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Trump just accidentally told the truth about Epstein

Chris Brennan   Paste BN

If you listen to Donald Trump long enough, eventually he will tell you the truth – by accident.

That was the case during the president’s July 8 Cabinet meeting, when he intercepted a journalist’s question for Attorney General Pam Bondi about Jeffrey Epstein.

A former Trump pal, Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting minors for sex in 2008 and then killed himself in federal prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges during Trump's first term as president.

Trump’s MAGA base has been apoplectic since Bondi’s department issued a memo this week that repudiated two conspiracy theories that have long been flogged by Trump allies. The memo confirmed that Epstein wasn’t murdered and denied that he left behind a “client list” of wealthy, powerful people he had blackmailed.

Trump, with melodramatic indignation, proclaimed that he could not believe he was hearing a question about Epstein, despite it being all over the news, while another former pal, Elon Musk, used it all as payback in his seething dispute with the president.

“Are people still talking about this guy, this creep?” Trump asked. “That is unbelievable.” 

And there it is – Trump’s truth – nothing he or Bondi or his administration says about Epstein is believable. 

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Trump then added a second truth – he said Bondi answering the question would be a “waste of time” – and he was right again.

Bondi wasted our time in a preposterous attempt to walk back her own words from February, when she told Fox News that Epstein’s “client list” was sitting on her desk waiting for her review, as part of a “directive” from Trump.

The “client list” her department now says doesn’t exist. Unbelievable. All of it.

Musk, in a June 5 post on X, which he owns, said Trump “is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.” He later deleted that post as his fight with Trump simmered down.

That donnybrook returned to rumbling last week and I wrote a July 2 column that suggested Musk would find trolling Trump with Epstein irresistible. 

This doesn’t exactly make me the new Nostradamus. But that’s exactly what happened, as Musk posts and posts and posts on X.

Musk is weaponizing Epstein – and Trump is feigning flabbergastaiton – because both know the president is vulnerable here now that his most fervent supporters and his most aggrieved detractors just don’t believe him.

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