Well, That Was Weird
Preemption?
So, this happened earlier this week:
The full statement can be found here.
More via CNN: Melania Trump’s Epstein statement stunned White House aides but was in keeping with a first lady who does her own thing and via ABC News: Melania Trump adviser speaks on what led to her surprise Epstein statement.
And, of course, this: Amanda Ungaro Arrived in the U.S. on Jeffrey Epstein’s Plane at 17 — Now She’s Going After Melania Trump From Brazil.
The lady is trying to distance herself from something she thinks is coming down the pike, methinks.
@Eusebio:
Distance isn’t going to protect Melania or Trump from Amanda Ungaro – she was deported to a country with social media and a somewhat free press. Hell hath no fury and they’ve already sent her away.
She’s trying to use Zampolli as a shield to deflect attention away from her Epstein relationship, whether it’s a casual one or… But it won’t work, the entanglement with Ungaro is too tight and longstanding. Plus it won’t belong before others begin coming forward with anecdotes that tie Melania to Epstein and Maxwell. Melania may never have been an “Epstein girl,” in the sense that she was trafficed, but the description “she was a party girl,” fits too well.
Epstein kept a shelf of honey that attracted many wealthy men, those men also attracted the type of woman who was on the make.
I really think she should provide links to the fake peectures. You know, the ones we didn’t know about until she told us they were out there?
So, speaking of replacing people with LLMs….
When she said that she “did not have a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,” I assume we all jumped to the conclusion that they were boning, right?
Over at The Guardian, columnist Arwa Mahdawi has a take on this.
Salient quote:
Hard to argue with what’s so evident to anyone unwilling to delude themselves.
Hehe. Oh my. The gift keeps on giving. And to think, my yearslong repetition of the reminder “Trump is an Epstein-bestie pedophile” was not infrequently met here and elsewhere with various versions of “Nothing will come of that nothingburger.”
Trafficking teens (and publicly musing about one’s sexual attraction to one’s daughter, multiple times) is not a nothingburger. Only a nation plunging into moral madness could’ve ignored the gross and disqualifying obvious so long. Marianne Williamson was not president material, but she was right in diagnosing our sociopolitical ailment as “spiritual sickness.” Some problems structure cannot fix. Forget the general election binary choice — in a healthy society, President Trumpstein Files would’ve never won a primary.
Where does Christopher Steele go to get his apology?
@Gustopher:
Yes.
@Kathy:
Again yes, though I do wonder if Malaria is quite as dense as her hubby.
@Kathy: I’m quite convinced great wealth can make people mentally lazy, which isn’t the same thing as stupid.
Since the wealthy can just throw money at their problems they don’t have to think as much. They have lots of “friends” who remain their “friends” no matter how much they allow themselves to indulge in being an asshole. This applies to people gifted with great beauty as well, it’s only a different form of wealth. The smartest people, like everybody else, retain the ability to be idiots.
The terrible, debilitating effects of great wealth are well documented. Not sure what can be done, maybe there should be a go-fund me site for the poor bastards…?
@dazedandconfused: On other hand, Trump could just be stupid. He uses the phrase “low IQ” so often it’s easy to believe it’s projection. And a phrase he remembers well from his school years.
@gVOR10:
Stupidity is relative. Relative to MAGA? He’s bright enough. Smart enough to hold his own in the comments here? Not even close. I think he comes in around average IQ.
@Michael Reynolds:
@Gustopher:
Actually, I never thought that. At 17, she was simply too old to Uncle Jeffrey.
Ewwwwww.
@Gustopher:
Actually, I never thought that. At 17 (or even 16), she was simply too old to appeal to Uncle Jeffrey.
Ewwwwww.
@Michael Reynolds: I dunno about average IQ as there are plenty of people who have worked with Trump who have outright stated he’s dumb. He has a lot of money and now a rabid fanbase so none of that matters.