Donald Trump’s Epstein problem has yet to abate. It’s lingering behind the scenes of a very busy administration. It’s clear that Trump and his team want this issue to go away. It’s not going to go away, and the reason goes to the heart of why Trump got elected in the first place.

Brands make mistakes when they forget their central purpose. Peter Drucker talked about this, and other management gurus have researched the problem ad nauseum. For example, Jaguar recently forgot that their product was luxury cars and they forgot who their consumer base was. Hint: It was not blue-haired, nose-pierced, transgender Antifa anarchists. They lost over 90 percent of their sales. Bud Light forgot their product’s purpose and the consumers who bought it. Target forgot their consumers and finally remembered. The list goes on and on.

Donald Trump is forgetting his value proposition and the customers he serves. The Jeffrey Epstein saga is revealing that forgetting. This may shock the administration, but Trump did not get elected because he would shut down the Southern border, although his voters are thrilled that he kept his promise to do so. He did not get elected because he’d deport millions of illegals slurping up American resources. Are his voters happy that he’s in the process of doing so? Absolutely. Would they caterwaul if he stopped proceeding and instead embraced an amnesty plan? Oh hell yeah. But even this was not why Trump was elected. He wasn’t elected for DOGE or for tax cuts or for the Big Beautiful Bill (all monumental achievements and praiseworthy.)

So why did Trump get elected? Trump was elected because he was different in one important way. He could not, or so people thought, because of his wealth and independent spirit, be bought, bribed, or blackmailed. He would make decisions exclusively in the interests of the American people. No one else.

What traditional wonky talking heads thought were deficits — the Stormy Daniels affair, for example — his voters took as validation of this fact. Other politicians know to lie and have enough secrets to fill a smutty novel. They succumb to blackmail and pay the lady for the rest of her life. Not Donald Trump. He was a rich guy not getting attention from his wife post-childbirth and so he took up with a trashy, as it turns out, high-end escort/porn star. He paid her off, but that wasn’t enough for her. He denied anything happened (wink wink) and his voters shrugged. Hey, he’s a rich guy and any dude with that kind of money would do the same, went the thinking. Who can begrudge him? (One thinks of the silly scene in the movie Office Space where the neighbors muse about what they’d do with a million dollars. Peter, the main character, says that he’d do two chicks at the same time. His neighbor guffaws and says, “You don’t need a million dollars to do that! My cousin banged two chicks and he doesn’t do shit.”) Anyway, Trump’s public peccadillo revealed a certain honesty and unwillingness to be blackmailed — and it revealed that you can’t trust a hooker.

Sage knowledge. You can’t trust the biggest whores of all, politicians, either. All, save a few, and even those are of dubious dignity, vote like scared servants of the Dark Lord himself. If they’ve had any success politically, they’re almost certainly bought and bribed. They have paymasters that seem to incentivize the same things: a sick model for medicine, worldwide corporate hegemony, and most importantly, war, and the funding of war machines.

Foreign adventurism is simply a mechanism for corporate greed. War pays well and has the added advantages of destabilizing the populace (so they can’t be anything more than scared serfs) and creating a system to hide and launder money that ends up back in the hands of rich and powerful world elites.

Trump was different because he wasn’t owned by these interests. He didn’t need their money. He was already rich. (The Clintons, Bidens, and Obama coveted filthy lucre and had no skills so they sought being bought. They aspired to living a lifestyle beyond their reach by merit, so they had to rape the public coffers and extort businesses to get rich.) He could operate in the interest of the American people. He couldn’t be blackmailed. All his secrets were already out there.

Along comes the Jeffrey Epstein episode. Trump promised to release the files. Right-wing influencers went to the White House, received shiny binders, and then all came back chirping the same message, “The Trump administration is the most transparent ever!!! Squee!!” It was embarrassing and revealed the fanboys to be dupes. There was no there, there, and the drumbeats continued.

Then, in a fit of pique, Elon Musk said that Trump is in the Epstein files. The president implied that Musk needed to lay off the wacky weed. Since Musk was acting somewhat erratic, people accepted that response. But the seed was planted.

Is President Trump just like every other politician? Is he a tool for the intelligence community? Is he beholden to the security state of America, and worse, Israel?

Epstein trafficked underage American girls for the pleasure of the world elites — including the rich and famous in Hollywood, corporate titans, sports stars, and politicians. He was a CIA asset at the bare minimum and his “procurer” was a Mossad asset, Ghislaine Maxwell. There were reams of tapes of these important people, ostensibly in compromising positions, that were in the hands of the New York City office of the FBI. It was an ordeal to get it back to D.C.

And now, President Trump says these tapes and files that don’t exist have been manipulated by the Biden administration. That’s not outside the realm of possibility, by the way, it’s just awfully convenient. It’s been proven that the videotape evidence outside of Epstein’s cell has been manipulated. It’s not outside the realm of possibility that Epstein is still alive somewhere. This writer jests, but only a little.

The American people voted for Donald Trump because he was not tool of the Deep State or corporate interests or any other nefarious group of people. He could be trusted to operate ONLY in the interest of the American people.

But if he’s an Epstein client and he’s beholden to the CIA and Mossad, then that calls into question many decisions he’s made as president. If he’s making decisions regarding Iran, Israel, Syria, and the rest of the Middle East as a captured agent on the receiving end of coercion, then he, too, cannot be trusted. He’s operating for foreign interests not American interests.

In short, just like every other politician, he cannot be trusted.

In the end, it’s not even about Epstein. It’s about what Epstein represents: a shadowy worldwide cabal who pulls the strings of even the greatest nation on earth using the corrupting power of pederasty at best, pedophilia at worst, and money to manipulate the rich and powerful to do their bidding. The end result is perversion, yes, but worse for the citizens of the United States of America, the bankrolling of war, invasive and abusive surveillance technology, inhibition of free speech and the free exercise of Christian beliefs, medical tyranny, leftist propaganda, and on and on. The rabble stay divided while the powerful prosper.

Donald Trump was supposed to be different. His value, his brand, was unapologetically American. He embodied America First. Though rich and famous, he was for the little guy and his motivation for everything was “What is best for the American people?”

If even President Trump is in the thrall of the stooges of the Deep State, then all is lost. At least, that is how many Trump voters feel. All the wins in the world — from the immigration, to jobs, to tax breaks — feel like window dressing on a burning house.

So no, Trump’s Epstein problem is not going away. The American people need to know if their votes matter or not or if the system is so corrupted that even an outsider is compromised by shadowy powers. Until they know the truth, they will worry and Trump’s tenure will be tarnished.