I’m sure you’re tired of this by now, even if I’m not. Either way, I ran across an interesting interview and figured I should put a little more out there. Why not? That snowball is running downhill and getting bigger. From AlterNet:
MSNBC host Michael Steele is arguing that the new release of audio from convicted child predator Ghislaine Maxwell is likely being done deliberately as a “setup” aimed at minimizing President Donald Trump’s connection to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. During the Friday episode of “The Weeknight,” Steele dismissed the latest clips of Maxwell’s interviews with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (who was previously Trump’s personal criminal defense attorney) as a “trivial” attempt to get Trump off the hook. The former Republican National Committee chairman referred to Maxwell — who was Epstein’s chief accomplice — as a “convicted pedophile” who was “full of crap.”
As we all know, she lies and lies and lies. I don’t see how she could say anything that would be believed. I haven’t found anything yet, and I seriously doubt anything will *ever* be found. She told Blanche what he needed (wanted) to hear so she could get moved to the other prison. Ghislaine is about herself first and others dead last. This was supposed to be yet another distraction. It didn’t work this time, either.
“This is now, in my view — and I hope America sees this — as complete exposure of the lie that’s being perpetrated in front of the American people,” he said. As Steele mentioned elsewhere, former AG Bill Barr, who served during Trump’s first term, made a public statement ahead of the release of the Mueller report in which he asserted that Trump was vindicated in Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia later found that Barr made “misleading public statements” about the report and displayed a “lack of candor.”
So they’re trying to lead with this bit, so when the files do come out, which they will, there will be people blowing off Trump being all over the place in them. I don’t think this will work a second time. Barr already blew it. I can’t see a chance it will happen a second time, at least not if you have any intelligence. And there’s been far too much that has come out already.
Later in the segment, Steele played a clip of Maxwell’s comments about the Wall Street Journal’s report on a birthday album Maxwell assembled for Epstein’s 50th birthday (which reportedly included a lewd drawing Trump made for Epstein). Maxwell claimed she couldn’t recall asking Trump to send her something to include in the album, and suggested Epstein may have asked Trump for his contribution of his own volition. “All right. so, yeah, Mr. Epstein was calling people … ‘Mr. Trump, could you send me a little thing I could put in a birthday book I’m putting together for myself?” Steele said incredulously. “How stupid do these people think we are?”
How, indeed? Fewer people are that stupid. There are more people with intelligence and the ability to use it. Even MAGA is learning. It’s just not going to work. Not now, not ever.
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