Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Billionaire Protection Racket
Mike Nellis
The two-week political crisis Donald Trump and the MAGA movement are facing over the Epstein cover-up is just a symptom of the deeper rot in this administration. The White House and Republican-led Congress operate like a protection and enrichment racket for corrupt billionaires and criminals.
The same motivation that drove Trump to push a budget cutting 20 million Americans off Medicaid and taking food away from poor kids to fund billionaire tax breaks is the same motivation behind his effort—along with Pam Bondi and the rest of his cronies—to keep you from knowing who’s in the Epstein files and who was on those flight logs.
Trump only cares about enriching himself and protecting his corrupt friends. That enrichment isn’t just financial—it’s about shielding them from consequences, whether it’s white-collar fraud or pardoning the cop beaters from the January 6th riot to exploiting young girls on Epstein’s island. It's disgusting. And it's everything that most Americans—including myself—despise about our politics. The rich and powerful are almost never held accountable.
During the 2008 financial crisis, tens of millions of Americans lost their homes and had their lives upended. No one responsible paid the price. As much as I admire Barack Obama—and I’m proud I dropped out of college to work for him—I hold him accountable for failing to bring justice to those who wrecked our economy. Whether it’s the banks, Diddy, or whatever the hell happened to Epstein, it’s the same story: the rich get away with it, again and again, while working people get crushed.
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