If William Shakespeare had been round, he would have stated that so far as pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is anxious, Donald Trump was hoisted by his personal petard.
Translated into trendy English, it implies that Trump was blown up (hoisted) by the bomb (petard) he created.
In different phrases, he did it to himself. He put the scandalous Epstein coverup saga on the market and it circled to chew him.
That “petard,” or bomb, was the concept that Epstein, who died in his jail cell August 10, 2019, whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking costs, had a “consumer checklist’ of celebrities he serviced with underage women at his island hideaway it the Virgin Islands dubbed Pedo Island.
Additionally, there was the accompanying bomb that officers within the U.S. authorities had the checklist however was refusing to launch it in an enormous coverup.
If he had been elected in 2024 and returned to the White Home, Trump and the MEGA motion promised, in an act of accountability and transparency, that the names on the consumer checklist could be launched.
The “hoist,” or explosion, is the distinct risk that there by no means was a consumer checklist so there aren’t any names to launch.
So now it has blown up in Trump’s face. And he all of a sudden is going through what he considers trivial nuisance questions in regards to the consumer checklist at a time when he’s in search of to do massive issues, like bringing Russia’s Vladimir Putin to the peace convention desk.
However the questions won’t go away whilst he has directed Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi to launch grand jury testimony within the Epstein case.
Epstein had been held alone in a cell on the Metropolitan Correctional Heart in New York when he apparently hanged himself.
Nonetheless, there was proper wing conspiracy hypothesis that Epstein was murdered to maintain him from naming his so-called “shoppers,” a lot of whom had been rumored to be linked politicians and varied celebrities.
Trump and his crowd of advisors had for years pushed the concept that federal regulation enforcement officers had details about an Epstein “consumer checklist,” however had been withholding it to guard linked people who could have joined Epstein for intercourse events at Pedo Island.
Two of the strongest advocates for the discharge of the consumer checklist earlier than the election had been, mockingly, FBI Director Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, FBI deputy director, each Trump marketing campaign supporters, who now sit on such info—if it exists.
One other was AG Bondi who shortly after she was appointed stated, ”It’s a brand new day, it’s a brand new administration, and every thing goes to come back out in public.”
The identical goes for Vice President JD Vance, who had beforehand requested what curiosity the federal government had in conserving Epstein’s consumer’s secret.
Bondi elevated curiosity within the recordsdata when she—apparently inadvertently—stated in reply to a query that the Epstein “consumer checklist” was sitting on her desk ready to be launched, when she meant to say “file” as an alternative “consumer checklist.”
Trump, recognized for over hyping up occasions, constructed up expectations for an Epstein blockbuster in the course of the marketing campaign when he stated he would in all probability launch the Epstein recordsdata if elected. “Yeah, yeah, I might,” he instructed Fox Information about releasing the Epstein file in 2024.
“Numerous massive folks went to the island,” Trump stated shortly earlier than the election, based on USA Immediately. “However happily, I used to be not one in every of them,” he added.
Moderately than take the blame for the no Epstein “consumer checklist” public relations embarrassment, Trump turned on his backers who criticized Bondi for not releasing something, not to mention the “checklist.”
Trump referred to as the entire thing a rip-off and a hoax, despite the fact that it helped catapult him again to the White Home.
In reality, based on lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who ought to know, there by no means was an Epstein “consumer checklist.”
Dershowitz, who was Epstein’s lawyer, wrote in a Wall Road Journal op-ed piece final week that Epstein by no means created a “consumer checklist.” Nonetheless, he stated, the FBI interviewed alleged victims who named a number of ‘shoppers’” who names have been sealed by the courts. He urged the media petition the courts for his or her launch.
“I do know who they’re. They don’t embody any present workplace holders,” Dershowitz wrote. Which means Trump.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas will be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
