Denial Isn't a River in Egypt

     If it wasn't for the fact that so many female victims, many of them children at the time, lost their innocence, virginity and freedom to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, the GOP's reaction to the Epstein files would be hilarious.

     Gym Jordan doesn't want to hear any more about Trump's relationship to Epstein, acting as if their underage victims were Ohio State wrestlers. Karoline Leavitt is back to spitting venom at the White House press pool. And virtually every Republican lawmaker on Capitol Hill (with the notable exception of Thomas Massie), when asked about the documents released yesterday by the House Oversight Democrats, is diving into elevators as if they're the fountain of youth. Byron Donalds, now suddenly an expert in Trump's penmanship, has pronounced the signature a forgery.

      

    Ironically, the big boot that kicked the hornet's nest was the doodle that Donald Trump had drawn for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday, something we'd known about, and had seen, last July when it was revealed by the Wall Street Journal. The House Oversight Committee had demanded the birthday book for which the doodle was created by Trump from the Epstein Estate.

    What made it notable was the detonation of the inevitable coverup- Namely, the administration's frenzied attempts to get us to believe that the dirty doodle was a "Democrat hoax" and that "the president* doesn't doodle".

     Now, they're going back to the same old tired denials because, really, in the face of such irrefutable evidence, it's all they have. They're squinting as hard as they possibly can and telling us that isn't Trump's signature, anybody can see that! Only, the signature at the bottom of the doodle is perfectly consistent with Trump's penmanship during that period. It's even in Sharpie.

     How ingenious of those dastardly Democrats, to fake a dirty drawing and forge Trump's signature (ironically placed where the pussy would be) 12 years before Trump launched his presidential campaign.

     And Democrats are promising more disclosures in the days to come. Here's another problem:

     The House Democrats may have released that drawing through conventional and official channels but it was Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal that first brought them to light. It's right wing media and right wing activists that have been spearheading this effort at full disclosure. People like Steve Bannon and Alex Jones have been calling for the full disclosure of the Epstein client list, all the way down to provocateur James O'Keefe.

     It's not a hoax and it's certainly not engineered and led by Democrats.

     And it wasn't House Democrats that Trump sued for $20 billion. It was Murdoch's WSJ.