{"id":26075,"date":"2025-11-13T01:19:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/?p=26075"},"modified":"2025-11-13T01:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:19:32","slug":"my-thoughts-on-the-latest-trump-epstein-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/2025\/11\/my-thoughts-on-the-latest-trump-epstein-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"My Thoughts on the Latest Trump-Epstein Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Just a warning to my sensitive readers, this post mentions accusations of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

Time and again, I find myself speechless about what\u2019s going on in the Trump Administration.<\/h3>\n

I have written so many thousands of words over the past ten years, all trying to get people to see that this man is evil and nobody Christians should celebrate. And now, nearly a year into his second administration, I\u2019m stammering to even come up with the words.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t caught up on the story of the newest Epstein emails, well, here\u2019s an article to catch you up<\/a>. The general rule with allegations of a conspiracy is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence\u2013 and, the more extraordinary the claims, the more evidence you\u2019ll need. Drip by drip, we\u2019re getting an extraordinary pile of evidence. We\u2019ve got three more, extremely incriminating, pieces of evidence that the President of the United States is a pedophile and has sexually abused teenage girls\u2013 and that he was deeply involved in Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s crime ring and knew all about it.<\/p>\n

Then again, is it really so extraordinary a claim?<\/h3>\n

Has he ever pretended to be anything else?<\/p>\n

Is it Trump Derangement Syndrome to insist that a man who has taken great pride in being a philandering cad who uses his celebrity to force himself on women<\/a>, is exactly who he says he is? That an adjudicated sex abuser<\/a> is, indeed, a sex abuser? That someone who was found guilty in a court of law<\/a> of committing fraud to cover up the time he pressured an adult film star into sex, traumatizing her, is indeed someone who traumatizes the people he has sex with and lies about it? That if he\u2019s been photographed and filmed<\/a> palling around with a pedophile, and there\u2019s a birthday note<\/a> to that pedophile with Trump\u2019s distinctive signature scribbled like pubic hair on a drawing of a young girl, that maybe Trump was friends with a pedophile and shared his attraction to young girls?<\/p>\n

He\u2019s never pretended to be anything else. He\u2019s proud of his vices, right up until he faces consequences, and only then does he claim they never happened.<\/p>\n

The obvious explanation is that he\u2019s guilty as sin.<\/h3>\n

That has ALWAYS been the obvious explanation.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how a reasonable person could come to any other conclusion.<\/p>\n

Authoritarian Christians placed their hope in this man and made him an idol, the same way they are time and again placing their hope in sexually abusive pastors and priests\u2013 but at least in the case of the pastors and priests, they pretend to be virtuous. There was none of that with Trump. He blustered onto the political scene a notorious thrice-married cad who played a cameo role in a porno<\/a>, and he\u2019s never changed. I still can\u2019t fully understand that.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry for everyone he\u2019s hurt in any way.<\/h3>\n

I can\u2019t imagine anyone who was abused by Trump or Epstein would read these words, but if you ever happen to see them: my heart goes out to you. I can\u2019t imagine what it\u2019s like to see your abuser rise to the most powerful position on earth, twice. I can\u2019t fathom what it\u2019s like to see his face every day and know that so many people love him. I\u2019m sick at the thought of having the story of your abuse become a household word and a punchline like this.<\/p>\n

If anyone reading this has been sexually abused by some other powerful person, I\u2019m so sorry. I can\u2019t imagine how this story is triggering your agony.\u00a0 I hope you\u2019re doing what you can to protect yourself from the news.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want this to be the world we live in. I want a world where abusers are brought to justice and despised by people of conscience. I wish I hadn\u2019t had to write about such terrible things.<\/p>\n

I am still committed to doing everything I can to fight this evil and make the country better.<\/p>\n

I hope that we all will.<\/p>\n

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Mary Pezzulo is the author of\u00a0Meditations on the Way of the Cross,\u00a0<\/a>The Sorrows an<\/a>d Joys of Mary<\/a>, and\u00a0Stumbling into Grace: How We Meet God in Tiny Works of Mercy.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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