Ghislaine Maxwell has a task.
She needs to say what Trump needs her to day.
Her freedom depends on it. Maybe her life.
Events and revelations are closing in on Donald Trump. Here is another example of what is being revealed about Jeffrey Epstein. Here he is, in a deposition:
Q: Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?
A. What do you mean by "personal relationship," sir?
Q. Have you socialized with him?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Yes?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?
A. [ Pause.] Though l'd like to answer that question, at least today l'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir.
 |
Click |
She is meeting with the Department of Justice. Pam Bondi's people.
Maxwell will come up with something. Her statement doesn't need to be honest. It doesn't even need to be plausible. It doesn't need to avoid contradicting other testimony or documentation. She can say other people are lying, but she is telling the truth.
Trump's MAGA supporters will leap on anything, so long as it absolves Trump and blames Democrats. Accuse Bill Clinton? Sure. Bill Gates? Sure. Barack Obama? Better yet. After all, the MAGA conspiracy-believers insist Michelle Obama is male.
Conspiracy allegations do not need to be plausible.They need to be big-picture true, aligned with the greater world of presumed heroes and villains. "Truthy." They need to confirm what people want to be true. Donald Trump asserts his innocence. He says that all the photos of him with Epstein; and of him leering at young women at parties; of him saying he is attracted to very young women; of him bragging that he can walk into the dressing rooms of teen beauty pageants as a great benefit of owning the pageant: of him bragging that he can grab women's genitalia without even asking; and of jury verdicts finding him guilty of sexual predation -- that none of that is dispositive. What is dispositive is that Trump denies criminal activity with Epstein.
Who do you believe? Trump or all that irrelevant evidence nonsense?
What Trump needs is an eyewitness alibi to seal the deal. He needs Ghislaine Maxwell to say Trump did nothing wrong.
And that is what we will get.
[Note: To get daily delivery of this blog to your email go to: https://petersage.substack.com/ Subscribe. Don't pay. The blog is free and always will be.]
5 comments:
She didn’t get a deal because either she wasn’t credible, ie an obvious liar, or she wasn’t going to give up her fellow child molester. Yes, she will lie and say what Trump wants, but it won’t be credible. I’m not sure she will be enough to make the story go away. Most people abhor child molesters, even MAGA people. Alabama elected a democrat instead of a child molester for the senate by a whopping 3,000 votes.
Ok, let me get this straight. The convicted sex trafficker and alleged perjurer is conferring with Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyer, who lost his client's case on 34 counts, and we're to believe whatever they say? As far as I can see this woman has ZERO incentive to tell the truth, but I also thing no competent lawyer would advise her to say anything. Personally, I wouldn't trust any of them to tell me the time.
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein is going to work about as well as Russia, Russia, Russia. If that’s the best the Democrats can do, they’re pathetic.
“They need to confirm what people want to be true”.
Or need to be true, perhaps? For partisans, Maxwell’s credibility rises or falls with the political utility of her revelations.
Bill Clinton is reportedly in that notorious 50th Birthday Book too. And in a dress in a painting in Epstein’s apartment.
Lies, irrelevancies, neither, or both—depending on whether the upshot helps or harms Trump, the Partisan in Chief, today.
Too true. Democrats should have learned by now that Republicans like having a convicted criminal and sexual abuser for a president.
Post a Comment