Issue #997 The Choice, Thursday, February 26, 2026
When your president is a pedophile
Personally, I don’t know what it will take to convince enough Republicans in Congress to realize that maybe having a pedophile for president is not a good thing. Or if enough repulsive criminal evidence even exists to tip the scales enough to where maybe, just maybe, they might consider not waiting until (hopefully) a Democratic Congress takes the reins in a year before taking any sort of enforceable action.
Because I still contend that by then it may be too late. At best, the amount of damage this president could do in another year could be so severe that this country will not be adequately repaired during most of our lifetimes. I say ‘adequately’ because I suspect we will never fully recover from this.
Having said that, I still think it’s important to keep track of the truly egregious behaviors exhibited by this president, although the staggering volume of Trump’s egregious behaviors seems to make whatever may have been considered egregious yesterday reappraised as perhaps not quite so egregious tomorrow.
But the rape of children is the kind of shockingly and horrifyingly egregious behavior that is hard to surpass. That is to say, you have to work really hard to find crimes considered much worse than raping a child who has been groomed to be a sex toy for the perverted fantasies of twisted, rich adult males. Now consider that the Epstein files appear to have provided evidence that Trump himself is one of those twisted types. It’s the kind of accusation that will make just about anyone freeze in their tracks. From NPR:
“According to the newly released files, the FBI internally circulated Epstein-related allegations that mention Trump in late July and early August 2025. The list, collected from the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center, included numerous salacious allegations. Agents marked most of the accusations as unverifiable or not credible.
“But one lead was sent to the FBI’s Washington office with the purpose of setting up an interview with the accuser. The lead was included in an internal PowerPoint slide deck detailing “prominent names“ in the Epstein and Maxwell investigations last fall.
“The woman who directly named Trump in her abuse allegation claimed that around 1983, when she was around 13 years old, Epstein introduced her to Trump, “who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out. (ITALICS MINE)”
“Out of more than 3 million pages of files released by the Justice Department in recent months, this specific allegation against Trump appears only in copies of the FBI list of claims and the DOJ slideshow.
“But a review of FBI case file logs and discovery documents turned over to Maxwell and her attorneys in the criminal case against her point to one place the claim could have come from — and how serious investigators took it.”
“The FBI interviewed this Trump and Epstein accuser four times. That is according to an FBI “Serial Report” and a list of Non-Testifying Witness Material in the Maxwell case that were also released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.”
Sometimes O’Donnell gets too carried away with his enjoyment of mocking the president every two or three minutes. I can’t stand Trump either, but calling him the stupidest president in history every single show makes me start to tune out. And yet, when Lawrence is at his best, nobody can match him. And this show was him at his best.
