In a rare burst of across-the-aisle concord last fall, some 99.8% of federal lawmakers voted to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law. (Hopefully not with the autopen he’d conjured to jab Joe Biden, our Ocher Ogre duly signed.)
Ostensibly, then, it became the law of the land- by which ALL must abide.
On its face, it required said files to be unveiled for one & all by Christmas; names, photos, video, & personal info of VICTIMS (NOT those of potential or flagrant perps) could be blacked out.
Oops. By gross negligence and/or perversely lawless malice, Trump’s cult of ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ seems to have hit the reverse button- thereby smashing the whole shebang all to hell while further vitiating said victims. (Pity.)
To be sure, in a locked Capitol room, a partly unredacted tranche soon came to sit in store for eyes deemed worthy. There, by appointment only, elected swells (assuming they’re not away on recess) can peer & take notes (as time allows).
But the clock runs- & power corrupts. In effect, Trump’s troop looks to have memory holed what you can bet comprises the more damning half of the records of Epstein’s Axis of Evildoers. (Hello. If such fraught, stealthy, wicked, abusive, misplaced vengeance bespeaks decent, functional, felicitous governance, then chicken bones surely must make fine, healthful dogfood.)
As to how low we’ve sunk, don’t take my word for who’s to blame. Fresh from said VIP room, US Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) finds that our ruthless, remorseless Gargantua of Grab ‘Em appears (not in a good way) in what the docs indicate must be OVER 1,000,000 TIMES.
Here’s the thing. In context, Trump’s omnipresence in the Epstein Viles can call to mind his quenchless zeal for Naming Rights. (From his grotesque ‘Arc de Trump’ to Penn Station & Dulles Airport to his Hole In The Ground/ Big Bad Ballroom to the looming ‘Gordie Howe/ Donnie Howls’ Bridge to his already rebadged “THE DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS,” this raging Orange Julius Caesar keens to slap his brand on anything that might boost his sense of grandeur and/or move.)
So. In line with such hysterical hubris, let’s resolve (perhaps on a bipartisan basis, shades of last fall) ‘THE DONLD J. TRUMP & THE JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN FILES OF DEPRAVED, SAVAGE, ARTLESS, LAWLESS, UN-AMERICAN EVILS.’
At this point, even that may understate. But still. Hopefully, for a start, it’ll do!
