It was the moment that revealed everything about this administration: instead of seriously addressing the growing number of explosive Epstein emails, press secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped before the public and turned the briefing into a kind of liturgy of denial. The message was simple, cutting, and completely detached from any factual basis: President Trump was “innocent” in all of this, the emails proved “absolutely nothing,” and the growing questions were nothing but a “fraud created by the Democrats.”
Leavitt spoke with the fervor of someone dependent, not with the sobriety of a government spokesperson. It did not sound like a statement, it sounded like a vow. “This administration has done more than any other before” (If destruction counts too, then she is 100 percent right. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣), she shouted, as if it were a historic moment instead of the sober question of why a president is blocking the release of crucial investigative files. And as she strung one sentence after another together, it became clear how deeply this West Wing has withdrawn into a closed cult world.
In her portrayal, everything was suddenly reversed: the Democrats were to blame, Joe Biden had “done nothing,” victims did not matter to the other side, and only Trump was the one who “truly exposes.” The thought that the administration itself is doing everything it can to prevent a release of the Epstein files did not even appear as a possibility in this parallel universe.
Leavitt repeated almost mantra-like: “These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong,” doubly emphasized, almost incantatory. It looked like a wall she was building brick by brick, not to protect the truth but to keep it out. Every doubt was defined as an attack, every criticism as hostility, every question as political scheming. Reality, the actual contents of the emails, the open questions, the contradictions, played no role in this room anymore.
Then came the sentence that pushed the absurdity fully into the realm of the grotesque: Trump had thrown Epstein “out of Mar-a-Lago because he was a pedophile and he was a creep” - a sentence at once as banal as an advertising slogan, as imprecise as a weather forecast, and so stamped politically that it could also pass as a banner at a campaign backdrop - and above all an attempt to shrink a massive national debate down to the level of a tale from his golf club everyday life. While the world demands transparency, the White House reduces one of the most explosive scandals of recent US history to a bouncer story at the golf club.
Here is our article from back then – this is what actually happened. Leavitt seems to have forgotten that: “Stolen and Betrayed – Trump’s Words About Virginia Giuffre Cast a Deadly Light on the Epstein Scandal,” available at the following link: https://kaizen-blog.org/gestohlen-und-verraten-trumps-worte-ueber-virginia-giuffre-werfen-ein-toedliches-licht-auf-den-epstein-skandal/
But what stood out most that day was not the content but the tone. This press statement was not the behavior of a government, it was the behavior of a cult that protects its leader at all costs. A cult that molds every event into an invention that barely touches reality. A cult that would rather pull the entire country into darkness than allow even a millimeter of distance between itself and Trump.
The outside world sees a president whose circle is reacting with growing nervousness. A Republican Party showing its first cracks. Investigators asking uncomfortable questions. And a public sensing that this administration is sliding a little further each day into rhetorical self-hypnosis. But in the press briefing room, all of that is wiped away like chalk from a board. A different belief system prevails there: Trump can do no wrong. Criticism is fraud. Doubt is betrayal. And anyone naming reality becomes the enemy. What remains is the impression of a power that has created its own language to avoid reality altogether. An administration that does not govern but prays. And a president whose circle no longer distinguishes between loyalty and self-abandonment.
The emails may not answer everything, but they show how narrow the facade has become behind which this presidency stands. And Leavitt’s appearance shows how deeply this administration has sunk into its own cult. Fans would call it loyalty. Anyone looking closely sees the beginning of a dangerous dependency: the total submission to a man who is losing a little more of the ground beneath his feet every day.
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Diese Sektiererei ist eigentlich logisch – denn sie wissen, dass sie alle mit Trump untergehen. Ich glaube nicht daran, dass es mit Vance auch nur annähernd vergleichbar weitergeht.
… auch gegen vance sind die archive voll … :)… und er ist nicht so belastbar, wie trump
Lug und Trug ohne Ende in jeder Situation. Hoffentlich muss er dafür einmal die Verantwortung übernehmen.
..daran arbeiten wir alle
Was für ein widerliches Possentheater. Kognitive Verzerrung auf die Spitze getrieben. Man möchte hoffen, dass all das nur geschehen kann, um hieb- und stichfesteste Argumente gegen diese Regierungsgang zu sammeln und sie alle für ewig hinter Gitter zu bringen, ganz gleich, wie gerissen die Anwälte verhandeln. Oder in die Geschlossene.