Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Trump in a frenzy: Blame and distract.

Blame Biden's autopen:
     "That's the scandal they should be talking about. NOT Jeffrey Epstein. The scandal you should be talking about is the autopen, that's the biggest scandal, one of them, in American history."
         
    Donald Trump

An autopen is the great scandal???

He is flailing and looking desperate, like a guy on the run. Not tough. Not dominating. Trump is grasping at straws.

He is trying out blaming Democrats for the Epstein mess:


And former FBI director James Comey might be involved. Look at him!



Or "Crooked Hillary." 

Or Bill Clinton:


Focus instead on "Barack Hussain Obama:"

And why aren't we talking about the terrible Fed chair instead of Epstein?

Don't forget the fake media -- including Rupert Murdock's The Wall Street Journal:

Even Republicans, including his own MAGA supporters, are looking at the Epstein files and wondering about a coverup. Hell with them!



The problem with a "throw spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks" approach is that the real message he delivers is that he is desperate. A desperate person must have something to hide. There are too many targets. "Look anywhere and everywhere" is not as credible a defense as telling people there is a clear, specific bad guy. The problem for Trump is that the most obvious "bad guy" here is his own team, with its various and self-contradicting stories. His appointees at the FBI had six months to cook the books, but apparently they could not. Too many people must have known something and had copies, maybe including Elon Musk.

I don't think that any image or video of Trump, with a female of any age whatever, would damage him with his supporters. We already know he is a sexual predator. His supporters are ok with that. It is Trump being Trump.

But somehow his badly-played, on-again, off-again coverup is hurting him. It makes him look afraid and weak. 

He is off his game. 


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5 comments:

Rick Millward said...

The longer this goes on the bigger it will get. I'm reminded of the scene in "The Wizard of Oz", when the curtain is pulled back and we see the little man frantically pulling on the levers, saying "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

Has anyone asked Cliff Bentz about Epstein and Trump? I can't find any statements.

Dave said...

It’s the cover up not the crime once again. Joe Rogan, Megan Kelly, Fox News all being critical of the cover up. What is Trump hiding? The elite swamp that he is a member of? Wonder if there is a rape of a teenage girl, not woman, he doesn’t want to become known. Some MAGA would actually not be okay with that. Even prisoners don’t condone child molesters.

John C said...

This begs the question, if ‘His supporters are ok that he is a sexual predator’- then why the coverup? He embraces and promotes abhorrent behavior. Like look what he did by pardoning “Dread Pirate Roberts” founder of the Silk Road dark web- the marketplace for illegal drugs, human trafficking and hit-men just to name a few. He has no shame. We’ll know soon enough. Never a dull news day.

Anonymous said...

The auto pen is a problem when you had people not named Joe Biden making and signing legislation without Joe Biden's knowledge or approval. Nobody made them President. Thousands of people were pardoned. Did Joe even know about it?

Anonymous said...

Megyn Kelly, who is also a lawyer if anyone is unaware.