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Remember, A Demented Old Man Is Running The Epstein Cover Up. How Else To Explain Maxwell Pardon? [1]

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Date: 2025-07-29

I just want to remind folks here of something that I think many in the media are missing when it comes to the Epstein cover up. I’ve watched many hours on MNSBC and on YouTube trying to grab what crumbs are dropped from the media coverage of Trump’s attempted cover up of his name in the Epstein files. And I think both the political and legal analysts agree that sending Deputy Attorney General Blanche to “talk” with a convicted human sex trafficker and rapist at the heart of one of the biggest conspiracies to animate MAGA makes absolutely no real sense. And I believe we are all missing the most basic explanation for why Trump is trying to make a corrupt deal with Maxwell and pardon her in the end in exchange for some kind of Trump exculpation. Trump is running the entire cover up, and he’s suffering from dementia.

Once you accept that Occam’s Razor explanation, it all starts to make sense.

We all know that there is some kind of corrupt deal being negotiated with Maxwell. She says something like, “I saw Bill Clinton and 400 other Democratic politicians raping girls at Epstein’s parties! But Donald Trump behaved like a monk and never laid a hand on any girl!” Nevermind that this kind of statement would blow up Maxwell’s court defense that NOTHING EVERY HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE GIRLS. THEY ARE ALL LYING, GOLD-DIGGING SLUTS! ONLY I, GHISLAINE MAXWELL, AM TELLING THE TRUTH AND AM THE REAL VICTIM HERE!

Nevermind all that evidence that got her convicted for sex trafficking and earned her two perjury charges that were later dropped.

So who are you going to believe? Several hundred women who were raped as girls, or the one woman who committed rape on several of them? Sorry Ghislaine, this is one witch hunt that found an actual monster in the end.

And don’t take my word for it. Just listen to some of what Joe Rogan and the manosphere podcasters are saying and doing.

Joe Rogan isn’t letting go of Epstein — that’s a problem for Trump

Joe Rogan says the Trump administration’s refusal to release more information about Jeffrey Epstein is a “line in the sand.” Epstein’s name was mentioned more than 40 times on the most recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which consistently ranks as the most popular podcast in the United States. The episode was another instance of Rogan, who endorsed Trump on the eve of last fall’s election, heaping criticism on his Trump administration friends — and another indication that the conspiracy-coded Epstein controversy isn’t fading away. We are now entering week number four of this scandal engulfing President Trump, largely because the outrage is coming from within Trump’s normally steadfast circle of conspiracy-minded media boosters.

And he ain’t the only bro not happy with the Epstein cover up.

(The Hill) — Podcaster Andrew Schulz slammed President Trump during a Thursday episode of the Flagrant podcast, criticizing Trump for his handling of multiple controversies.



Earlier this week, the president accused former President Obama of influencing the findings in Russiagate while distancing himself from the public’s push for more information on Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal dealings. “He is rebuking the base, like almost like spitting in their face,” Schulz said… “He campaigned on it. He put Bongino and Kash in there, which might be the stupidest thing in the history of the world. Why would you put the two guys that have nonstop pounded the pavement talking about how we’re going to expose this Epstein thing, and the second they get in there like, ‘You better shut the f*** up,’” Schulz said.

Rogan and Schulz came to the MAGA Party in the 2024 Election, and neither are buying the Trump distraction strategy. They are starting to figure out that Trump is just another lying politician. And this group of Trump supporters do not make up the majority of MAGA, they were the difference in getting Trump back in the White House.

Losing the manosphere will hurt MAGA and Trump.

(Yes, it’s not true that they totally see the error of their ways, and they still have a low regard for Democrats. Check. Got it.)

But this is a very bad sign for Trump. And I bet none of the manosphere is going to accept an obvious corrupt deal to let Maxwell out of prison with a pardon. In fact, I bet most of those “independent” voters who went for Trump will give him a pass on pardoning a pedophile rapist. And it won’t take much to remind voters that Maxwell is also a proven liar.

Tim Miller of The Bulwark thinks that this is a real threat to Trump. And in fact, he speculates that another faction of the MAGA coalition will not accept the upcoming corrupt bargain with Maxwell: call them the Qanon believers who take it as gospel that their is a demonic pedophile ring running the deep state. This group glommed onto Trump like barnacles as the savior for all those abused kids. Will the true believers accept a pardon for a woman who is at the heart of this conspiracy?

Miller doubts it, and I think he might be correct on this score.

The flip side to the Qanon believers is that the evil cabal is made up of Democrats. And this group wants to have BLOOD! Having an evil woman who is at the center of this evil group get out of jail early may be too much for them, especially if her statement does not lead to the arrest, trial, and execution of a lot of Democrats.

And it’s with this group that Trump is really playing with fire.

Finally, there is the rest of MAGA, and in my opinion, it’s made of racists, bigots, homophobes, xenophobes, and misogynists (I just call them haters). This group gives lip service to protecting kids from pedophiles, but they sure love watching crying children being separated from their parents in metal cages wasting away in some concentration camp. In other words, this group will accept the fact that Trump may have raped underage girls, while he delivers cruelty to those they despise the most.

So pardoning Maxwell will be explosive to a number of American voters, except for diehard MAGA haters. Therefore, why do it? Because this plan is being run by Donald Trump himself. And he is growing older and more demented as each day goes by.

Here’s some of the highlights of a press conference that Trump had in Scotland:

5. He sometimes makes absolutely no sense Joe Biden’s apparent mental fragility was an understandable area of scrutiny during his final period in office, but it is also worth pointing out that Trump is not just often long-winded and meandering, but sometimes veers into impossible-to-follow near-nonsense. Consider this answer to a question on rate cuts, which moved from the refurbishment of the US Treasury to building work on the Trump-owned Turnberry golf course in Scotland: “Now, this is a brand new building, but if you look outside, it’s equally opulent and beautiful. And we didn’t do that by spending, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars in surrounding a railing underneath the area that you’re painting … “Brand new, beautiful plywood, very expensive, wrapped around a figurine or a railing to preserve it. But you don’t have to do that. You can just wrap a cloth. They call it a blanket. And you don’t even have to do that if you’re careful when you’re doing the ceiling. But I don’t know what they did. They take down the ceiling and put up a new ceiling, and the new ceiling had no opulence, or they fixed the ceiling, but I would say that all I need is a good plaster and a can of paint.” Eventually, a reporter interrupted to ask again about rate cuts.

Then there is this from Crooks and Liars:

crooksandliars.com/…

The best part was Trump claiming he stopped the genocide in Rwanda, where according to Trump 7 million people died. The genocide in Rwanda ended IN 1994! And 7 million did not die there.

He’s not going to age like a fine wine. He’s long past turning into acetic acid. And from the video I saw, I swear that Trump is getting fatter (double chin was way more noticeable this time).

Trump may be able to pull another fast one on the MAGA haters with a Maxwell pardon, but it’s going to turn off the manosphere and create rifts in the Qanon believers (look at what the Qanon Shaman said about Trump). The only real question is when Trump will pull the trigger on this pardon.

The betting is that Trump will wait until 2028, but will Maxwell trust Trump to deliver on this promise? She wants out NOW. I’m not sure she will wait until then.

But this destructive path for Trump makes “sense” if you have a brain where the neurons are slowly dying.

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