The Epstein Client List (Part II)

A Part II was needed because this story isn't going away and I had more thoughts on the situation.

The way I see it there are two possible reasons for the sudden need for the Trump Administration to fall back on a terrible lie: the CIA theory or the Israeli theory.

There's a theory that CIA blackmail is behind this and Epstein's client list is being used to blackmail some powerful people by the CIA. But in every movie or book I've ever seen where people are being blackmailed by an intelligence agency they better do as they are told or the damning information is revealed if the party being blackmailed doesn't come through. Yet the Democrats continue to vote in a solid block seemingly immune to any blackmail attempt. And no list names have ever been released.

The counter to this argument is that if you release one name you'd have to release them all. That would make sense. But perhaps the Democrats were acting as a herd because those in power at the top were all on Epstein's list and they were doing as they were told. But if that's the case - then why would Donald Trump hesitate releasing the list? Clearly having the list hasn't helped him get anything passed in Congress.

And I don't buy that Trump is acting this way because he's on the list too. If that was the case why wouldn't Joe Biden or Kamala Harris say he was on the list to make political points when they were campaigning against him? Or why would Trump campaign on releasing the list once he got back into office? Why uphold seemingly every campaign promise but not this one? It makes no sense.

That leaves the Israeli theory.

Donald Trump may simply not understand why the public is so caught up in the Jeffrey Epstein case but as the most famous victim of two-tier justice system he should. And as a father of daughters - he definitely should. Men paying to rape your underage daughter is among a father's worst nightmare and you seem to be facilitating the coverup of the guilty getting away with it. Do you still not understand why this story is not going away?

Yet the timing of an announced Iran-Israel cease fire sandwiching Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the Whitehouse around an administration 180 on the Epstein client list makes certain sense if the suppression of the list was the price of getting Israel’s support of the cease fire.

Don’t forget that Jeffrey Epstein’s second in command, Ghislaine Maxwell was the daughter of mogul Robert Maxwell who was long suspected of working for Israeli intelligence. Maybe Epstein and Ghislaine were still working for the Israeli’s and the blackmail was still working too.

But maybe Donald Trump miscalculated the importance many Americans have for the truth and bringing the guilty to justice. It’s hard to wrap your brain around.

The American public was willing to overlook Trump's meeting with dictator Kim Jong-un because we thought that dialogue diffusing a nuclear North Korea was in the national interest. Covering up for the rapists of American children - not so much.

When the left tried to make the name Trumpo stick - it laughably fell on it's face. If Donald Trump continues with this story - don't be surprised if Trumpo the clown holding an Epstein client list emerges from right-wing commentators and sticks.

All the good things Trump has accomplished could be wiped out by this one obvious lie.