QuoteHow will it all play out?  Will a smoking gun turn up?  Will the tabloids find someone willing to risk an untimely demise to tell her story for an 8 or 9 figure payday?  Time will tell.

Extreme need for power and control.  Pathological power seeking.
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Trump's actions reveal a criminal mindset focused on self-preservation at all costs.  He denies and destroys evidence.  He fires prosecutors, he blocks file releases, and he smears investigators.  Trump gaslight the public by blaming opponents for his own obstructions.  Trump insults and alienates loyal supporters  demanding transparency, and their dissent is punished.  Trump's handling of the Epstein files shows how corruption unravels when confronted with the contradictions of lies.  Trumps empire is built on quicksand.  Always has been.  Now the weight is too much.

Trump saying this is a hoax is a total nothingburger.  I'm watching this.  I did not know the Epstein safe was as big as a walk in closet.

The Trump administration underestimated the intelligence of Americans and their knowledge of this case.  For years stories are spread that to become part of in the inner circle means you have to get blackmailed by the inner circle into protecting the inner circle.  This is deep-seated American mythology.

4D chess moves to expose the deep state.  The storm is here (but it is a trap). <--- QAnon

I made the QAnon thing up.  I'm remembering how Trump played MAGA.




A bit over halfway through the Franklin Scandal is mentioned.  Yikes!  Chris is interviewing Nick Bryant who wrote a book about it.









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There's some dark malignant corner of our intelligence that blackmails people.  Political blackmail is as old as politics itself