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We are so hooked, people, on the Jeffrey Epstein spectacle that Donald Trump might win, to become America’s first lifetime president. Thank God he’s old and creaky, but that’s what he’s after.

How could Trump win? He is winning, folks, he’s winning. That’s why we’ve been in the streets protesting. But we are so transfixed by the Epstein scandal we’ve lost momentum in opposing Trump’s destruction of democracy. That is the peril.

Trump won’t be hurt by the Epstein scandal, no matter what, in any way that counts.

The prospective political cost will be no more than trifling. Trump has........

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