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Headline: Public Notice, 11/17/2025
Everyone assaults women, everyone cheats on their taxes, everyone uses public office for private gain. Propriety, upholding established norms, following the rules? That stuff is for suckers. In a world of grift and graft, the most corrupt man should be king.
This has been the heart of Trump’s message about all kinds of corruption and malfeasance for the past decade. It’s the one he’s still using as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal consumes his administration. But this time, it’s not working.
Up until now, however, it has worked pretty well — at least in keeping his base satisfied and his party behind him. Ask a Republican why it’s acceptable for Trump to order the attorney general to investigate and prosecute his critics, and they’ll probably answer that Trump was prosecuted when Joe Biden was president. They can’t claim commitment to the abstract principle that it’s bad for any president to weaponize the justice system against his enemies, so they accept that it’s just how things work. It’s bad when Democrats do it, but it’s good when he does it.
But Trump may have found the limit of the everybody-does-it strategy in his association with the most notorious sex-trafficking pedophile (or, if like Megyn Kelly you want to get technical, ephebophile) in American history. This scandal is simply not like the others, since for so many years the MAGA base was told not only that Epstein was the key to exposing a horrifying world of abuse and moral corruption that encompassed much of the power elite, but that they should be genuinely, sincerely angry about it.
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September 2025
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August 2025
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July 2025
Mike Johnson's panic attack. (7/28)
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GOP panic in the year 2025. (7/25)
Donald Trump to Jeff Epstein in October 1997: "YOU ARE THE GREATEST!". (7/25)
Hello, Brooklyn, someone's trying to sell your namesake bridge again! (Pam Bondi torn cornea edition). (7/24)
Handsy Donald Trump. (7/20)
The Epstein Files: "A pal is a wonderful thing" (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 5). (7/19)
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The Epstein Files: Trump doesn't understand, but everyone else does (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 3). (7/16)
And no doubt for some very good reasons (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 2). (7/15)
June 2025
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