Like drinking news from a firehose
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice released another 3 million Epstein documents Friday morning. I’m seeing comments (unconfirmed) that they’ve padded the release with some old materials. Whatever. What’s appearing on social media proves why Trump did not want these released:
The files released Friday appear to contain at least 3,200 documents that mention President Trump. The Times is going through the documents and that number could increase.
The White House will claim that a lot of these mentions are hearsay, unauthenticated tips, etc., and some may be. But it’s going to be hard to convince a majority of the public that all these women made up such detailed tales of debauchery and sexual violence out of whole cloth.
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Those 3,200-plus references to Trump are perhaps why the administration is filling the air with lots of brightly gleaming chaff today:
- The announcement of Trump’s replacement for Fed chair.
- The arrest of independent journalist and former CNN anchor Don Lemon and another journalist.
- An announcement that the Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the Saturday shooting in Minneapolis of Alex Pretti by CBP agents.
- The FBI seizure of 2020 ballots from Fulton County, Georgia and Trump’s ongoing effort to steal the 2026 and 2028 elections. (Don’t say they can’t multitask.)
- Trump announces August auto race in downtown Washington: “To think, 190 miles an hour down Pennsylvania Avenue — this is going to be wild,” said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
Will there be casino gambling like Monte Carlo?
Pay no attention to the Epstein files release!