{"id":43621,"date":"2026-01-19T14:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43621"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:53:56","slug":"that-hand-holding-dynamite-ignore-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/19\/that-hand-holding-dynamite-ignore-it\/","title":{"rendered":"That Hand Holding Dynamite, Ignore It"},"content":{"rendered":"

In all of the recent uproar, Minneapolis and Greenland and the East Wing, yes all that, I’m not hearing anything about the Epstein Files<\/strong>. Yes, the Epstein Files, the issue that was tearing MAGA<\/strong> apart and had the President sweating a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n

At least, until last week, when this<\/a> showed up:<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Justice has formally moved to block the appointment of an independent monitor or special master to oversee the release of Epstein-related records in the long-closed criminal case of Ghislaine Maxwell\u2014arguing that no federal court has the authority to compel such disclosures.<\/p>\n

In a six-page letter filed tonight, to U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, prosecutors contend that recent efforts by members of Congress to force production of the so-called \u201cEpstein files\u201d amount to an improper attempt to reopen a concluded criminal case and to create a form of judicial oversight that Congress itself did not authorize.\u00a0[MTN<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>I read this as Trump going back on his approval of the original legislation requiring the publication of the Epstein Files. Sure, I could have a discussion as to whether that interpretation is going a bit far or not.<\/p>\n

But, to my ear, the dogged refusal to obey a law approved by the President himself<\/a> speaks catastrophically<\/strong>, yes that’s not just a decorative adjective but a real description of the situation, catastrophically of what the Trump name in the Epstein Files may imply: knowledge, participation, principal architect.<\/p>\n

Do we even need to know the sordid details?<\/p>\n

Or should the rank & file<\/a> of MAGA<\/strong> simply begin gathering at the White House, calling for Trump’s resignation, ready to run him out of office if he tries to prance forth and convince them their lying eyes have lied to them again? Down that path lies sure redemption<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, by doing so, we can avoid the world-wide humiliation of invading Greenland, of harassing Minneapolitans, of our economy continuing to head into the crapper, the whole nine yards.<\/p>\n

Time to wake up, MAGA<\/strong>, to your humiliating buy-in of a lifelong grifter. Don’t be embarrassed, Trump’s had a lifetime of fooling people, and the Democrats have botched things, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In all of the recent uproar, Minneapolis and Greenland and the East Wing, yes all that, I’m not hearing anything about the Epstein Files. Yes, the Epstein Files, the issue that was tearing MAGA apart and had the President sweating a couple of months ago. At least, until last week, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43624,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43621\/revisions\/43624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}