If what Ghislaine Maxwell had to say showed up in the Epstein files: names, dates, who screwed/raped who (below the age of consent, it’s statutory rape):
Who needed what she had to say? It certainly wasn’t under oath. Most likely we’ll just have to trust Blanche’s account.
But MAGA hasn’t accepted Bondi and Patel’s word that there’s nothing to see in the files. Blanche has to carefully shape his report so it doesn’t contradict that position. But if it doesn’t, what good does it do?
And even if she did provide evidence not in the files, how do we verify it? How do we know it’s not in the files, if we can’t review them?
This whole controversy started with the conviction that documents would prove what testimony could not, because people lie, right? Or plead the 5th and the 6th, as Epstein did, under oath and on video. But documents! Lay people (lawyers know better) believe documents almost implicitly. Certainly that’s why there is still a clamor to “release the files!”
So how does a report by Blanche that Maxwell named names (which no legacy media outlet will report without saying they haven’t independently verified the information), show Trump is not in the files? Especially when we know he is.
I mean, if we’re going to say Bill Clinton’s name is “in the files” (it undoubtedly is) means he was diddling 14 year old girls (no, it doesn’t. Epstein liked to play philanthropist, and Clinton has been running a charity for decades now. Schmoozing Epstein for charity is not the same thing as joining orgies on the island. Barring direct evidence of the latter, guilt by association is for the nutters and conspiracy theorists.) Trump’s name in the files doesn’t convince me he was raping children. But if it convinces MAGA, what can I do?
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Trump is looking for Alexander’s sword to cut this Gordian Knot, a knot he encouraged in the making. But now everyone laughs at his mighty sword, as he proves he’s no Alexander the Great, he’s just an addled, aging old man, made more pathetic by his insistence that he’s not.
Ghislaine Maxwell is not the sword he’s looking for.
A lot of the information on Trump and Epstein is already in the public domain. I’m sure Trump is unaware of that; but he’s scared shitless of these files. Maybe Bondi told him more than that his name is simply in there?
And what is Ghislaine Maxwell going to change about any of this? Especially if Trump has to pardon her.
I'm dismayed that they're pursuing this approach because of what it reveals about them and what regard they hold for us. When they belatedly realize that it's not landing the thrashing will be interesting in the way that all dangerous things are.
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