Today is Tuesday, July 22, 2025. This Jeffrey Epstein business is such a hot potato for the convicted felon of a president that his henchman MAGA Johnson, the creepy House Speaker, has decided to shut down the House before a pivotal vote could have been taken to release the Epstein files. This is so fucking immorally blatant that no one is fooled by Dump’s biggest booster doing his duty to appease his Supreme Leader, but as article after article has pointed out, this affair will NOT go away and it could cause permanent damage to Chump’s second term after just six months into his second term.

One online article for AlterNet reveals how ruinous this scandal could be for the adjudicated sexual predator in the White House and it’s titled ‘In danger of coming undone’: Analyst says Epstein crisis exposed 2 key problems for Trump,” and it’s by Carl Gibson.

According to a recent analysis, the so-called president is already struggling to defeat a problem of his own making. In a Tuesday op-ed for The Hill, Democratic strategist Brad Bannon wrote that the ongoing controversy over Jeffrey Epstein is taking all the wind out of Dump’s sails less than a year into his second disastrous term.

According to Bannon, the longer Dump refuses to be transparent about Epstein, the worse it will be for him politically. Oh, don’t you just love this! The bastard is so terrified of the backlash against him that he started bloviating over a former president, Barack Obama, for committing treason. How could anyone in his or her right mind accept this delusional insanity coming from the pouty lips of this psychopath? He is deflecting and distracting even more desperately than ever. And his made-up delusions will not convince anyone that he’s telling the truth!

According to Bannon, he added that the scandal “reveals two key problems with [Trump’s] second term” that pose a significant risk to his ability to be effective in the future. Bannon said, “First, the president has broken a series of promises he made to the American people during the 2024 campaign. Second, he has always relied heavily on his most loyal supporters in times of trouble, but the once solid MAGA base is in danger of coming undone.”

“Trump’s refusal to release the infamous Epstein list is just one of the many promises he made while he was soliciting votes for his return to the White House last year. He has become the typical politician who will say anything to get elected and fail to deliver when he wins.”

Bannon went on to argue that Dump has already burned most of the bridges that helped him get reelected outside of the Epstein matter, including his former friendship with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who was his Number 1 campaign donor in 2024 before condemning his horrible budget bill. He also angered influential far-right podcaster Tucker Carlson by continuing to fund Ukraine in its war with Russia and former White House strategist Steve Bannon (no relationship to the author here) who has used his podcast to tear into Chump’s signature domestic policy legislation for lavishing the wealthy with another multi-trillion-dollar tax cut, arguing instead for significant hikes in the corporate tax rate. This statement from Bannon is very hopeful in terms of Drumpf losing his power as a result of this scandal: this could be the final nail in his political coffin.

“The sorry state of the economy will eventually be Trump’s undoing as it was Joe Biden’s,” Bannon wrote. “But the Epstein scandal gives Trump great grief in the here and now. His failure to follow up on his promise to release the infamous Epstein List of sexual predators has painted a giant kick-me sign on his backside.”

Only time will tell. I’m angry that this asshole called Mike Johnson can just force the House into early recess so this scandal could presumably go away by the time they convene again in September. This will not do and the American public will demand something be done about this affair sooner than later. Let this horrid man not get away with committing rape on 14-year-old girls under the tutelage of the late Jeffrey Epstein. Let’s also hope that his fanatic base of supporters falls away, leaving him in the lurch.

Today is the penultimate day before Elliot and I leave for the sultry state of Florida on Thursday and we did a mitzvah today by driving to Woodmere to help Elliot’s former neighbors “Mary” and “Joseph” by helping Mary with Joseph who has severely hurt himself with his back around July 6. Mary called us earlier this morning to ask us to come out and help her with doing shopping for her. Originally, I thought we were going to stay with Joseph while she went out and did some grocery shopping. When we arrived around 3, that was not the case: Mary desired us to go out to a neighboring FoodTown to buy items on a shopping list. We saw Joseph sort of haunched over on the couch. He had a towel over his privates since he is unable to get dressed. We also discover that his pain was not attributed to his back, but that he pinched a sciatic nerve. This could definitely be very painful, and Joseph mentioned that he’s on painkillers. Mary also mentioned that if these measures did not work on alleviating the pain altogether, then surgery is a final option. We hoped that this would not be necessary and then we went out and drove to the supermarket.

After leaving Mary and Joseph, we had dinner at Lucky Boy Restaurant where we topped off our delicious meal (I ordered eggplant parmigiana with capellini, while Elliot had a Greek salad with tzatziki and pita bread) with a slice of their yummy coconut cream pie.

And so it went!