Timothy Birdnow

My brother called me last night, all lathered up about the Trump/Musk business. What had him so disturbed was the suggestion that Trump may have had closer ties to Jeffrey Epstein than has been disclosed. Brian rightly surmised that if this is true and if it comes out it will end Trump's presidency - and by extension the whole MAGA mmovement and our last hopes of saving America.

But if this were true the Left would have pulled THAT trigger already, which leads me to doubt it. I have no doubt Trump had some dealings with Epstein - everyone in Washington did, and a lot of people who did had no idea of what Epstein was doing. Trump is on record admitting as much, and he says he cut the guy off as soon as he realized there was something bad going on with him.

IF this is strategic then it could well be a trap for Trump's enemies. Get them all chasing after a will-o-the-wisp and wasting their time and effort on a nothingburger. Trump has done such things before.

If.

Trump has long controlled the narrative in such a manner and every time he was attacked he grew stronger.

But it seems a bit much to me. After all Musk shot off something like 40 tweets attacking the man he helped put in office.

Which brings us to another matter - Musk's culpability. If Musk truly believes that Trump was deep in it with Epstein then he shouold have quit some time ago and gone public with the reasons for his suspicion. He didn't. He did quit now, but never said this was the reason, and he has provided no evidence that convinced him. It's odd given the extraordinary access he and his team were given. Did they find something? If so why hasn't HE presented it?

You can't fly off the handle over one unrelated issue and then drop something like this as an aside; it suggests what you are saying has no credibility.

Reader Bill thinks it's just purely a case of two titanic egos clashing, people who aren't used to being told they are wrong. He may be right. I've read that this is common with Aspbergers Syndrome people, I might add. And Trump has always been like that; he's had feuds his whole career. Anyone remember the brouhaha he had with Rosie O'Donnell before he went into politics? I had an old computer running windows 98 and had a little game I downloaded onto it where Rosie O'Donnell would attack Donald Trump with her long, forked tongue and Trump would fight back by whipping her with his orange hair. These kinds of feuds are your basic Trump.

I had thought he had grown out of this. He employed this tactic much as pro-wrestlers do, to gin up interest. That's fine when you are in the WWE but not so good when you are President of the United States. A little dignity would be nice.

But we always knew who we were getting.

At any rate I hope the bromance between Trump and Musk is healed. Musk has the power to do irrevocable harm to our cause if he so chooses. If he lets his ego get in the way of the good of the country (and world) and goes back to the Democrats we are in a world of trouble. Musk liberating Twitter and spending so much time and money to get Trump elected completely changed the political landscape and for the better. If we lose him now we are going to wind up back where we were, with big tech backing the Democrats and freedom of speech curtailed.

So kiss and make up you two!

Addendum:

Here is a timeline of the feud posted by The Blaze which touches on most of the points I just made. I read it after writing my post and was pleased to see the good people at The Blaze are in agreement.

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