It's time we gave this burgeoning coverup a name - "Trumpgate" seems to fit
The President's "nothing to see here" strategy is not working for him this time
I figured it was only a matter of time before House Speaker Mike Johnson and I would agree on something.
And I'm not talking about our favorite flavor of ice cream.
No, it's an important issue concerning a potential presidential pardon for Jeffrey Epstein facilitator Ghislaine Maxwell.
Said Johnson on Meet the Press, "If you're asking my opinion, I think 20 years was a pittance. I think she should have a life sentence at least. Think of all these unspeakable crimes, and, as you noted earlier, probably 1,000 victims. It's hard to put into words how evil this was, and that she orchestrated it and was a big part of it, at least under the criminal sanction. I think it is an unforgivable thing."
Amen, Brother Mike.
After all, this woman's extensive and relentless crimes are among the worst we can imagine. No, she didn't kill anyone in cold blood. But she did intentionally and methodically murder the souls of uncountable numbers of teenagers. She killed them as surely as a knife through the heart. She murdered their hopes and their dreams and their once-bright futures.
And yet the Pardoner in Chief has said he won't rule out a pardon for such crimes against humanity. He claims, falsely, that he hasn't thought much about it.
With the Watergate scandal it became common wisdom that "the coverup is worse than the crime."
That may have been true with Watergate and other more recent coverups, but with the current Trumpgate, the crimes involved are so horrendous that they overshadow the coverup, though the coverup does make things dramatically worse for the estimated one thousand victims who are still living with this horror. Victims, incidentally, that I've never heard the president express the slightest bit of sympathy for.