TRUMP, THE SECOND CIVIL WAR AND EPSTEIN

 

As a background to the most consequential American constitutional crisis since 1861, the Democrats have gained in every special election since 2024. Katelyn Grey has just flipped a rural Iowa State seat reflecting a 21 percent swing since the 2022 election of District 1 in Iowa and the MAGA crowd who pitch up to town halls are being booed, America is facing the Second Civil War. 

Donald Trump has stated, “I have the right to do what ever I want to do. I am the President”. This he is trumpeting with a 37 percent approval rating. This is not politics as usual, Trump will not easily accept a loss of the 2026 Congressional elections. This period in history is only about Trump, who has the levers of power. So the question remains what if anything can thwart his path to autocracy.? He has one vulnerability that has much bipartisan agreement -.the release of the Epstein Files. There have been continuous attempts at diversion from that subject but it won't go away. In addition he still has to find a way to  prevent the Democrats from winning the midterm elections.

NOT POLITICS AS USUAL - ITS THE SECOND CIVIL WAR

Donald J. Trump, the 47th President of the United States of America, is the leader of the 2025 White Supremacy Confederates and who is turning his Presidency into the Second Civil War where the winner will decide who “We the People” are. This is not politics as usual. This is not a policy debate about trickle down economics versus when Governments’ should intervene in the economy or provide a safety net for the less privileged, this is the real deal. The issue is whether only whites are the real Americans and regardless of whether they are in the minority should be in power running an authoritarian government. 

Just as there would not have been the 1861 Civil War sans Lincoln, there can be no “Second Civil War’ without Trump.The latter has the racist credentials to lead this fight with his resume of two ongoing public campaigns, calling for the death sentence of five African American youths who had been wrongly accused for a rape in Central Park and then his infamous thinly disguised racist attack on the first Black American President, Barack Obama, proclaiming that he was not legitimate for a period over nearly 7 years. Unlike Lincoln however who had a cabinet of “equals”, Trump has an administration of ignorant sycophantic nonentities.

This battle for the soul of America is ugly and undisguised. Donald Trump, the modern day Jefferson Davis, is even objecting to the historical narrative of what an abomination slavery was. Trump believes that slavery was not so bad. He has attacked the world renowned Smithsonian Museum complex’s focus, “Everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been”.His objective is to rewrite history while simultaneously conducting his second coup against the Constitution. 

WIN 2026 MIDTERMS BY CREATING MORE REPUBLICAN SEATS

Trump is justifiably fearful of the 2026 Congressional elections where under current circumstances the MAGA Republicans would definitely lose the House and have a reasonable chance of losing the Senate. His answer is to gerrymander the Republican States to obtain additional seats in Congress. So far the biggest move is in Republican Texas adding 5 seats. This effort has been met by California who have moved constitutionally to provide the same number for the Democrats. There are far more Republican States where he could pick up seats then there are Democratic opportunities.

It remains to be seen how the gerrymandering equation will end. Republican Congressmen in some instances are queasy about it as often their districts are turned from a definite “win” projection to a “lean” which could put them at risk especially the way the voters are reacting presently. Others will lose their seats in Democratic States. Trump has an agenda to limit minority opposition voting as well  by attacking methods used by them such as postal voting. 

Trump’s objective appears to be to make this the last election and he has said so in so many words, “This will be the last time you will vote”. At a Believer’s Summit, he declared to the attendants, “Christians, get and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine.You won’t have to vote anymore”. Trump has mused that maybe America would prefer a dictator,  “Maybe we like a dictator”. Finally, he has said the quiet part out loud,”If we happen to be in a war. No more elections. THAT’S GOOD”

THE CHAOTIC NEW ADMINISTRATION

Trump has through his cuckoo land cabinet and Elon Musk’s DOGE, (Department of Government Efficiency), ransacked the bureaucratic state. This is sure to cause chaos down the line. Although, for example, Social Security has not been touched as yet but if offices are closed, phones aren’t answered retirees won’t be able to register easily nor will queries be answered. In addition a whole cadre of expertise has been gutted across the board especially in the armed forces and national security. Trump terminated  the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn’t like the message of the low new job numbers. This is the path of all autocrats. Hitler as well, in the bunker, denied that the war was going badly on the Eastern Front, screaming at the messengers.

There is chaos everywhere. As Heather Cox Richardson points out the Federal Work Force has been short staffed for years. Scott Kuper Trump’s head of Office of Personnel Management, stated that there would be 300,000 workers less. The decrease includes those with expertise built up over decades, Particularly hard hit is the Center For Disease Control; (CDC), where the vaccine panel has been gutted and replaced by anti vaxers. His destructive behavior towards vaccines is criminal and will result in deaths. Thirty thousand scientists have either been axed or have resigned. The Head of the CDC was fired by Secretary Kennedy 5 months after her appointment, (a common occurrence in this administration). Kennedy who has no medical credentials has the most bizarre theories on health care. For example he stated authoritatively that there should be different vaccine schedules for African Americans. He also has a belief in the survival of the fittest.  

There is a daily score of how much the tariffs are going to be for this country or that. The policy is based on a lie in that Trump claims the countries pay the duty whereas it is in fact a sales tax on the consumer isn’t the only cause for confusion. This crude attempt at upsetting world trade is not based on any rationale. A 50 percent tariff on Brazilian goods because they are charging his friend President Bolsonaro with an attempted coup and the same for India because Prime Minister Modi is irritating him. The tariffs on Mexico and Canada, America’s largest trading partners have not been decided on. American agriculture trade, particularly soya beens, is at a halt because China is importing from Brazil. The final humiliation is that Trump didn’t bother to confirm that he was legally entitled to impose tariffs and an Appeal Court has ruled against him. He has to hope the Supreme Court will once again bail him out.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, (ICE), and all the cutely named concentration camps seem to be out of the news for the moment. The crudest one of the lot “Alligator Alcatraz” has been shut by court order. (It was hopelessly mismanaged and cost Florida 218 million dollars not to mention the Federal tax payer money spent without authority). If the poster child for the deportation of criminal illegals is Abrego Garcia the dysfunction is there for all to behold. Ever since March he has been in and out of detention centers including a period in the infamous Salvadorian concentration prison. At every step of Garcia’s saga the Trump administration insistence has been that he is going to be deported. As of August 25 the Courts have categorically instructed Trump’s Department of Justice not to remove him from “the continental United States”. So far Trump has abused the judiciary but not as yet defied them.

Trump has impacted every aspect of American culture and government from the logo of a folksy restaurant, Cracker Barrel to the sacrosanct, the axing of a Governor of the Federal Reserve. By the way he has also claimed to have settled 10 wars in the interim.

CRIME IS NOW PROBLEM NUMBER ONE NOT IMMIGRATION

Signs are that the number one Trump policy namely immigration has so disgusted the population that the issue du jour has changed to save America from crime. Trump apparently needs to send in the troops to effect this. So far there have been two experiments, one in Los Angeles and the other in Washington DC. In the former he was ostensibly just protecting Federal Buildings while in the latter his objective was to fight crime. While that was bogus nevertheless the Federal Government has extensive control over Washington and he could send in the National Guard. Trump has made it quite clear that this is his new thrust - clear up the crime infested capitols of the Blue Democratic States with the National Guard.

It is not coincidence that every potential city target for “crime prevention” has a black Mayor. The fact that crime has decreased throughout the country but particularly in the Blue States does not hinder President Trump anymore than the economy is worsening and prices are increasing as a result of his tariffs. His announced  next target for crime reduction via the National Guard is Chicago and then Baltimore. Governor Pritzker of Illinois all but told him to go to hell. For the first half of 2025 major crime is down in every sector in Illinois by a third. In an outright declaration of war Pritzker noted that 13 of the top 20 states where crimes was the highest in America had Republican Governors. More significantly 8 of the top 10 cities where crime rates were the worst were under Republican stewardship. Moving the National Guard in is going to be a hard sell for “crime” under these circumstances even for the Supreme Court. But Trump has other strings to his bow, more emergencies. 

SO WHAT CAN IMPACT TRUMP? 

Trump’s approval numbers generally and on every issue are in the tank. However in spite of the fact that he is delusional and he is running a sh-t show, he still exudes confidence and is set on his path to allow a MAGA authoritarian state to replace democracy.

Without Trump, MAGA is all but dead. Already Trump is losing the internet and only Fox News is credibly backing him. “The Epstein Files” have already done deep damage. (See Blogs; “This is Epsteingate and Trump: The Epstein Tsunami”). Public interest is not waning and 7 out of ten polled believed that he is not handling the issue well. For the moment troops in Washington and chaos in the CDC are diversion enough to keep this off the front page. Ghislaine Maxwell’s characterization of Trump as a “gentleman” preceding her removal to a low security prison also has grabbed the headlines. 

On September 3 a bipartisan resolution in The House of Representatives will demand the release of the full Epstein files, not the garbage that the Department of Justice has dropped thus far. The House Oversight Committee chaired by a Republican has subpoenaed the prosecutor who fully investigated Epstein in 2005. They have also subpoenaed a co operating Epstein estate for about a dozen different categories of documents including a “Birthday Book”.The latter allegedly includes a lewd drawing by Trump who signed his name in a wavy fashion where the pubis is. Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has already published the picture together with messages about “the secrets” that Trump claimed he and Epstein kept together. As this story develops the Epstein’s family forensic pathologist’s finding that homicide was more likely the cause of death is being revisited on the internet.

So a bipartisan House maybe on their way to expose the knight who campaigned to uncover “The Deep State”. Joe Rogan the most followed Trump influencer with many others have stated Trump has already “crossed a line”.Could the avatar who campaigned to uncover the deep state be part it himself? It is Trump’s biographer and Epstein chronicler Michael Wolff’s opinion that the full contents of the Epstein files will never be released.

On the night of September 3rd there will be a bipartisan Press Conference where 10 victims will also appear and Trump’s omnipotence will have its severest test yet.  

AT THE END OF THE DAY

It really is hard to imagine what follows. Perhaps a significant loss of Congress will turn Trump into more than a lame duck and stop his Civil War dead. He is old, off his game and cognitively impaired. His only show now is his cabinet meetings which is a feeble mimicry of  Saturday Night Live. It is hard to see him winning in 2026. it is even harder to imagine him allowing the Democrats to take over Congress. Even if MAGA loses the second Civil War the path back to American “exceptionalism” will be long and hard.

There are serious questions being asked about the President’s physical and mental health. Vice President Vance has stated that he is ready to take over “God forbid a terrible tragedy with Trump” but that Trump is in “excellent health”. He added, smilingly, that he had enough on the job training, (in the last 7 months). 

TRUMP: THE EPSTEIN TSUNAMI

Every move that has been executed by the Trump Administration this past seven weeks has added to the growing tsunami that the unreleased “Epstein Files” is creating. (Blog: This is Epsteingate, July 27, 2025). It is not unreasonable to ask why the  47th President of the United States of America has been shaken to the core and been driven to inane denials that there is nothing “there” or that conversely that the files were created by Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton. Also he is daily using diversion tactics from ordering an investigation into a spurious allegation that Obama committed sedition by creating the “hoax” that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, to staging a hastily arranged futile meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. (Incidentally, the scuttlebutt on line still is that Putin has something on Trump). This was followed up by a meeting with European leaders and Zelensky eating up another day where Epstein wasn't in the news.

Notwithstanding the traction of these sideshows interest in the world of convicted pedophile Epstein and Trump's relationship won't abate. 

The Trump Administration's litigation to show transparency on the matter resulted in two Federal Judges' scathing judgements against their bogus litigation in attempt to downplay what the  “files” may reveal. The Justices labelled the efforts as nothing but “diversions” from releasing the files themselves. So can this bohaai over “the files” really result in the unmasking of that giant of the world stage, Donald J. Trump? If so how and why?

TRUMP THE OMNIPOTENT AND HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH EPSTEIN/MAXWELL

Donald J. Trump, the indestructible behemoth, the orange teflon giant who nobody could slay has finally revealed his jugular artery. His weakness unlike that like Goliath lies not in his forehead or akin to Samson in his hair but rather in his hidden life spanning a twenty year period from about 1985 to 2005 which are apparently chronicled in “The Epstein Files”

The colossus, who waltzed through 6 bankruptcies then successfully hawked himself as a business genius who had mastered “The Art of the Deal”, who stole from his own charity foundation and created a fake University ripping off senior citizens while holding himself out to be a philanthropist, who was adjudged in a civil case to be a rapist who claims to be the strongest advocate of women, paid off a porn actress for her silence and bragged that as a star he could grab women by the pussy yet still retain the support of over fifty percent of white women, who was found guilty of 34 felonies and was criminally indicted in several other cases yet claims to be strong on crime and who was impeached twice, instigated a coup only to thereafter successfully run for a second term Presidency, has finally imploded over something as abstract as files, specifically, “The Epstein Files”. 

There have to be a very powerful secrets that are contained in those files that has allowed this omnipotent superman to publicly cover up for them by inter alia sending his deputy attorney general, who was his criminal defense lawyer, to discuss the contents with the convicted pedophile and Epstein's co  conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump had an association with for both those for the crucial years. He initially wished her well on her indictment for sexual assault on children.

 Days after his deputy attorney general Tod Blanche's "discussion" with her, Maxwell was transferred to a low security prison where she was potentially allowed to have contact with the surrounding community. Protests followed adding to the durability of the scandal. Whatever Maxwell had to say should be taken with a pinch of salt. She had been indicted for perjury and her sentencing Judge found her to be dishonest.  She did not take the opportunity to give any defense in her trial for sexual predatory but felt comfortable to exculpate Trump with no cross examination. Disgustingly she trashed the victims.

It also should be noted that “The Daily Mail” reported that Maxwell’s cell mate maintained that Maxwell bragged that she had the dirt on Trump and she hoped to obtain a pardon from then President Biden in return for spilling the beans. The subsequent release of the transcript and audio  of the meeting where Maxwell stated that she never saw the President in a compromised situation and he behaved like a "Gentleman through out" reassured none of his critics who doubled their efforts for the release of the whole unredacted "Epstein File".

Trump ordered The Speaker of The House of Representatives to close down Congress early to avoid a bipartisan resolution to propose the release of the files! The President needed time to sort this out which apparently he believes he has. Oddly this served to add another month to the drama. Trump's Attorney General finally announced that she will release the hundreds of thousands of pages of "the files" in batches. It is almost certain that there will be questions as to the selectivity as to what will be forthcoming. Anyway that will ensure the longevity of the saga closer and closer to the midterm elections. 

So this is not going away. Every other day there is another revelation as to Trump's association with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted co conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. A sensational book written by Andrew Lownie has just surfaced which details the sordid activities of Prince Andrew and his wife Sarah Ferguson. In addition the relationship between The Prince, Epstein and Trump has been recorded. Trump who denied having met Prince Andrew faces this accusation where there are multiple photos confirming his association. Some even include Melania. 

Then there is Michael Wolff who has written four books on Trump who also has over a hundred hours of tapes in discussion with Epstein. He is leaking bits and pieces such as Epstein maintained that he and Trump were best friends for over ten years. The victims have lawyers who are demanding justice and transparency. 

So why is this issue so important to Trump. His supporters have bitten the bullet on his outrageous behavior thus far. The answer lies in his campaign message that was so authentic to his cult, that “The Deep State" covered up the behavior of the elites, (Democrats), who among other things were running an international pedophile ring” This conspiracy tale runs very deep and has a long history and is so embedded in the psyche of the faithful that already several of the internet spokespeople are turning sour on him over his lack of transparency. 

WHY THE RETICENCE OF PRODUCING THE FILES?

Trump promoted the theory that “The Deep State” protected the real perpetrators of evil. The answer lay in several investigations where files hadn’t been released, namely, The Kennedy Assassination, The Martin Luther King Assassination, The 9/11 Attacks and The Epstein Files. He opened all but Epstein’s to the public. Then he humiliated the MAGA influencers by inviting them to the WhiteHouse and giving them files with public information already available on Epstein.

The online influencers were massively accountable for the creation of “The Deep State”. Conspiracy theorists such Alex Jones embellished on the fiction that there was an insider, QAnon, who was feeding clues to the followers about the internal cabal who were globalists, manipulators of the people on issues such as vaccination and climate change for example. But the issue that took the most traction was pedophilia because it was non contentious and everyone was against it. The influencers turned this into a “Save The Children” campaign which added to the cult’s following. This narrative became very powerful and even led to Pizzagate which alleged that Hillary Clinton was running a pedophilia ring under a Pizza cafe! 

While many of the powerful right wing influencers did not necessarily believe in the cult or QAnon it is fair to say that they were all taken up on the safety of children. Trump was a man of the people. They believed he was authentic and they weren’t dealing with politics as usual but when it came to the test Trump failed to deliver! 

THE RESPONSE TO NO EPSTEIN FILES

The issue of the “Files” was simmering but came to the fore when the rejected Elon Musk stated that Trump was all over the unreleased Epstein Files. Right wing influencers notably Joe Rogan, by far the most followed authority argued that “It was a line in the sand” and has not let go of the subject since. Rogan has told his millions of followers "to change their vote".  Steve Bannon, Lorrie Loomer, Candace Owens, Matt Walsh, Tucker Carlson, Michael Flynn, Roseanne Barr and Liz Wheeler to name some of the leading Trump backers have all to a lessor or greater extent cried foul.

The disillusionment with Trump on this issue has coincided with increased inflation, weaker job numbers, an unexpected universal negative reaction to the gestapo like behavior of Trump immigration officers, and have all contributed to a sharp drop in Trump’s approval numbers to 37 percent. Also some aggressive response from Democratic Governor Newsom who stated the need to “fight fire with fire”. 

THE ISSUE WON’T GO AWAY

 On September 3 Congress returns and a bipartisan group are gang busters with their motion to have the files released. A Press Conference has been arranged for that day together with a few Epstein victims. There is Ghislaine who is sitting on the goods waiting for her pardon. There are a thousand FBI and other agents who went through the files to find Trump references. There have to be some ready to be anonymous sources who will  spill the beans.Musk has to know what he was blogging about. Alex Acosta, Trump's subsequent Minister of Labour, who gave Epstein a sweet heart deal will, sooner or later have to appear before Congress.

Also in case anyone has forgotten Trump fired the Chief Prosecutor, Maurene Comey, who laid the charges against Epstein, who was found dead in his cell under suspicious circumstances, and successfully prosecuted Ms. Maxwell. 

There are several hundred victims - remember the first whiff of an issue was when in1996 Maria Farmer reported Epstein and Trump to the FBI on suspicion of pedophilia. Who knows what Michael Wolff has got on his tapes with another potential blockbuster book in the offing? The internet itself is buzzing. Meidas Touch the anti Trump podcast is beaming out a half a dozen pieces in a day is now the leading media of all sorts beating out Fox and Rogan…….. SO THIS TSUNAMI IS NOT GOING AWAY.

AT THE END OF THE DAY

70 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the Epstein files. No - one is going to believe the sanitized version they will get from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The realization is that the Putin/Zelensky meetings, the flooding of Washington with military and paramilitary for example are merely diversionary tactics. 

If Trump is appearing in Washington with the military in peacetime one has to know why.