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Has been since the Carter days. Glad you're around to help change the mixture!
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Back in July, he was on PBS trying to suggest that the whole Epstein thing was overblown and people should move on. Gee, I wonder why! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
David Brooks: Yes, I can't believe anybody — people are voting on this. Like, there are some QAnon people who are upset. And there are people in the Trump administration who did exactly what Jonathan said. But I just can't believe any vote — people vote and they make decisions about politics based on their real lives, not some crazy conspiracy theory. And every August, we — Washington goes crazy with some stupid story. And then in September, we think, what was that all about? And so this year, we're a little early. We're doing it in July. But the idea that there's something there incriminating Donald Trump, his friendship with Epstein ended in 2004. The Democrats, Joe Biden administration, they had these files for four years. You think, if there had been something, you think they would have done something. The Justice Department, the courts, they have all said there's nothing actionable here. And so the problem is that — what Jonathan described, and then that Donald Trump went ballistic about it and ordered his own administration to somehow solve the problem. And then the underlying problem is that America seems to go through child abuse panics with some regularity. When I was a baby reporter, there was something called the McMartin preschool case in Manhattan Beach, California, where an entire preschool was accused of this gigantic sex ring with children and the trial that went on for years before everybody was acquitted because there was nothing there. But there's something about child abuse which is so horrific, it seems to captures people's minds and especially conspiracy mongers. (Crosstalk) David Brooks: Yes. Jonathan Capehart: And so that's also what we shouldn't lose sight of in this whole conversation. While, politically-, in Washington, we're all talking about how this has damaged the president, how Democrats are trying to take — use it to their advantage. At the root of this were girls as young as 12 who were trafficked and abused by Jeffrey Epstein and by Ghislaine Maxwell. And that should — we should never lose sight of that. David Brooks: Yes, that's a good point. And that's one of the reasons they don't want to release the grand jury, because it's incriminating sometimes to the witnesses, to their families, pictures of them with their faces blacked out, with their clothing on. So that's a very good point. Geoff Bennett: And I hear you say this does not represent a shift in the loyalty calculus among Donald Trump's core supporters. David Brooks: I would be shocked. I would be shocked. But there's obviously an active group around MAGA itself that they care. But I — people vote based on their lives, not on anything else.
December 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
mosesbates.bsky.social
🤣😂🤣
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM