TRUMP HAS REGAINED CONTROL OF THE EPSTEIN STORY

A few days ago, we were talking about Jeffrey Epstein -- what he did, what his associates did, and what we might learn about all this from files in the Justice Department's possession.

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have now jujitsued the story in their favor. We won't see the files any time soon, if ever, and now we're waiting for Ghislaine Maxwell to publicly recite a script she's working out with the president's lawyer.

That script will exonerate Donald Trump, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Kennedy Jr., and anyone else Trump wants exonerated. It will accuse people Trump doesn't like. The president himself read from a rough draft of the script yesterday:

Trump: You should focus on Clinton. You should focus on the president of Harvard, the former president of Harvard. You should focus on some of the hedge fund guys. I will give you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein. I sure as hell didn’t

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM

Maxwell's testimony will be a combination of the truth and lies, but the accusations will be so explosive -- and plausible, since many people on "our side" did consort with Epstein -- that they'll be the news. They'll be fresh news. Demands for the release of the files will seem so last month.

Trump’s plan to offer Ghislaine Maxwell clemency in return for telling ridiculous lies is brazen, shameful, and highly illegal. But let’s face it, it’s probably going to work.

— NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM

When I say "people on 'our side,'" I mean, yes, Clinton and Summers. You may not consider them allies, but Republican officeholders and GOP propagandists in the media will portray even Summers and the hedge fund guys as radical-left Democrats. It absolutely could work.

Right now, Democrats need to be more pointed and specific than they have been about what the White House is doing. They need to spell it out: The deal Maxwell is cutting with our lying, criminal president will require her to (a) exonerate Trump and his friends and (b) accuse Trump's enemies. She might tell the truth about some of Trump's enemies, but if Trump is guilty of crimes, or if other allies of Trump are guilty of crimes, she will dishonestly proclaim their innocence or leave their crimes out of her narrative, because that's the deal this sex criminal is cutting in order to get a reduced sentence or a pardon.

Senator Richard Blumenthal gets partway there in this clip, but not close enough:

SENATOR RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: ... You know, I really hoped that this issue would be bipartisan, because I think that the American public, regardless of whether they identify as Republicans and Democrats, really believe that full disclosure of these files is absolutely necessary to dispel the doubts about the credibility of the Department of Justice in the Epstein matter.

Most Americans don't care about the credibility of the Department of Justice. They care about powerful people getting away with brutal sex crimes.

I really believe it's in the interest of the president for there to be full disclosure.

You do not, under any circumstances, need to give Trump the benefit of the doubt this way.

That's the reason, on the House side, there has been bipartisan support for full disclosure of the Epstein files.

Yeah, except for that Republican shutting-down-the-House thing.

I really hoped there would be here, too. Senator Cornyn is right that Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but right now, ongoing, in real time, right before our eyes, are events and actions that smack of a cover-up. There ought to be no secret meetings, no secret deals, especially with Trump's personal lawyer, who is now doing his bidding at the Department of Justice, namely Todd Blanche, who reportedly is on his way, as we speak, to Florida, or whatever prison is currently confining Ghislaine Maxwell, possibly to offer her a deal in return for exculpatory information about his former client, the president of the United States. All of it just really stinks.

This is good, but it's an inadequate prediction of what Trump wants from Maxwell: not just exoneration, but redirection of the rage against Democratic-coded elites.

No ordinary person can send their Department of Justice henchman to some kind of cover-up talking to a convicted felon in a federal prison, and unfortunately, the appearance here is that President Trump, once again, is misusing his power corruptly to benefit himself. Most people can't do any of it. It is unfair, and it undermines the credibility of our entire criminal justice process. The American people deserve full disclosure of this file. I hope we can have bipartisan agreement.

Again, this is fine, but most normie Americans can't relate to being a person named in a criminal investigation. Stick to the main subject: Trump is scripting a sex criminal's testimony so he can protect himself and punish his enemies. Maxwell might tell part of the truth, but she'll only tell the part Trump wants her to tell, and she'll cover up the crimes Trump doesn't want us to know about.