There is a tweet and a video for everything. The internet has a memory that would put a herd of elephants to shame. Since the escalation of the Epstein matter the past week, all kinds of women are coming forth, again, and all kinds of evidence is being uncovered which do two things: 1. Connect Trump to Jeffrey Epstein and 2. Independently establish that Trump has a thing for young girls. Katie Johnson, who was raped by Trump when she was 13, can attest to that.
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— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 21, 2025
Most people think that looking at a 10-year-old child and thinking about dating her is a trifle cringeworthy.
— Ursula Faw (@ursulafaw56) July 21, 2025
It’s amazing how they all rush to defend Donald. A lot of this is simply what Twitter has become since Elon Musk bought it. It has degenerated into a right-wing cess pool where MAGA troops show up to defendant the Mango Messiah for everything.
There will be many more of these videos as the day goes by. Trump is stuck with the Epstein debacle. He simply cannot worm his way out of this one. We saw that graphically when he proclaimed, “Move on. Nothing to see here. No Epstein client list and by the way, he committed suicide.”
The announcement prompted a wave of internal and external fury among Trump’s supporters, for whom the Epstein case had taken on a totemic significance. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who held a media event in March where aides hoisted large binders that read “Epstein Files” and claimed that new information would soon come to light, received the lion’s share of the blame. FBI Director Kash Patel also came under fire after insisting on Twitter that the Epstein-related “conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been.” His top deputy, Dan Bongino, reportedly considered resigning in protest.
In a post on Wednesday, Trump insisted that the fallout—which, again, came largely from his own supporters and boosters in right-wing media—was actually a scheme by Democrats to distract from how good of a job he’s doing as president. “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker,” he wrote on Truth Social, his personal social-media service. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.”
It’s a bizarre statement even by Trump’s own standards. Epstein is arguably one of the most famous American criminal defendants of the twenty-first century. After years of rumors and reports, he was finally hit with federal sex-trafficking charges in July 2019—during Trump’s first term, no less—and held at a federal detention center in Manhattan, where he died by suicide in August before his trial could begin. Trump’s habit of referring to any damaging information as a “hoax” has never been more laughable or concerning than it is here.
No one can honestly hope in 2025 that this or any other political scandal will seriously damage Trump, who has escaped multiple scandals—from rape allegations to the Access Hollywood tape to a felony conviction for paying off an adult film star—that would have ended anyone else’s political career over the past decade. At the same time, it is striking how poorly his usual playbook will work for the Epstein files debacle.
This is beautiful karmic justice. Trump did it to himself. The MAGAs won’t listen to anything the rest of us say, but they hang on Trump’s very word. And now it is that propensity, which he created, which is hanging him.
Who killed Ceasar? Wasn’t the peasants in the conquered territories…
On Scott’s question.
Brutus
Oversimplification. There was not one killer of Caesar. See the excerpt at the end of this post from the Wikipedia entry on Assassination of Julius Caesar. I only remembered Brutus and Gaius as the leaders, and I did not remember how many people were stabbing Caesar. Wikipedia says that the conspirators “stabbed Caesar approximately 23 times.” Brutus did, indeed, strike Caesar, but I think that he was not the first. As I recall reading, somebody stabbed or struck Caesar, who then saw Brutus and said, “Et tu, Brute?” Brutus responded by striking (stabbing) Caesar. William Shakespeare wrote that Caesar then said (rendered in English), “Then die, Caesar.”
I am not aware of any source that names the individual, if there was one, whose blow was the fatal blow.
Here now is the Wikipedia excerpt:
Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, was assassinated on the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BC by a group of senators during a Senate session at the Curia of Pompey, located within the Theatre of Pompey in Rome. The conspirators, numbering between 60 and 70 individuals and led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, stabbed Caesar approximately 23 times.
Trump’s own lesson in FAFO.
We already know he’s a slow learner.