“DOCUMENTS show Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein in 2017. At the time, Trump was already President, and Epstein was already a convicted sex offender.”
Incendiary stuff, pushed out to millions of Democrat supporters and followers yesterday.
Surely they’ve got ’im this time! The smoking gun they’ve always wanted . . .
Legions of Trump haters lathered themselves into near-hysteria, as their dreams of impeachment and imprisonment were reignited once more.
Washington was hot under the collar at the publication of tens of thousands of emails handed to Congress by the estate of the late paedo financier.
The attack, from the official opposition party in the US, ricocheted around the world.
There was just one, wafer- thin problem.
It was gibberish.
Barely even a conjecture in one of the Epstein emails, possible to spot only if you squinted or held it upside down.
An intellectual jump that requires you to be wilfully moronic or obtuse, or simply dishonest.
Absurd positions
What’s more, disproven with that journalistic skill known as “two minutes of Googling”.
Yes, it appears both men spent Thanksgiving in Florida in 2017.
But Trump’s schedule, as ever with a President, is public. And after meeting service personnel he retired to his Mar-a-Lago club.
The same club Trump banned Epstein from over being a “creep” with young women.
With the $1billion lawsuit hanging over the BBC for Trump lies, it was no surprise to see the Democrats forced to quietly delete the social media attack yesterday.
But not before it was witnessed by millions of voters and disseminated by thousands more of their outriders, influencers and cheerleaders.
The lie was hurtling around the world before the truth could even get its swimming trunks on.
Leaving aside politics and the ethics of straight-up lying about opponents, it was proof there is something about this President that sends his enemies around the bend.
Could anyone genuinely think a meeting between a convicted predator and the Commander-in-Chief eight years ago really would not have leaked by now?
The lie was hurtling around the world before the truth could even get its swimming trunks on
The President’s every move is a circus of Secret Service agents, cops, aides, media and, in Mar-a-Lago, a small army of hangers-on and wannabes.
Well yes, but only if you want to believe. That’s a key symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
It makes otherwise normal, functioning people say stupid, untrue things, and warp themselves into absurd positions.
So hysterical did the attacks become, lawmakers from the Left and their media chums spent most of last week essentially arguing that “while, yes Jeffrey Epstein is a monster, he hated Trump so maybe we should hear him out.”
I’m not sure that’s the slam dunk attack you think it is, chaps.
It’s Tinkerbell politics.
You have to really “believe, believe, believe in fairies” to bring it alive.
I’m willing to give many people the benefit of the doubt that they have just become blinded by hatred.
But can that really be said of chief Trump tormentor, the author and self-described journalist Michael Wolff?
The liberal darling, who has chronicled the age of Trump in his bestsellers, was left high and dry by the email dump that showed him coaching Epstein how to blackmail and cajole Trump, and how to fix his image after being convicted of trafficking minors for sex.
In December 2015, he told Epstein: “I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you, either on air or in scrum afterwards.”
Epstein replied: “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
Wolff wrote back: “I think you should let him hang himself . . . then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.”
Liberal elites
On the eve of Trump’s 2016 victory, Wolff said: “There’s an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him. Interested?”
What does this treasure trove of emails really show?
That Epstein hated Trump, that he believed the President had been the original snitch to law enforcement that landed him in jail the first time round, that Trump is a sharp-elbowed businessman.
Oh, and Donald Trump may have once hung out with young women in bikinis.
Which isn’t exactly a surprise for the guy that used to run the Miss Universe pageant.
Frankly, all of this has been known when the US public voted him in, twice.
But most devastating for Trump’s critics is the proof there really was a cabal of liberal elites — from bankers, to Democrat lawyers and darlings of the media — plotting to bring him down, more than a year before he first entered the White House.
These emails prove a large part of the theories from Trump’s Maga fans that “they” were always out to get him.
Far from slowing down the publication of the Epstein files, the White House should get the rest of them out sooner rather than later. It’s dynamite.
THE race to replace Peter Mandelson has a frontrunner, as Sun readers know: Ex-banker and No10 business adviser Varun Chandra.
But there’s a stumbling block: Team Trump wants him to stay in London as they gawp at the chaos of the imploding Labour Government.
As one administration official laments: “If Varun comes to Washington, who do we call when we need to speak to someone who actually knows what’s going on in No10?”
