The moment Trump caused his own undoing |
Within weeks of becoming president, Donald Trump found there was a sticky piece of gum on his shoe involving the late Jeffrey Epstein that he couldn’t scrape off. This was surprising, because Trump had survived sex scandals involving a porn star, a libel suit over alleged sexual abuse, a tape of crude “locker room” talk about groping women’s genitals, and more.
Trump thought he could cry “hoax!” about his friendship with the billionaire paedophile and his Maga base would meekly fall silent. Some did. Others dismissed the furore as “Me Too” hysteria, or are pointing the finger at liberals like Bill Clinton who were in the sex offender’s orbit. But ask Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor whether the Epstein scandal ever truly goes away.
Trump’s election-winning shtick was that his “woke” opponent Kamala Harris was for “they/them” (such as immigrants and transgender people), while “Trump is for You”. This is the year he revealed himself to be for “he/him” and for “they/them”, not us, enriching himself, his family and the billionaire tech and finance bros.
If there is a date when the rot set into the Trump presidency, it was when attorney general Pam Bondi announced on 21........