The Trumporium Theater of Terror! (A Play in 4 Acts)

ACT 1: 

From Raheem Hosseini's 11-21-25 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE article entitled "A California Woman Accused Both Epstein and Trump. Did She Ever Exist?":

It is still not clear who Katie Johnson was, or if she ever existed — though someone professing to be her contacted me in 2016 when I first reported on the lawsuits. Yet, thanks to emails released last week by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, we now know that Epstein was at least aware of her accusations.

In April 2016, Epstein forwarded a Reuters reporter’s request for comment about Katie Johnson’s lawsuit to several people, including attorney Alan Dershowitz and former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler. To Tom Barrack, a Trump campaign adviser who is now the president’s ambassador to Turkey, Epstein wrote, “nuts but i thought you guys should know.” To journalist Michael Wolff, Epstein wrote, “here we go.”

In November 2016, two days after Trump’s election, Epstein forwarded a Daily Mail story about the lawsuit being withdrawn in New York federal court to several friends and associates.

New York Times financial reporter Landon Thomas Jr. responded, “You called it,” and asked Epstein about his stock portfolio [...]. 

To some child safety advocates, speculating about the unknowable can distract from what is known.

More than a dozen women — from pageant contestants to Mar-a-Lago guests to former employees — have publicly accused Trump of sexual misconduct. Trump has denied all accusations.

Separate juries have found Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in 1996 and defaming her by denying it, awarding Carroll a total of $88.3 million in damages.

Trump’s first choice for attorney general, former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, withdrew over allegations that he sexually exploited a minor. Gaetz was the only member of Congress to vote against an anti-human trafficking bill that Trump signed in his first term.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, who will be in charge of releasing the Epstein files, was Florida’s chief legal counsel when Epstein received a knocked-down charge of soliciting prostitution, the Palm Beach Post reported.

Trump’s immigration crackdown has redirected federal agents who investigate child sex crimes, the New York Times reported this month. Federal prosecutions for child sex trafficking fell during Trump’s first term, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, including under the laws used to charge Epstein in 2019.

White-collar prosecutions are also at their lowest levels in 40 years.

“Let’s say policing actually worked,” said Kate D’Amo, an expert on sexual labor and exploitation at Reframe Health and Justice. “If at any point anybody on the right actually cared about this, they’d be pissed.”

University of Pennsylvania political science professor Marci A. Hamilton, founder of the Child USA advocacy organization and a national authority on the clergy abuse scandal, said the Epstein saga is prompting people like her to re-explain what cover-ups look like. When Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said last month that he supported the release of “credible information” regarding Epstein, Hamilton said Johnson was invoking the Vatican playbook for shielding pedophile priests.

“That is the buzzword of the bishops. That’s how the bishops were able to cover up as much child sexual abuse as they did,” she said.

Goldman said Meagher brought him the Katie Johnson lawsuit motivated by a desire to keep Trump from being elected president. “But as we know now, he can almost do worse things and this never seems to affect him,” Goldman said.

Epstein expressed a similar sentiment in February 2016. Thomas, the Times reporter, emailed Epstein saying, “The stories you could tell …” about candidate Trump. To which Epstein replied, “Actually I don’t think he/voters would care.”

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

ACT 2: 

From Edward Helmore's 11-22-25 GUARDIAN article entitled "Politicians Shocked by Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Surprise Resignation Announcement":

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s surprise resignation from Congress late on Friday, saying she refused to be a “battered wife” following her public fallout with Donald Trump, has been slammed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic congresswoman and Greene’s frequent sparring partner.

“She’s carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement on her Instagram account, and criticized her voting record on healthcare.

Greene abruptly resigned from Congress, effective 5 January, in a 10-minute video post outlining her unhappiness with Republicans on issues including the public release of the Jeffrey Epstein files in the government’s possession, US financing of foreign conflicts, Trump’s decision to potentially back a candidate against her, and the cost of living and healthcare.

After her service to Trump, she said she objected to being “expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me”.

“I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better,” Greene said.

But Ocasio-Cortez said Greene “is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she’s STILL voting with them to gut healthcare … ”

Greene voted in the summer for cuts to Medicaid and the reduction of enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, but then in October criticized the ACA cuts as premiums soared.

Ocasio-Cortez also repeated some of her criticism of shares bought by Greene earlier this year before Trump said he was pausing tariffs. Greene has denied any impropriety in her stock trading.

To read the entire article, click HERE. Meanwhile...

ACT 3: 

The Trump & Mamdani Comedy Hour  

(or)

"You Can Just Say Yes"

(or) 

 "We Agree on a Lot More than I Would Have Thought"

ACT 4:

From Nicholas Kerr's 11-23-25 ABC NEWS report entitled "Trump’s Accusations of Treason Draw Bipartisan Rebuke":

President Donald Trump's comments accusing Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior" following a video encouraging members of the military to refuse "illegal orders" have drawn criticism across party lines.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, one of the six Democrats featured in the video, told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz on Sunday that she believed Trump's attack, threatening the punishment of death for sedition, is "a tool of fear."

"He's trying to get us to shut up because he doesn't want to be talking about this," Slotkin said. "In fact, I would argue that one of the things that he's been doing by repeating it and talking about it is trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, which were the [Jeffrey] Epstein files and then the economy."

Republican Rep. Michael McCaul also sought to distance himself from the comments, telling Raddatz, "I don't speak for the president in terms of hanging members of Congress."

"I would tone down the rhetoric and tone down the theme here," McCaul added.

The White House and Trump have denied Trump was threatening death upon the lawmakers, who have military or national security backgrounds, but the president's attacks have continued despite the lawmakers reporting they've experienced a deluge of threats and have had to increase their security as a result.

On Saturday night, Trump again referred to them as "traitors," asserting the individuals "SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW" rather than defending themselves to the media.

To read the entire report, click HERE.