Good Monday to everyone. Another weekend with a lot of news going on. The Epstein files will not die, and thankfully so. The “Trump can do no wrong” crowd has begun its own propaganda campaign to make sure that Trump can get this off his radar quickly, but the backlash to the entire episode is much fiercer than anything Trump has ever experienced. On Truth Social, for the first time ever, there were more comments than likes to Trump’s long-winded rant about how the files have been destroyed by the Democrats. I don’t think this one is going away. This is far beyond the politics of midterms or Republicans or Democrats; this is about something really significant about what governments have seemingly done to cover up powerful people. The underlying current of all of this is the major discontent that people feel about the country, and how they see the political class and the elite, in cahoots together to keep their lives luxurious and ours outside of the winners’ circle. The facts of the case become less important to me with each passing attempt to blow it off, but the reversal of intent has deep roots in how the base saw this issue. The people in Trump’s base saw this as a badge of authenticity about his connection to them as citizens. By seeming to run cover again, Trump is telegraphing to them that they were correct about their assumptions, and there are two classes of people.
This is already lasting longer than most things in the Trumpian news cycle, so there’s no way this one just gets pushed aside without some answers. Here are the headlines, dominated by the Epstein stuff, that we found interesting.
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