"Apparently, enough of MAGA world is repulsed enough by that fact that this is one time in the last decade when Trump’s attempts to wave it all away as a Democrat hoax aren’t cutting it. It looks like we’ve finally found the matter on which plain, old-fashioned morality is more important than trolling the libs. That’s one thing Trump wasn’t counting on."
"Apparently, enough of MAGA world is repulsed enough by that fact that this is one time in the last decade when Trump’s attempts to wave it all away as a Democrat hoax aren’t cutting it. It looks like we’ve finally found the matter on which plain, old-fashioned morality is more important than trolling the libs. That’s one thing Trump wasn’t counting on."
"Things aren’t going Donald Trump’s way. He hasn’t ended the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. His economy looks shaky. And then there’s Jeffrey Epstein. …
Trump’s own efforts to manage the story have only fed it."
~ Jonathan Lemire
"Apparently, enough of MAGA world is repulsed enough by that fact that this is one time in the last decade when Trump’s attempts to wave it all away as a Democrat hoax aren’t cutting it. It looks like we’ve finally found the matter on which plain, old-fashioned morality is more important than trolling the libs. That’s one thing Trump wasn’t counting on."
"I hear a lot of people on cable news talk about how poorly the Trump people have handled this situation. Of course that’s true, but it seems to me reasonable for us to conclude that they’re handling it the way they’re handling it because it’s probably the only choice they have: to stonewall and lie and try to put things off.
Even a lot of MAGA people smell it."
~ Michael Tomasky
"If you’re counting, we’re now a month into the Epstein crisis, and it shows no signs of abating. If anything, there is a growing public consensus around the need for full transparency around the Epstein files. A Washington Post survey, taken about a week ago, revealed remarkable convergence on this question even among MAGA Republicans."
"Epstein wanted a modeling agency of his own. He admired Trump’s T Models and sought to replicate it. He invested in one based in Paris operated by Jean-Luc Brunel, a model agency head who was also accused of sex trafficking. ...
In New York, in the 1990s, Brunel lived in Trump Tower. 'The modeling agency was the perfect vehicle for Epstein to get more victims,' [Virginia] Giuffre said."
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