Moments of candor [FN1] are as rare in trump’s administration as Nobel laureates educated in home schoolin’. Last week, Howard Litnick, Secretary of Commerce, talked about his former neighbor, Jeffrey Epstein [FN2] whose “suicide” many doubt. [FN3] 1/9

Litnick described Epstein as “the greatest blackmailer ever.” [FN4] I wasn’t surprised by Epstein leveraging recordings of the wealthy, powerful & perverted having sex w/kids & women, whom Epstein trafficked, to get big bucks. But how does DOJ deny any blackmail occurred 2/9

or a client list or recordings exists? [FN5] This is not a mere distraction from important events. As Heather Cox Richardson noted last summer, one observer speculated “Putin might possess ‘some form of the Epstein files’” that trump wants kept secret. [FN6] Putin rules by 3/9

“kompromat” [FN7] & terror, whom trump has tried, ineptly, to ape. [FN8] trump campaigned on release of the Epstein files. While lip service still lauds the 1st Amendment, we have a right to this info; it might convince enough people that trump is controlled from Moscow. 4/9

Footnotes:
FN1. “Frankness, outspokenness.” The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (pocket ed., 1974), p. 113.
FN2. Epstein died 08/10/19, Michael Sisak, Michael Balsamo and Larry Neumeister, “Medical examiner rules Epstein death a suicide by hanging,” AP, 08/16/19, accessed 10/05/25. 5/9

FN3. Similar to Captain Renault’s statement about Ugarte’s cause of death being either suicide or shot while trying to escape. “Casablanca,” Warner Brothers, 1942. 6/9

FN4. Josh Christenson, “Howard Litnick tells ‘Pod Force One’ ex-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein showed off massage room, made creepy comment during townhouse tour,” NY Post, 10/1/25, accessed 10/5/25. 7/9

FN5. Caitlin McCormack, “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t have a ‘client list,’ and committed suicide, DOJ and FBI say in findings that debunk conspiracy theories: report,” NY Post, 7/6/25, accessed, 10/5/25.
FN6. Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, 8/9/25. 8/9

FN7. “compromising information that is used to blackmail or discredit a person or group usually for political purposes.” Merriam-Webster online dictionary, accessed 10/6/25.
FN8. Maggie Haberman, “Trump Threatens to Reveal Unflattering Information About DeSantis if He Runs,” NYT, 11/11/22, accessed 10/6/25. 9/9