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The fact that the House Judiciary Dems just released a 53-page report in which 11 women spoke to Trump's ties to Epstein's sex-trafficking operation, 5 of them alleging Trump forced himself on them directly, and one citing a particularly brutal rape while she was a beauty pageant contestant, should be a more significant story. The fact that Todd Blanche has refused to comply with the court order to release the Epstein files following Katie Phang's lawsuit, should be a more significant story. The fact that the Epstein Estate ACTUALLY PAID a settlement to one of the women who alleged that Donald Trump raped her as a minor, and it was paid AFTER Epstein died, as told under oath by Epstein's longtime accountant, should be a more significant story. The fact that Trump said he wasn't ever on Epstein's plane and then we found out he was, should be a more significant story. The fact that we know senior officials gathered in the Situation Room to concoct and coordinate an Epstein coverup should be the most significant story of all. And when you combine ALL these stories and add to it his hiring of Alex Acosta, the birthday card, Bondi, the movement of Maxwell to a more lenient facility, and then - especially - my pet peeve - simply Trump's panicked behavior on all things Epstein, you really see the degree of the problem we need to fix ... Echo chambers, social media algorithms, dopamine addicts, and other susceptible citizens, have normalized something that shouldn't be normalizable (poetic license). To put it simply, and I know it sounds like an understatement, but this election is about so much more than gas prices.

One fun aspect of Trump being forced to give campaign rallies in deep Red states, is that it makes the heckling more enjoyable. Yesterday, in Mississippi, he got pelted pretty steadily. My two favorites were back to back: "Hey bone spurs - release the Epstein Files!!" "Shove your ballroom up your fat ass!!" After these heckles, he had no real response beyond: "Go home!" And he proceeded to have pronunciation problems. This connotes humiliation. Couldn't happen to a worse person. IMO, these rallies by him and especially by Vance, generate ZERO new voters for the GOP, while reminding many centrist Americans WHY they need to vote BLUE.

In case you missed it, a story broke late yesterday that Ken Paxton, as Texas AG, took 350 out-of-state trips with a state-funded security detail. 25 went outside the US. Think about that number. And it's not even in the Top 10 most wasteful and corrupt things he's done. Worst candidate EVER.