WHAT IF DONALD TRUMP IS ON THE EPSTEIN LIST?
As virtually every sentient being knows, there is an ongoing kerfuffle regarding the relationship Donald Trump, President of the United States, might have had with the now deceased child sex predator Jeffery Epstein - and especially regarding the possibility that Trump himself is on the “Epstein List” - a purported list of high-level individuals, in and out of government, who flew on Epstein’s private plane to his private island where sex parties held involving under-age young women.
While there is no question that Epstein himself was guilty of this kind of disgusting behavior, there is no evidence that Donald Trump - who moved in the same social circles as did Epstein decades ago, knew Epstein and, back then, flew a number of short hops on Epstein’s airplane inside the United State - ever flew to Epstein’s sex island or participated in the kind of illegal behavior that went on there.
Still, rumors abound…
Though he later deleted it, Elon Musk, Trump’s erstwhile friend and now adversary, in early June tweeted this:
“Time to drop the really big bomb. Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That’s the real reason they have not been made public. “
Though, again, there is no proof that Trump was ever involved in Epstein’s nefarious doings or had any kind of relationship with Epstein in recent years, Trump unwisely threw gasoline on the rumors fire during a recent cabinet meeting. A reporter asked Pam Bondi about the release of the Epstein files - the “list” - but before she could answer (she subsequently did answer), Trump interrupted and, in a clear attempt to deflect the conversation away from Epstein, declared such questions unimportant and a waste of time since, he said, there were many more important subjects to discuss - such as the dazzling policy successes Trump has been enjoying across the board.
Red flags and alarm bells….
If, as Trump asserts, there is no there there, if there is nothing in the Epstein files - no list of names - that would interest or inform the public, why would Trump do what he did?
Like many others, I’ve asked myself this question. If there is nothing to hide, why give the appearance of hiding something? What is certainly true is that whatever is happening regarding the handling of this matter - whatever the truth - Trump knows the full story. I’ve come up with three - OK, four - possible answers explaining his behavior:
1. Trump being Trump - inadvertently, irrepressibly shooting himself in the foot, as he often does.
This is a decent possibility.
2. In fact, there is no there there.
This is hard to believe. Who flew to that island on Epstein’s plane? Show us the flight lists.
3. The release of the entire file would cause such a disruption in American society and government that the implementation of Trump’s critically important agenda would be significantly impeded.
Strategically, there is some sense to this. This is the kind of decision a tough-minded leader might have to make.
4. Trump is on the Epstein list and is trying cover his heinie.
While at this point no one knows - or at least the public does not know - which of these possibilities might be the reality, my purpose in this writing is to address the implications and ramifications of the fourth possibility - that Trump was is in the Epstein files, his name is on the list, and he was involved in the evils perpetrated at Epstein’s sex island.
Though Trump has vociferously denied it, what difference would it make if it were true?
It would certainly make a difference to Donald Trump, his family, his standing in the eyes of God, and the welfare of his eternal soul.
What difference would it make to the country?
None whatsoever.
The fate of Donald Trump’s immortal soul is an issue between him and his God. What he said he would do and has done for the country as president is the only issue the people should rightly be concerned with - and in that regard we have plenty of history with the man we can base our judgments on.
Neither the American people nor their government have ever been angels (see Federalist 51 - James Madison) - the very reason our Founders gave us a government designed to prevent the concentration of power, where government power is instead divided, a system of checks and balances. We are and always have been an imperfect lot - and, morally speaking, some of our leaders - John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton among them - have been real alley cats.
If Trump is on the Epstein list, I feel bad for him, but what he has done for our country - now a matter of history - and aspires to do for our country - a man famous even among his enemies for keeping his promises - is, in my judgment, right and good, and I will support him as long as he continues in the right direction - a direction, by the way, that, with our country in dire straits, no other politician before him - and certainly none of the current crop - has had the courage and determination to pursue.
All of this reminds me once again of one Morianton (I have refered to him in previous writings), a notable contributor to the history recorded in the Book of Mormon. In the history of ancient America, he led a faction in a great civil war that raged on for many years. At long last, he prevailed, conquered the whole people, and proclaimed himself king.
Once in power - and greatly to the surprise of those he had defeated in war - he immediately proceeded “to lighten the burdens of the people” through the implementation of good government - so much so that the whole people became “exceedingly prosperous”:
“And it came to pass that Morianton built up many cities, and the people became exceedingly rich under his reign, both in buildings, and in gold and silver, and in raising grain, and in flocks, and herds, and such things which had been restored unto them.”
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Ether 10:12
Though Morianton had previously usurped the kingship, the people, in the midst of the prosperity he had created for them, freely declared him their king and honored him as such.
Nevertheless, Morianton was not a righteous man in his personal life. The record says of him:
“And he did do justice unto the people, but not unto himself because of his many whoredoms; wherefore he was cut off from the presence of the Lord.”
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Ether 10:11
Now, my question to you - a rhetorical question - is this: though Morianton in his personal life was a wicked man “cut off from the presence of the Lord”, were the people, who had benefited and prospered so greatly under his reign, wrong to support him as their leader?
Once again, though there is no evidence that Trump - certainly an imperfect human being like the rest of us - has descended to the depths of evil plumbed by Jeffery Epstein, he undoubted has not lived a life as morally unsullied and pristine as the prigs among us think he should have. Even so, in the presidency, in his personal life, he is no worse than a number of his predecessors and probably better than some of them.
Trump, like every one of us, has a score to settle with God, but that is his business, not ours. “Judgement is mine, sayeth the Lord.” “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” “He that is without sin, let him cast the first stone.” Notwithstanding his imperfections - or, if you prefer, his sins - Trump is a patriot, loves his country, is doing what is right and good for the country and deserves the support of every informed and patriotic American.
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, order vs. chaos, law vs. lawlessness, liberty vs. tyranny, patriotism vs. treason, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, happiness vs. misery, God vs. the Godless…
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