America has a tiered justice system based upon money. The closer you get to the 1%, the more "lenient" the system becomes. As a retired civil servant, and I assume you are similar in status, I have no shot at such perks. I can't even weasel out of a parking ticket... and I worked with (not for) the municipality's PD in code enforcement.
I have to ask myself this question Adam- are the American people too stupid to see what’s coming? That is the “exoneration “ of Donald Trump in exchange for pardoning Maxwell. Our criminal justice will fail us yet again.
Thomas, you know the answer for appx 35% of the population that are in the magat cult. As I started to read the piece the 1st thing that came to me was - when are these idiots going to wake up and connect the dots?
Imo, because MAGA is a cult of personality, its members have fused their identity with the cult’s leaders. Identity fusion as psychology calls it. Because of this, bamboozlement occurs which, as Carl Sagan correctly described it in his book “The Demon Haunted World”, it becomes too painful for the person who’s fused their identity with the cult’s leaders leader to admit they’ve been bamboozled. It’s too painful to their psyche to admit to themselves how badly they’ve been played. Here’s something I wrote recently on the bamboozling of America:
This must have been the mindset of many, if not most, of the followers of Jim Jones. They blindly were willing to drink the kool aid and blissfully drift off to their deaths because their leader told them to. But I have to believe that at least a few had to be thinking, “what am I doing? When or how will this nightmare end?” Some had to be suspicious that things weren’t going to end well. I’m wondering if that’s the same thought process for the orange man-baby’s cult followers.
If it fails, it will be a failure of the Supreme Court. They have to power; they could rule that the Presidential Pardon power only applies to convictions. The opinion might not pass close Constitutional scrutiny, but this Court has made worse decisions that fail Constitutional scrutiny by a much wider margin.
So obviously a total set up, but those who love Trump will believe anything. Most would drink orange laced cool aid if he asked them, but hopefully quite a few of us know exactly what’s going on. And hopefully, we are the majority. I’m eager ro hear the Sep 3 victim’s press conference. Is Trump in the Epstein files? Very obvious or he wouldn’t be trying this elaborate coverup ruse👺🖤
Someone posted that it didn’t take a congressional hearing to convict Bill Cosby, just the women themselves. It seems that there are plenty of them out there relating to this case. Let’s bring them in!
I don’t think the vast majority of these women want to reopen the wounds, let alone the physical and verbal threats by the Trump disciples. I heard from Tara Palmeri, the journalist who worked with the late Virginia Guiffre on the Epstein case, who said victims are now less likely to come forward due to the ongoing intimidation by the mob.
It is bad enough to have to remember abuse , so it is even harder to feel safe testifying. Then #me hit I had all the old wounds of being raped at 16 by a relative come rushing back at the age of nearly 40. You don't realize how much you bury until it reopens with all its ugliness and pain.
Thank you. Ay 74 I hate seeing what these younger girls are experiencing. At least I was not in the spotlighting also having our government try to make me out as a liar.
It seems extremely unlikely that the files will be released, and, if they are, they will have been heavily redacted or destroyed with this administration doing its best to cover it up.
if they don't release the files, even his own base will see he is taco-ing. There should be a big deal made about it daily as long as the files are not released. And if they are heavily redacted, they should be scrutinized and questions asked about what was redacted. We already know his name is in them in several places so it should be asked where is his name in these files.
No one is going to question anything in this scenario. MAGA runs our government and Trump runs them. There are no guardrails. Trump eliminated everyone at DOJ who would be looking at this.
yeah- I don't mean DOJ. I mean questions from the media, from Congress- there is some bipartisan on this issue and of course from we the people- at town halls and protests. Everywhere, everyday
We must never let up on this. The Dick-tae-tor has no interest in getting justice for these girls. He is only interested in protecting himself. What a lowlife for maga's to worship. I hope that on Sept. 3 the girls that are speaking will be able to blow this wide open. If they can't then it will be up to us to join our voices with theirs and make something happen. The deserve and need justice from these pigs that were sexually assaulting them and these pigs need to be in prison for the rest of their lives.
I believe the women directly involved with trump have been paid off. It will take someone with a tremendous amount of intestinal fortitude to stand up to this piece of manure.... and I'm being kind!
many have spoken out regarding trump already. people chose not to factor that into trump's character. the women in this Epstein case have not been paid off and they have testified. release the files!!
I think you are right, but am hoping that with enough pressure from the public and not being able to live with themselves anymore knowing what they know, that they will come forward and support the accusations and help to get justice for these girls. I'm sure that they are all afraid to speak, but being afraid, does not make it easier or right. It makes most people cowards. The girls need to know that most of us are concerned with their safety and that we want justice for them. Even maga's. This is a crime that has gone way too long with no one being punished.
I know they already testified and it got them no place. I am hoping when they have their press conference before Congress on Sept. 3, that people will listen and that there will be facts stated before Congress that can't be ignored. These girls were treated inhumanly by these men and then again by our justice system and deserve justice and huge money compensation. These vile men need to be in prison for the rest of their lives. If the files are released the men's names will be redacted as they have already redacted Trump's from what I have read. I hope that the people that did the redacting will be questioned as to what they read and redacted under oath for all to know and help these girls.
their testimony is in the files. so for those who cannot come forward at a future press conference and speak out yet again, they can just release the files and the public can read their testimony. the FBI who were tasked to take out trumps name instead of doing work solving crime like trump thinks is so important, let them testify as to exactly what they did, the days and hours. After trump made such a big deal of releasing the files, it is a slap in the face to his supporters what he is doing now.
Believe the Women! The victims of Maxwell and Epstein need justice for themselves. They will never forget all that was done to them. They are survivors of childhood sexual abuse. A trauma that affects their lives everyday. Do not forget, they will never forget.
I cannot give this a ❤️,Adam. 🐍👹😱💩 is more appropriate. Donnie is no gentleman, having cheated on all 3 wives, a mistress of almost a year during wife 3, bragging about going backstage at his beauty contests, the radio show open mike about grabbing private parts and on and on. If there is a hell, he deserves it. Then there is his mismanagement of covid when a million people died and it’s back and he will do nothing. 🤮🤯⚡️👑⚡️
You point out his many outstanding moral fortitudes. Maxwell verifies as much...."The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.” Even caught on tape.... it's the libs attacking his integrity with lies and deep state dealings.
The problem is that you sounded like every MAGA who posts on the internet. Sadly, it's impossible to tell the difference between MAGA crazy and satire.
I don't see anyone pointing out "moral fortitudes". Caught on tape was him saying you can do what you want when you're rich. Or mocking disabled people, or...ad infinitum......
The bar for what Maxwell considers "inappropriate" and "gentleman" is kind of low. So.... when she says she didn't see anything inappropriate, that doesn't mean a whole lot.
She knows EVERYTHING about Epstein and his customers. She knows what Trump and every other man did with those girls. And she has the power to bring Trump down. This is a quid pro quo; club fed and a possible pardon in exchange for silence.
This goes much deeper than just the crimes of Epstein. Although I too doubt we will ever know the truth, we DO need to keep demanding the facts. If not, the victims will never realize justice. The pedophiles and human traffickers will never be exposed and will be free to continue their illicit activities. The Billions in international money laundering will continue, and the espionage by the intelligence agencies involved will not be revealed. If all of this is allowed to continue, along with the proven manufactured financial crisis allowing the powerful to rob the country’s treasury and inflate the national debt by Trillions, how can this not affect our children?
The same as guns in the hands of mentally disturbed individuals can not affect our kids! I'm all for gun ownership, but the system must balance guns for hunting, ?self-defense? and assault rifles an expanded handgun magazine. BTW I'm 40 minutes from the Annunciation church/school in Minneapolis. Once again, I cannot wrap my head around these barbarous acts against kids, or anyone else.
Those last lines made my skin crawl 😢 That is not the United States that I love! I'm kinda glad I'm 80 so that I hopefully do not see it's destruction by these fascists. And our elected officials in congress should be ashamed and disgraced and never see the light of day again with rump and his rich bastards!
Trump's ability to stretch the powers of the Presidency far beyond the starting point of authoritarian rule is attributable to a single safeguard that has failed the American people - the U.S. Supreme Court, where his far-right wing ideological bedfellows have ignored well-established precedents and twisted reason and logic out of all proportion to justify his abuses of the Constitutional and legislative powers conferred upon him.
Today, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in affirming a lower court decision, held in an en banc 7-4 decision that enough is enough and ruled that his imposition of sweeping and massive worldwide tariffs exceeded his authority, though they stopped short of issuing a prohibition to allow Trump to appeal to his 5 willing enablers on the Supreme Court.
At least 3 of these enablers can be expected to follow their usual pattern of first deciding to uphold whatever Trump does and then engaging in the most contortionist perversions of logic to attempt to justify their preconceived decisions.
The future of our democracy will then rest upon whether or not the remaining two Justices will do their duty.
This is why we cannot trust anything out of this administration or from the ultra-rich. They buy, threaten, and manipulate to ensure their own safety from answering for their crimes. And political stooges gladly do whatever they are told in order to protect them from justice.
Thank you for your post today Adam!!! I do hope that the woman testifying on Sept 3rd will have their voices heard and that we will know what really happened to them!!! These creatures did horrible things to them! Maxwell needs to stay in prison-but she probably has a (wonderful) deal if she lies about Trump!
At the risk of overusing a word: dystopian. It feels...dystopian that the convicted sex offender child of a very wealthy man (Ghislaine Maxwell) is being <wink, nudge> pushed forward to exonerate the convicted sex offender child of a very wealthy man (Donald J Trump, POTUS).
POTUS is a well-known fabulist, liar, 'mis-remember-er.' Maxwell is clearly delusional and in denial.
The fact that anyone would believe Maxwell's rendering of how "gentlemanly" POTUS was is...stunningly depressing. Both have so much to gain by infinity-loop referencing each other's essential awesomeness and non-criminal-ness. The use of "gentleman" is so telling from this entitled, wealthy, in her own denial-world convicted felon. In an upper-crust world of wealth, power, zero consequences, lack of respect for others, and belief that being rich children is an entitlement, it appear to come down to nonetheless 'being classy' -- ladies and gentlemen.
There are numerous women who will never forget what was done to them! When do they get justice?
America has a tiered justice system based upon money. The closer you get to the 1%, the more "lenient" the system becomes. As a retired civil servant, and I assume you are similar in status, I have no shot at such perks. I can't even weasel out of a parking ticket... and I worked with (not for) the municipality's PD in code enforcement.
I certainly am!
Supposedly, a group of victims intend a press conference Sept. 3. We'll be listening!
We should plan a massive protest.
Right!
Yes, when will they get justice? Probably never -- or possibly with Frump is out of office.
I have to ask myself this question Adam- are the American people too stupid to see what’s coming? That is the “exoneration “ of Donald Trump in exchange for pardoning Maxwell. Our criminal justice will fail us yet again.
Thomas, you know the answer for appx 35% of the population that are in the magat cult. As I started to read the piece the 1st thing that came to me was - when are these idiots going to wake up and connect the dots?
Unfortunately, they think they have awakened and are connecting the dots. And nobody is going to fool them into recognizing the facts. 😢
I quess, people do awaken from deep comas. I suppose you can't fool a fool?
When he comes for them, as the saying goes.
After twenty centuries of sleep, it would appear the rough beast has already awakened. Yeats.
Probably never, sadly.
Imo, because MAGA is a cult of personality, its members have fused their identity with the cult’s leaders. Identity fusion as psychology calls it. Because of this, bamboozlement occurs which, as Carl Sagan correctly described it in his book “The Demon Haunted World”, it becomes too painful for the person who’s fused their identity with the cult’s leaders leader to admit they’ve been bamboozled. It’s too painful to their psyche to admit to themselves how badly they’ve been played. Here’s something I wrote recently on the bamboozling of America:
https://thomasebrymer.substack.com/p/bamboozlements-and-american-political
www.tomthedemocreatist.com
This must have been the mindset of many, if not most, of the followers of Jim Jones. They blindly were willing to drink the kool aid and blissfully drift off to their deaths because their leader told them to. But I have to believe that at least a few had to be thinking, “what am I doing? When or how will this nightmare end?” Some had to be suspicious that things weren’t going to end well. I’m wondering if that’s the same thought process for the orange man-baby’s cult followers.
If it fails, it will be a failure of the Supreme Court. They have to power; they could rule that the Presidential Pardon power only applies to convictions. The opinion might not pass close Constitutional scrutiny, but this Court has made worse decisions that fail Constitutional scrutiny by a much wider margin.
I count Scoutus out. The Red Five have been total supporters of the Big Orange!
So obviously a total set up, but those who love Trump will believe anything. Most would drink orange laced cool aid if he asked them, but hopefully quite a few of us know exactly what’s going on. And hopefully, we are the majority. I’m eager ro hear the Sep 3 victim’s press conference. Is Trump in the Epstein files? Very obvious or he wouldn’t be trying this elaborate coverup ruse👺🖤
Noooooooooo😱
Someone posted that it didn’t take a congressional hearing to convict Bill Cosby, just the women themselves. It seems that there are plenty of them out there relating to this case. Let’s bring them in!
I don’t think the vast majority of these women want to reopen the wounds, let alone the physical and verbal threats by the Trump disciples. I heard from Tara Palmeri, the journalist who worked with the late Virginia Guiffre on the Epstein case, who said victims are now less likely to come forward due to the ongoing intimidation by the mob.
It is bad enough to have to remember abuse , so it is even harder to feel safe testifying. Then #me hit I had all the old wounds of being raped at 16 by a relative come rushing back at the age of nearly 40. You don't realize how much you bury until it reopens with all its ugliness and pain.
I am so sorry for what you have been through.
Thank you. Ay 74 I hate seeing what these younger girls are experiencing. At least I was not in the spotlighting also having our government try to make me out as a liar.
Yeah, Teri, testifying is like going through it all over again, I would imagine.
right- and they already testified. just release the files!!
😪
they don't have to come forward. they already testified! release the files!
It seems extremely unlikely that the files will be released, and, if they are, they will have been heavily redacted or destroyed with this administration doing its best to cover it up.
if they don't release the files, even his own base will see he is taco-ing. There should be a big deal made about it daily as long as the files are not released. And if they are heavily redacted, they should be scrutinized and questions asked about what was redacted. We already know his name is in them in several places so it should be asked where is his name in these files.
No one is going to question anything in this scenario. MAGA runs our government and Trump runs them. There are no guardrails. Trump eliminated everyone at DOJ who would be looking at this.
yeah- I don't mean DOJ. I mean questions from the media, from Congress- there is some bipartisan on this issue and of course from we the people- at town halls and protests. Everywhere, everyday
We must never let up on this. The Dick-tae-tor has no interest in getting justice for these girls. He is only interested in protecting himself. What a lowlife for maga's to worship. I hope that on Sept. 3 the girls that are speaking will be able to blow this wide open. If they can't then it will be up to us to join our voices with theirs and make something happen. The deserve and need justice from these pigs that were sexually assaulting them and these pigs need to be in prison for the rest of their lives.
I believe the women directly involved with trump have been paid off. It will take someone with a tremendous amount of intestinal fortitude to stand up to this piece of manure.... and I'm being kind!
many have spoken out regarding trump already. people chose not to factor that into trump's character. the women in this Epstein case have not been paid off and they have testified. release the files!!
I think you are right, but am hoping that with enough pressure from the public and not being able to live with themselves anymore knowing what they know, that they will come forward and support the accusations and help to get justice for these girls. I'm sure that they are all afraid to speak, but being afraid, does not make it easier or right. It makes most people cowards. The girls need to know that most of us are concerned with their safety and that we want justice for them. Even maga's. This is a crime that has gone way too long with no one being punished.
They already came forward and testified. release the files!!
I know they already testified and it got them no place. I am hoping when they have their press conference before Congress on Sept. 3, that people will listen and that there will be facts stated before Congress that can't be ignored. These girls were treated inhumanly by these men and then again by our justice system and deserve justice and huge money compensation. These vile men need to be in prison for the rest of their lives. If the files are released the men's names will be redacted as they have already redacted Trump's from what I have read. I hope that the people that did the redacting will be questioned as to what they read and redacted under oath for all to know and help these girls.
their testimony is in the files. so for those who cannot come forward at a future press conference and speak out yet again, they can just release the files and the public can read their testimony. the FBI who were tasked to take out trumps name instead of doing work solving crime like trump thinks is so important, let them testify as to exactly what they did, the days and hours. After trump made such a big deal of releasing the files, it is a slap in the face to his supporters what he is doing now.
Believe the Women! The victims of Maxwell and Epstein need justice for themselves. They will never forget all that was done to them. They are survivors of childhood sexual abuse. A trauma that affects their lives everyday. Do not forget, they will never forget.
I cannot give this a ❤️,Adam. 🐍👹😱💩 is more appropriate. Donnie is no gentleman, having cheated on all 3 wives, a mistress of almost a year during wife 3, bragging about going backstage at his beauty contests, the radio show open mike about grabbing private parts and on and on. If there is a hell, he deserves it. Then there is his mismanagement of covid when a million people died and it’s back and he will do nothing. 🤮🤯⚡️👑⚡️
You point out his many outstanding moral fortitudes. Maxwell verifies as much...."The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.” Even caught on tape.... it's the libs attacking his integrity with lies and deep state dealings.
Maxwell is a known liar and plagiarist.
I'm being very sarcastic, as usual.
Marty, since I don't know you, there wasn't any way to tell. And with all the trolls.....
The problem is that you sounded like every MAGA who posts on the internet. Sadly, it's impossible to tell the difference between MAGA crazy and satire.
I don't see anyone pointing out "moral fortitudes". Caught on tape was him saying you can do what you want when you're rich. Or mocking disabled people, or...ad infinitum......
The bar for what Maxwell considers "inappropriate" and "gentleman" is kind of low. So.... when she says she didn't see anything inappropriate, that doesn't mean a whole lot.
She knows EVERYTHING about Epstein and his customers. She knows what Trump and every other man did with those girls. And she has the power to bring Trump down. This is a quid pro quo; club fed and a possible pardon in exchange for silence.
She lied.
she lied.
Well said.
This goes much deeper than just the crimes of Epstein. Although I too doubt we will ever know the truth, we DO need to keep demanding the facts. If not, the victims will never realize justice. The pedophiles and human traffickers will never be exposed and will be free to continue their illicit activities. The Billions in international money laundering will continue, and the espionage by the intelligence agencies involved will not be revealed. If all of this is allowed to continue, along with the proven manufactured financial crisis allowing the powerful to rob the country’s treasury and inflate the national debt by Trillions, how can this not affect our children?
It’s sickening, but nothing ever gets done to stop it. Big corporate money is the cancer that renders governments impotent and corrupt.
The same as guns in the hands of mentally disturbed individuals can not affect our kids! I'm all for gun ownership, but the system must balance guns for hunting, ?self-defense? and assault rifles an expanded handgun magazine. BTW I'm 40 minutes from the Annunciation church/school in Minneapolis. Once again, I cannot wrap my head around these barbarous acts against kids, or anyone else.
and yet trump admin just cut funding for the office investigating human trafficking.
Trump cuts every department which could hold him accountable.
Those last lines made my skin crawl 😢 That is not the United States that I love! I'm kinda glad I'm 80 so that I hopefully do not see it's destruction by these fascists. And our elected officials in congress should be ashamed and disgraced and never see the light of day again with rump and his rich bastards!
I hope you will see THEIR destruction, never to see the light of day!
I just read that the Epstein estate has agreed to release the "Birthday Book" and multiple other relevant documents to Congress. So perhaps there's yet one more act to be played; https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawmaker-robert-garcia-says-epstein-estate-will-turn-over-infamous-birthday-book/
"These are the Times that Try Men's Souls"
Trump's ability to stretch the powers of the Presidency far beyond the starting point of authoritarian rule is attributable to a single safeguard that has failed the American people - the U.S. Supreme Court, where his far-right wing ideological bedfellows have ignored well-established precedents and twisted reason and logic out of all proportion to justify his abuses of the Constitutional and legislative powers conferred upon him.
Today, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in affirming a lower court decision, held in an en banc 7-4 decision that enough is enough and ruled that his imposition of sweeping and massive worldwide tariffs exceeded his authority, though they stopped short of issuing a prohibition to allow Trump to appeal to his 5 willing enablers on the Supreme Court.
At least 3 of these enablers can be expected to follow their usual pattern of first deciding to uphold whatever Trump does and then engaging in the most contortionist perversions of logic to attempt to justify their preconceived decisions.
The future of our democracy will then rest upon whether or not the remaining two Justices will do their duty.
Don't hold your breath!
This is why we cannot trust anything out of this administration or from the ultra-rich. They buy, threaten, and manipulate to ensure their own safety from answering for their crimes. And political stooges gladly do whatever they are told in order to protect them from justice.
And the beat goes on!!!!
Thank you for your post today Adam!!! I do hope that the woman testifying on Sept 3rd will have their voices heard and that we will know what really happened to them!!! These creatures did horrible things to them! Maxwell needs to stay in prison-but she probably has a (wonderful) deal if she lies about Trump!
As always well stated, clear and concise. It's time for the guys in three piece suits to pay a visit and do some clean up.
I hope you're talking about the mafia cause the DOJ will only... "Run away! Run away!" from the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.
At the risk of overusing a word: dystopian. It feels...dystopian that the convicted sex offender child of a very wealthy man (Ghislaine Maxwell) is being <wink, nudge> pushed forward to exonerate the convicted sex offender child of a very wealthy man (Donald J Trump, POTUS).
POTUS is a well-known fabulist, liar, 'mis-remember-er.' Maxwell is clearly delusional and in denial.
The fact that anyone would believe Maxwell's rendering of how "gentlemanly" POTUS was is...stunningly depressing. Both have so much to gain by infinity-loop referencing each other's essential awesomeness and non-criminal-ness. The use of "gentleman" is so telling from this entitled, wealthy, in her own denial-world convicted felon. In an upper-crust world of wealth, power, zero consequences, lack of respect for others, and belief that being rich children is an entitlement, it appear to come down to nonetheless 'being classy' -- ladies and gentlemen.