Trump Is Teeing Up a Pardon of Epstein Accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell

Then, on Thursday afternoon, White
House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the world that the boss wanted two
weeks. If the boss were a deliberative, rational, mature man, we could welcome
this as reassuring news. But as the boss is Donald Trump, it means nothing. Two
weeks to the day from Leavitt’s announcement, as fate would have it, will bring
the Fourth of July—a good day for a peace deal but an even better day to go
bombs away! Imagine Trump, after that bust
of a military parade, having strafed Iran during the day and sitting back
and watching all those fireworks displays at night. Strength!

Trump 2.0 has ranged from being a
disaster to a comedy, a tragedy to a farce. But the one development that I’ve
watched with quiet curiosity—the one matter on which, if asked, I’d have told a
pollster I actually approved—was that Trump was seriously negotiating with
Iran. I did not, of course, approve of his abandoning the Obama-era nuclear
deal during his first term, but it was interesting that he was now pursuing
diplomacy. It was very interesting that he appeared to be willing to get
crossways with Benjamin Netanyahu. Until early this month, when Ayatollah
Khamenei refused the latest U.S. offer, it really looked like we were on track
for a deal (the sticking
point was whether a proposed international consortium for civilian uranium
enrichment be based within or outside Iran).

That was June 4. As everyone now
knows, talks were scheduled for the following Sunday, but that preceding
Thursday night, Israel started bombing, and Trump woke up Friday, turned on
Fox, saw them slavering over Bibi’s macho dice rolling, and the talks were
dead. They might be back on now. However we feel about Trump, that would be a
very good thing.