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Why Trump is Going Down

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[Caption – Epstein survivors confront Pam Bondi]

JONATHAN NEALE writes

One way or another, Trump is going down. This article explains why. And at the end, I look briefly at the consequences, mainly for the United States and Israel.

Here’s one straw in the wind:

On July 18 Vice-President J. D. Vance said on Joe Rogan’s show that Jeffrey Epstein’s operation may well have been a honey trap organized for Mossad. Here’s the way the New York Times reported it:

“Most people think he was Mossad,” Mr. Rogan, a frequent promoter of conspiracy theories, said of Mr. Epstein in an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” released on Wednesday.

“Yeah, Mossad or C.I.A., or some other deep state, whether in America or Israel or another country,” Mr. Vance replied.

“He clearly had connections to the upper — the highest — levels of American intelligence,” the vice president added. “He clearly had connections to the highest levels of Israeli intelligence.”

Vance has also been publicly reproving Netanyahu recently. In June he said that Netanyahu better shut up and stop criticising America, because Israel was a pariah state with no friends in the world but the United States. Last week he said that Israel was still an American ally, but it was time for Israel to stop controlling American policy.

Vance wants to be President. He can see Trump is going down. So he is separating himself from Trump over both Israel and Epstein.

THE REASONS WHY

Trump’s popular support is evaporating. On top of that, he is obviously sick. For both those reasons, he now looks like a loser.

The fading popular support is the driving force. Some Americans and many foreigners find this difficult to understand because they regard Trump’s supporters as irrational, immoral, stupid bigots. They believe his base will just follow him anywhere, no matter what.

It’s turns out they won’t. They think raping children is wrong. They can no longer bear the Middle Eastern wars. And their economic lives are getting worse. We’ll explore all three issues, the Epstein files first.

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The Epstein Files and Me-Too

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The photo is of the heroic journalist Julie K. Brown

NANCY LINDISFARNE and JONATHAN NEALE report:

This article says four important things about the Epstein files.

First, though all the talk is about conspiracy theories, this case is of a piece with the cover-ups of the abuse of gymnasts by Larry Nasser; the cover-ups of generations of abuse in residential schools for indigenous children in Canada, the consistent cover-ups by the Catholic Church; the cover-up of the Smythe case by the Archbishop of Canterbury; and hundreds and thousands of other cover-ups by institutions all over the world. This is not some bizarre conspiracy. It is what the rich and powerful do.

Second, this is not just about Donald Trump. This cover up started way before Trump, and it goes way beyond Trump. Third, the liberal and centre mainstream media are unable to talk sensibly about any of this because the Democratic Party has been part of the cover-up. Fourth, as with almost other every abuse and Me Too case, this one came to light because brave survivors fought back.

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Trump is cutting HIV drugs for 20 million people. He can be stopped.

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9 minute read by Jonathan Neale.

 Since 2003, a US government program (PEPFAR) has provided free drugs that are presently keeping 20.5 million people with HIV alive. All these people are in poorer countries, and most of them in Africa. And now, President Trump has suspended the PEPFAR program for 90 days, and it looks like the closure will be made permanent. This is a death sentence for millions of people. It seems Trump is happy to let these people die.

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Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Saville and the Wall of Silence

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A 6 minute read by Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale. This is our second post about the wall of silence that has long protected sexual abusers in Britain. Our first post was about how the Archbishop of Canterbury and dozens of other church officials covered up gruesome physical and sexual abuse. We argued there that the protection of sexual abusers in British institutions is not a glitch in the system. It is how the system works. This post tells the story of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, several police forces and dozens of managers protected Jimmy Savile over several decades.

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