Much of Todd Blanche’s Perceived Cover-Up Is Actually Incompetence
Something hilarious happened this week.
On Tuesday, Trump’s White House got Marc Caputo to write a credulous column platforming their laughable claims that they’re not responsible for how chaotic the release of the Epstein files has been, that the whole Epstein thing is just unfair to poor Donald Trump. Caputo’s column — the dutiful repetition of even ridiculous claims — is a read of Trump’s own perception of the challenge before him.
But before Caputo got to Trump’s flimsy excuses and the more damning detail — that the White House had taken over DOJ’s Xitter account — he started with his headline scoop: He allowed his sources to claim that the pain of this release will last one more week (that is, a week from Tuesday).
Only one more week.
Scoop: Trump administration expects Epstein files release could last another week
The Trump administration estimates it has about one week to go — and as many as 700,000 more pages to review — before it finishes releasing all the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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- This will end soon,” another official said. “The conspiracy theories won’t.”
Imagine putting that prediction in writing!
The prediction lasted less than a day.
Even at the time, CNN was reporting that SDFL’s US Attorney’s Office has just solicited “volunteers” to work over the holiday to make this a one-week story.
The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files, in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A supervising prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida’s US Attorney’s Office emailed the entire district office on Tuesday — two days before Christmas — announcing an “emergency request from the [Deputy Attorney General’s] office the SDFL must assist with,” according to a copy of the email reviewed by CNN. “We need AUSAs to do remote document review and redactions related to the Epstein files,” the email said.
Then, DOJ explained why they needed the volunteers: they (claim they) just discovered a million more pages.
This thing won’t be done in a week or even a month. And the people smoking Caputo need to understand that’s partly due to Todd Blanche’s incompetence, and partly due to the stuff that is a cover-up.
You’re likely to disagree with this opinion, because conventional wisdom on the left holds that the chaos of the Jeffrey Epstein releases to date reflects an attempted cover-up. But the chaos we’re seeing in the Jeffrey Epstein release is not (yet), primarily, a cover-up — though DOJ is flouting the law in ways that will create further scandal that may be entirely unrelated to protecting Donald Trump.
What you’re seeing is incompetence — frankly, the same incompetence we’ve seen from day one on Trump’s efforts to corral the Epstein conspiracy theories which his followers thrive.
Consider the things that have been identified as evidence of an imagined cover-up:
- Documents from a civil lawsuit published to docket at different times, adopting different standards of redaction, and therefore revealing accusations against Trump in just one of them
- Documents from a civil lawsuit adopting reversible redaction
- The handwritten letter claiming to be from Epstein to Larry Nasser purportedly written just before Epstein’s death
These actually could be readily explainable (and, indeed, all three fit one of the five rules on how to read Epstein files that Ankush Khardori offered on the day of the release — understand what kind of files you’re reading, and the biases people harbor or lies people will tell). For example, if DOJ had released the files with an inventory of the kinds of things the release would include, and the known reliability issues with various kinds of documents, then people might have been prepared to treat the claims made in civil suits with some skepticism. If DOJ had released the alleged Epstein letter with FBI’s own analysis of it, it would have persuaded people that the letter is a fake, if it is.
But DOJ did not do that.
Instead, Todd Blanche sat for a softball interview with Kristen Welker in which he did the following:
- Falsely claimed that the delay in responding arose from any concern for the survivors
- Guaranteed that all mention of Trump would be unredacted
- Alluded to the real reasons for overredaction, which Welker of course ignored
- Repeated his past bullshit excuses for letting Ghislaine Maxwell lie to his face with impunity before getting moved to Club Fed and getting a puppy
- [Unrelatedly, but still problematically, falsely claimed politicized prosecutions did not involve Trump]
The key answer here was Blanche’s claim that DOJ needs to redact for reasons other than protecting victims.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Well, you’re talking about protecting the victims. The law directed the Justice Department to “release internal DOJ communications including emails, memos, meeting notes concerning decisions to charge, not charge, investigate or decline to investigate Epstein or his associates.” That’s the crux of what many of the victims or the survivors say they want to see. Why wasn’t that information prioritized in the first release, Mr. Blanche?
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE:
Well, first of all it was. And there are numerous documents released on Friday that address what you just quoted from, from the statute that address internal communications within the Department of Justice and internal communications between law enforcement and the Department of Justice. But it’s for the same reason. Because many of those internal communications talk about victims. Many of those internal back and forths between prosecutors and law enforcement talk about victims and their stories. And that has to be redacted. And by the way, everybody expects us to redact that. So the same complaints that we’re hearing yesterday and even this morning from Democrats and from others screaming loudly from a hill about lack of production on Friday, imagine if we had released tons of information around victims? That would be the true crime. That would be the true wrong. And if anybody out there, I heard Congressman Raskin, the Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, releasing statements accusing Attorney General Bondi, Director Patel and myself of not doing our jobs. If they have an issue with me protecting victims, they know how to get a hold of me. But we’re not going to stop doing it.
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KRISTEN WELKER:
Okay. Let’s delve more deeply into the redactions. Is any information about President Trump redacted in any of the files that have or will be released?
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE:
No. Not unless it’s supposed to be redacted under the law, which means victim information or any sort of privilege like attorney-client privilege. But I have no reason to believe that the lawyers that are working on this case were talking about President Trump. Because he had nothing to do with the Epstein files. He had nothing to do with the horrific crimes that Mr. Epstein committed. And so I don’t expect there will be anything redacted. But the short answer is we are not redacting information around President Trump, around any other individual involved with Mr. Epstein. And that narrative, which is not based on fact at all, is completely false. [my emphasis]
There aer several problems for Todd Blanche’s claim that there are other reasons that DOJ can redact information — he mentions attorney-client privilege, but that could quickly expand to executive privilege (indeed, elsewhere in the interview he asserts he’ll never share his communications with Trump) or deliberative. The files are also being released with every DOJ identity redacted, including Audrey Strauss and Geoffrey Berman. That may have the temporary advantage, for DOJ, of hiding who was complicit in the sweetheart deal in 2007 and which real champions of the victims, like Maurene Comey, Trump fired right in this middle of this realease.
The problem for Blanche is that judges have already ruled (in unsealing grand jury materials) that the transparency law supersedes other protections.
The Act requires disclosure of Epstein grand jury materials by requiring disclosure of “all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials.” Id. “All” is crystal clear and should be afforded its “ordinary, common-sense meaning.” … (where Congress was aware of a category and did not exclude the category from the statute, that category is covered).
And so Congress will go to Richard Berman and argue that by withholding privileged or deliberative documents or even prosecutors’ names, DOJ is not complying with the law, and they’ll have precedent on their side.
Shit, Trump will be lucky if this only goes on for another month and not twelve.
The question Welker did not ask but should have is why DOJ is stuck doing this at the last minute if the FBI conducted an even bigger review of the files back in March. Why is DOJ in a mad rush to protect survivors now? Why wasn’t DOJ protecting survivors in March?
And the answer to that question is that, obviously, that earlier review was focused not on victims but on a political calculation: would the release of pictures of Bill Clinton in a public hotel pool in Brunei (which is what got released last week) outweigh the damage of files implicating Trump and his friends (starting with Les Wexner who was named as a potential co-conspirator in some documents already released), and that the conclusion of that earlier review, in July, was that this could not be weaponized like everything else, and so Trump and Todd Blanche personally attempted to pressure Congress to prevent this release at all costs but failed, which is why they’re stuck doing a second last minute review after the earlier one in March.
And eventually, all that — including whatever lists they made in March that Blanche probably hopes to shield under claims of privilege — should be ripe for release under the law. The incompetence of this first release will lead to iterative later releases.
Which brings us to the excuses Caputo platformed. As he describes, everyone is just exasperated, because how dare people take top Trump supporters like Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec and Benny Johnson and Kash Patel and Dan Bongino seriously when they focus on these files?
Behind the scenes: There’s a palpable sense of exasperation and annoyance in the administration about all of the headlines pertaining to Trump and Epstein and the inability to explain everything and just get the disclosure done.
- “It’s a combination of extreme frustration at everything: at what Congress did, at our response to it, and a concern that it won’t go away,” an official said.
- “There’s also a little bit of indignation at the media — that this wasn’t even a story for years and years. And now, not only is it a story, but the top of many news pages on a given day.”
How dare Trump’s trolls make this a huge story?!?!?!?!
This remains the problem with Blanche’s actions and everyone else’s. They’re misunderstanding that this is the scandal they rode in on.
They can’t just rely on past tools — like weaponization, like focusing on Clinton (as Trump attempted in his most recent wail about Epstein).
Because the Epstein scandal exists not because of anything Jamie Raskin or Ro Khanna did. The Epstein scandal exists because the conspiracism of it is the core of Trump’s power. Epstein conspiracy theories were always non-falsifiable (which I wrote about here and here and a bunch of other places).
And by attempting to bulldoze Congress on the big issues — on DOJ’s own prerogatives — Todd Blanche is only going to make things worse by creating new scandals.
Ii think that exaspiration and indignation is because Trump’s superpower was manipulating the media, planting the Story of the Day or swamping it with some Outrage or Misdirection of the Day. Chaos that Trump caused and up until now controlled. But hes not controlling or swamping this one. It must be driving him nuts, and I almost feel sorry for Bondi and Patel. Almost.
No! Feel no sorrow or sympathy for the perpetraitors and enablers. They are cold and calculating co-conspirators in the effort to remake America into a white nationalist nation, ruled by them. What they all, from Trump to the various department mouthpieces, deserve is trial by tribunal for treasonous crimes against the country and humanity. Anyone appointed by or supporting this administration deserves neither trust nor respect.
I would like to suggest that reduction to poverty might be the fitting punishment, allowing the perps to attempt to survive at the bottom level with their real victims (although its cruel to the poor), in hopes they might gain a smattering of empathy. Alternatively, deportation to a third-world country with a check for $1000 could work.
The quip in Trading Places by Valentine (Eddie Murphy) comes to mind. Something like “The way to get back at rich people is turn ’em into poor people.”
I need to rewatch that movie. I can only recall two lines at opposing ends of the movie that suggest the point you’re making but don’t spell it out. Wonder if it was in the middle after Louis and Billy Ray meet up and figure out how the Dukes screwed with them?
And then later,
Empathy, this admin does not allow empathy. In fact, it will punish it. Cruelty is the point. Please be careful.
Almost feel sorry for them? Holy crap! That’s ridiculous to say the least.
A lot of the incompetence is because they fire competent people and replace them with toadies. DOJ and FBI have/had people who are expert at handling redactions. Those people are either sidelined or some may be involved in a little “accidental” errors. The repeated lack of knowledge about how to do a redaction points to the former.
Again, the accidental errors appear to be primarily in civil suits — that is, they are the accidental errors of lawyers who filed them.
But it is the case that Trump fired the people who knew what they were looking at, most obviously Maurene Comey.
In this context, your reminder that this review has been ongoing for months with thousands of lawyers already involved according to prior testimony is especially apt when DoJ claimed they ‘found’ another million documents. That one reminded me of the Waukesha County clerk ‘finding’ enough ballots in an opened bag to let Scott Walker avoid recall in WI.
As for Blanche, apparently he has 150k$ in crypto investments when he was shutting down crypto enforcement. Perhaps that will be the excuse to toss Blanche under the bus now that he’s been exposed again over Epstein.
Blanche, as well as many others, should be charged with impersonation of a competent human.
One of the theories about the fake letter from Epstein to Nasser is that William Barr himself wrote it. Here is Adam Cochran’s analysis, with handwriting analysis:
https://xcancel.com/adamscochran/status/2003580951969104265#m
https://archive.is/5xNwl
I’m still wondering who writes a postcard starting on the right half and continuing on the left half.
I do that.
Strikes me the DOJ is attempting to poison the well by inserting fake or fallacious items into the conversation.
Disturbingly similar to the forged (typewriter fonts not invented yet) letter planted/”discovered” in Rather’s Dubya TANG/AWOL story’s files/documents, IMO.
AFAIK, the TANG docs for W were never found, even with a multistep promotion as a prize for the discoverer. Contemporaneous reporting shows W went AWOL to work on another GOP campaign but nothing was done about it.
Reply to Rugger 9: After reading Marcy’s for years, I refrained, until recently, fm commenting bcos I felt I could add little, considering all the knowledgeable (and erudite) longtime commenters here. But W’s..impunity still sticks in my craw.(I’d hoped his 2nd term would be that proverbial “straw”-Alas..) Anyway; to your first point: I believe TxLtGov Ben Barnes admitted removing W’s Service Records, and thank you for the unclaimed reward ($10k?) reminder.
Also, I do remember his Alabama unit CO, Col Wm Turnipseed, saying that he never saw W at all, during W’s 15(?) month tour of duty down there; it was reported that W was in rehab, then went to work on that campaign for the remainder of his AWOL.
Pre suicide note serves too ham-handed a purpose. Ha! Opinions differ.
Yet, there remains a non-zero chance that Epstein’s demise is explained by a story different than the official story.
This. I keep coming back to this. When Epstein was first put in that facility, it was described as a state-of-the art facility in lower Manhattan that was specifically designed to hold the worst of the worst, and Epstein was on suicide watch and monitored around the clock. It now sounds like a third-rate facility in the middle-of-nowhere, where the cameras weren’t working and the two guards on duty weren’t doing their jobs.
This can probably be attributed to the government simply bloviating about how good they were doing before Epstein’s death, and any “cover up” afterward was simply intended to obscure its jaw-dropping incompetence. But the drip-drip-drip of information that’s been coming out about the 24 hours prior to Epstein’s death just makes me keep coming back to this.
On the BIll Barr questions front, there is still the ( I believe) unexplained firing of SDNY’s Geoffrey Berman.
SDNY had some politically sensitive investigations going at the time that Trump and Barr wanted stopped.
Including Ghislaine Maxwell’s.
Also, Barr wanted to stop the prosecutions related to the Reza Zarrab Turkish evasion of Iran Sanctions through an oil for gold scheme.
Berman ignored Barr’s pressure to shut down the prosecutions. Berman kept going.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/politics/trump-erdogan-halkbank.html
A very insightful take, and your forecasts of how DOJ’s numerous unforced errors will play out ring true. This DOJ’s abject incompetence is by now well-established, and thus can reasonably be expected to continue.
About Trump claiming to be treated unfairly during Epsteinfilegate, I’m on the look out for a couple of things as information gets released:
1) For Trump to claim it’s really CIA’s Epstein problem, and it’s unfair to look at his Epstein problem , since he’s just a bystander
2) CIA giving Trump something of value, perhaps pivoting a long standing foreign policy objective to now favor Trump’s world view, in exchange for Trump to block release of certain Epstein files (as I suspect a similar transaction happened with JFK Files in October 2017)
zscoreusa: you are probably onto something.
this is an administration of the highest scheming order.
whether they mess it up in their zealous rush to prevail, or compound things by hiring canny toadies, it is still rotten, through and through. may the rot become obvious.
my rank speculation says that Epstein tentacles reach far and wide, — very dangerous, way too dangerous, for any of us “rubes” ever to learn what the deal[s] involved. (sarcasm)
one would wish, if EW community includes former IC members, that they could hint at what they surmise without betraying any oaths.
Excellent post. Thank you for the link to Adam Cochran’s detailed analysis. That was quite an interest read. Happy New Year, with deep appreciation for your work.
The incompetence is real but it is also sometimes tactical. I have thought that since the beginning of Trmp’s first term when his goons were separating parents from children and deliberately not keeping any records on who was who and where they went (how many of those children are let to be reunited with their families today?).
The incompetence with the Epstein files is partly to muddy the waters and confuse the situation although it is also because these people don’t follow the rules, don’t understand their required job descriptions (they do understand their covert job descriptions extremely well however), and just can’t be bothered with doing a job well.
Cruelty is the point and the incompetence is tactical.
Yes, the tactical incompetence looks a lot like the “personnel is policy” expectation of a competent organization. Just with differing desired outcomes. Those folks are there on purpose.
I agree wholeheartedly about the incompetence. But my take is that they are not “misunderstanding that this is the scandal they rode in on.”
I believe they fully understand that. But they feel compelled to follow their routine modus operandi. It’s what they have always done and what they will always do. It’s who they are. Destination rock bottom.
In reference to the “Young Playboys Gone Wiles” video, I think the rationale given about who is offended by Epstein’s actions serves another purpose. I think it serves as a dog whistle. It is an attempt to get core MAGA from jumping ship. It is an attempt to convince all the racists to stick with Daddy.
I’m calling BS on Susie Wiles. I believe she has every fucking clue that this is core to Trump’s power. Both my experience and observations have brought me to this conclusion.
If I felt comfortable sharing some specifics, I would. But I doubt that will ever happen. But I can say that I have seen up close and personal some people’s MO’s that are totally consistent with spreading conspiracy theories and corruption.
I’m kind of surprised Michael Wolff didn’t consult you, SL, when he was writing All or Nothing. More than anything, that is his book about the wily Susie, and her understanding/manipulation of Trump’s hold on the MAGA imagination.
Or maybe Wolff *did* consult you? If so, I’m guessing you’ll never tell.
LOL. Nope, nor would I have confided in Wolff. Although he might have a sense of some of my interactions based on comments I’ve made here. But that’s old history, no current events.
Speaking of current events, though, it might be worthwhile to consider someone who has been below the radar until now. Back to that “Young Playboys Gone Wiles” video, and the rationale given about who is offended by Epstein’s actions.
The person credited for the strategy to bring in low-propensity voters is the young James Blair. Younger than Stephen Miller, but also balding with a shaven head. He’s part of the core Susie Wiles team and can be seen in the VF articles. It’s there that he claimed Susie likes to hang out with junkyard dogs.
He got ejected from the DeSantis administration for being too close to Susie. Then Susie brought him into the Trump campaign and administration. He’s very much a data and numbers guy.
IIRC, Dawsey wrote an article in which Blair identified himself as far right. His nicknames are “Oracle” and “Brilliant James.” He played a significant role in what we think of as the Big Ugly Bill.
All of which leads me to imagine the team sitting around the table in Susie’s office and coming up with the idea to say that it is only young black men who care about Epstein. That’s why I have come to think of it as a dog-whistle strategy to keep racist MAGAts from jumping ship.
I was wondering about Blair. I always wonder about the ones whose names sound vaguely familiar but whose faces (at least in those VF photos) I don’t recognize. I’m already sick of the others.
Whenever MAGA labels someone “brilliant,” I always wonder just how low the bar is. Based on observed reality, it doesn’t seem terribly high.
You are correct about the non-falsifiability of the conspiracy theories, but all the incompetence of top officials have made even attempts to clear the field worse.
Consider Maureen Comey’s lawsuit. Any redactions associated with that lawsuit would have to be marked as such, easily identifying them for discovery, AND identifying them as “Maureen knew how badly Trump [& and [X]] were involved…”, leading to fights over filing under seal, redactions, attempts to classify, etc. that drag things out.
That takes time and leads to a drip-drip-drip and scooplet feeding frenzy. And, at best for Trump and Blanche, an in-camera review of the unredacted files.
I wonder if Todd Blanche was aware that he signed up to be the Sisyphus of Epstein Files. If I were a Democrat on an oversight committee, I’d never let him forget it at this month’s hearings on his cover-ups and obstructions.
Like the Gunpowder Treason, this should never be forgot.
Long live our memories. But record them now.
As more and more Epstein info oozes out, it appears that there is long-term Russian involvement being revealed as well as the other stuff. So the “Russiagate Hoax” might be coming back to haunt Trump as well.
It’s not so much a can of worms as a sewer outfall of worms…
Ghosts of Christmas past? Sure hope so.
Here are a couple of recent articles regarding Epstein origins:
1) NY Times (David Enrich & others):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/magazine/jeffrey-epstein-money-scams-investigation.html
A ton of valuable info in the article, here are just a few interesting details:
* Don Jr’s soon to be father in law, was instrumental in 1999 to allow Epstein to build Epstein Island [small world huh?]
* Epstein was business partners with CIA Iran-Contra lawyer Stanley Pottinger [who oddly worked with Brad Edwards as Epstein victim lawyers]
* When Epstein became a client of Bear Stearns, they hired 2 young beautiful assistants to interact with him. Those women had relationships with him. One of them is close friends with Melania, wrote a letter in the 2003 birthday book, and married the Jets owner who was ambassador to UK in 1st Trump admin
2) Drop Site followed that up with an article detailing Epstein’s ties to American intelligence activities, including Iran-Contra/arms smuggling, Angola, and narco-trafficking:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-iran-contra-planes-leslie-wexner-pottinger-leese-arms-weapons-smuggling
CIA would want to keep a lid on whatever activities tie to Epstein, including potentially gaining access to slush funds. On top of whatever ways Epstein relates to Israel.
The Safari Club (even named after Epstein’s future arms associate Adnan Khashoggi) began around the same time as Epstein’s Dalton->Bear Stearns pipeline and Robert Maxwell (also implicated in arms trafficking) began banking with Bear Stearns.
For years I’ve been wondering whether the Maxwells, father and daughter, and Epstein were ever involved with Marc Dutroux, the murderer and child rapist pimp who helped collapse the Belgian government in the 1990s. Seems to me that the current Epstein controversy may be very much like that previous political and economic scandal.
Dutroux, I believe, is still alive in a Belgian prison.
Maybe No Kings or 50501 will eventually adapt their own “White March” where 300,000 people demonstrated against the Dutroux cover-up, about 3% of the country’s population, proving, once again, Chenoweth’s and Stephan’s 3.5% rule for the effectiveness of nonviolent protest.
What’s the reason for your suspicion that Dutroux would connect with the Maxwells or Epstein?
I’m not familiar with this case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux
Dutroux was widely believed to have been involved in an “elite pedophile network” involving mid- and high-level Belgian gov’t officials. Only 5 people were convicted and imprisoned, no gov’t officials. The QAnon/Pizzagate conspiracy theories may have inspired by Dutroux’s goings-on and the public furor resulting which involved crooked judges, re-trials etc. etc. etc.
Of course the DOJ has fired and lost many super-qualified people since Trump began his second disastrous term of office,.
Could the obvious, ham-handed bungling of the Epstein files also be due to the ones who remain following the orders of idiots?
This would make everyone look incompetent – even those who know better.
As long as it’s ethical and legal, I suspect there is in fact a fair amount of “OK boss, you asked for it” going on among those who remain.
I dont understand how it is possible that the DOJ can pretend to be uncertain about whether the recently found million files are related to the Epstein case. What are the chances the photos of trump with obviously under age girls are Epstein Lite, bait for the press to eat, while the much more incriminating and explicit materials are kept hidden?
Follow the money; question is when does money trail get released?
The money trail question is THE question–as Julie K. Brown has recently averred.
OT but incompetence or my lack of comprehension.
Sanofi experimental multiple sclerosis drug was recently rejected by the FDA.
How is it that a company, Sanofi in this case, would present something for approval, I believe from reading https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/news-posts/2025/12/16/sanofis-experimental-ms-therapy-tolebrutinib-suffers-twin-setbacks/, that failed to meet this goal?
OT-ish: Channel 4 had Jimmy Kimmel do an alternative Xmas message after King Charles’ annual address. Curious if any of our UK folk saw it or if it has sparked any commentary. It’s a good watch. Search youtube with “Jimmy Kimmel’s Alternative Christmas Message (Channel 4 UK)”
I’ve seen quite a bit of chatter about his show that evening.
For example: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/jimmy-kimmel-delivers-scathing-christmas-182738119.html
I was surprised that he didn’t use that opportunity to warn the UK and Europe about the rise in the fascists in their own population (and in some of their governments.)
I haven’t seen the video yet but The Guardian published a transcript, which does use the words ‘tyranny’ and ‘fascism’.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/25/jimmy-kimmel-christmas-message-trump
Most Guardianistas are probably already on his side but I really hope the British people at large are paying attention because I heard somebody arguing recently that Farage is like Benny Hill or seaside postcards, just a bit of a joke and shouldn’t be taken too seriously.
We’ve seen how that turned out in the past.
They’re into creating as many scandals as possible to make it impossible to track them all and making sure that some will be lost along the way.
With that said, can they themselves keep track of all of them?
meanwhile trump gives federal employees including fbi a 5 day weekend. Such urgency !
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/12/trump-gives-most-federal-employees-two-days-off-around-christmas/
Good points, on the unfalsifiability of contheories (for short), that being at the core of this rise & grip on power, and noting opposition slipping into it (reading redaction errors of lawyers who filed civil suits -non DOJ, as evidence of cover-up).
On incompetence; for sure they’re not wizards, but over the past decade, I’ve seen most of the ‘bumbling’ as competent incompetence.
I don’t believe the Wiley junk yard coyote team (they flatter themselves) viewed the development of this unfalsifiable contheory skill & power as belonging to Trump. I sure as hell don’t.
The GOP have over the past half century or so, increasingly relied on coercive bullshit instead of making honest arguments & hashing it out.
This is what is unforgivable.
Democrats do blazingly dumb shit too, but these mercenary far right fuckers need a serious time out. I also think enough people on that side are open to knocking it off that we can pull out of this.