Not long after Donald Trump had the Department of Justice unceremoniously torpedo its own investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the President's longtime friend and fellow member of the predator elite, Bill O'Reilly, announced something that I found to be disturbingly telling. During an interview with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation, Bill revealed that he had discussed the Epstein files with the President at the White House months before it reentered the headlines. "I talked to President Trump, man-to-man, eye-to-eye, on St. Patrick's Day about this... And he said- and I agree- 'There are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein's conduct... They maybe had lunch with them or maybe had some correspondence for one thing or another... If that name gets out, those people are destroyed, because there's not going to be any context."
It was one of those moments that felt too absurd to exist anywhere but cable news. Here were two career newsmongers, jettisoned to the ghetto of the legacy media for their own predatory sexual appetites, chatting with great concern about how deeply disturbed the accused rapist in the White House is over the reputations of fellow oligarchs who chose to associate with a convicted sexual predator. But beyond the bizarro world vibe of this sharply dressed slice of locker room logic, I felt that O'Reilly's revelation actually cut to the very core of the Epstein scandal on many levels.
It reveals the bloated sense of self-importance carried by the elites in this country, it reveals the fluid bipartisan nature of their lives behind the scenes, but perhaps more than anything, it reveals the fear they have of their own supporters. The general gist of Bill O'Reilly's defense of Donald Trump's decision to betray his own voters was that your average yokel couldn't possibly understand the need for powerful men in both parties to socialize with a sex fiend confirmed by their own government to have ran a vast criminal empire trafficking in teenage girls without first being provided with the proper context by the very news media that Trump was elected twice to rail against.
Even more telling was Bill's dire warning that such unfettered access to the truth would destroy what's left of the reputation the powerful hold in this country and on this I am in full agreement with that neocon dinosaur. However, it is my strongly held opinion that every motherfucker who ever played golf with Epstein should be destroyed and not just because I'm a collapsitarian anarchist or even because I'm a survivor of childhood sex abuse. Jeffrey Epstein was not a billionaire who just happened to sling underage girls on the side. Jeffrey Epstein was a sexual predator who appears to have become a billionaire by providing other billionaires VIP access to the local schoolyard.
Court records show hundreds of millions of dollars being paid to Epstein by Wall Street big shots and billionaire tycoons like Leslie Wexner and Leon Black for tax advice he wasn't even professionally qualified to render. JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in America with tentacles reaching into every administration since its inception, made over 9,000 transactions payable to Epstein and his associates between 2005 and 2019 with a combined value of $2.4 billion dollars and these transactions continued well after a 2008 plea deal officially made Epstein a registered sex offender.
To put it simply, there is quite literally no legitimate reason for the most powerful people on earth to even associate with such well-renowned lecherous scum and yet associate they did, over and over again. Former president and former friend of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, rode on Epstein's Lolita Express on 27 known occasions and invited the man to the White House four times during his presidency, he even visited the bastard in prison after his first arrest for procuring a child. Not to be beat, former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, held three dozen meetings with the by then convicted child predator between 2013 and 2017, at one point hooking up once a month for eleven months straight.
This isn't fucking normal, and you don't have to be paranoid to want some goddamn answers here. Even if these relationships don't qualify as criminal they are at the very least indefensibly immoral, as is the Donald's own account of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
According to our president's own recent tarmac barkings, he was aware that Jeffrey Epstein was poaching teenage employees from Mar-a-Lago as early as 2000 when Trump admitted that he caught his former friend 'stealing' his 16-year-old towel girl from him. However, three years after this event Donald Trump was recorded by the New Yorker Magazine praising that thief's prowess with young girls, calling Epstein a "terrific guy" and stating "No doubt about it- Jeffrey enjoys his social life." That was in 2003, the same year Trump signed his old golf buddy's birthday album with cartoon tits before telling him "May every day be another wonderful secret." And it would still be another four years before Jeffrey's membership to Mar-a-Lago was canceled.
Yet, the mainstream media in this country consistently tries to downplay this story even while they cover it; gaslighting anyone suggesting that this could possibly be anything bigger than a midterm embarrassment for Donald Trump as indulging in MAGA conspiracy theories. They also keep telling us that public interest is drifting away from the scandal and maybe it is, but a lot of powerful people seem to be working very hard to change the subject and I'm not just talking about Donald Trump's desperately provocative military occupation of the nation's capital.
I'm talking about Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson's bizarre decision to cut the last session of the House short before a bipartisan vote could compel the DOJ to release its files on Epstein and the fact that this maneuver received zero pushback from Democratic House Minority Leader Hakem Jeffries or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. I'm talking about the fact that Epstein's lead accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was sent to carry out the rest of her twenty-year sentence for felony sex trafficking at a white-collar club fed after being recorded declaring to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that both Donald Trump and Bill Clinton were perfect gentleman innocent of any "inappropriate conduct" in her company.
However, in spite of all these efforts or quite possibly because of them, something about this case remains deeply unsettling to the much-maligned deplorables in Donald Trump's base. While Google searches for Jeffrey Epstein may be down this week, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently released a national poll showing that Trump's handling of the Epstein scandal has done significant damage to his standing among his core supporters, with 47% of those who voted for him in 2024 showing strong disapproval and 26% of that group indicating that they would not vote for the man again if given the opportunity.
These were the same people utterly unfazed by every scandal, real or imagined, that has dogged Orange-Man-Bad from Stormy Daniels to January 6. The people who seemed willing to follow this asshole straight into the ninth circle of Hell. The American news machine, from Bill O'Reilly to Anderson Cooper, continues to be mystified by the whims of such trailer dwelling proles but these people are my neighbors, my parents and the parents of pretty much every member of my backwoods Queer found family, and while I will be the first bitch to admit that they are far from enlightened, I also happen to know for a fact that many of them voted for Trump largely because they felt like it was the best way to flip the bird to assholes like O'Reilly and Cooper who have gotten rich lying them into one bad trade deal and bullshit war after another.
The entire MAGA brand may be a pitiless grift but much like the Blackshirts and the Bolsheviks, it is a grift built on the exploitation of a very legitimate populist disenchantment with the current order.
So, why did it take Jeffrey Epstein to finally break the spell? I can't tell you that with any certainty, but I can tell you from very personal experience that a disturbingly high number of Americans including myself have fallen prey to sexual abuse and that most of our abusers remain untouchable due to institutional power. Every 74 seconds someone is sexually assaulted in this country and every nine minutes that person is a child. One in six American women are victims of rape as well as 3% of men.
This means that while your average deplorable may be far from woke, it is also very likely that they and/or at least one person they love has fallen prey to a man like Jeffrey Epstein and now they finally seem prepared to accept that Donald Trump is one of these men too.
This is a recipe for the kind of populist furor that anyone committed to revolutionary politics should embrace as a rare opportunity for critical mass. As an anarcha-feminist committed to bottom unity, I can't tell you how many freshly defrocked Trump supporters I've encountered in the last month who appear to be shockingly prepared to confront rape culture in ways most liberals fail to even comprehend. Coastal cosmopolitans in both parties can scoff at these people all they want but they are smart enough to realize that their system is rigged and now they realize that Trump too is a part of it.
I see no reason why anarchists and leftists shouldn't convert this collective anguish into a rallying cry for a very personal revolutionary retribution, and I say we begin this retribution by making Bill O'Reilly's nightmare a reality and letting the bodies fall where they stand at the country club. Release the files, all of them: destroy the elites, all of them.
Peace, Love & Empathy- Nicky/CH
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