By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column
“A nation that allows or fails to protect their youth from the sexual predations by older men is a nation that deserves to fall underneath its own moral rot.” Efal Revillot… 19th century Swedish philosopher.
Well, it appears that the fix is in! Even though Congress, by gargantuan margins, passed the Epstein Transparency Act, it is not over until the proverbial fat lady sings…and that fat lady is soon to be muzzled.
Anyone who can read the political tea leaves, should have seen the marker placed down by Dear Leader Trump, who, when knowing that the GOP was about to bop him on his head with their historic vote against him, played politics and said that he would sign the bill when it came to his desk.
Nice…so far. But. In the usual machinations of a con man such as Trump, he threw down his ace card and deferred any release time to his favorite sycophant, Pam Bondi, the head of the Department of Justice (?).
Of course Pam and Dear Leader got their stories straight so that when Trump threw out the notion that he wanted her department to investigate Bill Clinton, the gig was up! That pre-conceived plot line contained the, Get Out Of Jail Free Card, which allows her to slow walk any release of the files due to this purported investigation.
Smooth Operator, if I must say so myself. I mean, when you are a con and seeking an escape route from a political firestorm, you invent boogeymen who will stand in and take the heat so you can escape to con another day.
This is what the Dear Leader and his clown car of cabinet members are doing to prevent the obvious that Trump and his cronies are in neck deep into this pedophilia scandal, or should I say, in my best English, “Dey is nekkid and with no fig leafs!”
For a quick moment, all of America had a slight tremor of hoe that maybe, just maybe, this ongoing national embarrassment was about to be examined in the court of both public opinion and the courts…but.
Now, we must wait and see if Pam Bondi does the right thing and releases all of the files including financials, videos, travel logs and emails that purportedly will reveal to a shocked nation that many, many men had no moral conscience that would prohibit them from dancing without their pants in the presence of minors and doing other sordid acts to them.
Under the shameless guise of national security, Pam Bondi has an out by which she can rescue her Dear Leader and his buds from any excruciating examination of their hideous and deplorable conduct and have them brought to justice.
Using the ruse of national security gives Dear Leader many, many months of delay so the inevitable can be delayed once again regarding providing justice to the victims of this pedophilia ring.
Imagine Donald Trump calling all of the victims of this sex trafficking ring, hoaxes! He is saying to them that their stories are pure fabrications fomented by the Democrats and he labels those who voted for the release of the files, stupid!
What a guy he is! A pure orange stain in the Oval Office, a political stench that will take years to remove and a putrid stench by his owning making.
Ten dollars to a donut that whenever those files are released, they will so redacted, blacked out or “rinsed” that it will be a total mockery of transparency and accountability as has been sought for by the public and the victims.
Prince Andrew (now a former prince) and the past president of Harvard University, Larry Summers, have already suffered the fallout of being associated with either Epstein or his scandalous activities.
The galvanization of America’s outrage will reach the tipping point when and if tapes or videos are released (and their contents edited for PG-13 viewing), that show rich, famous or powerful men cavorting without shame or pretense in sexual antics with minors.
And perchance if those released files implicate Dear Leader in such activities or trying to cover them up, the GOP, which seemingly fought so strenuously to prevent their release could be mockingly renamed, The Gang Of Pedophiles.
What is it about s-e-x that can turn grown men into criminals with underage young girls who are deceived and groomed to be their s-e-x play toys?
I am always asking myself, “where were the parents of these minors?” What stories were plied to them about the whereabouts of their children and much less those minors being flown to Epstein’s island?
Did money change hands with some of those parents so as to have them leave their common sense at the airport lounge when they waved their daughters goodbye as they flew off for, “modeling careers” accompanied by Epstein’s handlers?
Only time will tell the full picture and, trust me, it will not be pretty and especially for those persons involved in the financials of what took place as to who did it and how much money did they make; what banks knew that something was amiss but turned their heads for the sake of gaining more mammon.
Oh…how the mighty have fallen!
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com