Wednesday in America is upon us! The headlines keep piling up, and Trump has suffered his worst 10-day run as president. The Epstein stuff will not go away, and the endless changing of the story, the deflection by the Attorney General, and the strange way in which this was all rolled out seems like, as someone yesterday said, “the Trump team got together and figured out the worst way to do this, and then somehow it got worse.” Watching this one play out over the last few days has given me a new appreciation for why news cycles last 24-48 hours and then disappear. It seems tiresome to talk about it over and over and over again. People want to move on, but for some reason, this one feels like the ultimate betrayal to Trump’s base. So I don’t think this is going anywhere. The more they change the story, the more the surrogates go out and twist this up in the wind, the more it will linger. That famous line from the Kennedy campaign, where he told the story of his father saying that “people in authority lie,” rings really loudly in my head as I watch this all play out. I understand that it isn’t easy to navigate these waters in our terrible legal system if anyone ever wants justice brought, but that is the root of the problem. The powerful know they can lawyer their way out of it because the state has amateurish attorneys who will make a mistake in their discovery process. The powerful will walk away. Sure, a few scapegoats like Ghislaine and Epstein himself will end up behind bars, but the men who were really a part of this will likely never see the wrong side of a prison window.
Here are today’s headlines that caught our attention:
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