but even Trump knows that his responses on this are less than satisfactory to even his most ardent supporters, so maybe he wants Epstein to be the story to distract from everything else. So he pisses off a bit of his base, it's not like they're going to vote Democratic in the next election. And maybe he does it to give an illusion that he's not as whacko as some of his craziest supporters.

It's sounding like an end-run of sorts around Bondi suppressing the report. Damaging stuff. If it isn't, why is Trump "frantic" and calling the WSJ Editor-in-Chief to stop it?

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-wsj/

Frantic Trump calls top editor to try to kill 'explosive' WSJ story: report

The shit will soon hit the fan
Club Pedo

I feel all three deserve more attention and certainly am not discounting their importance.
But, I don’t think anybody but those already in the Trump camp will care to speculate about Trump’s actual medical condition. I don’t know if the immigration debacle will get increased attention unless something is particularly egregious and by recent standards. Or maybe an especially compelling examples of the unconstitutional reach of ICE’s tactics. The press and we the people seem to have an easier time emphasizing with a wronged individual as we do a single missing person. Obviously the economic, racial, and gender demographics of that individual will matter. Maybe I’m wrong, but the number of people that would pay attention to Emil Bove’s nomination, let alone voice their opinion to their republican reps, is not that consequential.
Also, probably not because nothing ever seems to stick to Trump, but “Epstein Fever” might catch on enough to swing some to the idea that Trump and his administration are corrupted in other matters like the three you mentioned. It might also have the added effect of splintering his administration or the Republican Party itself. Everyday Trump faces this is a day he might say something that those still on board will not like. Somehow we’ve got to get people to stop believing this administration’s lies.

...this keeps Trump on his heels, and everything he says and does is now going to be seen by a large number of Americans through this tawdry and criminal filter.

be operating on a shoestring of money and a handful of employees. Except for DHS/ICE.

I’ll take it.

I know it’s not politically sexy to some but I’d rather see every disgusting pedo and rapist who was any part of the Epstein club die in jail painfully.

Is his MAGA base a mess and as divided as ever?

Not sure what the problem is. Apparently the country never knew Trump’s relationship with Epstein. The media sure as shit didn’t cover anything.

Why isn’t the truth coming out? Why is there this sudden bipartisan rush with Pelosi as well calling this a “distraction”? Why is she covering for Trump on this? Are prominent Dems afraid of who will show up?

Release the fucking files and let the chips fall where they may. It’s increasingly obvious that Epstein had deeper foreign intel connections than we’ve been led to believe. I have a feeling that’s why Biden didn’t release anything either.

It’s probably also to avoid embarrassing our wonderful ally in the Middle East slaughtering hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Speaker Emerita did not say the Epstein/Trump scandal was not important — she’s the mother of five and grandmother of many more, and she knows damn well that pimping out barely pubescent girls and high school teenagers is something that needs to land the perps in prison for life.

But imo we Dems and above all the media DO tend to focus on the daily shiny object (or as the dog says: Squirrel!! ) and above all we MUST learn to multitask. The Trump junta has flooded the zone with sewage — it’s exhausting and hard to wade thru — but that is the job at hand. Some of our folks are really good at it, and sometime it would be nice to tell them.

which is why the crowd clamors for Barabas. Whoops, I mean, for, um, Klawbacker Krasnov the Kreep (R)