Haunted by Epstein, Trump spirals further out of control

A perverted man from the grave is haunting Donald Trump While it s just the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein he is in a very real sense Jacob Marley to Trump s Ebenezer Scrooge I guess Christmas in July is a real thing This week the Justice Department s failure to release the Epstein files as numerous pundits have gleefully noted has led to the largest division yet in Trump s MAGA minions In a Wednesday morning Truth Social post Trump admitted as much and declared those who are concerned about the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax are his PAST supporters and I don t want their assistance anymore Maybe he isn t running for a third term after all Trump called those who still required to know what happened to the sex offender weaklings and he echoed a post earlier in the week in which he encouraged his lackeys to forget Epstein Trump narrated them he not only didn t understand why anyone would be interested in him but there s nothing to see anyway so move along If all this wasn t enough the Washington Post revealed late Wednesday evening that federal prosecutor Maurene Comey who worked on the criminal cases of Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell was fired by the Justice Department according to two people familiar with the matter He stressed Bondi s credibility but he sounded as if he were stringing together random sentences culled from private briefings without any concern or knowledge that they made sense In a rare appearance on the White House s South Lawn on Tuesday Trump issued a rambling message in an attempt to defend Attorney General Pam Bondi s lack of action on the Epstein files He stressed her credibility but he sounded as if he were stringing together random sentences culled from private briefings without any concern or knowledge that they made sense The more Trump commented to look somewhere else the more people didn t Last year while campaigning for president he signaled he would release the Epstein files Last week Bondi was petitioned once again about the files she had steadfastly stated since February were on her desk and ready for inspection This time she claimed they didn t exist only to have Trump contradict her in a Truth Social post afterward that declared the files were a work of fiction made practicable by Hillary Clinton Barack Obama perhaps the Easter Bunny and two dangerous immigrant felons to be named later You don t have to be a genius to see something isn t adding up here former Trump administration staffer Miles Taylor explained to me He s not making this go away by his denials Not this time Bondi is protecting Trump even though both could in theory face prosecution for their actions but of unit since Trump is President and she runs the DOJ neither will Though he has been convicted of felonies Trump has never faced serious consequences for any of his illegal actions Bondi has made a career of poor decisions questionable actions and unbridled avarice that makes Cruella de Vil look like Barbie Naturally she has a long relationship with Trump They apparently met in when Bondi as Florida s attorney general received at least fraud complaints against the now-defunct Trump University Her office revealed she would consider joining a lawsuit initiated by the attorney general of New York involving likely tax fraud charges against Trump Four days later And Justice for All a political action committee established by Bondi to aid her re-election received a donation from Trump Bondi subsequently declined to join the lawsuit Both Bondi and Trump have defended the propriety of the donation Related Trump doesn t realize why MAGA requirements the Epstein files It s not that Trump bought Bondi but it s just damn funny as to how cheap the price tag was Trump apparently bought her for the equivalent of a week or roughly an hour for a year you know what the average food delivery driver earns annually This makes Bondi the DoorDash Woman of the Year for Donald Trump You get what you pay for But then again any factual criticism of Trump s empty drawer of a cabinet often speedily degenerates into descriptions resembling those of cartoon henchmen Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a square-jawed former television anchor with juvenile body-art and a look that makes you think he has had bad plastic surgery and at least one mini-stroke during the last five years He s Ted Baxter on Adderall legendary Houston anchor and reporter Marvin Zindler with a better toup e and after Trump himself he apparently spends more money on makeup than anyone else in the administration Robert F Kennedy Jr is the empty shell of a hero who might have been The son of an American prince he could have had it all But to quote Pink Floyd No matter how he tried he could not break free and the worms ate into his brain causing total dysfunction and delusion If he were a character in a Star Wars prequel he d be the guy huffing chemtrails At last in this cabinet of incapability there s Mad Man Marco Rubio The wearer of a thousand hats More powerful than greater part his ability to sell himself out gives him the superpower to leap over large piles of Trump s political fecal remains in a single bound He once called the president a con artist and he now bows before Trump as the king hopeful he can take control of the Resolute desk following the presidential poll Imagine the aneurysm Rubio will get when he ultimately realizes Trump still wants to run in Then there s J D Vance the man nobody but Peter Thiel craved In his shrewdest move as president Trump picked a man that guarantees he will never be convicted of impeachment For this Vance will go down as the man who brought unity to America for the first time in decades Genuinely in a very real sense Jeffrey Epstein a man as perverse in politics as he was in his sexual and personal life could be the spark that brings American voters back together Everyone wants to see Epstein s files and for the same reason Accountability But accountable is the one thing Trump has never been He runs chaos in a blender and he s not as sharp now as he was in his first administration a fact that is even more frightening considering how little he accomplished and how incompetent he was then Want more sharp takes on politics Sign up for our free newsletter Standing Room Only written by Amanda Marcotte now also a weekly show on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts Still Trump in his first term was better for two reasons He was more cogent and never left the house without a properly-worn necktie In current times he can barely get out a sentence without babbling Consider his up-to-date explanation about a deal in which our NATO allies will supply Ukraine with Patriot missiles and other weapons It s everything It s Patriots It s all of them It s a full complement with the missile batteries Trump mentioned in a July meeting with the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House A couple of the countries that have the Patriots are going to swap over and we ll replace the Patriots with the ones they have We have one country that has Patriots getting ready to be shipped They re not going to need them So we re going to work a deal where the will go or a big portion of the will go to the war site I m still not sure what war site is As for the rest of it even members of his staff couldn t explain that gibberish People people I gotta tell you I see a lot of glum glum faces now Please don t be disconsolate This is this is politics at its finest we were communicated in the movie Wag the Dog That s also what we re often notified about the new Trump administration by the administration If Trump s first term was a Mike Judge movie Idiocracy then the current reality show Trump is orchestrating in the White House is much more like Barry Levison s Wag the Dog I would not be surprised if Stephen Miller had viewed both films as training material It could also be Trump himself since he doesn t read and has adapted plot lines from both movies in his current administration including a UFC match at the White House for the next Fourth of July an event straight out of Idiocracy But the essence of Trump is summed up best by Dustin Hoffman as Stanley Motss in Wag the Dog Look at that That is a complete f king fraud and it looks a hundred percent real It s the best work I ve ever done in my life because it s so honest His entire life is one colossal reality show production of near biblical and fictional proportions Trump is not only the producer but also the star He constantly demands to be the center of attention in his own production on stage as well as off But the modern pictures of swollen ankles as well as his poor posture bad gait unexplained anger extreme lethargy and deepening addiction to gibberish are causing the show to falter These are manifestations exhibited by traumatized shooting casualties and are I am reported by several doctors exacerbated by Trump s age If you believe Biden slid into senility during his tenure in office then Trump has plunged into it During a Wednesday gaggle in the Oval Office Trump noted he was surprised Jerome Powell was appointed as chair of the Federal Reserve apparently unaware that he had nominated Powell in This noticeable decline is part of what is causing his own supporters to now call his actions into question When he spoke about the Epstein files on Wednesday in the Oval Office he commented It s all been a big hoax perpetrated by the Democrats Chosen stupid foolish Republicans have fallen into the net They try to do the Democrats work The Democrats are good for nothing other than these hoaxes But Trump supporters especially the young ones who legitimately want transparency in establishment remember what the president noted in the past about the files The world wants them circulated so we can decide for ourselves the amount of damage that a rich sexual predator caused The more Trump pushes back the more suspicious the entire nation becomes We need your help to stay independent Subscribe this day to aid Salon s progressive journalism As this gets darker it also gets more dangerous On October in a calamity that deeply embarrassed President Ronald Reagan on the world stage U S arrangement personnel died in their barracks in an explosion on a military base in Beirut Lebanon On October Reagan invaded Grenada a British Commonwealth island infuriating his great ally British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Coincidence Maybe But the fact remains that the invasion took the Lebanon bombing off the front page That is the central plot point of Wag the Dog A president who is alleged to have been involved with a very young girl concocts a fake war to bury the accusations against him As Robert De Niro s character announced in the movie What difference does it make if it s true If it s a story and it breaks they re gonna run with it So far the only place Trump has deployed American troops is in American cities But as the Epstein controversy widens and the stakes become higher it isn t beyond consideration that Trump would concoct something to hide the stain of his past actions from the American general I don t doubt that at all Miles Taylor described me of such an event With Trump there is a very high likelihood of him creating a false scenario to hide his treachery Look don t worry about it De Niro declared in the film It s nothing new During Reagan s administration Marines killed in Beirut hours later we invade Grenada That was their M O Change the story change the lead It s not a new concept It isn t new but it is definitely dangerous And if the MAGA split continues or widens threatening an aging president s power and status the danger will increase Since Epstein s ghost is already rattling his chains and howling at Don the next reality show in Trump s production will likely be A Christmas Carol But I doubt if Trump will get the message Read more about this topic MAGA continues to reel from Trump s Epstein betrayal MAGA melts down Dems exult as Epstein files 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