A Convicted Criminal Embraces the Politics of Distraction

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"Its entire premise — that the Maxwell grand jury materials would bring to light meaningful new information about Epstein's and Maxwell's crimes, or the Government's investigation into them — is demonstrably false… There is no 'there' there," 

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer for the Southern District of New York, August 11th ruling against release of Ghislane Maxwell’s grand jury transcripts, because those transcripts revealed almost nothing that was not already in public records.

"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy… He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it -- Jeffrey enjoys his social life." 

Trump’s 2002 praise of Jeffrey Epstein in a New York magazine profile of the now-deceased financier and convicted sex offender.

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 [Hillary Clinton] emails that are missing… I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” 

 Donald Trump on television, July 27, 2016.

The most dangerous word from the above Trump’s list of worn out trigger words, is “emergency,” since if the President invokes that term – often based on nothing more than his statement of “emergency” or manufactured and very ‘fake facts’ – he has been successful, with a very compliant Trump-reconfigured Supreme Court, to transfer powers granted to Congress under Article I of the Constitution to himself. Whether it is his purported right to determine and levy tariffs or his takeover of law enforcement for “crime-ridden” Washington, DC, a city that, according to Trump’s own FBI, was experiencing a year-to-year 26% continuing drop in violent crime (including a fall of 12% in murder rates), a drop which antedated Trump 2.0… “emergency” was the justification.

Like Trump’s declaration of April 2nd as tariff “Liberation Day,” as he announced a program to impose new, vastly higher rates (which now threaten the economy, killing jobs and increasing costs), again, at an August 11th White House press conference to announce Trump’s invocation of his “emergency powers” to “liberate” the nation’s capital of “out-of-control” rising crimes by imposing federal control of all policing activities, Trump outlined how he would deploy federal agencies with police power (adding a significant cadre of his personal ICE police force, plus federal troops if necessary) to “end crime” in DC. Claiming that he would take the restrictions off police in DC (read: ignore the Constitution), which he claimed already solidified his support from local officers, he notably skipped over his pardon of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attackers who had wounded or killed dozens of Capitol Police. Ask those officers how they feel about Trump.

It was simply a part of the entire Trump administration’s effort to help deflect the massive bipartisan interest in what was increasingly viewed as a cover-up of Trump’s lengthy relationship with deceased sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. After years of touting his intention, in lockstep with the Q-Anon belief in a deep state cover-up of a purported network of Democratic Party pedophiles, Trump 1.0 and 2.0 pledged to crack that network wide open. But this year, as information about Trump’s longstanding relationship with Epstein – apparently fractured when Epstein recruited a hot underaged Mar-a-Lago spa attendant (who later committed suicide) for his Caribbean Island lair/spa facility – never produced evidence that Trump was actually sexually involved with an underaged girl, but as the above quote suggests, there is little doubt that Trump knew what was going on. Still, Trump and his henchmen and women were determined to divert the national narrative, after building his campaign on the deep state: the national brouhaha over releasing DOJ files was really a wasted effort. Using the words of the judge, cited above, Trump noted, “there was no ‘there’ there.” The interest in those Epstein files did not subside.

Never letting go of his assertion the 2020 election was rigged, Trump 2.0, with help from his DNI appointee, Tulsi Gabbard, and lots of loud noise from GOP members of Congress, attempted to mount claims of Barack Obama’s “treasonous” efforts to help rig elections, and that Hillary and Bill Clinton mounted a major false narrative that Trump was supported by a pro-Trump Russian campaign, even as the evidence released by the DOJ provided substantial evidence of that Russian election interference.

Gabbard also made wild claims about former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Based on purported Russian intelligence, she accused Ms Clinton of treating "psycho-emotional problems" with "tranquilizers" during the 2016 election… Trump personal lawyer, AG Pam Bondi, and her Justice Department announced the formation of a "Strike Force" to examine the allegations with "utmost seriousness." Trump tried desperately to distract the public, but even his MAGA base was increasingly concerned that the man they elected to decimate that “deep state” of pedophiles was perhaps part of the problem. The interest in the Epstein files continued.

Trump pushed hard to transfer blame to blue states, using his immigration strong point, thinking his base would refocus. His targeted of California. His nationalized National Guard and Marine troops joined a bolstered cadre of unleashed ICE police and quickly turned to “easy” arrests: hanging out in Home Depot and other parking lots, construction sites, farms and local restaurants. California was the only state that received that weaponized Trumpian immigration effort. But the numbers were easier in red states, which produced proportionately more ICE arrests than did California.

“Part of the reason Republican-dominated states have higher arrest numbers — particularly when measured against population — is they have a longer history of working directly with ICE, and a stronger interest in collaboration. In red states from Texas to Mississippi, local law enforcement officers routinely cooperate with federal agents, either by taking on ICE duties through so-called 287(g) agreements or by identifying undocumented immigrants who are incarcerated and letting ICE into their jails and prisons.” Los Angeles Times, August 10th. ICE agents, following orders from Kristi Noem, routinely ignored a court order that prevented them from deeming skin color, Spanish speech and the nature of the venue as substitutes for “probable cause” in ICE raids. Trump is appealing to his controlled Supreme Court.

But maybe, this effort would distract the American public from the Epstein scandal. Even Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer into a “country club” federal prison in Bryan, Texas – which violated federal prison policy of never allowed such “soft” treatment to sex offenders – after an interview with Trump’s former trial lawyer and now Deputy AG, was quickly buried with an announcement of a Trump-Putin meeting, inappropriately, in the former Russian territory of Alaska. Except that burial belief was premature, as the demand for more Epstein information in federal files only increased. Even Trump lackey, House Speaker Mike Johnson’s dismissal of the House until September, failed to stem the demand for more transparency in this mounting Trump-Epstein scandal.

I’m Peter Dekom, and why Trump’s base is surprised by a convicted felon, a man adjudicated as a sexual predator, who was so willing to embrace that pedophile-driven conspiracy theory, is now pretending he had nothing to do with that Epstein scandal and had no idea it was a happening… as his operatives continue to try to release useless old information while suppressing the relevant documentation.