The Epstein Pot Boils Over

By Rob C.

Art by Dave Wyant

TL;DR: The Trump Injustice Department is finally losing its grip on the Epstein scandal. Between AG Pam Bondi’s amateur-hour “outrage” in front of Congress and Donald Trump’s bizarre attempt to distract the nation with a manufactured feud over Canadian hockey, the desperation is becoming palpable. With Jamie Raskin revealing that Trump appears “over a million times” in the unredacted files and Howard Lutnick caught in a web of lies, the “back-to-normal” strategy for Democrats is officially dead. It’s time to stop playing nice and start building the cells—starting with the cover-up artists themselves.

There is a specific, visceral smell to a cover-up in its terminal phase, and right now, the Trump Department of In-justice smells like a dumpster fire in a shit factory. After months of flagrantly violating the law, a slow, toxic trickle of details is finally oozing out of the files they tried so hard to bury. Attorney General Pam Bondi recently went before Congress, delivering a performance of “fake outrage” so staged it would make a community theater production of Macbeth look like a documentary. She’s completely sold her soul to the Orange Baby Jesus, but the pressure is mounting. Like any pot left on the stove too long with the lid slammed shut, it’s starting to whistle, and the explosion is inevitable.

No matter how many hours of deflection the Right-Wing propaganda machine churns out, they can’t stop this train. Donald Trump is clearly feeling the heat, as evidenced by his sudden, deranged pivot to his fight with Canada. His claim that Canada’s deal with China will somehow cancel hockey and the Stanley Cup is a masterpiece of “flooding the zone” with bullshit. It’s the behavior of a man who knows the vice of justice is slowly closing and he needs a shiny object to toss to his base. While he babbles about Canadian sports, back in reality, the Republican Congress is holding softball hearings designed to protect the very people they should be investigating.

Meanwhile, across the pond, the UK is showing us what actual accountability looks like. People are being unceremoniously thrown out of their positions just for being mentioned in the Epstein files. Here in the land of the free, we have Howard Lutnick getting caught in blatant lies while the administration pretends everything is fine. According to Representative Jamie Raskin, the unredacted files show Donald Trump appearing over a million times. Let that number sink in. That isn’t a “casual acquaintance”; that’s complicity. Yet, we are expected to believe that the 2.5 million files still being withheld are just “administrative clutter.”

The gap between rhetoric and accountability is staggering.

And let’s be honest about what’s at stake. This isn’t about gossip. It’s not about political point-scoring. It’s about whether powerful people can evade consequences indefinitely by manipulating the justice system.

This brings me to the Democrats. If the plan for the next election is to “look forward” and “heal the nation,” you have already lost. The American people don’t want a hug; they want a reckoning. We need candidates who are willing to be ruthless. Leaders who recognize that you cannot have a democracy when a cabal of pedophiles and their high-ranking protectors are allowed to dictate the terms of justice. If crimes were committed, prosecute them. If officials obstructed justice, investigate them. If public servants abused their authority to shield the powerful, remove them. Ruthlessness doesn’t mean lawlessness. It means enforcing the law without fear or favor.

It is time to take a page from the playbook of the man currently sitting in the Oval Office - the golf-cheating, serial liar who made a mantra out of a three-word phrase. If Pam Bondi and her cohorts continue to obstruct the truth and protect a network of monsters, then the only logical conclusion is the one Trump himself popularized. “Lock her up!” We are done waiting. We want the files, we want the names, and we want the cells occupied by the people who thought they were too big to fail.

Accountability cannot be optional for elites while mandatory for everyone else.

F*CK ICE, RELEASE ALL THE FILES!

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— Robert Cain, author of Democracy for Sale: How Corporate Greed Is Corrupting Democracy and Endangering the Planet.