IT’S HARD TO imagine a worse moment for Donald Trump to be caught in the Epstein dragnet than at the tail end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, with food benefits rattled, “affordability” on everyone’s minds, and his own voters starting to wonder if the guy in the red tie is actually on their side.
On the same day Trump finally signed a bill to reopen the government after 43 days of chaos, a coalition of House Democrats and Republicans dropped a tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails that punches holes straight through the president’s carefully curated story about a distant, long-ago acquaintance, with Epstein alleging Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours at my house” with one of the victims.
While the messages don’t show criminal conduct by Trump, they landed at a moment when Americans are already furious with his handling of Epstein’s files, the shutdown, and the basic question of whether their government works for the powerful or for everyone else. Together, they form a pincer around a president who keeps promising transparency and law and order, then flinching the second those promises threaten him personally.
It was the only thing for a period of time, but now they think sex with 13-15 yr olds is fine and that the Epstein files are BS.
It’s over. Enough time has gone by that MAGA is okay with Trump in the Epstein files. It’s over. Those people are beyond fucked.
They’ve been beyond fucked for a while. While most of the civilized world have been eliminating child marriage, Republicans have been trying to lower the ages. They want to lock in underage girls while they’re “ripe” and "fertile. :