Chris Hedges: Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.

Trumps approval rating crashes, and he's in the negative in most of his own policies:

If this trend continues the midterms will become a total bloodbath for the GOP.

From your keyboard to God's screen. I still see too far too many excuses for the orange shitgibbon, and I just got back from Oklahoma, which is Trump country, and he's well on his way to replacing Jesus as their messiah. 

They surely would if they ever accepted Jesus was brown and not white.

I'll quote Recettear for this one: "Misunderstandings as big as this start religions. Bad ones!"

NEWS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration releases thousands of FBI records on Martin Luther King Jr., despite his family's opposition.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 21 July 2025 at 20:43

Sure seems easy to release files when they want to, release the Epstein files then.

GRANDSTANDING?!

Wanting to release the names of the rich and powerful perverts who abused children is grandstanding?

Their blind allegiance to President Trump had blinded them to the depths of their own depravity.

It’s sick.

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— Representative Val Hoyle (@repvalhoyle.bsky.social) 22 July 2025 at 00:18

GOP doing everything they can to protect the nonce.

Now the Trump DOJ is rushing to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell to try to find out what she knows. Not suspicious as all.

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 22 July 2025 at 13:02

Blanche is friends with Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney (David Oscar Markus), so there's already some rapport here:

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— Zach Schonfeld (@zschonfeld.bsky.social) 22 July 2025 at 13:03

When’s the last time a Deputy Attorney General met with a federal inmate?

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— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 22 July 2025 at 13:00

Statement from Ghislaine Maxwell’s family.

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— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 15 July 2025 at 23:43

Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney David Oscar Markus tells CNN, "I can confirm that we are in discussions with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify truthfully. We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case."

The statement from her family was from a week ago, now they're meeting her. What's the play here? Maxwell trying to get a pardon? Trump wants to know if she has anything that implicates him? Some shitty desperate attempt to get her to throw a few names out there and tell the world that Trump is innocent in exchange for a reduced sentence? This is sickeningly suspicious.

His fanbase are truly dumb as fuck if they don't see anything suspicious in this.

I can see it now. Trump is on his way to pardoning one of the most notorious pimps in recent history to make this go away. Ghislaine Maxwell is right where she belongs in a prison cell.

She would go free if you could find a way to say that Obama, Hillary, Biden and Bill Clinton were on that island.  She would be hailed as a hero and a statue made in her honor right besides Trump for bringing down the corrupt Dems.

She’ll probably go free just for keeping her mouth shut about Trump. She’ll say anything they want. Prison life is not what Robert Maxwell’s pampered little princess was meant for. The entire Maxwell family are rotten to their cores. 

I never did buy the whole “Epstein didn’t kill himself” bit. Short of getting yet another sweetheart release deal of the kind that came back to bite Acosta in the ass, he had no reason to spill his guts to anybody, and likely didn’t fancy life in a shithole federal prison.