by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
When Donald Trump finds himself in a tough spot, especially one that impacts him legally or politically, he often turns to distraction as a way to handle the uncomfortable situation. He knows that both the public and the press have short attention spans, and the quicker he can change the topic of conversation, the better. It's a standard con that Trump has used successfully for years - and years.
But now Trump gotten himself stuck on political flypaper, and every attempt that he makes to extricate himself just seems to make matters worse. The former television reality show personality was a friend and associate of accused pedophile and sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, yet somehow Trump managed to remove himself from Epstein's shadow while earning political points by stirring conspiracy theories among his followers by depicting Epstein as some nefarious agent of the "deep state" whose sexual exploits involving under-age girls would eventually, when exposed, bring down many prominent Democratic politicians including the the much hated (by MAGA) Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Epstein died, supposedly by suicide, while in federal custody in 2019 during Trump's first term in office. Circumstances of his death have tantalized conspiracy theorists during the interim years. By the time Trump took office for the second time earlier this year there was a pent-up expectations on the political right about finally getting to the truth of the Epstein conspiracies. Donald Trump was back in the White House and he had promised to release all the secret government files on the infamous pedophile and sex villain - and to expose once and for all, the sinister manipulations of the deep state. Finally all would be revealed about teen-sex-trafficking, cannibalism, general depravity, and all the other things that the Democrats had kept so well hidden.
Praise white Jesus!
In February Trump's very inexperienced attorney general and former Fox News personality, Pam Bondi (a.k.s Pam Blondi) said that she had the Epstein client list on her desk waiting for her personal review before it would be released. Some documents were released, most of which had been published earlier, but no client list was ever produced. Last week Bondi's Justice Department issued a memo stating that there was no evidence to indicate that Epstein's death was anything but a suicide, and that there was no "client" list.
Not only was much of the MAGA base disappointed in that fizzle, but the MAGA "influencers," the people who give the movement its teeth, were royally pissed. Over the ensuing week their noise has gotten louder and more vitriolic.
Trump is used to his scandals and problems blowing over in one or two days, and that didn't happen in this case, so Trump reached into his bag of distractions and pulled out an oldie but a goodie, comedian Rosie O'Donnell.
O'Donnell, an American citizen who was born in the United States and had spent her whole life living here, has had an open feud going with Donald Trump that has lasted almost twenty years. When Trump was inaugurated earlier this year, O'Donnell decided that she did not want her family to be further exposed to the policies and tantrums of Trump, so she packed up and moved her family to Ireland where they reside today.
A few days ago, in a desperate attempt to push Jeffrey Epstein off America's front pages, Trump resurrected his feud with O'Donnell and posted that he was considering revoking her US citizenship. Two things quickly happened. The first was that Rosie O'Donnell laughed him down with a rebuttal posting saying that she seemed to still be living "rent-free" in Trump's "collapsing brain" and essentially challenged him to try and revoke her citizenship (which he cannot legally do). The second thing that happened was that MAGA influencers failed to take the bait. Today, eight days after the Justice Department told America that the flap over Jeffery Epstein was essentially fake news, the people whose news and views feed the MAGA movement are still focused on the deepening Epstein "cover-up," and beginning to openly question Trump's reasons to maintaining the government secrecy.
The distraction isn't working, at least yet.
Maybe America is finally waking up to Trump's modus operandi - but probably not.
(And then there's Elon cheerleading on the sidelines and saying that the reason Trump hasn't produced the secret Epstein files is that he is mentioned in those files. That collapsing brain must be getting awfully crowded!)
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