey always gets what he wants.”

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“Phase 1” – just getting started! 

Now it’s August, and the Epstein Files “investigation” has proved to be a bummer so far. The total number of pedophiles arrested remains stuck at 0. But the magic hats still help the wearers in one critical sense. 

1. Those caps come with powerful force fields which make it impossible to learn/or accept that Donald J. Trump also flew on Epstein’s plane, and not just once. 

Eight times.

 

2. Those caps also protect against knowing that on four of those flights, Epstein’s main accomplice, Maxwell, sat in a seat not far from Donald. (Until last Friday she sat in a federal prison in Florida, having been sentenced to twenty years, for her role as Epstein’s recruiter of young girls.) 

(Jeffrey is serving life without parole in Hell.) 

 

3. To understand where we might be headed, we should remember that Attorney General Bondi looked into the camera in February, and told Fox News that, yes, there was a “client list” of Epstein’s. And she promised: “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review.” And she was the bold leader who would review it as soon as possible and let the pedophile-catching fun begin! 

“That’s been a directive by President Trump,” she said. 

 

4. We know that an assortment of right-wing “influencers” was invited to the White House and gifted binders full of information from the Epstein Files. 

Those binders were titled: “The Epstein Files: Phase 1,” It was a title which even the biggest right-wing dolt in America could see implied that there would be a “Phase 2,” for sure, and possibly a “Phase 3,” and many more to follow. It was only a matter of time before Barack was headed to Alligator Alcatraz. 

 

5. Jessica Reed Kraus, one of fifteen lucky recipients of a “Phase 1” door prize, wrote in an Instagram post at that time, that Bondi personally delivered the documents to the group in a White House meeting. Even President Trump joined the gathering. 

This was going to be HUGH! 

The Binder People were so proud of their new door prizes.

6. A second influencer told all the people he “influenced” every day, that F.B.I. Director Patel and Vice President JD Vance were also in attendance. And the magic hat folks promised each other that Bill Clinton’s days, and Hillary’s too, were numbered in the tens, like when you counted on your toes.  

7. Jack Posobiec, one of the lucky Binder People, assured the magic hat faithful that his binder was overflowing with Epstein’s “flight logs” and “contacts,” which had been found in a little black book. Then he promised that “more and more pieces of this” story would be coming out soon. 

Many of those contacts listed multiple phone numbers, addresses, and family details of persons Epstein and Maxwell had met. 

All those leads – right there – just waiting for investigators to start digging and get their hands covered in dirt. 

 

8. In fact, you could do what the blogger did for fun – because he’s retired, and has time on his hands – and see that many pages of “evidence” were heavily redacted, “to protect potential victim information.” This would include a list of hundreds of masseuses, many of them young women and teens, who had been forced to perform hideous sex acts on Epstein and his repulsive friends, so that page after page looked like this: 

 

 

 

(But Team Trump leaders knew exactly what was hidden by the black box.) 

 

9. You could also peruse the “Evidence List,” in the “Phase 1” binder, which included items like this: 

Austrian Passport with Epstein photograph

2 white in color busts of female torsos

1 CD labelled “girl pics nude book 4”

Envelope containing 1 VHS tape, 2 cassette tapes & 4 micro cassette tapes

Box containing Ten yearbooks collected by FBI West Palm Beach Resident Agency

 

Four massage tables

one green

one brown

one peach

one beige

 

One heat-sealed bag containing one yellow envelope marked “SK” dated 08/27/08 containing multiple smaller envelopes containing $17,115 USC (152 x $100, 35 x $50, 4 x $20, 6 x $10, 5 x $5)

 

And even: 

One pair of black women's cowboy boots, size 8.

 

So, surely, there was hope; and the magic hats knew in their hearts that Body Double Joe, and Man Michelle Obama would soon be headed for the slammer. Robot Joe would be unplugged and sent to a scrap yard.

The magic hat people can't be fooled: Michelle Obama is a man.

 

 

10. Of course, you had to wonder if you weren’t wearing a hat. If there were thousands of pictures of victims, might there not be pictures of their victimizers? Might it not be easy enough to issue a national call, like a weather warning, only about perverts, informing those who had been abused or raped to call a special government hotline and talk about what they knew? 

(AG Bondi: Hire this blogger, he has all kinds of ideas that might help.) 

 

Circled names in Epstein’s little black book. 

11. Many Americans learned for the first time that the little black book contained more than 1,500 names, including Donald Trump, Donald’s first wife Ivana, Donald’s daughter Ivanka, Donald’s brother, Robert, and Robert’s (now) ex-wife, Blaine. So, it was true – that your name could appear in the book, and you might be as innocent as a Catholic choirboy fleeing from an amorous priest. 

(Or a woman trying to avoid having her pussy grabbed, if you catch the drift.) 

 

12. One oddity was that 38 names and location details, out of hundreds, were circled. Trump’s name. Prince Andrew’s name. Ehud Barak’s. When Gawker first published the contents of the book in 2015, and all the information except the names wasn’t redacted, we learned that Jeffrey’s former butler, Alfredo Rodriguez, had tried to sell it to lawyers representing Epstein’s victims, for $50,000. 

He was thought to have circled names (and places they had been) of those who would know most about what had transpired behind closed doors and drawn shades. 

 

13. Those of us who had followed the news since the day Donald and Melania first rode down the escalator, and he announced that he would very much like to be president, already knew. Rodriguez was prosecuted for having tried to sell the stolen book and spent 18 months in prison. We also remembered that that was a harsher sentence than any Mr. Epstein would ever serve. 

14. Eventually, we learned that Ehud Barak, the former prime minister of Israel, visited Jeffrey on at least thirty occasions, between 2013 and 2017. As The Times of Israel points out, these “meetings came well after Epstein’s 2008-2009 conviction and sentencing for procuring a child for prostitution, but Barak has maintained that he had no knowledge of Epstein’s activities.” 

Which, knowing the expertise of Israeli intelligence operatives, is just a teeny-tiny bit hard to believe.

 

15. As the newspaper explained, working from a story that first appeared in the Wall Street Journal in May 2023, Barak said Epstein appeared to have been “a terrible version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” a person who “seemed an intelligent, well-connected man with many interests, from science to geopolitics.” 

(So, there’s that: People who knew Epstein could have been duped.)

 

16. Then The Times added: 

According to the reports, Epstein also had more than a dozen meetings with Ariane de Rothschild, the chief executive of the Rothschild Group of Swiss Jewish bankers, who had married into the family and was the firm’s chair at the time. De Rothschild herself is not Jewish, but the family has been a prime target of antisemitic conspiracy theories for decades.

 (So, there’s that, too.) 

 

Unfortunately, a depressing subset of the magic hat bunch is proudly, loudly antisemitic, and that last paragraph would (assuming they can read) set off alarm bells and fuel another thousand conspiracy theories. 

(For example: Majorie Taylor Greene and the Jewish space lasers.) 

 

“Every cell phone, every yacht line.” 

17. If you ever wonder why a free press is critical in keeping check on the powerful, consider Leland Nally, a reporter for the left-leaning magazine Mother Jones. When Gawker published the contents, Nally set himself the task of calling every person listed in the infamous little black book. 

The enterprising reporter offered this observation, and more like it: 

Seeing at close range the mundanity of Epstein and his fellow elites – how simple and childish they could be – was a sickening experience of its own. The worst call by far was with a woman who told me she’d been groped by Epstein, an incident she said she didn’t report at the time out of fear of retribution from Epstein. 

 

At one point, Nally received a call from an unknown number. On the other end, an individual claimed to be an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with a report of “fraudulent phone calls” coming from Nally’s number. Nally explained his purpose and the supposed agent hung up and never called back. With that, Nally said, he understood. “Every cell phone, every yacht line, every private office number – they were all real, and every one of them was about to get a call from me.” 

 

18. Nally’s phone conversation with Stuart Pivar, 90, a lifelong friend of Epstein, is worth a read in and of itself. Pivar talked for an hour, over-sharing, then accusing the reporter of tricking him into continuing. 

Among the nuggets from their conversation: 

On me and my life choices: “You’re so full of shit, it’s terrible. You should not be writing about this. You’re not qualified.”

 

On himself and his life choices: “Why did I talk to you! I’m a dead fish, and you’re going to ruin me. Luckily, I don’t know anybody who reads Mother Jones anymore. I can’t believe it still existed.” 

 

Pivar also explained how, when he was fourteen, he was in love with a thirteen-year-old girl … and sex was alluring and natural … and, well … society had created a bunch of rules to hinder the workings of instinct … and, so, sex with teens … but with older adults involved … not so bad? 

That sounded gross. 

 

“Ghislaine was a shark.” 

19. Nally did the digging, providing the kind of leads Bondi and Patel and President Trump could follow, assuming justice was their true and only goal. 

He even reminded me of something I had forgotten. When Epstein died, Maxwell went on the lame for almost a year, hiding out at a remote farm in New Hampshire, protected by her own security detail. 

She secretly paid for the place, having an associate plunk down $1 million in cash, under another name.

Trump seated with Maxwell.

(These were powerful people. Dangerous, too.)  

 

In fact, Nally says, Maxwell, daughter of a prominent British business tycoon and a well-known socialite, even before she met Jeffrey Epstein, had had a hand in creating the contacts book herself. 

There are several “massage” lists – lists for California, Paris, New Mexico, and Florida [locations where many of the assaults took place], containing dozens of female first names with numbers beside each. Next to some of these names are little parenthetical notes like “GM really likes.” I spoke to one woman, a bodyworker, who has a note next to her name in the book that reads, “GM hasn’t tried yet.” “Oh!” she shouted. “That’s so fucking creepy!”

 

“Ghislaine was a shark,” Julie [a victim Nally talked to on multiple calls] told me, “Anything you read about her that’s positive isn’t true. She’s a scary woman. … The picture that Virginia [Giuffre, one of the first accusers] drew of Ghislaine? I completely believe what she wrote.” Julie told me Maxwell was Epstein’s ticket into proper high society.” Jeffrey had money, Ghislaine had status,” Julie said. 

 

20. If you were truly interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein Files, you could see why Julie would be important to interview. Virginia, too. Except that Virginia committed suicide in April 2025. 

21. But not before she brought Prince Andrew, the British royal, down in a court fight, after she testified that she had been trafficked to Andrew several times, when she was 16 or 17. She won a settlement rumored to be £12 million. 

(So at least one Epstein pal paid for his awful abuse.) 

 

22. She also accused another prominent figure: Allen Dershowitz, Epstein’s powerhouse attorney. Virginia claimed in a deposition that she had been trafficked to Dershowitz on at least six occasions. As the Business Insider explained in a story in 2022, Giuffre said that “Dershowitz was so comfortable with the sex that was going on that on one occasion he observed me in sexual activity with Epstein.” 

She went on to discuss being compelled to perform oral sex while in a limousine, to have sex on a plane, and to be forced to have sex with another young woman at Epstein’s home. She said she had seen Dershowitz having sex with at least one other victim, a girl she identified as “blond” and “young.” 

Giuffre and Dershowitz later filed competing defamation suits against each other and reached some kind of settlement in 2022, but since terms were kept secret, both have claimed vindication. 

23. We do know that Dershowitz has admitted getting massages during visits to his client’s townhouse and other homes; but he insists he did not enjoy the massages particularly, and kept his “underwear on.”

Victim, right, victimizer left.
Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre.

 

 

24. Suzy Schuster, now an Emmy-winning sportscaster, also talked with Nally at length. When she was 22, she met Epstein and Maxwell. At the time she was working for Andrew Neil, one of Rupert Murdoch’s top lieutenants at Fox News. Schuster added that there was “a great deal of overlap” between the social circles of Epstein and Neil. 

The blogger was reminded how much sexual abuse was occurring at Fox News during this same period. 

See, for example, Roger Ailes. 

And Bill O’Reilly. 

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25. In February, the Department of Justice and F.B.I. revealed that they had “300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence” related to the Epstein case, including thousands of pictures of child sexual assault victims. 

Then, in July, DOJ insisted, “systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list’” so, never mind. 

False alarm. 

 

Trump named in the Epstein Files. 

26. There was, of course, a happier time when Donald hung with Jeffrey and enjoyed all the fun. As he explained in an October 2002, interview with New York magazine, “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen 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. No doubt about it – Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” 

(He sure did. That pervert.) 

 

27. If we so desired, we could listen to a tape of Jeffrey, from an interview in 2017, talking about Donald. “I was his best friend for ten years,” he says. 

The first time the future president slept with Melania, now the First Lady of the United States, “was on my plane,” Epstein added. 

As the Daily Beast explained, in an article about the tape, 

Epstein painted a complicated portrait of Trump. He called him “charming,” and “always fun,” capable of extraordinary salesmanship, and suggested he was personally in favor of Trump’s policies on “the transgender stuff.” But he alleged Trump was a serial cheat in his marriages and loved to “f--- the wives of his best friends.”

 

He also claimed that while Trump has friends, he was at heart a friendless man incapable of kindness. 

(Evidence appears to bear that out.) 

 

28. When that story broke, the tape was in the possession of Michael Wolff, who had been researching material for his book, Fire and Fury, in 2017. And Wolff added this monster detail, if true: He said Epstein had shown off photos of Trump with topless young women sitting in his lap. 

(A spokesperson for Mr. Trump described the tapes as “false smears.”) 

 

29. With the promised investigation seemingly stalled in July, reporters took time to ask President Trump if AG Bondi had ever told him that his name appeared in the Epstein Files. Oh, no, Donald said. He had always been a very good boy. Bondi only discussed the files with him in a general fashion. 

30. The Wall Street Journal cited several sources, saying that Bondi had told the president in May that, yes, his name did appear in the files. 

That that would mean Donald lied. 

 

31. The pesky free press filed a new story about Maria Farmer, one of Epstein’s first accusers. She said she had gone to the police and then the F.B.I. twice, in 1996 and 2006. She had warned about Epstein and told authorities that she was “alarmed by what she saw as Mr. Epstein’s pattern of pursuing girls and young women while building friendships with prominent people, including Mr. Trump and President Bill Clinton.” 

Ms. Farmer did not accuse either Trump or Clinton of any illegal activities but did describe an incident from 1995, that she had found troubling. At the time, she was preparing to go to work for Mr. Epstein. 

She said she told the authorities that late one night, Mr. Epstein unexpectedly called her to his offices in a luxury building in Manhattan, and she arrived in running shorts.

 

Mr. Trump then arrived, wearing a business suit, and started to hover over her, she said she told the authorities.

 

Ms. Farmer said she recalled feeling scared as Mr. Trump stared at her bare legs. Then Mr. Epstein entered the room, and she recalled him saying to Mr. Trump: “No, no. She’s not here for you.”

 

The two men left the room, and Ms. Farmer said she could hear Mr. Trump commenting that he thought Ms. Farmer was 16 years old. 

 

32. Farmer said she was first assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell after she visited them in Ohio, where Jeffrey had a house in a private complex built by Les Wexner, owner of various clothing brands, including Victoria’s Secret. She says she was held for twelve hours, after the assault, by Wexner’s “massive security team.” 

She learned later that her younger sister was assaulted at another Epstein hangout in New Mexico. 

(Wexner would seem to be an obvious person to interview, in detail and at length, if you wanted to get to the bottom of this ignoble tale.)

Victoria's Secret model: Gisele Bundchen.
Not involved with Epstein.

 

33. We also know that President Trump claimed recently that he had never visited Jeffrey Epstein at his office. 

Epstein’s brother, Mark, told CNN this week, “That’s just another blatant lie. Because he was there. People that worked for Jeffrey in his office, they could testify that they saw Trump in Jeffrey’s office on numerous occasions. So for him to say he wasn’t there, all I can say is that’s just another lie.” 

(Bondi could check it out.) 

 

What friends are for: Donald and Jeffrey. 

34. With interest exploding again in July, Forbes put together a timeline of known events linking Donald and Jeffrey. 

There was this, from 1992: 

At a “calendar girl” party at Mar-a-Lago where Trump invited just two other guests, Florida businessman George Houraney and Epstein, Houraney’s girlfriend at the time, Jill Harth, said Trump forcibly kissed and fondled her, restrained her from leaving a bedroom and alleged Trump crawled into bed with another 22-year-old woman at the party in a 1997 lawsuit[.] Trump settled the lawsuit with Harth (he has denied her allegations), The New York Times reported. 

 

35. We also had pictures of Mr. Epstein at Mr. Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples in 1993. When CNN unearthed that video, they put in a call to President Trump for comment. He called CNN “fake news” and hung up. 

36. Stacey Williams, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, had her own “Donald Trump moment” that year. She claims she was groped by Mr. Trump, after Epstein, whom she was dating at the time, brought her to Trump Tower. As she described it, Donald “put his hands all over my breasts, my waist, my butt[.]” 

Stacey Williams.

 

37. If we have $290, Getty Images will allow us to copy a picture of a smirking Jeffrey, standing beside Donald, that image being from 1997. They are attending a Victoria’s Secret party. Clearly, the author of this blog is not going to pay $290. So, click on the link above, and you can see the photo for free, or buy the largest version and frame it, if you are a fan of pedophiles. 

You can also see the image showing the two women-grabbing pals flanking the Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve (cropped in a screen shot, below): 

 

 

38. With interest in the Epstein Files spreading like an STD, we were directed to another old story from the Daily Beast. In that article, from 2021, it was alleged that Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin, a former Miss Sweden, and former Epstein girlfriend, had been involved in orgies with teen girls. She denied it – perhaps truthfully – but did add, somewhat suspiciously, that she suffered from a health issue that made it difficult for her to remember. She was fifty at the time. 

Still: “innocent until proven guilty,” is the rule – including at this fine blog. 

Dr. Andersson-Dubin even vouched for Epstein, and said that her children felt safe around him, that they loved him, and called him “Uncle F.” 

(It would be a juvenile joke to say it stood for “Uncle Fuck.”) 

 

As reporters for the Daily Beast explained, 

a tranche of unsealed court records revealed the couple’s butler had testified about a disturbing conversation he had with a 15-year-old Swedish girl in the Dubins’ home.

The former house manager, Rinaldo Rizzo, said that in 2005, he found the teenager distraught and in tears in the Dubins’ kitchen. The girl, who said she was 15, told him she was Epstein’s personal assistant and had just returned from a trip to his private isle in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where she was pressured to have sex.

 

“She proceeded to tell my wife and I… ‘I was on the island and there was Ghislaine, and there was Sarah,’ and she said, ‘They asked me for sex. I said no,’” Rizzo testified.

 

The girl claimed that Epstein employee Sarah Kellen took her passport and that Maxwell threatened her not to tell anyone what happened.  

 

39. A little bit of cross-checking shows that the blogger’s memory is still sharp, even at 76. Kellen was indeed one of three Epstein employees granted immunity in his first criminal trial, resulting in a slap-on-the-wrist jail sentence. 

40. Meanwhile, CNN unearthed video of Jeff and Don enjoying themselves at a 1999 party for Victoria’s Secret.  

Then there was the picture of Jeff and Don, and Don’s young children, Eric, and Ivanka, age 12, at the Harley Davidson Café in New York, where the child molester gave his card to a fashion photographer. 

“Jeffrey Epstein, Financial Advisor,” it read. 

The New York Times added a photo of the singer James Brown, flanked on the left by Epstein, on the right by Trump. 

That’s what friends are for. 

 

41. Jack O’Donnell, who was president of the Atlantic City Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino spoke up, too. As he recently explained to a reporter, Donald “frequently” brought his best friend Jeffrey to the New Jersey resort to celebrate special events. “In his mind,” O’Donnell said of Trump, starting in 1987, and for at least the next four years, Epstein “was his best friend.” 

In the “wee hours” one Sunday morning, he recalled, the two friends showed up at the casino with three young women. State officials were soon waiting to talk to O’Donnell and warned that they knew at least one of the women was too young to be on the gambling floor, a 19-year-old tennis star. 

So, O’Donnell had to warn his boss against making another mistake, which could have led to serious fines, since 21 was the legal age for gambling. Then he added, “To get on a helicopter with a friend and three other people and fly down to Atlantic City, I mean, you can connect those dots. They were pretty good buddies.” 

O’Donnell remembers telling Trump in a phone call at the time, that turning up with Epstein and the young women was “not gonna look good.” 

“I did tell him in that conversation, ‘I don’t think you should be hanging out with this guy, just so you know, and you certainly shouldn’t be doing that in Atlantic City.’” 

But Trump liked the guy. 

 

42. The Palm Beach Post had done a story about a gala held at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, and now that story surfaced again. The randy gang was all there! Donald. Jeffrey. Ghislaine. And Prince Andrew, the now disgraced royal, resulting from revelations of his despicable interactions with Jeff and his stable of nubile young girls. 

Melania, then Trump’s girlfriend was there, too. She is not accused of wrongdoing nor suspected, however. 

 

Old men and aspiring teen models. 

43. The free press continues to do what the free press does best; and the Guardian turned up the story of a 1991 party held on a large New York City yacht. 

Downstairs, a party was in flow. Scores of teenage girls in evening dresses and miniskirts, some as young as 14, danced under disco lights. It could have been a high school prom, were it not for the crowd of older men surrounding them.

 

As the evening wore on, some of the men – many old enough to be the girls’ fathers, or even grandfathers – joined them on the dancefloor, pressing themselves against the girls. One balding man in a suit wrapped his arms around two young models, leering into a film camera that was documenting the evening: “Can you get some beautiful women around me, please?” 

 

Donald was attending, along with the 58 young girls, who were competing to win the Elite Model Management’s “Look of the Year” contest, which came with a $150,000 prize and a life-changing contract. 

 

44. The next year there was another party on another yacht, and Donald and the founder of Elite, John Casablancas, were there. 

One of the girls on the boat was Shawna Lee, then a 14-year-old from a small town outside Toronto. She recalls how the contestants were encouraged to parade downstairs, one by one, and dance for Trump, Casablancas and others. Lee, an introverted teenager who loved to draw but hated school, was in New York for the first time. “A woman at the agency was pushing me,” she recalls. “I said to her, ‘I don’t see why me going down the stairs and dancing in front of those two has anything to do with me becoming a model. And she said, ‘No, you look great, take off your blazer and go and do it.’ So I walked down the stairs. I didn’t dance – I blew a kiss at them, spun around and walked away.” …

 

Another contestant, who was 15 at the time, also remembers being asked to walk for Trump, Casablancas and other men on the boat in September 1992. She says an organiser told her that if she refused, she would be excluded from the competition. “I knew in my gut it wasn’t right,” she recalls. “This wasn’t being judged or part of the competition – it was for their entertainment.” 

 

The Guardian article continues: 

Three decades on, a very different picture of the competition is beginning to emerge.  Over the last six months, the Guardian has spoken to several dozen former Look of the Year contestants, as well as industry insiders, and obtained 12 hours of previously unseen, behind-the-scenes footage. The stories we have heard suggest that Casablancas, and some of the men in his orbit, used the contest to engage in sexual relationships with vulnerable young models. Some of these allegations amount to sexual harassment, abuse or exploitation of teenage girls; others are more accurately described as rape. 

 

(Melania Trump, then Melania Knauss, was a contestant in the Look of the Year contest in 1992, but finished second in the Slovenia heat, and just missed a chance to take a trip to New York at that time.) 

 

45. Barbara Pilling, another Elite model, talked to reporters about an event in the summer of 1989, when Trump asked her out for dinner. The future president, an enthusiastic pussy grabber, asked how old she was. “I said 17 and he said, ‘That’s just great – you’re not too old, not too young.’” 

(Was seventeen his cut-off age for grabbing? We need to be sure.) 

 

46. In newly revealed footage from this era, Donald can be seen schmoozing with Casablancas, whom he describes as “my friend John.” As the Guardian reports, “Trump now disputes being friends with Casablancas. 

He just said he was – but who are you gonna believe? 

The president’s representatives told the Guardian that he denies it “in the strongest possible terms.” Trump, “hardly knew him, spent very little time with him, and knew very little about him.” 

Kate Dillon, 17, came in third during the 1991 Look contest, during which Mr. Trump served as one of the judges. She remembers many of the girls as having come from poor backgrounds, and says they were desperate. “It was very clear that there were opportunities to go out and party with Donald,” she says. The contestants were led to believe “that if you were nice to certain people, good things will happen to you, and I think that’s why girls were going out.” 

The Guardian notes that the average age of the aspiring models in the 1992 contest was fifteen. During a photoshoot, a photographer can be heard instructing one of the teens to show more cleavage by pulling her bra lower. 

“More,” he tells her. “More. More.” 

(I’m sorry, but this blogger can easily imagine Trump shouting, “More. More.”) 

(That may be just his bias.) 

 

The Guardian continues: 

Some former contestants recall [Donald] being there as they got dressed for events. “Every time we changed, it was like Trump would find a reason to come backstage,” [Stacy] Wilkes says. A Canadian contestant from 1992 recalls similar incidents. “He’d come by and say, ‘Hey girls, are we ready?’” she says. “I remember thinking, what have I got myself into?” Trump denies, “in the strongest possible terms”, behaving inappropriately with any Look of the Year contestants. His representatives say he was not aware of any predatory environment at the time. 

 

And we have this: 

Others, however, observed a disturbing side to the contest. Ohad Oman, a young reporter for a magazine in Tel Aviv, was sent to cover it in 1991 and 1992. He attended a number of the after-parties, and remembers seeing girls drinking alcohol. He recalls one particularly debauched party, telling the Guardian: “I saw girls sitting on guys’ laps, and I remember one guy putting his hand down a girl’s top. I remember thinking they were younger than me, and I was 17 going on 18.” (The legal drinking age is 21 in the US.) 

 

A plenitude of creeps. 

47. If you’d like to read about multiple young women accusing multiple older men involved with the contests, in multiple ways, read the Guardian story. That would include David Weil, the head of an investment firm, found guilty of embezzling $1.2 million in models’ earnings. Later, he pleaded guilty to statutory rape of a 15-year-old contestant in the 1992 Look of the Year event. 

Casablancas ran into legal problems himself, after he was accused of sexually abusing a contestant who was fifteen. (He lucked out after the civil suit was dismissed, having been filed in the wrong state.) 

But we know he admitted to a sexual relationship with Stephanie Seymour, when she was fifteen. He described her as “a woman-child.” 

That affair ended his second marriage. 

His third bride was 17. 

 

48. Then add this: 

It also appears that Epstein had a Casablancas connection during the 1990s. According to a lawsuit filed in the US three months ago, in 1990 Casablancas sent a teenage model for her first “casting call” at a residential address on New York’s Upper East Side, to meet a “photographer” who, it turned out, was Epstein. The lawsuit states that Epstein ordered the 15-year-old girl to undress before taking photographs of her, pushing her against a wall and sexually assaulting her. 

 

49. Then this. A damning video of Epstein testifying, in 2010, has also resurfaced. Prosecutors can be heard posing a series of questions: 

Q: Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?

A: What do you mean by “personal relationship,” sir?

 

Q: Have you socialized with him?

A: Yes, sir.

 

Q: Yes?

A: Yes, sir.

 

Q: Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?

 

A: Though I’d like to answer that question, at least today I’m going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir.

 

So where are we today? Did Epstein run a world-wide sex trafficking operation, which catered to the rich and powerful. Yes. 

Who were those rich and powerful? We still don’t know. But we can start filling in pieces of the puzzle if we want. 

Can we trust the current President of the United States to get to the bottom of this sleazy story? Very good question. 

In fact, a key. 

 

50. We are now left to ponder the matter of credibility. Is Donald the type of guy who might molest young girls? Hard to know; but an in-depth investigation might provide a definitive answer. But we have long known that Citizen Trump was accused by more than two dozen young women of doing just that – grabbing their assorted body parts. 

And that is a lot of accusers. 

 

Not a person you can easily trust. 

51. We also know (unless you are one of force-field-protected magic hat types), that Donald is not a person you can easily trust. 

Ask his three wives. 

Also: Stormy Daniels, the porn lady with whom he slept.

Trump and Stormy.

 

 

52. It seems pertinent to note, that Mr. Trump has a longtime habit of ending up in court, his ethics being famously malleable. In the 80s, before he dreamed of being a Republican, he was ordered to pay back wages to Polish workers, who were in this country illegally – which seems ironic now. They had helped him level an older building so he could put up Trump Tower New York. 

Mr. Trump was also ordered to return $25 million to students in a Trump University scam. 

He and his adult children (at the time), Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka, were forbidden ever again to run a charity in the State of New York, after they milked the Trump Foundation for funds. 

Donald was ordered to fork over $2 million in restitution. 

 

53. We also know that in May 2024, in a case involving decades of fraud, Mr. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts. When forced to give a deposition as part of the legal battle, Donald pleaded the Fifth 440 times. 

(He probably had to stop pleading at some point to take a pee break.) 

 

Not a single juror in that case thought there was “a reasonable doubt” regarding any of the 34 felony counts. Donald’s high-priced legal team piled up a record of 0-34. 

For all the good those attorneys did, President Trump might as well have hired a bunch of mimes. 

 

Eric Trump was also required to give a deposition and he took the Fifth five hundred times, setting a new family record. 

Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, thought pleading the Fifth, as had Eric, would be a clever gambit and refused to answer another five hundred questions, all by himself. 

If you are doing the math, you are thinking, “That’s a lot of questions not to answer, because your answers might make jurors believe that you are a crook.” 

Many people, including everyone in the courtroom, except Trump’s lawyers, were suspicious. But the magic hat types couldn’t “see” the matter clearly, because the magic was too strong. 

When Donald Jr. sat to be deposed, he tried a fresh approach. He specialized in saying, “I cannot recall,” or “I’m not sure,” or “I have dementia.” 

(That last is the blogger’s joke.) 

 

In a civil case, which this was, in the State of New York, a juror can assume that if you are pleading the Fifth, you are endeavoring to hide the truth. And they can rule against you, because only civil damages result. And they did. Trump was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars, resulting from the jury’s findings. 

When we last checked, in April, with interest on the debt accruing, while Team Trump fights the case up through the courts, Donald and his two oldest sons owed the State of New York a whopping $500 million. 

 

Shady characters hang with other shady characters. 

54. We should also remember that old cliché, “Birds of a feather.” That is, if a person hangs with shady characters – such as Epstein and Maxwell – you figure that person harbors similarly shady instincts or inclinations. 

For example, when faced with an investigation into events surrounding the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress, Trump pal Roger Stone pleaded the Fifth to every question asked, during a ninety-minute deposition. 

(He might as well have used a Minnie Mouse voice, just for fun.) 

 

55. The following Trump allies also took the Fifth when questioned by Congressional investigators: Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, Gen. Michael Flynn, and Alex Jones. That is a peck of pickled, prevaricating peppers. 

56. And that’s not counting Trump lawyers who pleaded guilty to crimes, related to attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Namely, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro. 

Go ahead, if you wear a magic hat. 

Look it up. 

 

57. Nor should we forget that Donald’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, went to jail in a case where Donald was listed as an “unindicted co-conspirator,” which is almost funny. 

Unless you are Mr. Cohen. 

 

58. As already mentioned, more than two dozen women have accused Donald of sexual assault. When E. Jean Carroll continued to dog his tracks, and claim she was raped, Donald called her a liar and a terrible human being – and she took him to court, in a defamation suit. 

Once again, his crack legal team did their best, and lost again, and not a single juror believed Donald’s defense. It was a civil case again, not criminal, but a unanimous jury awarded Ms. Carroll $5 million. 

Donald claimed he won the case, since he was found liable for “sexual penetration” but not rape. The judge ruled that penetration (with his finger) was pretty much the same. Trump was ordered to pay the plaintiff. 

But the impulse-control-challenged president couldn’t help himself and defamed Ms. Carroll again. His high-priced team of attorneys defended him again, and not a single juror believed Donald’s defense. 

This time, they awarded Ms. Carroll $83.3 million. For real. 

Bring on the mimes! 

(Honestly, magic hat people. You are supporting a guy who thinks sexual penetration isn’t that bad.) 

 

59. As for the overarching investigation into the Epstein Files,  we are reminded by Trump defenders that Bill Clinton also flew on Epstein’s plane, seventeen times, all those flights in 2002-2003, after he left office. 

It doesn’t help, however, when Donald tells reporters, during a separate meeting, that he never visited Epstein’s Caribbean island, where many of the worst crimes occurred, but Bill did! Bill did! Bill did! 

Then he adds, “I never had the privilege.” 

(That is one strange way to use the word “privilege.”) 

 

Trump also claims Clinton visited Epstein’s island twenty-eight times, a number he probably made up, in hopes of bamboozling the magic hat believers, who often seem relieved to be tricked into not having to do any difficult thinking. 

If you’re not a magic-hat person, you are wondering, “I’m not sure trying to make the guy who ruined Monica Lewinsky’s life your foil, regarding your bad behavior, to show you aren’t really so bad, is a winning ploy.” 

 

Dig until you hit rock bottom truth. 

60. How chummy were Jeff and Don? We are still filling in pieces of the puzzle. The New York Times has uncovered a signed copy of Donald’s book, The Art of the Comeback, published in 1997. It features the inscription, “Oct ’97 To Jeff – You are the greatest.” 

The Wall Street Journal reported next, on a leatherbound book of birthday wishes compiled in 2003, by Ghislaine Maxwell, for Epstein’s fiftieth. Included was a typed letter inside the outline of a naked woman, and signed where the pubic hair would be, with Donald’s signature. 

The letter talks about the bond the two share, ending with this sweet wish, “May every day be another wonderful secret.”  

The president erupted and announced that he was going to sue the WSJ and Rupert Murdoch and Lex Luthor, and said he never, ever, whatsoever, would draw a picture and send it to anyone. 

“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women ... It’s not my language. It’s not my words,” he announced. 

Later, on Truth Social, he posted, for clarification: “I don’t draw pictures.” 

 

61. Various practitioners of the First Amendment started digging up witnesses who said, “Well, Donald drew a picture for my charity,” or “Here’s a picture Mr. Trump drew, and later sold at auction.” 

That doesn’t necessarily mean Donald banged little girls, while hanging around with the guy who absolutely did. It does make you wonder why he’d lie about never making any drawings. Or do we have to assume he’s starting to show signs of dementia or some other form of mental decline? 

White House spokesman Steven “Mr. Potato Head” Cheung tried to walk it back, insisting, “As the President has said, the Wall Street Journal printed fake news and he doesn’t draw things like the outlet described.”

 

(Sure, Mr. Potato Head. Donald said he didn’t “draw pictures” of any kind.)

 

 

62. In an article in USA Today, reporters did their best to sort out the facts regarding the botched Florida prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. 

Epstein was charged in 2006 by a Palm Beach County grand jury with a single count of solicitation of prostitution despite having heard from only two underage victims.

 

Then-State Attorney Barry Krischer’s prosecutors had tanked their own case during the secret proceeding, telling the girls during questioning that they themselves were the criminals [emphasis added], the transcripts show. 

 

Reporters kept digging for more – because that’s their job, if they’re any good at what they do. They dig until they hit rock bottom truth. The Palm Beach Post spent nearly five years battling in court, just to have the grand jury transcripts made public. They were finally released in July 2024. 

Palm Beach police had found dozens of girls and young women who told similar stories of sexual abuse at Epstein's island mansion. When then-Police Chief Michael Reiter saw that Krischer's prosecution was not in line with the case his department had built, he sent his evidence to the feds. Had the charges reflected that evidence, Epstein would have faced decades in prison.

 

In the end, Epstein pleaded guilty to only two prostitution-related felonies in 2008 in a “deal of the century” arranged by both Krischer and federal prosecutors. He was sentenced to 18 months in the county jail, of which he served 13. He was out in July 2009. 

 

But wait. Pam Bondi – yes, that lady – was elected to serve as Florida’s attorney general in 2011. (She remained in that post until 2019.) 

There were thought to be hundreds of victims, many abused in Florida, and no one had been held accountable for the crimes perpetrated against almost all. Their testimony had never been requested or heard. 

Could Bondi have opened a new investigation, called for a new grand jury, heard testimony from more victims? 

Yes, she could. 

It would have been unusual. But she could have; and someone in power in Florida – anyone – should have pushed her to do so. Or Bondi and her top advisors could have figured it out themselves. 

(The fact no one did, until it was too late, speaks volumes.) 

 

63. In related news, we have also learned that Bill Clinton and Leon Black allegedly sent Epstein birthday wishes, themselves. Clinton is believed to have penned this message: “It’s reassuring, isn’t it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventures and [illegible word], and also to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference and the solace of friends.” 

In 2023, Mr. Black, a billionaire financier, paid a settlement of $62.5 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands to put to rest a lawsuit related to a three-year investigation into Epstein’s ignoble actions in the islands. 

Black paid the settlement in cash – which the blogger mentions just for the pure hell of it. These fat cat characters have lots of money; money = power; power = getting out of legal jams. 

(You really must wonder: Did Black essentially pay his way out of jail?) 

(Pam Bondi! Pam. Investigate now!) 

 

64. Meanwhile, lawyers for many of Epstein’s victims said the birthday book was in the hands of the Epstein estate, and Democratic lawmakers in Congress announced that they would love to see the book, and would subpoena the estate. 

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Christian extraordinaire, pillar of righteousness, champion of the children, puzzled over the matter, and the idea that all the files should be released, and decided to expose all of Epstein’s clients… 

And bring pedophiles to justice, and… 

Nah. 

President Trump was getting cold feet (or would it be a “cold penis,” in this case). Speaker Mike, fearless Christian, etc., decided to send his members home a day early for vacation, so that they wouldn’t have to vote on a motion to publish all the material that we have about Jeffrey and his sleazebag enablers and pals. We won’t be seeing members of Congress again until the end of August. 

Then a Republican Congressman told Fox News, “We ought to be consistent and transparent. So we have consistently asked for the release of the Epstein files, and that shouldn’t stop now that we are in charge.” 

Then he asked for anonymity, because if his name got out, he feared the president might attack. 

Puzzle over that. 

 

“Yeah, I wish her well.” 

65. As for Mr. Epstein, when he died in August 2019, an apparent suicide, the Department of Justice had ultimate custody, meaning Donald’s first term people, Attorney General Bill Barr, and all, were fundamentally in charge, not Robot Biden or Body Double Biden, or Bigfoot Biden. 

You couldn’t fool the magic hat folks though. Because: magic hats! Epstein had to have been bumped off on orders from … Hillary Clinton. 

With Jeffrey moldering in the grave, and Donald in the White House for seventeen more months, we learned that Jeffrey’s estate was worth $600 million; meaning that he had traveled in rich circles. But Donald did not have time to call for an investigation, in part because he was too busy playing golf. 

He was also busy, busy, busy, telling everyone he did not think Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had anything to do with the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, even though U.S. intelligence experts said “MBS” gave the order. Poor Khashoggi was dissected with a bone saw. 

And if you don’t have a magic hat pulled down over your eyes and ears, you might ask yourself why it is that Donald is so comfortable hanging with psychopaths like the Crown Prince, and Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. 

(Is that even healthy?) 

(Would you want to hang with the bone saw guy?) 

 

66. Meanwhile, during his first term in office, when Epstein’s main accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was arrested (as already noted she’s currently lodged in prison), President Donald said he “wished her well.” 

This was a mystifying statement. Then, in an interview with Jonathan Swan, of Axios News, Donald was asked about those kind words and doubled down. “Yeah, I wish her well,” he told Swan. “I’d wish you well. I’d wish a lot of people well. Good luck. Let them prove somebody was guilty.” 

(They did.)

 

In related news, if you are into conspiracy theories, Roy Black, famed defense attorney for Jeffrey Epstein (cue the ominous music), croaked on July 21. In the Candyland of Candace Owens, and Alex Jones, and the crazy right-wing conspiracy mongers, the death of Mr. Black would as much as prove that he had been bumped off to keep him from revealing the truth about… 

Hillary Clinton! Barack Obama! And Joe Biden’s robot double! 

The blogger will simply state that Mr. Black was 80 years old at his demise and his time had come. 

 

67. Even stranger, back in 2008, the free press, particularly the Miami Herald, had already done its job and uncovered the man most responsible for keeping Epstein from spending the rest of his born days in jail, when he was first accused of molesting young women. Who was that man? 

Alex Acosta, a member of President Trump’s first term cabinet. 

When that news broke, Donald had no choice but to accept Acosta’s resignation. Yet, he did not do what he so often loves to do. He did not bash his soon-to-be-former Secretary of Labor. Not like he did General James Mattis, or Rex Tillerson, or Rick Perry, whom he referred to as a “dim bulb” just the other day. 

(This blogger has already summarized the story of Acosta and the revelations of the Herald, if you’d like to have a look.) 

President Trump and Acosta, during his first term in office.

(As far as we know, Trump has never said a bad word publicly about Acosta.) 

 

And who could have ever guessed? On June 11, this summer, Newsmax announced that it was adding a couple of new members to the right-wing channel’s Board of Directors. Who would one be? Alex Acosta. 

For real! 

 

68. Sadly, none of these facts will matter to the magic hat folks because their hats make it impossible to doubt the president, whom they weirdly revere. They believe, because they believe and belief is all the evidence they require. 

They believed that once Bondi and Patel got busy, all the bad people they already knew were involved would go to perdition. 

Unfortunately, the bad people they obsessed about (transgenders, pet-eating Haitians, undocumented killer hotel maids), did not include all the predators on yachts in New York in the 90s, mentioned above. 

In fact, the hat folk miss a critical point when they convince themselves that only the righteous on their side carry about justice. 

Those of us on the left, those in the center, and all the good people on the right, that this blogger knows in Glendale, we all want the same. Not one person the blogger knows would be sad to see all the pedophiles involved with Epstein hauled into court, tried, and if convicted, jailed until the Second Coming. 

And then for a thousand years more, just to be sure. 

 

__________ 

“He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.” 

George Herbert, 1651.

__________ 

 

69. Of course, there are liberal predators. You’d have to be a complete dope to deny that; but predators lurk behind all kinds of facades. And, good lord, magic hatters, wake the fuck up. Bill Clinton could be guilty. But so could Donald Trump. You’ve got plenty of pedophiles on your side, as it is. 

You’re going to have to claim George Nadar, a Trump advisor during his first term, convicted for his crimes and labeled a “lifelong predator” in court. 

If you throw away the hat, and think clearly, you will feel the fleas biting on your side, for sure. Some of yours spend their Sundays shouting about catching pedophiles, while hiding their own predations behind a smoke screen of liberal-bashing religious hate. Consider Trump’s former spiritual advisor, Texas pastor Robert Morris, leader of one of the largest megachurches in that state. He was indicted in March on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child. 

Boris Ephsteyn, a grabby Trump lawyer accused of groping women in Arizona bars and recently kicked out of MAGA Land for soliciting bribes – he’s all yours, and you are welcome to him. 

Steve Wynn, the heavy hitting Republican donor, and casino magnate, goes down on your list, as well, and we can credit him with several alleged and proven cases of sexual abuse of employees. That would include a civil judgment won against him by one victim, with a payout of $7.5 million. 

You also win the pleasure of claiming Alina Habba, not for sexual misconduct of her own, but for helping cover up a sexual assault complaint filed by a worker at Trump International Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. 

Where is Habba now – the woman who had to pay a civil settlement to the abused worker at that club? President Trump has appointed her to a position of real power, as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey – and stands by her even after judges refused to accept her to fill that position. 

 

70. As for Wynn, this one is weird and fun and telling if you grasp the quote about fleas. In late 2016, Trump appointed him to serve as vice-chair of his inauguration committee. In early 2017, he was chosen to serve as finance chair of the Republican National Committee. Then he had to resign as stories of his sexual assaults came to light. But sexual assaults didn’t bother Donald. 

As Page Six noted in December 2024, Mr. Trump spent a sunny Florida afternoon golfing with Sen. Lindsey Graham (perfectly fine), investor Steve Witcoff (fine and dandy), and Steve Wynn. (WTF!?!) 

It gets even weirder and more fun and more telling, once Donald takes office again. In May 2025, he adds Steve’s second wife, Andrea, to the board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. And that’s so much fun, he adds Bondi, and Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent who discovered Melania in the 1992. 

Trump still wasn’t done. At a gala organized at the Kennedy Center, he spoke about honoring different kinds of people at the Center – which is fine. Then he cited examples: Elvis Presley, Babe Ruth and Steve, his disgraced employee-abusing-friend.

Wynn and Trump in better days.

(You cannot make this shit up.) 

 

71. A serious problem, if we really wish to dig into the Epstein Files, is that the people who wear magic hats will come at truth from an impossible direction. They will believe that any liberal-leaning individual is a pervert, while simultaneously refusing to believe that anyone who wears a magic hat could ever be guilty of such horrendous crimes. In other words, they already believe Bill Clinton is guilty. (This blogger would not be entirely surprised if he were.) But they will refuse to believe that Donald could be – and might not believe it, even if they personally caught him in bed with a naked 12-year-old girl. That’s the power of the magic, which allows them to see only what they desire to see. But it’s also the curse that makes it impossible for the hapless wearer to ever glimpse the truth. 

There may be hope if a magic hatter doffs the hat and starts to sort out a few simple facts. A woman who goes by “Beks” on X, for instance, regularly adds to a list of right-wing predators not just accused of abusing women and children, but often convicted, beyond a reasonable doubt. 

So, if you wear the hat, but want to grasp hard truths, consider a few more of the perverts from your side. We have our fleas. Of course. Of course, we do. Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby come quickly to mind. 

 

72. Remember, Team Trump has its share, too: 

Anton Lazzaro, a big GOP donor, got 252 months in prison for trafficking children, and also got his photo taken with his hero, Donald J. Trump, before he got busted and compared to … Jeffrey Epstein. 

Andrew Taake – a pardoned January 6 rioter – at the time of his pardon, wanted for online solicitation of a minor. 

Clarence Barry Hungerford, a Kentucky pastor, facing two charges after being accused of soliciting photos from an 11-year-old child. 

Sixty-six-year-old Christopher Cassel, a pastor arrested and booked on two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of distribution of narcotics, and one count of furnishing alcohol to a minor. 

A youth pastor convicted of “placing a hidden camera in the girls’ bathroom” at a Christian camp in Oregon, Jacob Melvin Hart; under arrest again after traveling to Haiti and returning with videos of child sex abuse.

 

Eric Anderson, a former Greater Grace World Outreach pastor, who once led the Baltimore megachurch’s Bible college; indicted by a Massachusetts grand jury for child sexual abuse. Tellingly, his alleged abuse goes back to the 1980s, showing how hard these culprits are to catch.

 

The Associated Press – again, reporters doing their jobs and holding the powerful to account –  compiled a list of 147 predators, who had previously held public office. That list split almost perfectly down the middle, Democrats and Republicans, half and half. So, if you want to see the other side as evil, and your side as pure, you can simply choose the examples you prefer. 

Only, you’ll remain at least half blind to the truth. 

 

73. It can also be useful to remind ourselves that conspiracy theories are easy to spread and often impossible to disprove. If you want to damage an enemy, and you have a flexible relationship to the truth, they can do excellent service in your cause. So, this past June, President Trump shared a post by another Truth Social user, claiming that Joe Biden clones and robots had been running America for four years. 

Then Elon Musk suggested on X, that Donald Trump himself might have been replaced by a body double, too. 

(If anyone had motive – it was Melania.) 

 

But Musk was just warming up. Next, he called for Trump to be impeached, insisting his name appears in secret government files related to disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The blogger’s advice? 

Don’t fall for all the ridiculous crap – especially the kind of ridiculous crap that you want to believe from the start. 

 

The toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable.” 

74. It’s safe to say that a large majority of Americans of all shapes and sizes would welcome a full investigation of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking network. For a wide-ranging network it was. 

One person alone could not have run it. 

Do we need to investigate? Clearly, we do, and we need the investigation to be robust, and the individuals in charge must be known for rectitude and beyond reproach. 

Sadly, this next item will sound like a joke, except that it involves Lauren Boebert, the representative in Congress least likely to be mistaken for a member of MENSA. With calls for a special investigation into the Epstein Files growing, she suggested that it might be good to appoint former Congressman Matt Gaetz to lead the probe. Yeah. The guy accused of hiring underage girls for prostitution. 

Him! 

And if you have forgotten, Gaetz was Donald’s first choice to serve as attorney general during his second term – which the blogger would argue is immensely telling. Even wimpy GOP senators balked at making an alleged sex trafficker head of the Department of Justice, which most Americans would agree is an easy position to take. 

Donald responded on Truth Social at the time. Gaetz, he said, “was doing very well but, at the same time, did not want to be a distraction for the Administration, for which he has much respect.” 

Then the president added, “Matt has a wonderful future, and I look forward to watching all of the great things he will do!” 

Gaetz was accused of sex trafficking a 17-year-old, and multiple other women, which apparently didn’t trouble Mr. Trump at all. 

 

75. Then, just last week, reporters asked the president what it was that caused him to finally end his friendship with Mr. Epstein. And Donald did not reply, “I realized he was abusing those young girls. No way would I put up with that. I made sure to call the cops to provide a few tips.” 

Nope. 

He told reporters that he was mad – that Epstein “stole” one of his spa workers at Mar-a-Lago. See. Donald was the victim! Donald went on to explain that the spa at Mar-a-Lago was the most beautiful in the world. And he told Jeffrey not to steal any more workers. And Jeffrey did it again. 

So, he told Jeffrey to get lost. And one of the “stolen” workers was Guiffre, 15, who went on to be sex-trafficked to Prince Andrew, and said later that she was passed around to powerful and wealthy clients “like a platter of meat.” And then she testified against Epstein; but he never suffered much for his hideous crimes, and Virginia committed suicide in April 2025, age 41, leaving a husband and three children behind. 

But Donald? Donald kicked Epstein out of his private club because it was hard to keep good employees.

Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre, Maxwell.

 

Virginia’s family said in a note, at her death, that she had always been “a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors. In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.” 

“She wasn’t ‘stolen’; she was preyed upon at his property, at President Trump’s property,” Sky Roberts, one of Virginia’s brothers, told CNN, last week. 

Yet, we also know that when a reporter for ABC asked the president about Epstein and Maxwell recently, and what he knew about Giuffre being “stolen,” Trump didn’t attack the criminals. He attacked the people who report the news. ABC, he fumed was “fake news,” and “one of the worst.” 

“I would figure that was ABC, fake news, that would ask that question,” he complained. “But no, I don’t know really why. But I said if he’s taken anybody from Mar-a-Lago, he’s hiring or whatever he is doing. I didn’t like it, and we threw him out.” 

 

The Trump standard for pardons. 

76. So where are we now? In an increasingly desperate attempt to put the Epstein Files behind him, President Trump insists that the files which he had repeatedly promised to release – well, what do you know? 

Those very same files, “Phase 1,” all the way thru to “Phase Whatever,” are just one giant “hoax.” 

The evidence he had touted, and promised, to great fanfare to release, wasn’t any good, because liberal gremlins had “planted” his name in the files. 

Then we learned that a team of F.B.I. agents, responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, conducted a final review of documents related to the Epstein case and uprooted all mention of Trump’s name. And the agents who were tasked with redacting the name of Mr. Trump also redacted the names of other “prominent public figures,” which is not what most Americans want. 

 

77. This past Friday, President Trump was asked by Newsmax host Rob Finnerty, would he consider a pardon for Ghislaine? He did not say no. “I’m allowed to do it,” he replied. “But nobody’s asked me to do it.” 

“I know nothing about it. I don’t know anything about the case, but I know I have the right to do it,” Donald continued. “I have the right to give pardons. I’ve given pardons to people before, but nobody’s even asked me to do it.” 

So, let’s hypothesize. Suppose Maxwell worked out a deal to rat out Mr. Clinton, and other enemies of Trump, but cover up any of his own crimes? As Donald has admitted, to get August off to a bizarre start, “I have the right to give pardons.” And that is a right we know he has repeatedly abused. 

For example, pardoning every single rioter who attacked police on January 6, 2021, no matter how badly they injured officers that day. 

 

78. In the same interview, the president said he hadn’t ruled out a pardon for former Rep. George Santos, one of the most prolific liars and crooks to have won a seat in Congress in many a year. As if it mattered, Trump noted that Santos was “100 percent for Trump” and “his vote was solid.” 

He also expressed undeserved sympathy for Sean “Diddy” Combs, recently convicted on prostitution-related charges, but found innocent on sex-trafficking crimes – which sounds a lot like how Epstein avoided serious punishment. Poor Diddy! The president described him as “half innocent.” 

Well, would he pardon Diddy? The president admitted that his decision would likely come down to feelings. His, of course. 

Yes, he and Combs had once been friendly. But then, he told Finnerty, the rapper became “hostile.” 

“But when you knew someone and you were fine and then you run for office and he made some terrible statements, so I don’t know, it’s more difficult,” the president explained. “It makes it more – I’m being honest – it makes it more difficult to do.”

(He’s being honest alright. You will never get a pardon if Donald doesn’t like you. 

(You well might, if he does.) 

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE – WOULD YOU PARDON THIS GUY? 

 

79. If that seems questionable – and if you have any understanding of ethics, it should – also remember. When the Department of Justice had to send someone to interview Maxwell in prison a few days ago, they could have picked anybody to go. But they picked Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for the job. 

In a previous life, Blanche helped defend Mr. Trump in his business fraud trial – the one that ended in 34 felony convictions. 

The key witness in that case was Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who testified against his old boss. He called Trump a liar. Blanche and Trump’s other lawyers ganged up and called Cohen a liar. Donald didn’t take the stand – likely because his lawyers knew he would start pleading the Fifth all over again, repeating it like a parrot in orange pancake makeup. 

And the jurors, in the end, heard all the evidence and believed Cohen. 

And again, it seemed, we had more of those pesky fleas. But the unspoken question would be: Is Donald the dog?  

We should mention that Mr. Blanche also defended Igor Fruman, a pal of Rudy Giuliani’s, Rudy being a pal of Don’s, after Fruman was charged with campaign finance violations. That is, Fruman had solicited money from a foreign national. He eventually pleaded guilty and went to prison. 

And if you are thinking Blanche sounds like he might not be the best lawyer since Matlock, you are not wrong. But he did get Paul Manafort out of an indictment for violating state mortgage laws. 

Yay! An innocent man saved! 

Or not. 

Blanche simply convinced the courts that Manafort, who had been convicted and jailed on federal charges, would have been facing double jeopardy if tried again in a state court. 

 

80. And since the topic is fleas, we should add Rudy’s other pal, and Igor’s bud, Lev Parnas, to the cloud. He also got fined heavily and sent to jail. And, holy crap, fleas are everywhere! It’s a damn swarm! 

There’s Steve Bannon, and Peter Navarro, both of whom refused to testify before Congress – not even long enough to plead the Fifth. And Roger Stone, who lied about meeting with Russians during the 2016 campaign, then tried to admit at the last moment that he had, in vain hope of dodging an extra obstruction of justice charge. And Manafort again, pardoned despite racking up at least ten felonies, including one for witness tampering. And Bannon again, this time for stiffing investors but getting a Trump pardon, nevertheless. And his three co-conspirators, all going to prison, pardon-less, which should strike anyone who understands the law as quite odd. And Trump pardoning Jared Kushner’s dad. And Trump pardoning Duncan Hunter, a congressman pal, who diverted money from a veteran’s charity to help meet family expenses – such as purchasing plane tickets for a pet bunny to fly to Rome. 

Nor should we forget that Rudy lied so often and so loudly, about the 2020 election being “rigged,” that he nearly got two Georgia election officials killed, whom he had defamed. Then he got pulverized in a defamation suit, and a jury decided he should have to pay $148.3 million in damages. 

 

81. Who else defamed the poor women? President Trump! The only reason he wasn’t sued for defamation was that the U.S. Supreme Court had carved out a broad new space for “presidential immunity.” 

Trump lied about the women. Of course he did. 

And, goddam. We could go on and on, and if you wear a magic hat to Walmart, and to Lowes, and to church on Sunday, you need to think. If you believe Bill Clinton can’t be trusted, don’t be a chump. I wouldn’t trust Donald Trump as far as he could throw Bill Clinton across a golf course. 

 

82. On Friday, August 1, we learned that Ghislaine Maxwell had done something right, or said what Todd Blanche wanted to hear, which in and of itself makes me worry. And before you could say, “What kind of man calls a pedophile a ‘terrific guy,’” Ghislaine was being moved to what the New York Post calls a “cushy” minimum-security prison in Bryan, Texas, sometimes referred to as “Club Fed.” 

As the Post explained, “The notorious madam – who is serving 20 years for helping Epstein groom and abuse underage girls – is now in a prison for nonviolent inmates who are allowed to roam the grounds with “limited or no perimeter fencing,” according to the [Bureau of Prison’s] website. 

There’s even space for jogging, if any of the white-collar criminals who are usually housed there would like to get in shape. 

 

Fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck-fuck!

83. Only, what the fuck! Maxwell was accused of raping multiple young women herself. Epstein and his friends may have raped as many as a thousand victims. And now Donald Trump is going to cut her a deal? 

FUCK! 

Pardon my language. (I speak English, as my first language, profanity as my second.) But: HOLY MOTHER-FUCKING SHIT! 

The creepiest fucks in MAGA Land are already setting themselves to work, intent on giving the fucking President of the United States fucking cover to fucking maneuver, if he decides he needs to create a fucking massive cover up. 

At no time have any of the witnesses who have spoken over the years said, “You know, Jeffrey was a monster, but Ghislaine was just an innocent bystander. Don’t put her raping ass in prison!” 

But fucking Greg Kelly, a host, on fucking NewsMax, is already carving out a public space for fucking Donald J. to start fucking lying on overdrive. “People are horrified when I say there’s a possibility that this individual just might be innocent,” Kelly says of Maxwell. “But think about it. Who told us about her? The most reviled institutions in America: the media and the Biden Justice Department.” 

Fuck! Kelly is too stupid to remember, or simply hopes you won’t check the dates yourself, but Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on July 2, 2020, by agents of Donald J. Trump’s Justice Department. 

And real reporters, Greg, you useless fuck, would check the basic facts before stirring up the magic hatters. 

Kelly wasn’t done yet, either. That fucker tried to turn the fucking narrative around, by making Donald’s “best wishes” statements about mother-fucking Maxwell, sound mother-fucking wise. 

Fuck, fuck, double fuck! 

Trump, Kelly now says, “could have easily gotten away with saying what the media wanted to hear. But he didn’t, and I find that remarkably human, and it’s telling, and it signals to me that there’s something else going on here, and it’s an injustice.” 

I’m sorry, Greg, you fucking creepy douchebag. Have you been talking to much with that fucker, Alex Acosta, now on the NewsMax board of directors? The same fucker who cut Epstein – that fucking bastard – a sweet deal that kept him out of prison for another decade, so that he could keep fucking teenage girls? 

And Kelly’s not the only fucking toady trying to create a safe space in which Donald Fucking Trump can hide. “Maxwell is in prison because of some charges,” F.B.I. Director, fucking Kash Patel, now says, “but that doesn’t mean she or President Trump were part of some secret ring.” 

And his assistant fuckstick, Dan Bongino, has backed the fuck up about a hundred miles now. Fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck! He’s not calling for a massive investigation now. Fuck that, right, Dan? 

“People need to understand,” he’s now insisting, “this entire thing has been manipulated to smear Trump … Maxwell’s conviction doesn’t prove a massive conspiracy.” 

Other tap-dancing mother-fuckers include Trump’s fucking Deputy Assistant Sebastian Gorka, who’s described “this whole Epstein mythology [as] a disinformation campaign” and the allegations against Maxwell as “murky at best.” 

And Kari F. Lake (the “F” stands for fucker) now claims that “even Maxwell’s trial didn’t actually prove what the left says it did.” 

Kelly's ironically named book.

FUCK! 

YOU ROTTEN FUCKHEADS!

 

 

How I See It: 

Look, I’m just a simple blogger. I have certain skills that help me say what I think needs to be said. My proficiency with the written word is somewhere north of “average.” I’m a historian by training and honest by inclination. My Dad would not have been proud of anything I ever did, unless I did it honestly. So, I try to adhere to facts. I admit, I do mock many of the people who support the president – Steven “Mr. Potato Head” Cheung, for example – in part because I understand the importance of the Bill of Rights more than them. I think that freedom of the press was absolutely designed for moments like this, when powerful people might be hiding behind their money, guarded by phalanxes of soulless lawyers, and allies in other powerful positions. 

Such as newsrooms, Mr. Kelly. 

So let me refrain, to end this monster post, from dropping further “f-bombs,” as I am prone to do. I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I do not believe Biden was replaced by a body double. Or Trump, either. I am not saying there is proof Donald J. Trump colluded with Epstein and deflowered young girls. Nor do I know whether Bill Clinton joined in any of the horrible crimes that did occur. I am not saying any of the individuals mention in this long, long post are guilty. I am saying I suspect Les Wexner. I think John Casablancas might know more than would be good for him. I think Prince Andrew should be plunked down before a grand jury, for sure. 

I am saying we need a massive investigation, and the more that people like Kelly and Lake run cover for Donald, the more suspicious I become. In fact, I’ll end with this. I understand the reason the Bill of Rights includes an admonition against “cruel and unusual punishment.” I taught history. I know about the witch-burning, and the rack-stretching, and the thumb-screwing. I know the Gestapo proved you can crack almost anyone, and make them talk, if you are willing to be brutal. 

I am not a violent person by nature, either. But if one of my daughters, or any of the other people I care about deeply, had been subjected to the sexual abuse that Epstein and Maxwell inflicted on so many young females, I would want to buy a gun and open fire. I probably wouldn’t. But if I had a clear shot, I can’t be sure I wouldn’t shoot them in the penis or the vagina. 

And now, a moment of reflection may be in order. I know there are hundreds of cases, now proven by use of newer DNA evidence, that show innocent individuals have been sent to prison for decades, for murders – and especially rapes – which evidence later proves they didn’t commit. If we do manage to get the kind of investigation going that Epstein and Maxwell’s victims deserve, and the American people desire, we will have to be careful. We will have to work to see shades of differences and distinctions between words like “mentioned,” “accused,” and “guilty.” 

I do know that President Trump has a history of dishonesty, one that I believe makes it hard to trust the 47th President of the United States, just as it was almost impossible to trust the 45th.

The 42nd doesn’t have the best reputation for integrity, either, but I may be revealing a bias. I don’t think he fits the Epstein Profile, regarding having sex with teenage girls. 

(See, for example, what Snopes has learned.) 

President Clinton and Epstein accuser Chauntae Davies.

  

Nevertheless, we can end with the kind of details reporters (in this case, Jack Royson of Newsweek and Matt Chorley of the BBC) keep unearthing. 

PROTECT THE FREE PRESS, OR WE ARE ALL SCREWED. 

 

In an interview on July 25, Mark Epstein said he did not believe his brother Jeffrey committed suicide. Jeffrey had “dirt” he said, and that was why Mark thought he was killed. Is there more to this story? Or is Mark giving vent to emotion? 

The more we investigate, I would argue, the better. 

Mark Epstein told Chorley, “Absolutely. I believe so, yes. Jeffrey mentioned he had dirt on people. He didn’t tell me what he knew. But he led me to believe that he had dirt on people. In the 2016 election, we were talking about the election and Jeffrey told me that if he said what he knew about the candidates, they would have to cancel the election. That’s a quote; that’s exactly what he told me. He said, ‘If I said what I knew about the candidates, they’d have to cancel the election.’ He didn’t tell me what he knew. But that’s what he said.” 

 

So, the plot thickens, as they say, and sorting out the innocent and guilty would be a process complex. 

We do know that in a recent poll, 69% of Americans said they believed the federal government was concealing information related to the Epstein Files. Only 6% disagreed. The rest weren’t sure. 

I say: 

LET THE INVESTIGATION BEGIN. 

AND LET IT BE ROBUST.