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Emails don’t explain why Trump is terrified of Epstein ‘disclosure’: analysis
Columnist and author Ross Douthat tells the New York Times that while the new Epstein documents are successfully riling up America and the White House, there’s plenty they don’t yet answer.“The new tranche of information confirms, yet again, the moral squalor of various powerful Americans. But it still leaves us short of definitive answers to the outstanding Epstein questions: Did other powerful men have sex with the underage girls that he trafficked? What were his connections, if any, to the world of intelligence? And what unrevealed details have made Trump so intent on preventing further disclosure?”Douthat referenced Epstein’s email to Ghislaine Maxwell shortly after his release from prison: “I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is Trump .[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned. Police chief, etc. I’m 75 percent there.”That letter, by itself, said Douthat, “is not the smoking gun proving Trump’s complicity in sex crimes.”Other letters, he said, suggest “it was normal for Epstein’s friends to have sexual encounters if not sexual intercourse” and that “Epstein at least wanted people to think the girls in involved were not minors.” Third, they prove Epstein “had a longstanding grudge against Trump but probably did not have some secret tape of Trump getting a massage or more.”“But then the great question remains: Why doesn’t Trump want more disclosure?” asked Douthat, referencing Trump’s campaign to keep the documents hidden from the House Oversight Committee.“It’s possible that he just doesn’t like the embarrassment of having everyone reminded that he was one of the rich creeps in the Epstein circle. Or it’s possible that there’s something truly sensitive related to Epstein and intelligence that has yet to be revealed,” said Douthat.“Or it’s possible that there is some thread remaining here, and not necessarily the obvious one, that the president really, really doesn’t want to see get pulled,” he said. Read the New York Times report at this link.
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This self-fulfilling prophecy is what Trump is counting on
Trump is incapable of allowing tensions and stresses to ease without creating new ones. Case in point: After meeting with China’s president Xi Jinping this past week, he announces that China and the United States the largest and second-largest economies in the world will de-escalate the trade war. Sounds good, I suppose (until you realize that the two nations are now back to where they were before Trump created the trade war in the first place). Not content to calm any waters, Trump also announces that the United States will immediately restart nuclear weapons testing, after not doing so for more than 30 years. Why? He doesn’t explain except to say “other nations” are doing so. (None of the world’s three major military powers has conducted a nuclear weapons test since 1996, but they will if the U. S. resumes.)The mad would-be king cannot abide even a moment of calm. He thrives on crises, emergencies, chaos, disarray all of which give him more power, if we let them. He refuses to fund SNAP (food stamps) during this government shutdown, although Congress set aside funds to do just that. He won’t extend Obamacare subsidies. His tariffs are killing farmers and small businesses. To say nothing of his violent ICE raids, his criminal prosecutions of political foes, his “war” on Venezuela. In every sphere of our lives, he is ramping up the stress. How should we cope with this Trump chaos? Not by ignoring the news. This only plays into Trump’s playbook: He figures he can cause even more mayhem if we’re not paying attention. Not by pretending that none of this matters. It does matter. Denial only weakens our resolve. Certainly not by falling into despair or hopelessness. That’s what Trump and his ilk want more than anything. Hopelessness is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then he wins it all. We cope by becoming stronger. We demonstrate, as we did October 18 in record numbers and as we’ll do again in even larger numbers. We call our members of Congress. Appear at their town halls. Protect vulnerable people in our community. Organize for the midterms. We also pace ourselves. Stay abreast of the news but don’t try to read everything that’s coming at us. Take a break from time to time. We keep ourselves and others apprised of positive things that are happening: the likelihood that California’s Proposition 50 will pass on Tuesday, that Zohran Mamdani will become mayor of New York, that Virginia and New Jersey will elect Democrats. We’re grateful for the courage and resolve of our nation’s judges (including some who were appointed by Trump) in stopping his vicious and illegal rampages. We note the downward lurch in Trump’s poll numbers, largely as a result of his insane economic policies. Even Trump voters are turning on him. We keep the faith in America’s ideals. We stay as close as we can to our loved ones and dearest friends. And we celebrate small and noble acts of decency, wherever they occur. Robert Reich is a professor of public policy at Berkeley and former secretary of labor. His writings can be found at.