Minnie’s Musings

Donald Trump (DT) loves to distract attention from negative news stories.

The current hop-hah over BBC splicing is a neat distraction on this side of The Pond from guess what? The Epstein Files.

If there was anything good in those files about DT, he and his people would not have spent so much time and effort trying to keep them under wraps. And the time and effort spent in stopping the release only exacerbates the suspicion that there is something explosive within those pages.

However, this won’t work with the US public – who probably don’t give that much of a hoot about a half forgotten news documentary shown over a year ago on a Monday evening when everyone was still at work in the US, even on the West Coast. And they couldn’t watch it anyway because BBC iPlayer is blocked overseas – as I discovered earlier this summer in Holland.

The “ick” will stick. As “ick” does. Even if it can’t be proved that you had sex with a minor and/or committed statutory or actual rape. Look at Andrew Windsor. He hasn’t actually been committed of a crime and said crime would not be a crime in the UK anyway. But he has been tried the court of public opinion and lost everything. Lying did not help his case, but he was toast before that particular nugget popped up.

You can run but you can’t hide, DT. Even if you cower in your marble bath tub with its gold taps and top of the range bubble bath in you not so discrete Florida getaway.