It Evidently Doesn’t Matter -- On The Howard Stern Show — and let’s not lose sight of the fact that Stern had millions of listeners during the period in question — in 2004 Donald Trump said that it was OK to call his daughter Ivanka “a piece of ass.”
A couple years later he went on to say, “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
Then in between those two comments timewise, there was the Access Hollywood tape of 2005 when he said, "I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a minor for prostitution. He was convinced. Then, in 2019, while incarcerated before facing federal charges for sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, he died in his cell.
Epstein and Trump were in the same circles during the 1990s and early 2000s. Photos show it. Emails indicate it.
But it doesn’t matter.
Here’s the thing: Despite what Trump said about his daughter, despite what he said about molesting women, he was elected president, twice.
He had significant support from evangelical Protestant groups, people who one might think would not be accepting of such language and behavior.
The whole issue of the so-called Epstein Files from a political point of view is pointless.
(This is not to excuse any of those who victimized the young, very young girls. It is outrageous. How any woman — especially mothers — can give this a pass is unimaginable.)
Whether or not there will be something that shows that Donald Trump participated in activities that are outside the boundaries of accepted behavior — morally and legally — simply won’t matter.
People know what he said about his daughter, what he said about molesting women, and that, apparently, is OK.
He, evidently, “can do anything.”
Which leads to a question: What ever happened to shame? — Stephen Macaulay, Pundit-at-Large.