TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2025
Your nation's moral squalor: Why won't Trump release the files?
We can't tell you that. The most obvious possible reason is actually pretty obvious. The most obvious possible reason goes like this:
There must be something in the files which would be very bad for President Trump.
That, of course, may not be the reason. Also, there may be nothing in the files which is horribly bad for Trump.
It may be that we'll never see the actual files. It may also be that we'll never know why they weren't released. Meanwhile, the administration has engaged in unexplained conduct with respect to Ghislaine Maxwell—conduct which suggests the possibility that a deal has been struck which will keep her from making horrible claims about Trump.
That sweetheart deal looks very strange. That explains why news of the deal is widely avoided on Fox. Today, we once again show you what's being done to direct attention away from those ruminations, which tend to look bad for Trump.
We don't know what is in the files. We do know these two things:
Two things we know:
1) On Deadline: White House, Nicolle Wallace will never stop obsessing about the Epstein matter to the substantial exclusion of other topics, just as she did in the past several years with respect to the legal cases involving Candidate Trump.
2) Elsewhere, the moral squalor churned by the Trump administration is never going to end. It will largely go unmentioned by major news orgs, except for the news orgs which insist on supporting the squalor.
What squalor are we talking about? Citizens, here we go again! Today, the story starts with this report by Mediaite's Charlie Nash:
James Comer Says Congress Must Find Out What Happened on Epstein Island Because Bill Clinton Is ‘A Prime Suspect’
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) described former President Bill Clinton as “a prime suspect” in the Jeffrey Epstein case on Monday, telling Newsmax, “Everybody in America wants to know what went on in Epstein Island and we’ve all heard reports that Bill Clinton was a frequent visitor there.”
And so on from there.
That's the way the report begins. For the record, Comer's fuller statement went like this:
“Everybody in America wants to know what went on in Epstein Island and we’ve all heard reports that Bill Clinton was a frequent visitor there, so he’s a prime suspect to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee. So hopefully we’ll win that court battle with that subpoena and see President Clinton in October.”
The squalor never ends! It started with President Trump floating this notion during at least two high-profile press events in late July. This past Sunday, Vice President Vance pushed the claim again on the Fox Business / Fox News Channel show, Sunday Morning Futures.
Yesterday, it was Comer's turn to push the unfounded suggestion, this time on Newsmax. In this way, Red American voters are being offered a pleasing alternative story about this potentially poisonous topic.
As we've noted many times, there is zero evidence to suggest that Bill Clinton (or Donald Trump) ever went to Jeffrey Epstein's island. Trump and Vance, and now James Comer, are serving their voters a pleasing alternate notion about Clinton—in this instance, on the basis of "reports" which Comer says "we've all heard."
People like Comer have "heard" such reports because people like Trump and Vance keep pimping such claims around! That said, someone else keeps pimping them out:
We refer to news sites like Mediaite, and to extremely peculiar journalists like the aforementioned Nash.
There they've gone again! This is at least the fourth time Mediaite has published these unfounded claims by Trump and Vance and Comer without describing the lack of evidence in support of the poisonous claims.
Back on July 28, the New York Times reported one of Trump's insinuations about Clinton. When it did, the Times instantly explained the lack of evidence behind the president's claim, exactly as a competent news org would have done.
(For that New York Times report, you can just click this. For our own presentation about that report, you can just click here.)
There is zero evidence to suggest that Bill Clinton ever went to Jeffrey Epstein's island. Voluminous flight records from Epstein's jet, released as part of an earlier court case, included no record or Clinton (or Trump) ever flying there.
Having said that, so what? People like Trump and Vance and Comer keep spreading this unfounded claim around. People like Nash, and sites like Mediaite, keep typing up the poisonous claim, without ever providing the background information.
There is no cure for human, we correctly noted in that earlier report. People like Comer will keep playing this way, and puzzling sites like Mediaite will just keep typing their statements up.
A final point:
It's hard to prove that you didn't do something. It isn't hard to draw back the curtain on the way the president and his soldiers continue to play this game.
The message is being spread all around. "Journalists" help them do it.
Agree.
ReplyDeleteWhy anyone listens to a word from the Right is beyond me.
ReplyDelete"...suggests the possibility that a deal has been struck which will keep her from making horrible claims about Trump."
Jeez, Bob. You're talking like a real nutcase now. BlueAnon much? Poor thing, TDS has eaten your brains. There wasn't much there in the first place, but still, it's sad.
Nobody knows why Prince Orange Chickenshit is not releasing the Epstein files like he campaigned on doing. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, wouldn't you agree, maggot breath?
DeleteNo one voted for Trump because he was going to release the Epstein Files.
DeleteThat was something the corporate-owned Right wing media (AKA the mainstream media) pushed to excuse the fact that Trump wins elections because Republican voters crave bigotry, like a child craves sugar.
Let's be clear: Ghislaine was transferred to a Club Med prison for one reason only: to help drain the swamp.
DeleteThank you for your attention to this matter.
Don't you love how the ones cheering on the destruction of cancer & vaccine research call the normies deranged? Jagoffs and weirdos, the lot of you bigots. Leave us the fuck alone already. Stay in your fucking basements.
DeleteI'm a bit confused by Our Host's presentation of "Two Things We Know." I read the two items as contradictory:
ReplyDelete1) MSNBC's Nicole Wallace is never going to shut up about Jeffrey Epstein; and,
2) Big news orgs pretend not to notice the "moral squalor" of the current administration. The immediate example of this squalor is a leading Congressional Republican's misrepresentations about---Jeffrey Epstein's activities.
I'm fully aware that two conflicting ideas can both be true. I'm having trouble reconciling these two, though.
Additionally, for someone who is insistent that what we can "know" is elusive, it's surprising to me that these predictions about the future are presented as "known."
QiB - I don't know, but it seems to me Somerby says (a) Wallace won't shut up about Epstein and (b) "elsewhere," major news orgs (other than Fox et al.) tend not to notice squalor such as Comer's slanderous insinuation that Clinton visited the island. I'm just not seeing the conflict, myself.
DeleteAnd I'm commonly accused of being excessively literal, but when someone says they "know" what will happen in the future, I take it as a confident prediction rather than as a statement of prescience.
DeleteThe Epstein case and the way the administration is handling it are examples of this administration’s moral squalor, DG. Trump was initimately involved with Epstein, and you now have his personal stooges covering that up and falsely accusing Clinton and “leading Dems” of what Trump was doing. It’s moral squalor of the first order, and Wallace is right to be outraged about it.
DeleteNormally, your understanding of language would be appropriate, but Our Host has long counseled restraint in declaring what is known.
DeleteSomerby abuses language at will.
DeleteDG, so Wallace is correct in noticing, but she should do it differently?
DeleteI’m not saying I agree, one way or the other, but the way I read Somerby here, he is critical of Wallace’s near-exclusive focus on Epstein because of the opportunity cost - that is, because she rarely discusses anything else. That, I think, was his constant complaint about
DeleteTrump, Jail! journalism.
And the “moral squalor” here is the administration’s efforts to distract attention from Trump’s exposure by ginning up a false story about Clinton’s visits to the pedo sex island. Somerby is saying that, by and large, Red and Red-adjacent (or possibly just lazy) outlets run with this bogus distraction while Blue outlets fail to confront and rebut it.
At least, that’s how I read it.
Somerby would rather the Blue Tribe focus on policy, and let Republicans win elections based on feelings.
DeleteDG, Nicole Wallace anchors two hours a day on MSNBC, five days a week. You would have to be an idiot to claim her coverage of the Epstein issue is "near exclusive" to all other aspects of this corrupt fascist regime we're living under.
Delete11:51 - You may be right, I don’t watch her myself. I was just giving my interpretation of what Somerby said, not vouching for his accuracy (as I stated explicitly).
DeleteThere is a difference between journalists and propagandists. Journalists deal in facts. Propagandists deal in controlling people's minds to prevent them from knowing some things while encouraging them to believe others (often untrue information). Fox does the latter. Wallace does the former.
ReplyDeleteWhy shouldn't Nicolle Wallace keep talking about Epstein when Trump is not coming clean and it is still a possibility that our elected president engaged in sex trafficking (among his proven and convicted crimes)? When you start limiting what stories journalists are allowed to pursue, you no longer have a free press. But Somerby dislikes Wallace and it perhaps creeps him out to think about Epstein's follies -- that doesn't mean Wallace has been doing anything wrong enough for Somerby to single out in one of his fatuous essays here.
"WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Residents of the District of Columbia are demanding that Republicans vacate the city “immediately,” according to a petition released on Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteThe petition, signed by hundreds of thousands of DC citizens, accuses the Republicans of participating in an “unprecedented crime wave” and calls for them to move “far away.”
Though crime in DC overall is at a 30-year low, the petition says, an organized criminal gang invaded the city on January 20 of this year.
That gang, consisting of known Republicans, has engaged in shakedowns, sold worthless crypto, and desecrated public buildings with decor worthy of mafiosi, the petition says.
Additionally, the petition indicates that a “mentally unwell” Republican menaced the city last week by skulking about on the roof of the White House."
Far away isn't far away enough.
DeleteI never saw Clinton on Epstein Island.
ReplyDeleteBut I saw Clinton talking up Ginger on Gilligan's Island.
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ReplyDelete"Elsewhere, the moral squalor churned by the Trump administration is never going to end. "
Forgive us, Democrats! Mwahahahahahaha...
Jesus wept.
DeleteWhat if each and every time we all farted, it released a mild psychedelic that served to chill us out a bit as well as helped us to be kind to one another...?
ReplyDeleteThat there is something about the files that might be very damaging to Trump is most likely, I will grant Somerby, but the possibility that they are being used to shake down some very wealthy friends of Epstein is also possible. Trump's DoJ controlled the conditions in which Epstein was most likely murdered, making it likely that the concern was he would sill the beans on Trump at trial.
ReplyDeleteThere was always something fishy about a story where the Republican Party seemed offended by child rape. That never made any sense.
DeleteDonnie McRapey does what he always does when he is in trouble, tries to blame it on Hillary. Because he is a fucking coward punk pussy.
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ReplyDelete$202 billion saved by DOGE! Great job, DOGE! Keep defunding idiot-Democrats, saving taxpayers' money, and draining the swamp!
May God bless you, and We The People are with you all the way.
Keep saving tax payers money, Mr. President.
DeleteThat way, they'll have more money to spend, and drive up the cost of living, like your voters want, Mr. President.
You're voters not understanding the very first thing about economics is what makes you the greatest President in the history of the United States, Child Rapist Division.
Such a bummer the Deep State won't let Trump release all the proof that DC is crime ridden.
ReplyDeleteI bet he lady would have given the deep State a better fight, than President Pushover.
I tried to warn people that electing a President with hands tinier than a baby's wasn't the best move if you want to bring down the Deep State.
Instead of gerrymandering Texas, the Republican party should run on their record of protecting child rapists, giving huge tax breaks to businesses which hire illegal immigrants, and kissing up to tyrants the world over.
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