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It’s so befuddling that a man like Donald J. Trump, with all his wealth and all his power, isn’t fighting these allegedly false stories linking him to Epstein’s crimes.
If someone started a whisper campaign alleging I had done something terrible that I didn’t do, I’d move heaven and earth to clear my name. Which is why I find it so odd that in the case of Donald J. Trump, who by the photographic record was once a friend of the most notorious child rapist and sex trafficker in American history, and has been linked to said rapist’s crimes by some extremely credible women—it’s just so strange that he’d suddenly tell his followers that it’s time to move on. Forget about that “creep” Epstein. Focus instead on how I was the victim of Sleepy Joe’s dastardly plot when he stole the 2020 election.
See, to the average innocent person, even if only peripherally accused of being in cahoots with a lowlife like Epstein, and they had the power of the United States Department of Justice at their beck and call, that’s a very strange position to take. Any normal person who was wrongly accused, even if it was of something insignificant, would take the opposite track. Your reputation, WHO YOU ARE has been attacked.
Take for example the case of Bruce Roger Lindner vs his employer in 1988. His immediate boss, a textbook narcissist like Trump, created a secret file on him made up of whole cloth. For example, she’d walk up to his desk and say; “How is everything going today, Bruce?” And Bruce would respond; “We’re doing great.” She’d respond with a smile, then she’d go back to her office and write a hand-written note; “I had to reprimand Bruce once again about his attitude.”
I of course knew nothing of these notes, until the feces hit the fan, at which time I subpoenaed all her scribblings and discovered she’d been doing it for months. I had defended a handicapped employee that she wanted to get rid of, so this was her remedy: create a bogus record of “past reprimands,” then once it was well established, she’d spring the trap. Which is what she did.
It was, at that time, the most traumatic thing I’ve ever been through. Not only could I not disprove her lies because she had “documented” them, but when I complained to her superiors, they sided with her. After all, why would anyone go to all the trouble of establishing a file on someone if it wasn’t true? All evidence to the contrary once I had them under oath.
So I sued both my boss and my employer, Fred Meyer Inc. She had been telling bald-faced lies about me and my work history, and upper level management let her do it. Which they soon regretted.
When the dust had settled on that episode of my life, the company had no choice but to fire her. Which I’m sure, as a narcissist, she felt was terribly unfair. And her superior, the man I went to first with my complaint, a Vice President of the company in charge of warehousing, distribution and transportation, was ultimately relieved of his duties.
My name had been dragged through the mud by very powerful people. Unless you’ve been through it, it’s hard to comprehend how personal it is. You’ll quickly learn that it’s followed by one disappointment after another. You’ll discover that there are damned few people beating a path to your door to defend you, because no one wants to have happen to them what they all witnessed happen to you. You’re on your own.
Not unlike the case of Liz Cheney and her fellow Republicans in Congress. Even though her former colleagues all KNEW she was telling the truth, no one wanted to risk their career defending her. Sorry, Liz. Telling the truth comes with consequences.
Back to 2025.
Which is why it’s so befuddling to me that a man like Donald J. Trump, with all his wealth and all his power, isn’t fighting these allegedly false stories linking him to Epstein’s crimes. He has it within his power to end it all, right now, TODAY, by demanding the release of whatever notes and files the DoJ has on Jeffrey Epstein. Then once cleared, he can prosecute those behind any such scurrilous lies.
Yet he doesn’t seem interested in doing that. He’d rather divert our attention to other nonsense. Why is that? If a lowly 35 year old warehouseman could do it by using nothing but the courts, why can’t he? I mean, it’s only his place in history that’s on the line, yet he doesn’t think that’s worth defending?
It’s a mystery, isn’t it?
Honorary crash test dummy for Hammocks R Us, intrepid toxicity tester for Laphroaig Distillery, mobile Javaslinger, moonshiner in training, part time writer, part time foodie, part time flirt, ponderer of all things Cosmic, hot sauce aficionado, skeptic of conspiracy theorists, challenger of balderdashery, antithetical to all things Trump, Fool Emeritus from Whatsamatta U, three-time champion over corporate evil, downtrodden survivor of the Coulter Wars, psychotic women, cancer, heart disease and my own poor judgement.
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