He Looks Like A Witness To Me

No one should be surprised by Donald Trump‘s Christmas day social media post. It’s completely in character.

But let’s look a little deeper and see what he’s really telling us. Donald Trump suggests that he has a lot of information to offer about Jeffrey Epstein, which makes sense given all the photographs of them together and documentation of their close their friendship, like the drawing included in Epstein‘s birthday book that has been attributed to Trump (he has denied it).

He looks like a witness to me!

In his social media post, Trump offered up some specifics that he might have more information about:

• People who loved Jeffrey Epstein

• People who gave Jeffrey Epstein bundles of money

• People who went to Jeffrey Epstein’s island and parties

• Why Trump dropped Jeffrey Epstein long before it became fashionable to do so

Given this public comment and the long-term relationship between the two, if I wanted to understand more about possible co-conspirators and accomplices, funding, and the full range of Jeffrey Epstein’s criminality—what his long time party buddy learned that was so bad that Trump dropped Epstein before the Florida prosecution made it all public—I would want an interview with Donald Trump. If I were still a prosecutor, I’d send out two FBI agents to have a chat with him. As far as I’m aware, the Supreme Court has never said presidents can’t be witnesses.

Of course, we’re tongue in cheek here. That’s not happening with Donald Trump, who is deploying his Justice Department in a defensive stance designed to protect him at all costs, while calling the files a Democratic hoax. But really, the president could do the survivors a great service by sharing what he knows. Trump has repeatedly said he’s the most transparent president ever, so why not?

It not unlikely that we’ll have congressional hearings on the matter at some point, although that may have to await Democratic majorities in one or both houses of Congress following the midterm elections. The man looks like a witness. I say, give him a subpoena if he won’t come in voluntarily to testify.

We’re in this together,

Joyce

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