“Either you want to advance the cover-up or you want the truth to come out.” – Congressman Jamie Raskin.
Multiple choice. Was he referring to:
A) A cover-up to mask extensive engagement with Russia in advance of the 2016 election and, as president, extensive efforts to gum up Robert Mueller’s probe into collusion?
B) A cover-up regarding missing Secret Service text messages and more damning information sought by the Jan. 6 Committee?
C) Extreme pressure on Congress to prevent the release of the Epstein files?
D) All of the above.
Raskin was referring to (C), the Epstein files, though he knows “all of the above, and more” applies to this president.
King Comb-Over has been in cover-up mode since the day he decided he was worthy of leading the most powerful nation on earth. Oh, lord.
He sought to cover up his sexual transgressions and pay-offs. He sought to cover up his worth and the value of his properties. He sought to cover up the extent to which he angled for a Trump Tower in Moscow.
Per what he calls the “Russia hoax”: as a matter of record, Mueller said he could not put his finger on acts of criminal collusion with Russia, but he could and did assert criminal obstruction, legalese for “cover-up.”
Hey, former FBI chief James Comey: If only you’d consented to play the cover-up game at the start of the Russia probe in 2017, you wouldn’t face politicized prosecution in 2025. No chance.
So here we are with public information the vast majority of the public demands to see about a vast pedophilia ring, and our president is using all the tools of obstruction he’s honed across decades. Impressive.
He went so far as to send Mr. No. 2 in the Justice Department, Todd Blanche – who got the job by getting his client convicted on only 34 felony counts – to sit down with Jeffrey Epstein’s No. 2 – Ghislaine Maxwell.
Blanche’s job: to record her calm contrition, the better to convince inquiring minds, “Nothing to see here.”
Well. After saying just what Mr. Big wanted to hear, Maxwell was transferred to a cushy federal lock-up.
There, while on 24-hour pardon watch, Maxwell has had several privileges not accorded to convicted pedophiles, including access to a puppy.
At this point, who among the masses is not asking, “If there’s nothing that would alarm us about this president in the Epstein files, if this is all a ‘hoax,’ why the cover-up?”
That’s the very same question Americans should have asked about the effort to gum up Mueller’s probe and obscure the truth about what happened behind the scenes Jan. 6.
Imagine:
The attorney general, her No 2 and the FBI director were all enlisted to bully Congresswoman Lauren Boebert — in the hyper-secure White House Situation Room, of all places, in a failed effort to pull her name among those of three GOP women off the House discharge petition for the Epstein files.
What in the heck don’t these people want us to see?
Why has this president labeled a vote to release the Epstein files by any Republican a “hostile action”?
All comes down to a waterfall of obfuscations – a lifetime of prevarications.
It comes down to the line one-time White House attorney John Dowd told Bob Woodward that he could not say to his former client: “You’re a f–cking liar.”
Back to the administration’s frantic attempt to gain those three Republican women’s cooperation on the Epstein discharge petition: Did they consider offering them access to puppies?
Longtime newspaperman John Young lives in Colorado. Email: jyoungcolumn@gmail.com.
