Yesterday, Donald Trump reversed his month’s-long stonewalling and — faced with certain legislative defeat on the issue — said that he thinks Congress should vote to release the Epstein files because “we have nothing to hide.” He’s also essentially claiming that releasing the files was his idea in the first place.

The video above is of Trump, at the Palm Beach airport last night, answering a reasonable question about all this from a reporter. Behold the ham-fisted, scattershot, transparently dishonest way a cornered guilty person attempts to deflect a question he desperately does not wish to address — and how it comes out when that person lacks the sharpness of mind and rhetorical skill to do it with any finesse whatsoever. This the sort of deft deflection that this guy attempted.

Okay, good.

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Also, lest any of you might be snookered into believing that Trump has absolutely given up on preventing the full release of these files, please remember this:

In his empty mind, there are still ways out of this. He has committed to nothing, really. He no doubt feels he could still extort the Republican Senate into not passing the bill or indefinitely tabling it and … this is key … even if it passes, he could still veto it! He’ll come up with a reason, any reason — “it sucks!” —and is just mentally and emotionally dysfunctional enough to think he might get away with it.

So grab the popcorn. This will be great.

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Here’s a new video. I think it’s just a bit more convincing than Trump’s is.

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Today’s Gene Pool Gene Poll:

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* Yeah, that was a bad, semi-obscure medical pun in the headline. Apologies