But His Emails

By Baxter

It was pretty shocking yesterday how quickly the Trumpsters leaped to identify the girl with whom Jeffrey Epstein said Benedict Donald "spent hours at my house" as Virginia Giuffre. Presumably they named her because she had previously said she hadn't seen Trump doing anything inappropriate — a statement one assumes she made under duress. (She wrote in her book that she was worried if she named names, the Epstein cabal would wreak vengeance on her family.)

Do we need any more proof that Preacher of the House Mikey Johnson's pious claim that Republicans are trying to "protect Epstein's victims" is bullshit? You can't say you won't release the Epstein files because you want to shield these young women, and then throw the most prominent of them under the bus when it suits you. Conveniently for them, Giuffre is not around to argue. She killed herself in April.

The other tidbit that got our attention in the Epstein tsunami was Epstein's skullduggery in the run-up to Trump's disastrous 2018 meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. "I think you might suggest to Putin that [Russian Foreign Minister Sergei] Lavrov can get insight on talking to me," L'il Jeffy wrote to the then-head of the Council of Europe. In other words, if the Russians wanted to know Trump's weak spots, Jeffy could help. Wow, who is the bigger shithead here — the über-compromised Donald, or the sex-trafficker-turned-fink-for-Russia Epstein?

The Epstein revelations are far from over, of course. You can tell, because Republicans are racing around like headless chickens, trying to figure out how to get ahead of the awfulness that's to come. And it's not just them — because Epstein's reach into the worlds of business, law, banking, media, and tech are eye-popping and jaw-dropping. How many powerful men are panicking right now behind closed doors? 

We have no idea, but one thing's for certain: That sound you hear is the Founders who owned enslaved people, breathing a sigh of relief in the afterlife that maybe Trump has surpassed their many sins. That's how big we cats think this scandal is, and we HISS.

(IMAGE: The Globe & Mail)