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MAGA, Just Admit It!

July 16, 2025
Jeffrey EpsteinDonald TrumpEpstein FilesPam BondiMAGAKash PatelMar-a-LagoGhislaine Maxwell
MAGA, Just Admit It!

By Rob C.
Art by Rick McKee Cagle Cartoons

Donald Trump really, really wants the Epstein story to go away. Like, the vanishing strokes from his golf score card.
The guy who once stoked MAGA’s obsession with “child traffickers” now hopes you’re too distracted by Hunter Biden’s laptop to ask why he was in Epstein’s contact book, on Epstein’s plane, at Epstein’s parties, and probably on the list he swore he’d release… but never did.

He wants you to believe that he was just a guy in the background — someone who barely knew the guy. Just another innocent bystander in the world’s darkest social circle.
Why? Because Trump isn’t exposing the swamp.
He’s neck-deep in it.

📞 Trump & Epstein: BFFs With Benefits
Let’s begin with Epstein’s infamous “little black book” — his personal contact list, published by Gawker in 2015 and confirmed as part of court evidence.

Who's in it?
Trump’s in it. So is Melania. So is Ivanka. So are half a dozen Trump Organization numbers.
This wasn’t a random entry. This was a man in Trump’s inner circle.
Trump didn’t just know Epstein — he bragged about him:
Trump partied with Epstein. He traveled with Epstein. He was a member at Mar-a-Lago. In 2002, Trump bragged to New York Magazine:
"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

Cool. Normal. Totally something you say about a serial pedophile.

✈️ The Lolita Express — Frequent Flyer Program, and the Usual Creepy Sh*t
Yes, Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet, the one nicknamed the "Lolita Express," after the infamous Vladimir Nabokov novel about a pedophile’s obsession with a 12-year-old girl.
Let that sink in.
The actual name of the plane is a direct reference to child rape. And yet, Trump was saving up his frequent flyer points.
A passenger flight log shows Trump flew, along with other celebrities and business elites. He was very comfortable on that plane.
He even met Melania through Epstein’s orbit — and according to multiple reports, their first sexual encounter happened on Epstein’s plane.
Is that romance or was that something darker?
And let’s not forget: Melania was 28. Trump was 52.
He was still married to Marla Maples at the time — but fidelity, as always, was optional for Donald.


📼 The Tapes, the Groping, and the Gaslighting
Trump has a long, well-documented history of sexual predation — not just creepy quotes, but real, actionable cases, like the “owner of a teen beauty pageant bragging about walking in on girls while they’re changing” way.
"You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. And so I sort of get away with things like that."
— Trump, Howard Stern Show, 2005
He also famously said of his daughter:
“If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
• The Access Hollywood Tape (2005):
“I just start kissing them… I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy.”
• Dozens of women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, assault, or rape — including E. Jean Carroll, who just won a civil case against him for sexual abuse and defamation.
• A lawsuit (later dropped under threat) accused Trump of raping a 13-year-old girl at one of Epstein’s Manhattan parties.
These are not isolated rumors. These are patterns, consistent with everything Epstein was accused of, and more.
But sure, tell me again how Trump was going to save the children.

💣 MAGA Pundits Now Say: “Trust the Government!”
The MAGA-sphere was promised justice. They were promised arrests. They were promised that Trump would “release the Epstein files” and take down the global cabal of child abusers.
Instead, what did they get?

You got Pam Bondi shrugging on Newsmax.
You got Kash Patel flailing on podcasts.
You got Dan Bongino in full panic mode, trying to plug holes in a sinking ship that is his audience.
Charlie Kirk is now going to trust his friends in government?
Suddenly “It’s all part of the plan.”
Are you f*cking kidding me?

These are the same people who told you the deep state was harvesting adrenochrome from basement children and that Trump was playing 57D chess.

Some in MAGA are starting to notice. They're turning on Pam Bondi, Trump's handpicked Attorney General, demanding answers — even fantasizing about putting her "head on a spike" for betraying the cause.
Kash Patel, Trump's conspiracy-happy FBI director, is floundering alongside his propaganda mini-me Dan Bongino, spinning tales to a base that's starting to realize the truth:
They were never going to release the files.
Because if they did… Trump’s name would be all over them.
Remember what Trump said about Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice.
“I wish her well.”

🔥 Who Else was on That Plane?
Why are they protecting the identities of the passengers on a plane built to fly victims to rape islands?

We deserve to know: Who flew to Epstein’s island? Who appeared in his contact books? Which billionaires, actors, and politicians were complicit — Democrat and Republican alike?
The public is hungry for answers. But Trump’s team seems hell-bent on keeping those logs buried.
We may find out that a lot of people have dirty hands, and if MAGA truly cared about protecting children, they’d demand those names too.

🧠 Nothing to See Here…
When pressed, Trump always goes back to his default:
“I don’t know him that well.”
“I haven’t spoken to him in years.”
“I was the one who banned him from Mar-a-Lago.”
Sure, Don. You just had him in your Rolodex, your photo ops, your parties, your jet… but “you didn’t know him well.”

We’ve seen this dance before. It’s the classic criminal fallback:
“I’m innocent.”
“It’s a witch hunt.”
“Nothing to see here.”
Until the evidence comes out.
And it always does.
The only question is whether it will come out before MAGA destroys American democracy in service of a pedophile con-man.

Because that’s what this really is:
A cult built around a man with decades of sex scandals, predatory behavior, and disturbing associations — all while pretending to “save the children.”

📣 MAGA, just admit it:
You were never fighting for justice.
You were following the guy who likely killed the key witness, buried the files, and hoped you’d all forget.

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