Backing a Sex Predator

Next up in the Republican Congress's Series of Unfortunate Decisions is backing a sexual predator. It seems timely to discuss this, given the slow leak of horrifying information coming out today.

Next in the Republican Congress’s Series of Unfortunate Decisions, let’s talk sexual predators. Donald Jezebel Trump has more or less always been who he is: a womanizer, a cheat, and generally what someone in the nineteenth century might refer to as a louse. This was never in question, even before his initial 2016 run for Congress. There may be a generational gap in knowledge about who the man was for some of the younger generation, like Millennials for Trump, or those young people whose minds were warped by Turning Point USA, but have you seen the ages of the Members of Congress?

There aren’t any spring chickens in that group.

They were adults when all the Epstein stuff originally broke, and it was all over the news. Not only that, there was the self-admission in the Access Hollywood video.

They knew who Trump was.

Fast-forward to 2025, after which E. Jean Carroll won her lawsuit, definitely proving that Trump is a sexual predator. Add to that the slow trickle of deviant behavior from Trump, beginning with the letter, the documents slowly being released from the Epstein estate, and Trump’s historical friendship with the man…all of these reinforce Trump being a sexual predator. Once you take a long view of the evidence, it’s pretty damning. One would have to be willfully ignorant not to see it.

This is how supporting Don Jeremy Trump being a sexual predator made my list. I don’t really care that the Republican campaign for Trump called for releasing those Epstein files (here’s a convenient timeline of events), though it does make for juicy schadenfreude. I do care about the fact that I can’t identify a single other reason for the House of Representatives to be out of session for so long, except to prevent the 218^th vote on the discharge petition, and hence forcing a floor vote on whether or not to release all of the Epstein files. That’s perhaps the most damning.

But there’s also the crickets.

What I mean by that is the sound of silence that a complicit Republican Congress makes when Donald Jitterbug Trump says things like “the Epstein files are a con job by the democrats.” There’s the complete lack of interest in the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell we corruptly moved to a minimum security prison in my old stomping grounds of Bryan, Texas. Follow that with the parroting of defensive sorts of statements he’s made. It reminds me of the lie that the 2020 election was rigged. Trump makes a single assertion, boldly lying, and the Republican machinery, Congressional Republicans included, begin parroting the soundbites.

Kind of reminds me of the consistent lie about how cheap groceries allegedly are.

They are not cheap.

Like everything else on the growing list of Congressional Republicans’ Unfortunate Decisions, allowing a known sexual predator into the highest office in the land, and then affording him a rubber-stamp in Congress, does things like…well…drive our nation into the ground, for one. Look at my prior posts in this series for an understanding of the impact of rubber stamping on bad policy decisions.

But more importantly for this post, think about what it must feel like to be a victim. No, not Ghislaine Maxwell. She’s not a victim. I’m talking about the real victims in the situation, like Virginia Giuffrie, who took her own life because of the crimes Epstein and Maxwell, and it’s looking increasingly like Trump, committed against her.

Where do you go for justice when the most powerful person in the country has a vested interest in silencing you?

And further, what example does supporting a sexual predator set for our young and growing men and women in this nation? Men are learning that it’s possible to get a cadre of sycophants to go to abnormal lengths to help you cover up your sex crimes. Women are learning that justice for crimes against their bodies will even more likely go unserved, especially if the transgressing men are in positions of power. This duality of mentality is ushering in the bad old days, where women just had to deal with the abuse, because there was no way to seek proper justice.

Nobody should want that.

But our Republican Congressional members seem to. They’re all too happy to sweep things under the rug for a man they wouldn’t allow near their teenage daughters. It’s sickening to see the atrophy of the moral fiber of our nation so quickly advanced by people who, by all accounts, should know better. It’s grotesque to hear the lies as they roll out in undying support of a man who walked in on underaged girls changing in their locker rooms before pageant competitions (admitted, again). This leads me to one startling question: what are the other Republican Congressmen and Congresswomen guilty of that open sexual predation is not a deal-breaker?

I don’t see it. And the complicity is sickening. It’s turning us into a nation of moral degenerates, and I don’t mean degenerate in a way that Republican Congress likes to cruelly malign harmless transgender people seeking self-care. I mean, in the way that in parts of this nation in the past, slaveowners once raped slaves with impunity. Because that’s what normalizing sexual predation amounts to, isn’t it?

It takes an entire nation and all of its institutions and constituents looking the other way to perpetuate a system of abuse like that.

The Republican Congress has already begun, and many of their supporters are following their lead. Supporting a sexual predator is a singularly Unfortunate Decision by this Republican Congress, and we should all stand up to point this out over and over again.