THIS IS EPSTEINGATE

Watergate was the scandal that rocked America in the nineteen seventies. It involved the months long revelations that begun with a bungled burglary of Democratic Party Offices ending in the resignation of Richard Nixon. There were jail sentences for 21 including the highest officers in the Administration. The major component of the criminality was not the initial impropriety but the cover up. Thereafter the media tagged a “gate” onto any scandal that followed. However, the only other one that really stuck was “Irangate”. The latter involved the Reagan administration’s secret sale of arms to Iran in return for American hostages. The moneys derived from those sales was used to finance an anti - communist rebel group, called Contra, in Nicaragua.  President Reagan after an investigation expressed dismay at his Administration’s involvement, six of whom were found guilty of various crimes arising out of the “gate”. President HW Bush subsequently pardoned them. 

“Epsteingate", is the “gate” to end them all. “Epsteingate" has arms like an octopus making the coverup almost impossible. However we are dealing with teflon Trump who has displayed remarkable resistance and whose 79 years of survival has been epic. It beats the hell out of Charlton Heston as Moses.    

WHAT HAS GONE INTO CREATING  EPSTEINGATE?   

A Monumental crime, spanning decades, allegedly involving the President of the USA

At the best of times the President of America is the center of the news cycle. Consequently any possible impeachable or criminal behavior will be exhaustively investigated and covered by all the media. Trump is no stranger to this set of circumstances having being impeached twice, is a convicted felon and now has been virtually made immune  by the Supreme Court. 

To say that Epsteingate is a crime is a masterpiece of understatement. There are literally a thousand victims with evidence that a large number were marred for life. They were young girls, several underage, that were not only raped or otherwise sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein in addition to being trafficked to highly influential men including Prince Andrew. They were recruited and groomed as well as sexually abused by Ghislaine Maxwell. The latter was sentenced to  20 years in prison for her heinous behavior which was relived in her trial by victims one of whom subsequently committed suicide. 

President Trump has a decades long involvement with Epstein not only as “best friends” but bizarrely in his and Maxwell’s legal problems. This whole saga ironically threatens his administration as they desperately try to cover it up.

Timeline of Crime - All about Trump

In 1996 an Epstein/Maxwell victim Maria Farmer reported Epstein and Trump to the FBI for suspected activities related to pedophilia. Ten years later, 2006, the FBI finally followed up and Ms Farmer became part of a Federal Investigation that brought 60 Federal Charges against Epstein. What triggered it off was a complaint from the family of a 14 year old girl. What followed stinks to high heaven, the Federal charges were dropped in favor of one State charge of soliciting prostitution of a girl under the age of 18. In carrying out the sentence Epstein went to jail at night for 1 year. In addition the Federal Department of Justice signed a deal with Epstein that he and any of his co conspirators could never be charged in Federal Court. Alan Dershowitz Trump’s lawyer was part of the team that got this sweetheart deal. The Attorney General of Florida that went along with this is currently Trump’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi. 

In the following decade Epstein was subject to multiple civil suits. The Miami Herald did an in-depth investigation which focused on Trump’s Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta who was the Federal Attorney General of Florida who dropped the sixty charges against Epstein and agreed to the non prosecute deal. Acosta resigned as a result of the revelations. Public opinion began to pique and Epstein was arrested and charged in 2019. He was found dead in his cell soon after. The official verdict was suicide but the forensic pathologist appointed by the Epstein family says homicide was far more likely. 

Michael Wolf who had been conducting taped interviews with Epstein revealed that Steve Bannon, Trump’s campaign manager in 2016 stated that he Epstein, was one of the two people he, Bannon, feared most in Trump’s campaign. 

Trump’s Justice Department then charged Ghislaine Maxwell with multiple sex crimes involving underage girls. The evidence was overwhelming and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. 

It cannot be overemphasized that it was Trump’s Justice Department that arrested and charged both Epstein and Maxwell. In the process the EPSTEIN FILES were created -  not by Obama, Biden and Comey but by the Trump regime.

2021 - 2024 - An attempted coup, legal jeopardy and a populist presidential campaign 

Trump having messed up the Covid response was voted out in 2024, a result he refused to accept. There is incontrovertible evidence that he attempted a coup culminating in the January 6, 2021attack on the Legislative Capitol of the United States. As a result of Biden’s Justice Department being tardy in starting their investigation and with more than a little help from the Supreme Court, although a convicted felon in a State Court, Trump avoided justice on his attempted coup. 

Throughout all his legal troubles, Trump was a declared candidate for the Presidency so he claimed “election interference”. His electorate this time round made demands on him which he promised to deliver. Many of the MAGA crowd believed that there was a conspiracy by the elites, that is the Democrats, to conduct an international pedophilia ring which was being covered up. Already in the 2016 election they had maintained that there were tunnels under a Pizza restaurant where these nefarious activities were conducted. One of their deranged had even gone there and shot the place up. They believed that the FBI files of the assassinations of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Epstein should be released because these held the key. 

In November 2024 Trump was elected to a second term as President. There is enough blame going around for this disaster but Biden cannot be let off the hook for giving an unknown candidate a few months to run against an opponent who had been on the ballot for ten years. Trump promised retribution for what he had gone through and the supine Republican Senate who had relied on the courts to put a halt to him by not impeaching him allowed him to appoint the most loyal but ignorant inappropriate cabinet in history, including an attorney general and FBI that would serve as his personal attorneys and investigating body.

Trump’s second term and the Epstein files.

After a disastrous start to his Presidency Trump was already 6 months in staring at dismal poll numbers. America was not quite ready for, his fascist thugs kidnapping non criminal immigrants, a Big Beautiful Bill which took away a social safety net and health care for seventeen million people while decreasing taxes for the one percent, not to mention increasing the national debt by trillions of dollars and introducing a crazy implausible  tariff scheme which pushed up inflation. Not to mention his international meddling which he promised to stop dead in 24 hours. Already the MAGA leaders were not charmed. Bannon, Musk, Carlson attacked the messiah who had been spared by G-d to lead them out of the wilderness. AND THEN CAME THE EPSTEIN FILES, which the MAGA  base demanded that Trump release. Musk had already attacked Trump saying he was all over in the massive trove of documents, videos, audio recordings, FBI interviews and Grand Jury Testimony.

Trump’s Justice Department initial position, and it is literally Trump’s personal Justice Department, was that there was no there there in “The systematic review” of the files and no additional materials would be released. However this did not fly so as usual Trump’s responses were all over the place and often contradictory. It was the well worn path of the Trump modus operandi - lies, the issue was boring, a position he maintained almost right up to his Scotland visit, those calling for the release, “were trouble makers and leftist radical lunatics and that the whole situation was “ a hoax, scam fueled by the Democrats”. He pathetically instructed, (!) The Justice Department to release the Grand Jury Testimony which would have helped nought, only to be flat out rejected by the court because the victims had not been consulted. 

Reality was soon to strike notably by Murduch’s “Wall Street Journal’s” revelations. There was a birthday book where Trump had submitted a salacious offering. This was denied by Trump but soon it was evident that the book was in the hands of many. The New York Times soon produced a copy of Maxwell’s written letter of introduction and produced the page of contents which showed Trump’s contribution. Dershowitz and Clinton did not deny that they had written a message. Then there was the acknowledgment that Bondi had blabbed to Trump as early as May that he was all over the place in the files. Trump denied this knowledge on a number of occasions thereafter. Perhaps most scary for Trump was that a thousand  FBI and other officials had gone over the files in 24 hour shifts to flag where he was in the files that if everyone remembers his first Justice Department had created. 

Trump deflected to no effect. The  release of the other files was met with a yawn. Then it it was Clinton and Larry Summers in the unreleased files that everyone should be focussing on. Finally there were two strategies that he stuck to before flying off to Scotland on the taxpayers’ tab to his golf courses where he met massive protests. He was instructing his Justice Department to investigate President Obama for his false smears that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election - a conclusion that a bipartisan Senate Committee under the Chairmanship of his own Secretary of State Marco Rubio had come to and he instigated an unprecedented interview of a convicted pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell by the second in command of the Justice Department Todd Blanche, Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer. (You just can’t make these things up!). Then he said Kamala Harris, Beyonce and Oprah should be investigated - he will running out of blacks soon. Mumbled about his tariff deals most of which haven’t happened….  And so it goes…..

There are all the legs of the octopus still hanging out there. Trump has declared war on Rupert Murdoch whose “Wall Street Journal” is taking him on while his “Fox News” is only talking about the Obama investigation. There are thousands of anonymous sources in addition to Maxwell and her brother who are not playing games. There is MAGA  and its podcasters who are already dumping Trump. There is the Congress which Speaker Johnson closed down early to avoid a vote on demanding the release of the files. Johnson has already confessed he wants transparency and has registered disgust at Maxwell and claimed who can believe her in response to a bipartisan motion to depose her on August 11. On top of all this chaos is the finding by Senator Wyden that Epstein had over a billion and a half dollars in foreign transactions including via Russian Banks…..

AT THE END OF THE DAY

So all this certainly qualifies to be the gate of all gates - Epsteingate.

The 64 billion dollar question is how on earth can teflon Don get out of this? If Maxwell says he never ever touched any of these victims in return for a pardon who will believe her? Whatever happens Trump will carry on as if it is all “a hoax” and try and rig the midterms.

It is a sad state of affairs when the Scottish are protesting to release the Epstein files.