By Sushil Kutty
Scandals and US President Donald Trump are buddies. Problem is, if only Trump didn’t have so many skeletons! One or the other skeleton keeps tumbling out of a Trump cupboard. And most if not all involve trouble with ‘woman’ or ‘woman trouble’. Who doesn’t know of ‘woman trouble’ catching Trump with his pants down during the campaign for the 45th President?
Trump had to fight tooth and nail to claw back into the race. And then there were so many others. The most recent was the hullabaloo over Stormy Daniels; who took Donald on a panty-twister ride to Hell and back. Trump had to shell out millions to get Stormy out of his hair.
It’s not always that a President of the United States had to sit in a courtroom bent over like a gangster. The Stormy lawyer took Trump to the cleaners, upwards of $400 million and Trump sulking in the pictures. Trump hates losing money.
But Trump seems to be always cast in the role of a man getting into sexual innuendos, romantic interludes aren’t in his resume. No wonder Barron Trump has been growing like the creeper in ‘Jack & the Beanstalk’, the young man has to after all escape his father’s philandering reputation!
Anyway, Trump is back in the news and for all the right reasons. Trump has once again fallen victim to his past misdemeanours. In the latest, Trump has sued media baron Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal, which Trump has christened “useless rag”, for $10 billion for a “bombshell report” on Trump’s friendship with the “sex-trafficker” Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein, it is said, used to run a pedophile racket and had a stream of friends visiting his island for a fling. Epstein killed himself and left behind many nervous male wrecks, powerful men on tether’s end, not knowing if they were on Epstein’s secret “Client List”.
To provide grist, focus recently shifted to whether or not Trump was one of the “clients”? Trump had rubbished the claim and, to be honest, there wasn’t evidence to prove otherwise.
But who doesn’t know Trump has a long “Enemy List”, people who will go to any extent to see Trump hang, which is why it’s kind of strange why the previous Biden administration sat on the “Epstein Files” for four straight years if there was “dirt” on Trump in the Epstein Files? It is not that President Joe Biden had a soft spot for either Epstein or for Trump.
That question needs tending to, but for now it is about $10 billion and “underage girls” with 79-year-old Trump thrown in for good measure. Trump’s defamation lawsuit was filed in a Miami court. Newspapers are alleging Trump could be in trouble with the scandal’s potential to explode. Some of Trump’s closest MAGA supporters are asking for the “release of the Epstein files” to clear President Trump’s fair name ASAP.
Trump guessed as much; that the allegations have in them the potential to do serious political damage. “We have just filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS ‘article’ in the useless ‘rag’ that is, The Wall Street Journal,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
On its part the “useless rag” stands by its report. Trump says “bullsh*t” and has charged two Wall Street Journal reporters and the “owner” with publishing the blatant lie that in 2003, Trump had posted a “suggestive birthday letter” in a “birthday album” to Epstein, illustrated with a naked woman and the intriguing words “their shared secret.”
How and why the letter landed in the hands of Trump-haters is another story. For now, Murdoch’s company News Corp is also defendant and Trump says what the hell was this letter about and that WSJ was being malicious and insidious; that no such letter exists.
Trump also said the “article” has been viewed by hundreds of millions of people and the harm has been done.
The problem for President Trump is, the “letter with the sketch of the naked woman” is refusing to go away and the defamation suit speaks of the “overwhelming financial and reputational harm” it has done to President Trump.
The crux of the matter is, President Trump intends to collect and collect he will, $10 billion! And to keep the baying for his blood at arm’s length, Trump has asked attorney general, Pam Bondi, to get the grand jury testimony in the Epstein case unsealed. Bondi later cited “extensive public interest” in the secret testimony.
Epstein was a friend of Trump, as he was with multiple high-profile men. Epstein was found hanging dead in a New York prison cell. He was fighting charges that he sexually exploited scores of “underage girls”.
Now all that remains of Epstein and the “underage girls” are “conspiracy theories” including one from former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who seems to be keen on seeing President Trump getting knocked about while Epstein unravels in slow motion.
Trump’s far-right voters are slurping to see an international cabal of wealthy pedophiles getting exposed. Such is the supercharged MAGA atmosphere. Now, it is for AG Pam Bondi to deliver as Trump waits to reconnect with his base. “Make America Great Again” will most probably take a backseat till Trump wards off this “bawdy” scandal to hit him: About the “Naked woman and Trump’s signature in pubic-hair!”
The Wall Street Journal article suggested that Trump and Epstein had a “shared interest” in sex. It ends with “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” Well, the secret is almost out, minus a few more titillating details, a post-script. For his part, Trump has made it clear that he doesn’t “pictures of naked women.” (IPA Service)
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