Dem Senator Goes All the Way There: Trump Was ‘Clearly’ at the ‘Center of a Child Sex Ring’
Bulwark Managing Editor Sam Stein sat down with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas.
Stein asked Murphy about President Donald Trump’s reaction earlier in the day to the recent release of Jeffrey Epstein documents by House Democrats and Republicans on Wednesday. “This morning, on Truth Social, there have been many, many posts about Jeffrey Epstein, and what he is now deeming the Epstein hoax. He’s saying he wants the Department of Justice to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with Democrats—Larry Summers, JP Morgan Chase, Bill Clinton,” began Stein, adding:
He’s lashed out at Republicans for continuing to focus on this. What is your… I hesitate to ask you to get inside the man’s head, but get inside his head. What is going on, do you think? I really don’t want to. Well, as you observe this, you’re an interested party here. What is your take on how this is playing out and why he’s acting in an incredibly guilty fashion?
“Well, he is in daily panic mode as we get closer to the moment where these files and the fullest truth that we have available to us is going to be made public. And it is clearly the biggest scandal in presidential history,” Murphy replied, adding:
And he wouldn’t be acting this way if he wasn’t so deeply worried about what sits in those files. What we’ve already seen is immensely incriminating. Clearly, Donald Trump was at the center of a child sex ring.
That is heartbreaking—that the president of the United States was involved in that kind of gross, craven immorality. And it stands to reason that he wouldn’t be fighting so hard to spin against this story or bullying Republicans in the House to prevent the release of these files if there wasn’t something especially and specifically incriminating in that information.
Now, I think the scandal in and of itself could bring him down, but we also do have to contextualize it, because what Donald Trump is all about is protecting the rich and powerful and stealing from normal people—regular, middle-class, and poor folks—in order to enrich the rich and powerful. And this is very much part of that story. Yes, I am sure that there are both Republicans and Democrats named in those files. There are powerful people on both sides of the aisle. But what Trump is all about is not really playing a game based on politics, but playing a game on wealth and influence.
If you have wealth and influence, Donald Trump is going to protect you, and that is consistent through everything he has done during the first nine months of this administration.
Both defenders and critics of Trump have been careful to point out that no clear evidence of illegal action on Trump’s part has been revealed in the documents, despite many unsavory and unflattering descriptions of Trump in Epstein’s emails.
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