CULT ISSUES

Trump might soon be reaching for Jim Jones’ Kool-Aid recipe if this kind of disloyalty over Epstein continues ...

The grotesque, America-attacking Donald Trump oversees a multi-million person cult called, “MAGA.” He has relentlessly exploited this group of suckers and losers for his personal and political gain, and has pocketed hundreds of millions of their hard-earned dollars to ensure that their lives will be made worse, just as long as everybody else is getting hurt more.

MAGA is a unified group predominated by dissatisfied, angry white people, who see a better way ahead for America by traveling backwards in time when white men controlled everything by stepping on the necks of anybody who dared challenge them.

They controlled our wealth, our courts, our vote, our congress, and our presidencies.

Say what you want about MAGA, and please don’t stop, but with the help of a pathetic American electorate filled with tens of millions of non-voters, they have been very successful in their quest to take us back to the point of no return.

And if you are wondering why so many Americans will eagerly vote against their interests and for the elimination of their health insurance, clean air and water, women’s rights, vaccines, human rights, voting rights, workers’ rights, education, protections from natural disasters, fluoride in our drinking water, and a tax system that demands billionaires pay their fair share, President Lyndon Johnson has your answer:

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

That quote is more than 60 years old and is still the truest thing ever said by anybody in Washington.

Trump’s power over his cult is absolute, and all of them have a crystal-clear understanding that when he shoots one of them on some corner to prove a point, another MAGA is to jump up and land on that corner to proudly take his place.

I’ve written many times that I have given up trying to reason with MAGA or spending even three seconds of my precious time with them.

Well, in the past couple of weeks the monster, Jeffrey Epstein, is back in the news, and wouldn't you know it, I finally agree with the MAGA cult on something: Raping children, and covering it up is a monstrous offense.

Epstein, of course, was an accused child trafficker, and ran his operation for the benefit of the rich, and politically powerful white men in America, who have been proving for centuries they can get away with literally anything, including raping children, thanks to a privilege they swear doesn’t exist.

The list of those who have been associated with Epstein includes, Presidents: Bill Clinton and Donald Trump; Princes: Andrew; Vice Presidents: Al Gore; Prime Ministers: Israeli Ehud Barak; Billionaires: Bill Gates; Actors: Kevin Spacey; Lawyers: Alan Dershowitz; Governors: Bill Richardson; Banks: JP Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank; and hundreds and hundreds more.

Many of these men and their businesses have denied any wrongdoing, despite the fact there has been hundreds of millions of dollars of settlements paid to Epstein’s survivors. Then there are the disgusting men like Clinton and Trump (pictured together in this 2009 AP photo), who took dozens of trips to be with the accused rapist and the children he allegedly raped and imprisoned. Trump went so far as to puff his blubbery chest out and brag of Epstein, "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side …"

In July of 2019, Epstein was finally jailed for sex trafficking of minors and was being held without bail. One month later, he allegedly committed suicide in his jail cell. I type “allegedly” because come on … There was too much to lose by too many if Epstein ever testified in open court about the horror show he conducted.

Even MAGA agreed with that.

They were, however, stupid enough to forget that Epstein's sweetheart plea deal was negotiated by the Trump administration, and that the alleged suicide happened under his watch, because by last year, they were screaming about the “deep state” coverup of the case.

Well, Trump did what any savvy cult leader would do, and feeling his vulnerability on the issue, quieted everything down by promising (lying) he would release all the government’s files on the case were he to be elected.

As we now painfully know, he was elected and has refused to release the files. His base is good with the former and furious about the latter, and haven’t been shy about letting their cult leader know it.

This is called, “a first” and it has clearly rattled Trump, who might soon be reaching for Jim Jones’ Kool-Aid recipe if this kind of disloyalty from his cult continues.

Which is exactly why all of us must make sure it does.

Trump is nothing but a lying thug, who has gotten away with everything in his miserable life except abusing women. He is positively terrified that a skeleton he thought was tucked away safely in one of those closets with all the classified documents is going to come crashing down on him.

Here is what the convicted felon slobbered out in panic today:

Yes, it is absolutely incredible that the thing that wrote whatever that is really exists, and worse — much worse — is the President of the United States of America.

As I put this column to bed this afternoon Trump has turned his ugly attention on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, to take attention off his Epstein coverup.

And as is the norm these days, the cult leader has only made things worse for himself, because after telling Republicans that Powell should be fired, he said this:

“He’s a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed.”

I hope to be among the first to remind you that it was Trump himself who appointed Powell …

That deed done, let’s get back back to fanning the flames of the fire that has fully engulfed the dirty, old man, Trump.

For that, I’ll let his revolting eldest son have the last word:

It sure does, sonny.

(D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here.)