Flying Spaghetti Monster = Trump’s Effort to Evade Epstein Files Scandal
[NB: check the byline, thanks. /~Rayne]
For more than a week I have been watching Google Trends as Trump flings more and more spaghetti at the wall to find something that sticks.
Something with enough adhesion and coverage to hide his failure to produce the Epstein files, a kind of flying spaghetti monster more real than the snarky faux deity — sticky strands like the flip-floppery on tariffs, the unwarranted and unlawful occupation of Washington DC by National Guard, the embarrassing meeting with Putin on US soil.
US media has been helping Trump by allowing itself to be sucked into the noodly vortex with outrage du jour.
Yes, there’s a lot of outrage, and US media has failed to cover it in a way that conveys the depth of outrage. But they also allowed themselves to be led wholly off course by a convicted felon who is a serial liar and a serial business failure.
The one thing Trump has been consistently successful at in his lifetime: leading the media away from his failures.
Australia’s 60 Minutes did what CBS’ 60 Minutes in the US wouldn’t do. It stayed on course and covered the Epstein files scandal with this video aired August 17.
Google Trends, August 11, 2025 – search terms Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, tariffs, Russia
Google Trends, August 19, 2025 – search terms Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, tariffs, Russia
We cannot accept a Manchurian candidate run by Putin. We cannot accept the occupation of our cities at the Manchurian candidate’s orders.
But we absolutely cannot allow this Manchurian candidate to continue to throw tons of pasta to obscure his role in a human trafficking conspiracy.
Yes, his role, because he’s actively hiding the files by way of his proxies at DOJ, while allowing Ghislaine Maxwell privileges she should not have in the form of better detention conditions not permitted to sex offenders.
The conspiracy continues even after Jeffrey Epstein’s death; the victims are no closer to getting explanations about the human trafficking network in which Epstein and Maxwell operated, and the public including Trump’s base have been denied the files Trump promised as part of his campaign.
Press your members of Congress to get the files released. Press media outlets to stop being part of the conspiracy by inaction and to stay on the Epstein files. Don’t get buried under the flying spaghetti. Don’t let up.
Kudos to Australia’s 60 Minutes on Nine Network. They ran this piece two years ago about Ghislaine Maxwell:
https://youtu.be/wo_MYozUmWc
My understanding is the House Oversight Committee plans to release Epstein files after certain redactions are made to ensure victim ID and child sexual abuse material are removed. That release may rekindle media/public interest in the matter. Contacting your politicians is always helpful as well.
It would be nice if you shared a link to any factual reporting which underpins your understanding.
And until the files are released, pressure must remain on Congress. They can change their minds at any time, find some excuse not to follow through, allow themselves to use the same spaghetti to hide their inaction.
Until the files are released to the public, Congress’ GOP caucus remains an enabler of the Epstein files human trafficking conspiracy.
From our friends at CBS News….
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-house-oversight-justice-department-subpoena/
Reply to PedroVermont
August 20, 2025 at 6:32 pm
our friends /s
ADDER:
Some.
WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/18/epstein-maxwell-documents-house-committee-subpoena-justice-bondi/
More weasel words.
This is why continued pressure is essential. You’ve already demonstrated just how easy it is to feed the public a bunch of flying spaghetti and call it responsive.
No wonder that the Trumpistas are now talking about a third term. Anything, but anything, to avoid release of the full details. Gerrymander, National Guard on Main Street, whatever it takes…
(It occurs to me, though, that Trump now has an Achilles heel. Anyone can accuse him of pedophilia and for once he daren’t resort to lawfare. Besides the renewed Streisand Effect, just think of his existing conviction and the juicy prospects for discovery…)
I don’t think his mind will last through 2028.
Is anyone even watching or reading MSM these days? Democracy needs a single spokesperson who can grab headlines that will be shared.
Sounds a bit monocultural to me.
So is US mainstream media.
And let’s add to the list of Trump’s stunt diversions and red meat offerings to his faithful, the banning of coverage for trans government employees, with mandates for conversion therapy coverage. Not as immediately dramatic as some of the others, but devastating in its impact, and in the creeping precedent it helps establish around the legal existence of trans people.
http s:// www .erininthemorning.com/p/trump-admin-bans-coverage-for-trans
It’s possibly worth noting that Lawrence O’Donnell has been hammering on the Epstein matter pretty much every night for the last couple of weeks. Maybe not many people watch that show, but he has been persistent in refusing to let it go.
Are the corporate owners of the news media afraid of retribution from Trump? Or are reporters afraid they will lose access to Trump or his staff ?
The efforts by Trump and his staff to put the Epstein-Maxwell sex abuse and trafficking scandal have been intense even if clumsy. There is a lot of smoke. Can we dare to hope that investigative reporters are on the trail?
The rolling purge at WaPo certainly discouraged editors and journalists. But the journalism industry doesn’t seem up to the moment because it hasn’t developed an effective response — a cooperative site for journalists displaced by fascism, for example.
Even if the MSM hammered on Epstein as 60 Minutes Australia did (I saw the second video last week, but not the first one), it won’t matter until Trump’s base starts asking for the files again. For that brief moment in July when the base was demanding the files, Trump got nervous.
The solution is to get the MAGA influencers interested in the files again and squeaking about it, then the MAGAts will follow. I found it very interesting that during that brief moment in July, MAGA was upset about the files not being released as Trump promised when he campaigned last year, MAGA actually turned on Trump as I saw in the Fox News comment section.
As long as the MSM are the only ones asking questions about the files, the narrative will be that liberals are out to harm Trump and MAGA will circle the wagons around him. MAGA is very protective of their leader as cultists are.