Trump is gearing up for the Insurrection Act.

The whole idea sounds ridiculous and dangerous.

Good article. Great insight of Epstein's methods to lure important people into his web.

Interesting, too, is how many of those "important people" were smart enough to avoid getting caught up in Epstein's blackmail trap.

Good Grief! The Trump administration must be getting desperate for distractions from the Epstein files.

CBOB

I recall making a similar observation at the same time. Something along the lines of "Somebody is going to have to die. I just don't know who."

Well, now we do. In fact, when Epstein made that statement about being the only one who could bring Trump down, I think he signed his own death certificate.

CLOWN

"This shouldn't be news to anyone paying attention, but, Trump had Epstein killed "

After reading Epstein's statement that he was the one who could "take Trump down," I'm inclined to agree that Trump certainly had the motive and probably the means. So no, I wouldn't be surprised either. Trump is a NYC mobster at heart and that's what mobsters do.

EBERLY

Up to now I haven't been convinced that Trump had ordered Epstein killed. But after reading
Epstein's comment that he was the one who could "take Trump down," I'm changing my mind. Simply because (1) a very strong motive; and (2), Trump acts like a New York City mobster and I think he is certainly capable of murder.

LAMP

"Trump is "very proud of the work the FBI is doing under Director Patel's leadership,"

Of course he is. Patel wasn't hired to be the FBI Director. Much like Pam Bondi, he was hired to answer the booty call every time Trump wants to screw the pooch, so to speak.

EBERLY

"Many women in fact do give their permission for it if it's handled with some discretion."

I agree with that statement. Trump's wife AND mother used sex for social climbing. But we're talking about servitude of minors here, not adult prostitution.

I can understand why affluence and friends in high places would be tempting. However, adding minors to the equation is another whole criminal risk factor called Pedophilia, the lowest of the low.

There's more to Epstein's enterprise than meets the eye. Perhaps even blackmail, something Trump is not above using himself after Epstein's death.

TRUTHHURTS

In your scenario, how does that apply to the House Oversight Committee's subpoena for unredacted documents directly from the Epstein Estate . . . which the House is gradually receiving, reviewing and disclosing any mention about Trump to the public?

Trump's usual response is "Hoax" like he thinks that settles everything.

Lack-a-nookie at home?

REDIAL

What I can't imagine is why intelligent professional men with so much to lose, allow themselves to get caught in this trap. Does it have something to do with a second childhood . . . redirection of blood supply . . . boredom . . the thrill of not getting caught? What am I not getting?

Fear is a tool that Trump has used consistently all his life.

REDIAL

If some of these "donations" are a result of blackmail, Trump has himself a permanent cash cow. Those who are guilty of dicky-dunking will stick to him like Gorilla Glue.

I can imagine the ripple of fear that runs through these VIP dicky-dunkers at the mere thought of disclosure. They'd be ruined.

JOHNNY47

"I'm eager to see the files and photos released. Wee-weese Epstein!"

You and everybody else who wasn't dunking his dicky in places it didn't belong.

The other list seems to be comprised of some VIPs who are paying Trump huge amounts to money to keep their lives from being ruined by disclosure.

Take that ballroom, for instance. Strange that so many VIP's are suddenly (and inexplicitly) donating $Millions$ to build a "ballroom" that is of no personal use to them. This could even lead one to suspect that Trump is resorting to blackmail.

A distraction won't work. They've tried that relentlessly.

Nothing so far has swayed the public's demand to know whether or not the President of the United States is a pedophile.

And rightfully so.

Because the unredacted Epstein files are a death knell to Trump, my guess is that the duo of Trump/Johnson have another "Plan" to protect Trump from that 218th vote from ever happening.

When the end is nigh, acute desperation knows no boundaries.

CORIOLANUS

The job of the presidency, with the assistance of a wishy-washy U.S. Supreme Court, does have its perks which Trump has accelerated with his sense of overblown entitlements.

Until cities and contractors, as you mentioned, cease to be flattered by the attention, they're going to continue getting reamed up the you-know-what. It's up to them. However, scant few have figured it out.

It's time for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to step in and send Trump packin'.

DOC

Laughter is the best medicine. Trump and his band of misfits and toadies is better than a vaudeville show.

A MONSON

"She's dumber than a bag of hammers"

Yeah, but that's the way Trump likes'em. What she does is answer the booty call every time he needs somebody to screw the pooch, so to speak.

REDIAL

I would have added . . . erasing Barack Obama's name from history.

President Trump seems to have lost interest in the job and instead is totally concentrated on ways to personally enrich himself at taxpayer expense ~ leaving his incompetent department heads to run amok with their lack of experience and poor judgment.

DOC

It's a long way from being over. Trump's new scheme to target a whole swath of people ((who can't afford their health insurance premiums)) ~~ with his TRUMP Rx plot to sell cheap knock-off drugs, ~~ made in some foreign country ~~ that are not approved by the FDA and are (most likely) akin to a placebo with no medical value whatsoever.

Of course, he'll lie his --- off but sick and desperate people will do desperate things, so he'll get richer by killing off a few thousand more people ~ like a typical sociopath who hasn't a shred of empathy for anybody but himself.

Watch for the advertising on the web.

DOC

Or what Trump's niece wrote about Donald. "Too Much and Never Enough"