What Is Trump Afraid Of?

I’ve been thinking about the Epstein thing – about Bondi’s announcement last week that, no, it turns out that Epstein wasn’t murdered, that he really did hang himself from a horizontal bar in his cage that was 18 inches above the floor, and that, no, as it turns out, that whole Epstein list, the one containing dozens of prominent pedophiles that feasted on pre-pubescent pretties at Epstein Island, that doesn’t exist. It was all a silly conspiracy theory promoted by… well, we promoted it, but anyway, never mind.

That was hard to swallow.

But what made things worse for me was when Trump scolded the Republicans who had been trying to open up the files, accusing them of being sissy boys and chiding them for not reporting on real news, like all the things he’s done in the past five months – the things I wrote about in the July 4  issue.

Bondi was obviously being loyal, doing what she’d been told to do. But the only person that could tell Bondi to make such a fool of herself would have been Trump. And that’s what I’ve been thinking about: Why, when Fox News’s Rachel Campos-Duffy asked Trump, “Would you declassify the Epstein files?” he said, “Yeah, yeah, I would.”

If you look at this clip, you’ll see how Campos-Duffy cleverly set up her questions. And you’ll notice a hesitation in how Trump responded to the one about the Epstein files, compared to the quick and certain way he responded to the same questions about JFK and Martin Luther King.

I could see this as an indication that, at the time, since he didn’t know what was in the Epstein files, he might have been worried that there was material there that would implicate him. And it’s possible that, once the file became available to him after Jan. 20, Bondi or someone else in the Justice Department did find incriminating evidence against him.

But I can’t quite believe that because, first of all, I don’t believe Trump is a pedophile. And if that’s true, then the files do not contain proof of his having sex with a pre-pubescent teenager. And even if there is incriminating information about him in the files, although Trump would not want it to be released, I don’t think he would have abruptly and unilaterally tried to not just shut down the investigation, but try the “old news” narrative.

So I’ve been asking myself: If fear of being exposed as a pedophile is not the reason for Trump’s reaction, what else could be behind it?

Last week, I read a transcript of a conversation between Doug Casey and Matt Smith where they addressed this question. They agreed that Trump and his team would not risk the damage this reversal will (and has already) caused for Trump if it were a play to profit from it somehow. The damage would be too great. The more likely explanation is fear. Somehow, somewhere along the investigation, Trump’s investigators got scared. And then Trump got scared, too.

What could be that scary?

I’m studying that now. I’ll give you my answer in the next issue.