A scandal to cover a war to hide a scandal

You have to give juggler extraordinaire Donald Trump a thump on his back for trying. First, he launches a war to shove the Epstein Files off the front page. Now, he's relaunched the Epstein Files to shove the US capitulation in war off the front page.

What else can explain Melania Trump, stepping onto the stage on Wednesday, making a baffling speech that sounded like a cross between courtroom denial and improv theatre. 'I am not Epstein's victim,' she declared, while simultaneously calling for hearings for Epstein's survivors. She dismissed her polite 2002 email to Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell as trivial correspondence, as if forwarding recipes.

And, hey, presto! Epstein's back - not as scandal but as camouflage. It's a dizzying carousel: war hides Epstein, Epstein hides war, repeat until the audience collapses in laughter. Or nausea. This is pure slapstick, a Groucho Marx routine where scandals pop up and disappear like moles in a carnival game. The mallet? Trump's Truth Social feed. The genius lies in the recycling bit.


Why invent new distractions in this age of instant forgetting when you can repurpose old ones? Epstein becomes both curtain and stage, scandal and shield. In the end, the Trump era proves politics isn't about solving problems, but about 'keeping it moving'. Even if the popcorn's already spilled in the aisles.