A reminder tonight that a little 5-year-old kid in a bunny hat from Minneapolis named Liam Ramos has already spent more time in police detention in the United States than any of Jeffrey Epstein’s many, many associates and friends, Donald Dump included.
That is truly disturbing and just plain sad. Hopefully, this accountability in other countries will lead to the same here. Plus, now that SCOTUS has finally stood up to DJT, I hope others will do the same. I would like to see universities that signed any type of agreement with King Donald to alter and/or monitor what is taught renege on those agreements--declare their independence. Above all, in the name of Liam Ramos, I would like to see those law firms that capitulated to the King and made agreements with him, renege and instead, offer legal assistance to those nonviolent immigrants who were unjustly arrested and deported or held illegally, as well as to others that have been the objecs of his disgusting retribution campaign. Finally, though it does not need to be said (or maybe needs to be said more!), If the King has nothing to fear, release the Epstein file with the names of victims being the only ones redacted.
Yes. But there is a line beyond which people will coalesce in violent revolt. The line is yet invisible to us. Many feel we are closer than ever to just such a tipping point. There is no denying history is replete with sorrowful examples. When an historic tide starts to gain momentum there is little that can stop it. Just sayin’
Darn! I so want that, to puncture and incinerate a certain unlimited arrogance serving as the very model of evil triumphant. I could manage to settle for the slow but fine grind of an obdurate bureaucracy, for the lyric poetry of it.
The Republicans are protecting Trump and going along with his plans to limit voting to secure their own jobs. So undemocratic, it’s criminal in nature.
Agree. It is criminal, and more Democrats and Independents should be stating this, every day if necessary. If it were Clinton or Obama instead of King Don, Republicans would be calling a press conference every day, screaming for impeachment.
Easy to say, harder to do -- since "we" have been letting power slip through our fingers at least since the Reagan administration, and an argument could be made that "we" never had all that much power anyway.
Let's get real about what we can and should do. I hope that Scott Galloway's Unsubscribe movement gains a lot of traction. Also, be very loud to your Senators to oppose the Save (voter suppression) act. Also tell your Congressmen that release of documents is not enough. Among the many questions (all) Pam Bondi dodged was one about is the DOJ investigating and indicting anyone?
They, unfortunately, will remain general until the names redacted, that allegedly should not have been, are released. Also, MTG said that the King told her some of his friends would be embarrassed. Ask the King who. specifically, he meant.
The Clintons? Bill Gates? Larry Summers? ADD to the list Donald Trump? Elon Musk? Howard Lutnick? Kathy Ruemmler? --many of whom have lied about their association with the man they now refer to as a creep.
No matter who "they" are specifically, no matter their political leanings, if "they" committed crimes, "they "should be prosecuted.
We are about to go to war against Iran. Dozens of ships, aircraft carriers, missile systems and related forces are either in the Middle East right now or streaming toward it, awaiting orders to fire.
Not a single one of Donald’s wormtongues has bothered to explain why. Nobody can explain to the American people why this is taking place right now.
Whatever’s in the rest of those Epstein files or in police blotters in Britain must be truly horrific.
Do I believe Trump is going for another war in order to try to change the subject from Epstein? Is he truly both that desperate AND that stupid?
Yes, I believe that’s exactly what’s going on. Somebody please feel free to prove me wrong.
I don’t see it. I don’t think trump can survive an incident with more than a dozen Americans killed, especially given his failure to prepare ‘us’ for it. And the Iranians know it. If Trump were to nuke an Iranian city and the Iranians to sink an American supply tender, Iran would ‘win’ in public opinion in the U.S. Meanwhile, trump is playing havoc with the Navy’s maintenance schedule that will be felt for the next ten years. He can’t leave two carrier groups out there for more than about ten days more - and the Iranians know that too: just dick around with Jared for a week or two and the danger will pass.
Yeah, but does T**** care? I hardly think so. We're up to 145 killed in those "drug boat strikes" and he doesn't give a rat's ass that he's been violating the law of the sea for months. No one has been able to bring him to account. Congress certainly doesn't have the cojones, and Kegsbreath will keep giving the orders to send the troops and weapons at T****'s behest. There isn't a moral bone in all the bodies of all the cabinet members.
Clym I’ve been following the Straits of Hormuz for over 60 years. Today over 25% of the world’s oil transits this spot. Might this give gunshot Donnie a surprise? It seems fairly easy to block this narrow passage.
The Gerald R Ford was due in port in the U.S. a couple weeks ago. Dry-docks need to be scheduled; you can’t just pull an aircraft carrier (or a destroyer, or a tender) up on the beach when it needs work done. Now the Ford will take another’s slot for its routine maintenance, and so on, and so on. I understand carriers are scheduled to be ‘down’ five months a year
Clym As Bone Spur Donald plays generalissimo by moving aircraft carrier flotillas around the globe, many thousand service men are forced to be at sea for countless additional months.
Also, the aircraft carriers miss their scheduled reconditioning.
Has Donnie ever thought that someone could hit his ships with missiles and/or drones? OOPS!
You know what sub commanders consider aircraft carriers - sitting ducks. Reports are that every carrier in the world is in a picture taken through the periscope of a hunter-killer submarine - and the carriers never knew the subs were there.
Caveat: I may be ‘over my skis’ here. All I know about the Navy I learned from Mr. Roberts and The Caine Mutiny - books first, movies later. And, oh yeah, Tora Tora Tora.
YES! I believe Trump is going for another war in order to try to change the subject from Epstein! His narcissism will never allow him to admit that he is wrong of anything! And the truth in those files would sink him absolutely. With what little brain he has left he will stop at NOTHING to have us look at something else.
Rubio knows that he's gone over to the evil side - which makes it all the worse. You can see it in his cold dead eyes. I was never a fan of his, but I used to think that he was, at least, a decent person. No more.
Laurie Rubio launched his political career on the lie that his parents fled Castro and came to Florida. In fact, they emigrated years before Castro.
Mario has a fixation on Cuba, which is a failed state. Over the past two years at least 400,000 Cubans emigrated—mostly young and lots of women. The remaining 10 million +/- are living with hunger and high unemployment.
Sanctions—including Trump’s recent blockage of petroleum from Venezuela and Mexico—have killed the tourist trade and cut power for industry and daily living.
A massive change from when Cuba was flourishing with Maria involvement (see The Godfather).
My grandmother came from Cuba in the 1870s. We invaded Cuba in 1898 (Bully boy Teddy). Why should we be concerned with a moribund Cuba today, except as a Rubio toy?
Trump's commented on Rubio's performance at Munich at yesterday's Board of Peace. Marco did “so proud” in Munich, but “if you do any better… you’re out of here.” Like all his minions, Rubio had to walk a tightrope trying at once to please his boss and to keep NATO allies onside.
I can’t purge the sight of Rubio lecturing about ‘Western Civilization’ to an auditorium full of people many - or most - with doctoral degrees in various aspects of … ‘Western Civilization’, from major universities (unlikely to include the University of Florida polisci department). BUT wouldn’t the effect have been a bit better had Marco been capable of including just one sentence - nay, just one *phrase* - in German (or French)?
The least accomplished and least qualified person in the room pontificating from the podium … and he the *only* one who doesn’t realize it.
Kind of like a Karoline Leavitt press briefing, isn’t it?
Robin I’m surprised that Bone Spur Donnie hasn’t appeared in a golden military uniform with medals from all sorts of countries. I believe that he once wore a uniform at the military academy where his daddy send him ‘to get discipline.’ Apparently that failed.
It’s like all the incompetent nincompoops in the cabinet- BobbyBrainworm, Lindathewrestler, KristiNoheart- they are people without qualifications lecturing their betters.
Or Hegseth flying in the military top brass to lecture them on manliness … then throwing an admiral under the bus to avoid his own war crimes accountability.
I’m guessing Marco wants only Cuba from the Donald. If he decides he wants more, he’ll take it - and get to lead men in battle like a real generalissimo. With his big hands, how can he fail?
So much has been unearthed for the past few weeks, it seems to me “we” should be able to start proceedings against a few people, at least. The first should be Lutnick. The second should possibly be Wexner who could at least be charged with perjury before Congress. People will have dozens more to add to the list, but at least we could get started. Sure would be nice to have Joyce as the prosecutor – – a slam dunk if ever there was one!
The lead prosecution in the cases ahead for the Epstein class will be life- and career-consuming for whoever assumes that burden. I hope we end up with the right person, but wouldn't wish the role on anyone I like.
The thing is, it will need to be someone who can be perceived as objective and unbiased. Not for those who continue to believe the big lie and will until their last breath, but for those who sort of just go with the prevailing winds of others in their circle. The ones who have decided that yes, there’s corruption and the like and we need an investigation. Finding that person… otherwise, any result will be scrutinized by politicians while campaigning going forward.
Todd already told us that there won’t be any more prosecutions. The arrest of the fallen prince could start a swelling of support for reversal by the misguided DOJ. Public opinion will decide the issue. We saw it already when Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie’s bill grew from a mere possibility to every member of Congress minus one voting Yes.
IMHO New Mexico and Virgin Islands should be at the forefront. Maybe NY and other states where there is no statute of limitations for rape.
Lutnick may not have been a rapist, but may have been a pimp, panderer, and was a business partner with Epstein, knowing he was running the honeypot operation. Supposedly they were partners in an advertising business.
Also obstrution of justice may be an ongoing issue.
Google: Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein were business associates primarily between 2012 and 2014, according to unsealed Justice Department records. While Lutnick previously claimed to have severed all ties with Epstein in 2005, the "Epstein files" released in early 2026 revealed several shared financial and social entanglements:
Adfin Solutions Inc. (2012–2014): On December 28, 2012, both men signed documents on behalf of their respective companies—Epstein through Southern Trust Company and Lutnick through a Cantor Fitzgerald affiliate—to acquire stakes in this advertising technology firm.
Property Transaction (1996–1998): Records show a historical real estate connection where Epstein sold a Manhattan property in 1996 that Lutnick eventually purchased in 1998 to use as his primary residence.
Continued Interaction:
2011: The two scheduled drinks at Epstein’s home.
2012: Lutnick and his family visited Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James, for lunch in December.
2015: Lutnick invited Epstein to a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton hosted at Cantor Fitzgerald.
2017: Epstein donated $50,000 to a UJA-Federation of New York dinner honoring Lutnick.
Lutnick, the current U.S. Secretary of Commerce, has maintained that these interactions were limited and mostly coordinated through assistants.
Thank you for all of these details. And the lying. It’s disgusting that Lutnick is still a cabinet member. When a prince has been arrested. Every time he is seen in public, he should be met with shouts of “Epstein liar!”
I don't think we in the US have forgotten what accountability looks like for public officials. I think we've never seen it. In my own lifetime Gerald Ford preemptively pardoned Richard Nixon, saying it was more important for the country to heal and go on than it was to try him. In the 30s, there was a cabal of wealthy men who organized to try to overthrow or sideline FDR and install a fascist government. Their plot was stopped, but it was all tidily taken care of behind closed Congressional doors. After the Civil War, confederate traitors were allowed to rejoin the Union with their voting and property rights undisturbed. In public, we have relied on elections to get rid of politicians we don't want to represent us, but the private interests behind those politicians have been securely protected. Protecting the wealthy and powerful seems to be in our national DNA.
Thank you for this wonderful article, Professor. I agree let our current, President, testify. I don’t know if President Clinton did anything! His wife Secretary Clinton wants a fair hearing. That is according to The BBC. Here is my opinion, bring the hearing of the Clinton’s to televised hearings, so that we know what they testify about!
Boy, I hope you’re right. I tend to have faith in the future, but reading through the comments here had dragged me under. Until yours! Breathe. Ah yes. Fresh air, if only a waft. Thanks. 🙏
Because of the Epstein files, the brother of the king of England was arrested. Evidently Fergy, his former wife, was up to her arm pits in Epstein money and e-mails.
A number of prominent foreigners have been targeted or resigned because of the Epstein files.
A smaller number of prominent Americans have been targeted or resigned.
WHY HAVEN’T ANY PROMINENT MEMBERS OF TRUMP’S COTERIE BEEN SPECIFICALLY TARGETED AND FORCED TO RESIGN? IS TRUMP PERSONALLY GUILTLESS?
No accountability or justice yet from Trumpstein's coterie also because of the Republicans in Congress. And the reactionary majority of SCOTUS justices. And the 30% of Americans who don't know who Pam Bondi is and could care less.
The dam is breaking. XPrince Andrew is gonna sing. There will be more documents coming out of England, other European countries, and maybe even from Israel. Trump’s DOJ won’t be able to withhold them or over-redact them.
But in what would be his greatest act of deflection, at any moment The Dearest Donald could start a war with Iran—ostensibly to end Iran’s nuclear ambitions. That’s my big worry now.
(If Trump re-bombs Iran, the MAGAs won’t remember that The Dearest Donald swore Iran’s nuclear program had been obliterated just a few months ago.)
He's no longer a prince, that's certainly true, but even Charles can't take remove him from the royal bloodline and so he remains eighth in line to the throne.
I'm torn between my responsibility as a citizen of a titular democracy to be informed and my horror and revulsion at what is discussed (disgust) in those files, a corrupting inversion of human values away from protection and nuturing, toward sadism and predation, with an undercurrent of a pathetic submission sacrificing decency to belonging with the mean baboons (not fair to baboons) the mean and rich and lost damned fools. I cringe at that level of detail, but, yes.
Does anyone believe that the no. 1 Presidential horndog ever kept it in his pants on the island? Carol Leonig’s book about the Secret Service described some of the Service’s consternation when they tried to protect the man who repeatedly sought sexual trysts. Yes, his testimony will be watched. If he takes the 5th, we will know.
Awesome commentary on Prince Andrew. (I will always call him that because he was born a royal and that cannot be taken away, only his titles).
I cannot understand why WE cannot prosecute a sitting President for doing the same thing. We are losing our Democracy and it hurts my heart. We have got to get rid of this man, sooner than later. My only hope is that Andrew tells the truth and doesn’t hold anything back. The Queen must be rolling in her grave.
Andrew is referred to in the UK and everywhere except certain news outlets in the US as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. He is no longer a royal. He is related to the royal family, but he himself is not a royal. It is an insult to the decision of King Charles to strip Andrew of all of his titles and privileges for anyone at this juncture to call him “Prince” Andrew.
Thank you Ann P. As an American citizen I don't feel special about royalty. If they themselves will not use his titles why should we? He is an embarrassment to them & poses a threat to the value of the monarchy. The King's position is proper, moral & smart. That family doesn't want to disappear into the superficial social club of Eurotrash. Our government, on the other hand, seems to be sinking into a mire of lawbreaking incompetence, incivility, lies, & shocking immorality in service to a gang of rich criminals seeking power & wealth--our own form of trash. I really hope the example of world leaders will shake something loose here.
For the record, AI reports that only one British King was beheaded and that was Charles I in 1649. But apparently somewhere around 4-6 are considered to have been murdered. So there’s that.
Charles ran head on, so to speak, into my Congregationalist forebears. No wonder Jimmy Carter described his Baptists as the kinder, gentler Calvinists. The memory of the hard edges and judgemental tendencies of Puritan theocracy must have lent considerable somber urgency to Separation of Church and State.
Would it not be ironic if the behavior of this scion of the royal family helped rid mankind of the idea that there should be kings. I think Britain could prosper without all that faux pomp and circumstance, just like we will without the Orange Menace and his minions.
I hope justice is being served. These people abusing children are horrible. I keep believing that truth will prevail. If these laws about not abusing children aren't sacred then what is? I respect your insights and explanations into what's going on. They help me to not give into being overwhelmingly cynical. Thank you for helping me to hope justice is being served.
I've refused to say or write the monster's name since 2016. I realized that he IS a sadist when I watched the repugnicant debates that August. Since then, the only words I use are the orange sadist. (Added pedophilic to the name in the past year.)
I will not hold my breath there will be any accountability for trump while he is president. It is truly sad the entire civilized world is able to recognize the atrocities and dispense justice, while Americans must wait. The republican party is a disgrace to the rule of law.
And I know this may sound like I’m a conspiracy nut, but with all the info coming out I am becoming more convinced that Epstein was a Russian asset. That would explain so much. How he became so wealthy and why Trump is so terrified of Putin. Can you imagine the dirt Epstein had on Trump and gave to Putin?? Child rape, money laundering, child trafficking…the list is endless.
I think you’re on to something Karen. I’ve long believed that Trump‘s obsequiousness and obeisance to Putin could only be explained politically by Putin holding some serious Kompromat on Trump.
May this be the turning point--- So important to keep the pressure up here---- The weather in the US is getting rough for truth and justice. But as one who spoke truth to power, wealth, kings, and corruption centuries ago said: "Let Justice roll down like like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” Amen.....
SO MANY in power in the United States are complicit. We cannot let their complicity deter us from pursuing justice.
We the people must reclaim our power.
A reminder tonight that a little 5-year-old kid in a bunny hat from Minneapolis named Liam Ramos has already spent more time in police detention in the United States than any of Jeffrey Epstein’s many, many associates and friends, Donald Dump included.
That truth makes my heart hurt.
It makes me scream -- and it also reminds me to keep that little boy's image in mind 24/7.
That's breath taking when you think about it.
That is truly disturbing and just plain sad. Hopefully, this accountability in other countries will lead to the same here. Plus, now that SCOTUS has finally stood up to DJT, I hope others will do the same. I would like to see universities that signed any type of agreement with King Donald to alter and/or monitor what is taught renege on those agreements--declare their independence. Above all, in the name of Liam Ramos, I would like to see those law firms that capitulated to the King and made agreements with him, renege and instead, offer legal assistance to those nonviolent immigrants who were unjustly arrested and deported or held illegally, as well as to others that have been the objecs of his disgusting retribution campaign. Finally, though it does not need to be said (or maybe needs to be said more!), If the King has nothing to fear, release the Epstein file with the names of victims being the only ones redacted.
Argh. Unhappy point!
Wow you know how to reach the heart!
Yes, but we must act without torches and pitchforks.
Not even just little ones? For a very limited time? I guess you’re ruling out beheadings too, then?
Stoning is kinda civil.
But getting stoned is criminal! Irony, where is thy sting?
tar and feathers?
Drawn and quartered-I know where we can get the horses and the rope.
Humor is the best medicine!!
Yes. But there is a line beyond which people will coalesce in violent revolt. The line is yet invisible to us. Many feel we are closer than ever to just such a tipping point. There is no denying history is replete with sorrowful examples. When an historic tide starts to gain momentum there is little that can stop it. Just sayin’
YES! And I feel it getting closer and closer!
Darn! I so want that, to puncture and incinerate a certain unlimited arrogance serving as the very model of evil triumphant. I could manage to settle for the slow but fine grind of an obdurate bureaucracy, for the lyric poetry of it.
Why?
What? I've already lubed the wheel bearings on my tumbrils.
The Republicans are protecting Trump and going along with his plans to limit voting to secure their own jobs. So undemocratic, it’s criminal in nature.
Agree. It is criminal, and more Democrats and Independents should be stating this, every day if necessary. If it were Clinton or Obama instead of King Don, Republicans would be calling a press conference every day, screaming for impeachment.
As in the vast majorit of Republican office holders.
Easy to say, harder to do -- since "we" have been letting power slip through our fingers at least since the Reagan administration, and an argument could be made that "we" never had all that much power anyway.
Let's get real about what we can and should do. I hope that Scott Galloway's Unsubscribe movement gains a lot of traction. Also, be very loud to your Senators to oppose the Save (voter suppression) act. Also tell your Congressmen that release of documents is not enough. Among the many questions (all) Pam Bondi dodged was one about is the DOJ investigating and indicting anyone?
WHO IS THEY?
Who should face justice?
The Clintons? Bill Gates? Larry Summers?
Make the case. Lay out your facts.
They is a little too DAMN general.
They, unfortunately, will remain general until the names redacted, that allegedly should not have been, are released. Also, MTG said that the King told her some of his friends would be embarrassed. Ask the King who. specifically, he meant.
The Clintons? Bill Gates? Larry Summers? ADD to the list Donald Trump? Elon Musk? Howard Lutnick? Kathy Ruemmler? --many of whom have lied about their association with the man they now refer to as a creep.
No matter who "they" are specifically, no matter their political leanings, if "they" committed crimes, "they "should be prosecuted.
Meanwhile, Marco Rubio cuddles up with Viktor Orban … fair weather ahead!
We are about to go to war against Iran. Dozens of ships, aircraft carriers, missile systems and related forces are either in the Middle East right now or streaming toward it, awaiting orders to fire.
Not a single one of Donald’s wormtongues has bothered to explain why. Nobody can explain to the American people why this is taking place right now.
Whatever’s in the rest of those Epstein files or in police blotters in Britain must be truly horrific.
Do I believe Trump is going for another war in order to try to change the subject from Epstein? Is he truly both that desperate AND that stupid?
Yes, I believe that’s exactly what’s going on. Somebody please feel free to prove me wrong.
Agreed! Perhaps we can avert war by naming it the Trump Tehran International Airport?
Donnie is a busy boy these days... he's got to be soiling his depends at an ever-faster rate as more and more becomes apparent. May his days be few...
I don’t see it. I don’t think trump can survive an incident with more than a dozen Americans killed, especially given his failure to prepare ‘us’ for it. And the Iranians know it. If Trump were to nuke an Iranian city and the Iranians to sink an American supply tender, Iran would ‘win’ in public opinion in the U.S. Meanwhile, trump is playing havoc with the Navy’s maintenance schedule that will be felt for the next ten years. He can’t leave two carrier groups out there for more than about ten days more - and the Iranians know that too: just dick around with Jared for a week or two and the danger will pass.
Let’s see what trump does on Tuesday
Yeah, but does T**** care? I hardly think so. We're up to 145 killed in those "drug boat strikes" and he doesn't give a rat's ass that he's been violating the law of the sea for months. No one has been able to bring him to account. Congress certainly doesn't have the cojones, and Kegsbreath will keep giving the orders to send the troops and weapons at T****'s behest. There isn't a moral bone in all the bodies of all the cabinet members.
Or in the entire Republican Congress.
Clym I’ve been following the Straits of Hormuz for over 60 years. Today over 25% of the world’s oil transits this spot. Might this give gunshot Donnie a surprise? It seems fairly easy to block this narrow passage.
High price of oil benefits Putin.
I think the 'you'll know in two weeks' line from Trump essentially has meant this week, next week, sometime, never.
Many Trumpian plans and policies are 'you'll know in two weeks' category, including sanctions against Russia.
Why can the carrier groups stay for only about 10 more days? Aren’t they self sufficient for months? Please explain.
The Gerald R Ford was due in port in the U.S. a couple weeks ago. Dry-docks need to be scheduled; you can’t just pull an aircraft carrier (or a destroyer, or a tender) up on the beach when it needs work done. Now the Ford will take another’s slot for its routine maintenance, and so on, and so on. I understand carriers are scheduled to be ‘down’ five months a year
Clym As Bone Spur Donald plays generalissimo by moving aircraft carrier flotillas around the globe, many thousand service men are forced to be at sea for countless additional months.
Also, the aircraft carriers miss their scheduled reconditioning.
Has Donnie ever thought that someone could hit his ships with missiles and/or drones? OOPS!
Donnie does not spend much of his limited time actually thinking.
I would only remark that the ships are ours, not his. He's playing pretend warrior with our property.
You know what sub commanders consider aircraft carriers - sitting ducks. Reports are that every carrier in the world is in a picture taken through the periscope of a hunter-killer submarine - and the carriers never knew the subs were there.
Caveat: I may be ‘over my skis’ here. All I know about the Navy I learned from Mr. Roberts and The Caine Mutiny - books first, movies later. And, oh yeah, Tora Tora Tora.
Clym A fine tutorial. Also try Midway for an excellent account of a near-thing victory based on a hunch and guts.
Humphrey Bogurt was so brilliant in The Caine Mutiny. It's heartbreaking the toll war takes.
Well, the last scene at the party with Fred McMurray seems very relevant today.
Meanwhile, who can forget Henry Fonda as Doug Roberts? And Cagney and Lemmon and Powell and Bond …
Apparently Kegsbreath has figured out that killing someone every week is his job security.
YES! I believe Trump is going for another war in order to try to change the subject from Epstein! His narcissism will never allow him to admit that he is wrong of anything! And the truth in those files would sink him absolutely. With what little brain he has left he will stop at NOTHING to have us look at something else.
“Distraction, distraction, dumdumdum…Distraction!” to the tune of “Tradition” from Fiddler on the Roof”.
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Rubio knows that he's gone over to the evil side - which makes it all the worse. You can see it in his cold dead eyes. I was never a fan of his, but I used to think that he was, at least, a decent person. No more.
Laurie Rubio launched his political career on the lie that his parents fled Castro and came to Florida. In fact, they emigrated years before Castro.
Mario has a fixation on Cuba, which is a failed state. Over the past two years at least 400,000 Cubans emigrated—mostly young and lots of women. The remaining 10 million +/- are living with hunger and high unemployment.
Sanctions—including Trump’s recent blockage of petroleum from Venezuela and Mexico—have killed the tourist trade and cut power for industry and daily living.
A massive change from when Cuba was flourishing with Maria involvement (see The Godfather).
My grandmother came from Cuba in the 1870s. We invaded Cuba in 1898 (Bully boy Teddy). Why should we be concerned with a moribund Cuba today, except as a Rubio toy?
Let’s not forget that Fulgencio Bautista was also very corrupt and had no problems with the sex trafficking of women and girls.
I agree. Haven’t followed him … but I thought he had at least *some* self-respect. His move to the Dark Side was so rapid I’m still out of breath.
Trump's commented on Rubio's performance at Munich at yesterday's Board of Peace. Marco did “so proud” in Munich, but “if you do any better… you’re out of here.” Like all his minions, Rubio had to walk a tightrope trying at once to please his boss and to keep NATO allies onside.
I can’t purge the sight of Rubio lecturing about ‘Western Civilization’ to an auditorium full of people many - or most - with doctoral degrees in various aspects of … ‘Western Civilization’, from major universities (unlikely to include the University of Florida polisci department). BUT wouldn’t the effect have been a bit better had Marco been capable of including just one sentence - nay, just one *phrase* - in German (or French)?
The least accomplished and least qualified person in the room pontificating from the podium … and he the *only* one who doesn’t realize it.
Kind of like a Karoline Leavitt press briefing, isn’t it?
Or the Kegsbreth General's meeting where he told them all to get their hair cut or they weren't soldiers. . .
My point exactly … and better said.
Or like tough Mr War Guy (isn't that his new title?) telling the actual generals how to dress.
Robin I’m surprised that Bone Spur Donnie hasn’t appeared in a golden military uniform with medals from all sorts of countries. I believe that he once wore a uniform at the military academy where his daddy send him ‘to get discipline.’ Apparently that failed.
Particularly with those enormous service caps preferred by Myanmar top brass—one hat can also serve as a dining table for four.
David On which to keep ketchup, to throw at the wall in anger.
Building Makeup Rooms Builds Better Warriors!
David Mascara for the Army Rangers.
And Camo Blush.
It’s like all the incompetent nincompoops in the cabinet- BobbyBrainworm, Lindathewrestler, KristiNoheart- they are people without qualifications lecturing their betters.
Andrew was always the Queen’s favorite child. She even paid his settlement with Virginia Guiffre. It must sadly be poetic Justice for Charles.
Except, there really is nothing like a Karoline Leavitt press briefing. (Okay, fingernails on a chalkboard, in perpetuity.)
With her ever present smile, cross necklace and bald faced lies.
And smug, denigrating tone. 😖
Ah, the very face of white supremacy!
Or Hegseth flying in the military top brass to lecture them on manliness … then throwing an admiral under the bus to avoid his own war crimes accountability.
By hugging Orban? Not exactly endearing to NATO.
What could possibly go wrong? 😱
Rubio takes one look at Trump: “My Fulgencio!”
Marco has his bags packed to go play viceroy. I’ll bet his dad will finally smile on him *then*
Viceroy of the Western Hemisphere! Obeisance to King Donald the Only.
I’m guessing Marco wants only Cuba from the Donald. If he decides he wants more, he’ll take it - and get to lead men in battle like a real generalissimo. With his big hands, how can he fail?
Plus, he gets to wear that outsized generalissimo service cap!
one of your best David !
Thank you! A truly awful regime… but comedy gold. (See above.)
king donald the only
So much has been unearthed for the past few weeks, it seems to me “we” should be able to start proceedings against a few people, at least. The first should be Lutnick. The second should possibly be Wexner who could at least be charged with perjury before Congress. People will have dozens more to add to the list, but at least we could get started. Sure would be nice to have Joyce as the prosecutor – – a slam dunk if ever there was one!
The lead prosecution in the cases ahead for the Epstein class will be life- and career-consuming for whoever assumes that burden. I hope we end up with the right person, but wouldn't wish the role on anyone I like.
Bring back Maureen Comey. She prosecuted Maxwell and knows it from inside out.
The thing is, it will need to be someone who can be perceived as objective and unbiased. Not for those who continue to believe the big lie and will until their last breath, but for those who sort of just go with the prevailing winds of others in their circle. The ones who have decided that yes, there’s corruption and the like and we need an investigation. Finding that person… otherwise, any result will be scrutinized by politicians while campaigning going forward.
We are really in a pickle!
Todd already told us that there won’t be any more prosecutions. The arrest of the fallen prince could start a swelling of support for reversal by the misguided DOJ. Public opinion will decide the issue. We saw it already when Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie’s bill grew from a mere possibility to every member of Congress minus one voting Yes.
It can, should, must happen.
IMHO New Mexico and Virgin Islands should be at the forefront. Maybe NY and other states where there is no statute of limitations for rape.
Lutnick may not have been a rapist, but may have been a pimp, panderer, and was a business partner with Epstein, knowing he was running the honeypot operation. Supposedly they were partners in an advertising business.
Also obstrution of justice may be an ongoing issue.
Google: Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein were business associates primarily between 2012 and 2014, according to unsealed Justice Department records. While Lutnick previously claimed to have severed all ties with Epstein in 2005, the "Epstein files" released in early 2026 revealed several shared financial and social entanglements:
Adfin Solutions Inc. (2012–2014): On December 28, 2012, both men signed documents on behalf of their respective companies—Epstein through Southern Trust Company and Lutnick through a Cantor Fitzgerald affiliate—to acquire stakes in this advertising technology firm.
Property Transaction (1996–1998): Records show a historical real estate connection where Epstein sold a Manhattan property in 1996 that Lutnick eventually purchased in 1998 to use as his primary residence.
Continued Interaction:
2011: The two scheduled drinks at Epstein’s home.
2012: Lutnick and his family visited Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James, for lunch in December.
2015: Lutnick invited Epstein to a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton hosted at Cantor Fitzgerald.
2017: Epstein donated $50,000 to a UJA-Federation of New York dinner honoring Lutnick.
Lutnick, the current U.S. Secretary of Commerce, has maintained that these interactions were limited and mostly coordinated through assistants.
Thank you for all of these details. And the lying. It’s disgusting that Lutnick is still a cabinet member. When a prince has been arrested. Every time he is seen in public, he should be met with shouts of “Epstein liar!”
Absolutely!
I don't think we in the US have forgotten what accountability looks like for public officials. I think we've never seen it. In my own lifetime Gerald Ford preemptively pardoned Richard Nixon, saying it was more important for the country to heal and go on than it was to try him. In the 30s, there was a cabal of wealthy men who organized to try to overthrow or sideline FDR and install a fascist government. Their plot was stopped, but it was all tidily taken care of behind closed Congressional doors. After the Civil War, confederate traitors were allowed to rejoin the Union with their voting and property rights undisturbed. In public, we have relied on elections to get rid of politicians we don't want to represent us, but the private interests behind those politicians have been securely protected. Protecting the wealthy and powerful seems to be in our national DNA.
That cabal included Prescott Bush. I don't think it prevented his sin firm becoming president.
("his sin" -- probably a typo; if not, love the pun)
Or his grandson. Wealth is generational.
Thank you for this wonderful article, Professor. I agree let our current, President, testify. I don’t know if President Clinton did anything! His wife Secretary Clinton wants a fair hearing. That is according to The BBC. Here is my opinion, bring the hearing of the Clinton’s to televised hearings, so that we know what they testify about!
The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceeding fine.
Today had a hint of that. Pressure on!
Boy, I hope you’re right. I tend to have faith in the future, but reading through the comments here had dragged me under. Until yours! Breathe. Ah yes. Fresh air, if only a waft. Thanks. 🙏
Because of the Epstein files, the brother of the king of England was arrested. Evidently Fergy, his former wife, was up to her arm pits in Epstein money and e-mails.
A number of prominent foreigners have been targeted or resigned because of the Epstein files.
A smaller number of prominent Americans have been targeted or resigned.
WHY HAVEN’T ANY PROMINENT MEMBERS OF TRUMP’S COTERIE BEEN SPECIFICALLY TARGETED AND FORCED TO RESIGN? IS TRUMP PERSONALLY GUILTLESS?
A: Pamela Jo Bondi
No accountability or justice yet from Trumpstein's coterie also because of the Republicans in Congress. And the reactionary majority of SCOTUS justices. And the 30% of Americans who don't know who Pam Bondi is and could care less.
*Couldn’t* care less. 😣
so, all you got from that post is the need for an English lesson ?
Laurie Never acknowledge shame is the name of the Trump game.
"Being rich means never having to say you're sorry."
Lady Especially if the fat cat has a prenup.
Pam Bondi
Jim Bambi could do a better job as Att Gen than Bondi—who represents injustice.
The dam is breaking. XPrince Andrew is gonna sing. There will be more documents coming out of England, other European countries, and maybe even from Israel. Trump’s DOJ won’t be able to withhold them or over-redact them.
But in what would be his greatest act of deflection, at any moment The Dearest Donald could start a war with Iran—ostensibly to end Iran’s nuclear ambitions. That’s my big worry now.
(If Trump re-bombs Iran, the MAGAs won’t remember that The Dearest Donald swore Iran’s nuclear program had been obliterated just a few months ago.)
Andrew is now officially known in the UK and everywhere, per decree of King Charles, as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Please call him by his name.
He's no longer a prince, that's certainly true, but even Charles can't take remove him from the royal bloodline and so he remains eighth in line to the throne.
???!!! He's still in line for the throne?!!
TM-WFKAP?
The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince could share TAFKAP.
XPrince sounds too Musky? They do share having large roles in the Epstein collection.
“Musky” is a rather fitting description of the XPrince, don’t you think?
I'm torn between my responsibility as a citizen of a titular democracy to be informed and my horror and revulsion at what is discussed (disgust) in those files, a corrupting inversion of human values away from protection and nuturing, toward sadism and predation, with an undercurrent of a pathetic submission sacrificing decency to belonging with the mean baboons (not fair to baboons) the mean and rich and lost damned fools. I cringe at that level of detail, but, yes.
I am looking forward to the Clinton's public testimony!!!!
Does anyone believe that the no. 1 Presidential horndog ever kept it in his pants on the island? Carol Leonig’s book about the Secret Service described some of the Service’s consternation when they tried to protect the man who repeatedly sought sexual trysts. Yes, his testimony will be watched. If he takes the 5th, we will know.
Me too!
Awesome commentary on Prince Andrew. (I will always call him that because he was born a royal and that cannot be taken away, only his titles).
I cannot understand why WE cannot prosecute a sitting President for doing the same thing. We are losing our Democracy and it hurts my heart. We have got to get rid of this man, sooner than later. My only hope is that Andrew tells the truth and doesn’t hold anything back. The Queen must be rolling in her grave.
Andrew is referred to in the UK and everywhere except certain news outlets in the US as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. He is no longer a royal. He is related to the royal family, but he himself is not a royal. It is an insult to the decision of King Charles to strip Andrew of all of his titles and privileges for anyone at this juncture to call him “Prince” Andrew.
Thank you Ann P. As an American citizen I don't feel special about royalty. If they themselves will not use his titles why should we? He is an embarrassment to them & poses a threat to the value of the monarchy. The King's position is proper, moral & smart. That family doesn't want to disappear into the superficial social club of Eurotrash. Our government, on the other hand, seems to be sinking into a mire of lawbreaking incompetence, incivility, lies, & shocking immorality in service to a gang of rich criminals seeking power & wealth--our own form of trash. I really hope the example of world leaders will shake something loose here.
Agree 100%. Thanks for the support. The word “prince” should never again be found anywhere near that disgusting person’s identity.
He’s no Lionel of Antwerp, I know that much
As I am American, I could care less about titles.
So why did you say this:
"I will always call him that because he was born a royal and that cannot be taken away, only his titles"
That's not something a person who could not care less about titles would say. And if you "could care less", then there's room for going even lower.
Let’s nit pick. Ok? The thread is about his arrest. Not what I happen to call him. Got it?
What I've got is your refusal to call a pedophile by his legal name because you like thinking of him as a prince.
what's with all the improper use of English complaints on this one ?
except supreme POS, which belongs to hump
The Queen has a whole history of bad behavior on the part of royals to consider from the great beyond!
All the past Kings and Queens have had these issues. Just read British History. Many were beheaded.
For the record, AI reports that only one British King was beheaded and that was Charles I in 1649. But apparently somewhere around 4-6 are considered to have been murdered. So there’s that.
Charles ran head on, so to speak, into my Congregationalist forebears. No wonder Jimmy Carter described his Baptists as the kinder, gentler Calvinists. The memory of the hard edges and judgemental tendencies of Puritan theocracy must have lent considerable somber urgency to Separation of Church and State.
Ummm … you’re being unfair to Jane Grey the Nine-Days Queen. Don’t feed your bot tonight
Do you favor preserving tradition to that degree?
I have, that’s why I said what I said.
Would it not be ironic if the behavior of this scion of the royal family helped rid mankind of the idea that there should be kings. I think Britain could prosper without all that faux pomp and circumstance, just like we will without the Orange Menace and his minions.
I doubt it somehow. He was reputedly her favourite and most pampered child.
So clearly a perfect example of “spare the rod…”
Seems he didn't spare HIS. . .
His title was "Prince" and that has indeed been taken away.
"Oh, the irony. The country with a king still subscribes to the belief that no man is above the law."
That's the difference between a constitutional monarchy and a dictatorship.
Irony, indeed.
The nation that once tossed a dictatorial monarch, elected the man who declared he would be a dictator.
When will we ever learn?
And where *have* all the flowers gone? Long time passing …
Right ON Joyce!
I hope justice is being served. These people abusing children are horrible. I keep believing that truth will prevail. If these laws about not abusing children aren't sacred then what is? I respect your insights and explanations into what's going on. They help me to not give into being overwhelmingly cynical. Thank you for helping me to hope justice is being served.
The only things that are sacred to them are money and power. Everything else is irrelevant. Suffering is irrelevant to them. They just don't care.
Actually, I rather think they enjoy seeing others suffer.
I've refused to say or write the monster's name since 2016. I realized that he IS a sadist when I watched the repugnicant debates that August. Since then, the only words I use are the orange sadist. (Added pedophilic to the name in the past year.)
they are completely devoid of empathy, understanding and compassion
I will not hold my breath there will be any accountability for trump while he is president. It is truly sad the entire civilized world is able to recognize the atrocities and dispense justice, while Americans must wait. The republican party is a disgrace to the rule of law.
And I know this may sound like I’m a conspiracy nut, but with all the info coming out I am becoming more convinced that Epstein was a Russian asset. That would explain so much. How he became so wealthy and why Trump is so terrified of Putin. Can you imagine the dirt Epstein had on Trump and gave to Putin?? Child rape, money laundering, child trafficking…the list is endless.
I think you’re on to something Karen. I’ve long believed that Trump‘s obsequiousness and obeisance to Putin could only be explained politically by Putin holding some serious Kompromat on Trump.
May this be the turning point--- So important to keep the pressure up here---- The weather in the US is getting rough for truth and justice. But as one who spoke truth to power, wealth, kings, and corruption centuries ago said: "Let Justice roll down like like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” Amen.....
Powerful words but the white Christian nationalists think they have righteousness on their side.
They think but they think wrongly.
Their facts are messed up.
Of course they do, it comes with their territory
every conflict ever, including sports, has known God was on their side.....laughable really
No one is above the law in even our MAGA governed country
Correction: ESPECIALLY our MAGA governed country.
Correction: Our MAGA governs the law.
For now, my friend.
Yes. Exactly. For now. Only now.
Trump is. The Supreme Court says so.