Trump largely doesn't know any specific details of the Epstein crimes and delegated it to Bondi, Patel, and Bongino, who are telling him (or are at least publicly stating) that there's nothing to investigate, so he just goes with what he's being told because he's more occupied with immigration, tariffs, the economy, and Israel's wars.
Which, to be clear, is still a failure of leadership on his part. People who fail at their delegated tasks shouldn't be protected, they should be fired. But I don't think he probably personally dug into the Epstein stuff himself very closely because it's not his area of expertise.
When re-watching that press conference where he jumped in to excoriate the reporter for asking about Epstein, I'm actually thinking he was blindsided by the question. I don't think Bondi or the DOJ told him, "oh, by the way, we're forgetting about all the Epstein stuff and dropping the investigation." (Particularly because they tried to sneak it out by leaking it to a hack publication over a weekend and was limited to an unsigned memo from the DOJ a couple days later). So he's there to talk about the disasters going on with flooding and wars and shit, and out of the blue comes a question about Epstein. You can almost see a look in Bondi's face like, "oh shit, we're found out" slowly give way to relief as Trump gives her cover to come back with an indignant, nonsensical response.
We know that the swamp hates him and will happily set him up to fail. We know that Bondi is one of the swampier, self-promoting creatures in the cabinet. We know that they would see a MAGA split and a Democrat win in the midterms followed by endless stonewalling and impeachment as a wonderful development.
Yeah. We know that these parasites worm their way in everywhere they can and lie about everything, all the time, to everybody.
Did you even get to the end of my post? Lutnik is one of the swamp ghouls that would be delighted to destroy Trump's presidency and break up MAGA so that it's no longer a threat to Israeli influence.
I read the whole thing but it just seems like more coping. I get it, but this isn't "some guy" this is one of the 9/11 orchestrators and Trump is actively working with him. Why is he there? Just to say Hi?
You're telling me that trump is that tuned out to this issue that he's not responsible for the appointees he's made possibly feeding him false info and he's too stupid to even know to look into it?
I think you're right, but it's more a tragic case of Trump being actually narcissistic.
He's reacting to the Epstein case as if it's entirely about himself, so he says it's a "hoax" because Trump had nothing to do with Epstein - his involvement is old news, nothing to see, move on. The thought of kids being tortured or criminal sickos roaming free doesn't weigh on him like a normal person.
People have always posited the idea that Trump is trying to make America great just as a side-effect of being excessively self-centered; have a wildly successful Presidency, turn the country around, and he's lionized forever.
I think this Epstain is pretty compelling evidence of the narcissism theory, that he's only helping America incidentally to make himself look good.
I'll add one possibility:
Which, to be clear, is still a failure of leadership on his part. People who fail at their delegated tasks shouldn't be protected, they should be fired. But I don't think he probably personally dug into the Epstein stuff himself very closely because it's not his area of expertise.
When re-watching that press conference where he jumped in to excoriate the reporter for asking about Epstein, I'm actually thinking he was blindsided by the question. I don't think Bondi or the DOJ told him, "oh, by the way, we're forgetting about all the Epstein stuff and dropping the investigation." (Particularly because they tried to sneak it out by leaking it to a hack publication over a weekend and was limited to an unsigned memo from the DOJ a couple days later). So he's there to talk about the disasters going on with flooding and wars and shit, and out of the blue comes a question about Epstein. You can almost see a look in Bondi's face like, "oh shit, we're found out" slowly give way to relief as Trump gives her cover to come back with an indignant, nonsensical response.
We know that the swamp hates him and will happily set him up to fail. We know that Bondi is one of the swampier, self-promoting creatures in the cabinet. We know that they would see a MAGA split and a Democrat win in the midterms followed by endless stonewalling and impeachment as a wonderful development.
The guy in that video is Epstein's neighbor. This is hapenning now.
Either Trump is completely inept (dementia level unaware) or this is a cover up.
Yeah. We know that these parasites worm their way in everywhere they can and lie about everything, all the time, to everybody.
Did you even get to the end of my post? Lutnik is one of the swamp ghouls that would be delighted to destroy Trump's presidency and break up MAGA so that it's no longer a threat to Israeli influence.
I read the whole thing but it just seems like more coping. I get it, but this isn't "some guy" this is one of the 9/11 orchestrators and Trump is actively working with him. Why is he there? Just to say Hi?
He's no demented. He's covering for himself and or his friends.
Just stop it. Stop defending trump on this. The dude partied with Epstein. He knows the basics of this issue enough to have it investigated.
You are just coping.
Oh fuck off.
You're telling me that trump is that tuned out to this issue that he's not responsible for the appointees he's made possibly feeding him false info and he's too stupid to even know to look into it?
I think you're right, but it's more a tragic case of Trump being actually narcissistic.
He's reacting to the Epstein case as if it's entirely about himself, so he says it's a "hoax" because Trump had nothing to do with Epstein - his involvement is old news, nothing to see, move on. The thought of kids being tortured or criminal sickos roaming free doesn't weigh on him like a normal person.
People have always posited the idea that Trump is trying to make America great just as a side-effect of being excessively self-centered; have a wildly successful Presidency, turn the country around, and he's lionized forever.
I think this Epstain is pretty compelling evidence of the narcissism theory, that he's only helping America incidentally to make himself look good.