Jonathan Chait

Thank you.

I'm gunning for sixth man of the year in the Bulwark podcast.

Who killed Jeffrey Epstein?

If you're trying to get me to confess, I'm not going to do it unless you put me in the stand.

I mean, they were never going to release information that cast Donald Trump in a negative light, right?

What they were going to do was to release information that they had that was exculpatory or at least unrelated to Donald Trump that they could spin.

But the end game of this was always some kind of cover-up.

We don't know how true these allegations are because these are their leads, their tips.

It's a file.

It's not criminal proof.

But

I always thought this was where it was going to go, was that they would find whatever was bad about Donald Trump and not release that to the public.

That's what they're going to do.

It is.

I mean, sort of zooming out to a higher level.

This was their issue, right?

This was the rights issue.

The Democrats didn't start talking about Epstein.

The Republicans did.

But what's amazing is that because Donald Trump is so singularly devoid of virtue, is bad in almost every way a human being can be bad, he's also implicated in this, their handpicked issue.