Survivor

 

     The Epstein Files story is like watching Survivor in reverse. Only, instead of getting voted off the island, several people could find themselves retroactively back on it. The island to which I'm referring, of course, is Epstein's pedophile paradise in, ironically, the Virgin Islands off the coast of St. Thomas.

     There's a lot happening today with the Epstein/Maxwell/Trump saga, so let's dive in, shall we?

     Perhaps the biggest development is James Comer subpoenaing Ghislaine Maxwell. This isn't as exciting as it sounds. Number one, Comer already decided that the testimony would he held in the prison and, number two, it would be a closed door hearing. In other words, the usual Republican opacity and obsession with controlling the narrative.

     Then there's Thomas Massie.

     Last week, Massie introduced a measure on the House floor that's called a "discharge petition". A discharge petition essentially forces a vote on a particular bill. This means Mike Johnson can't just arbitrarily refuse to give it a vote on the floor. He's trying to delay the inevitable by allowing the House to adjourn for its summer break. But when the House returns in September, Massie's measure will have fully matured after the seven day wait time and he'll be able to get the necessary 218 votes needed to compel the DOJ to turn over the Epstein files.

     But as anyone who knows the first thing about Massie knows, he's no liberal superhero. He's recklessly demanding transparency in this case because, number one, he's too stupid to even suspect that Trump's name is all over those 300,000 pages for the worst reasons and, number two, he's concerned Democrats will take back the House after MAGA voters sit out the midterms.

     It makes me think of future Senator Fred Thompson during the Watergate hearings in 1974 when he demanded the release of the Watergate tapes. Because, he, too, never thought they would ever implicate Nixon. Instead the tapes hastened his downfall two months later. Nixon even privately called him, "dumb as Hell."

     Fred Thompson was one of those useful idiots that we're seeing now with certain House Republicans who are demanding to see the Epstein files.

     Then, during a hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement where the agenda was undocumented and unaccompanied migrant children, Rep. Summer Lee of PA introduced a measure to subpoena the Epstein files from the DOJ. The hearing erupted in chaos and Chairman Clay Higgins abruptly gaveled the hearing to a close. (The Democrats got the subpoena).

     Then, as if that wasn't enough, the Wall Street Journal, not exactly a liberal bastion, released another bombshell report revealing that Bondi's DOJ informed Trump last May that his name was all over the Epstein files, hastening to add that lots of other names were on it. Of course, Trump doesn't care about the other names. His name is the only one he cares about.

     Taking down the Clintons wouldn't be worth it if it means going down with them.

     Drip, drip, drip. Watch this space.