More Of The Same

 I know: We're supposed to believe that all this mess is a distraction from the Epstein Files.

"All this" being the seemingly endless stream of Wrong that is the governance of the United States. 

The suggestion that the "president" of the United States is attempting to cover up the fact that he is a pedophile is almost certainly becoming a non-starter. Not that the victims of all of the convicted felon's previous crimes don't deserve air, but the list of crimes has done nothing but grow since he took over for his father the slumlord back in 1971. Ten years after that, he bought a fourteen-story building on prime real estate facing New York City’s Central Park. His plan was to tear down the building and replace it with luxury condos. But first he needed to get the small band of rent-stabilized tenants out of there. They reported that he cut off heat and hot water, and even proposed sheltering homeless people in the building. That didn't happen, but the rat infestation was real. 

Eight years later, he took out a full-page ad in Newsday calling for the so-called Central Park Five to be executed for their alleged crimes. Never mind that the teenagers were convicted via coerced confessions but eventually exonerated after spending years in prison. Nor the fact that New York did not at the time have a death penalty, but these black and latino boys needed to die for the crimes they didn't commit. 

Fast forward to this past week when his (checks notes) third wife wanted the world to know that the man who had an affair with a porn star just after the star of the documentary Melania had given birth to their son, "He would like to have a country where all of the people can walk down the street and not be harassed or murdered, or women raped." As for the harassment and rape, let's take a peek at fifty years of harassment and rape brought to you by none other than the husband of (checks notes) the same guy who would like to have a country where all of the people can walk down the street and not be harasses or murdered. Or raped. Like the former game-show host's first wife who testified in divorce proceedings that her soon-to-be ex-husband raped her. 

Now he's graduated to blowing up school children. He's moved right on past the harassment and rape and moved straight on to murder. 

Distracted? 

Nope. 

Just more of the same.