Let's Move On

One thing that Donald Trump and I agree on - let's move on from the Epstein Files.

And that's where our agreement ends.  He is afraid of what might happen to him if the files are released.  I don't think anything substantial will happen to him if the files are released.

Possible scenarios:

1. The files are never released.  Everyone argues and is outraged for a while, and slowly, the whole thing disappears.
2. The files are released and they don't provide much more information than we have now.
3. The files are released and they exonerate everyone.
4. The files are released and they make it clear that Trump committed felony sexual abuse on minors.
5. The files include actionable evidence that Donald Trump raped minors.
6. The files are released and, no matter what they say, everyone has had so long to calcify their opinions on Trump and underaged girls that no significant changes are observed.

Given that the Trump administration has had six months or more to fiddle with these files, #s 4 and 5 are not likely.  #s 1, 2, and 3, or some combination will no doubt be what happens.  When/if the files are released, nobody with half a brain will see them as valid.  This is heartbreaking, because the women who were victimized will not find justice.

#6 will, regardless of any other outcome, be the only important thing that happens.  And it's only important because it's the final outcome of a scandal which has lasted longer than almost any one of the almost daily scandals that Trump has generated.  Nothing will change.

I happen to believe that he is guilty, and the release or non-release will not change that.   

So let's move on.  Trump's a pedophile, in addition to everything else.  Knowing that, knowing all the rest, has never made any difference.  The release of the Epstein files will not change a thing.

Three and a half years to go.

A Reminder

In October of 1415, France suffered a military defeat at the Battle of Agincourt which is legendary among the great military disasters in human history.  A large portion of the French governing elite was wiped out, by a dysentery-plagued smaller force of Englishmen under Henry V (Shakespeare's "band of brothers") who had brought along their longbows.  

The King of France, Charles VI, also known as "Charles the Mad," did not participate in the battle, staying home in Rouen, because he was afraid that he might break.  Charles was mentally ill, and thought he was made of glass.

And yet France survived, remaining a European power of the first order during the intervening six hundred years.  

We will survive Donald the Mad, who thinks he is made of beautiful gold.