They thought they had us on the run with the Epstein nonsense, and it was an annoying tangent for a little while, but that’s done now. Trump the Conqueror is back again, putting wins up on the scoreboard and moving forward. Breaking the EU to his will is just his latest victory. We’ve got 3 1/2 more years of glory ahead, but we need to watch out because the Democrats are going to get more desperate than usual.

I’m not saying they might go so crazy as to make my new novel, American Apocalypse: The Second Civil War, come true, but they might go so crazy as to make my new novel come true.

For the first six months, Trump had quite a run going, closing down the border, annihilating the Iranian nuclear program, and passing the Big Beautiful Bill, as well as win after win in the courts, plus a total reset of the culture in terms of defunding government-sponsored communist media and government-sponsored communist academia. DEI is DOA. The tariffs didn’t bring about Armageddon; instead, they generated $100 billion for the Treasury without spiking inflation. But everything that goes up must come down.

And it did come down, temporarily, with the badly bungled Epstein rollout. The sad fact is that the administration raised hopes too high. Because conservatives are the abused wives of American politics who have absolutely no trust – and should have absolutely no trust – in anything, it got itself mired in the fallout of the creepy weirdo’s death. We got what we had always wanted, which was to have absolutely trustworthy people like Dan Bongino go in and take a look at the unreleased evidence, because all the stuff can’t possibly be released due to its grotesque nature, and report back on what they found. Well, the report was that they found not much at all. There’s no list of clients helpfully compiled by the weirdo with annotations about their preferred perversions. There’s no notarized PowerPoint slide deck of wrongdoing. There’s no videotape of Epstein channeling Ernst Stavro Blofeld and explaining his entire........

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