To expect competence from the Trump administration on any subject, however trivial, is much like expecting a rubber duckie to build the pyramids all by itself. You know it’s not going to happen, but that’s the storyline.
When the subject is law of any kind, it’s even more farcical. Trump typically uses up more court time than anyone. His personal court cases could go on well beyond his natural life span.
The Epstein cases could go on much longer. There’s not even the hint of a prosecution, despite the tonnage of information. Everyone but the victims is apparently innocent until proven guilty, and nobody seems to be in any hurry to do that.
The current hoopla about celebrity names alone could generate any amount of additional litigation to muddy the waters. That’s quite literally all that’s happening with the list of names, and nobody on that list is being accused of anything.
Meanwhile, there’s the Congressional investigation into Epstein. Sort of. Maybe-ish. Maybe not-ish. It’s not really doing very much. Right now it looks more ornamental than effective.
Mainstream media has mindlessly bought in to the Epstein story, but there’s no narrative. There’s not even the beginning of a narrative with an ending. It’s more like a “who didn’t dun it”. So far, it’s more soap opera than storyline.
Even this rather picky, ponderous, pointless process doesn’t have any clear end in sight in terms of law enforcement or even possible legal outcomes.
Right now, when matters related to the Epstein case is being called possible crimes against humanity, that’s almost the whole story.
The rest is innuendo.
You know –
The really useless type of innuendo where the medieval peasants get to wonder what happens in the castles of the rich and futile.
Scandals, however geriatric, rattle around in the big empty spaces in the story.
Famous names drip from the tabloid taps.
The king rants and babbles as the kingdom disintegrates.
Someone puts on a truly inexcusable costume drama as a series of daintily unspecified wars is threatened.
Nothing is actually done about the scandals. It’s like “Bleak House” written by an illiterate.
This wouldn’t even make a pathetic B movie. So what is supposed to be happening, you may well wonder? That’s comparatively simple.
These allegations all relate to major criminal offenses.
Prosecution MUST follow if any evidence is deemed fit to charge anyone with a crime.
That’s not “optional”. No ifs, no buts, no maybes.
Except in this case?
17 years after Epstein was convicted for procuring a child for prostitution, absolutely nothing that could be called “enforcement” has happened. It seems to have taken at least 10 years for anyone to admit anything untoward was happening.
How many victims are there? Anyone’s guess.
How many suicides? Keep guessing.
Who’s being silenced by third parties? Seen Waldo lately?
If you were so inclined, you could add to these elegant enquiries some frivolous merry quips, like:
How obviously corrupt is the law?
Who clearly and directly benefits from such total inaction?
How do so many famous business people become so incredibly stupid?
Why has no action been taken?
Enough babble. Start prosecuting.
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