"This whole dance Trump is doing around military pay stinks of desperation, by the way"
Starving the troops in order to keep the Epstein Files hidden is exactly the sort of thing that this sociopath, Donald Trump, would do.
It is occurring to me that there is something worse in those files than Trump simply having sex with kids.
What that could be, I don't know. Even my cynical imagination fails. But perhaps bad enough to make Trump worry about actual, metaphysical damnation.
As he has been.
The Epstein Files can't just include ordinary perversion. The contents must include guilt of an existential quality. Material sufficiently dire to provoke suicides.