Listening to the news very nearly makes me ill.

Jeffrey Epstein: Well, Trump described him as a “great guy” with a preference for younger women. I guess so.

Clearly, Epstein also believes that when you’re a star you can …. He was caught at his sins some years ago, but his sins were forgiven. He got a slap on the wrist at a rigged trial at which he was represented by Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Star (anything for some glitz and a buck). He did have to register as a sex offender, but I’m sure Jeffrey doesn’t mind, because everybody already knew that he is a sex offender.

So Jeffrey got off easy, and at once returned to his old ways, and now he’s again being brought to court. Who knows how this trial will come out? All I’ve heard is that he has asked that his financial situation not be brought up at the trial – reminds me of Trump with his income tax returns.

Alexander Acosta, now Secretary of Labor, was years ago the prosecuting attorney who bungled Epstein’s trial and collaborated in getting him ‘easy time.’ The best Mr. Trump has found to say for Mr. Acosta so far is that he is a hard worker. Clearly Trump is waiting for the rest of the story to come out, for other wealthy sinners who frequented Epstein’s island paradise have so far kept silent, but surely the whole story will go from bad to worse. I think Acosta and Trump had better have a look at Cardinal Law’s playbook for suppressing scandal arising from sex abuse, for this looks like a movers-and-shakers version of the clergy abuse scandal.

2) I hear that the secret pol-ICE will on Sunday begin raids to round up some illegals. This is to be, I suppose, the first pogrom in Trump’s expulsion of a million immigrants from our shores, his own War on Immigrants. If the ICE boys can also manage to smash up a few bodegas, we can have our own Kristalnacht.

The misery of the men, women, and children that Trump has imprisoned on our Southern border continues without hope of relief. I heard on the radio that the border police who guard these prisoners find it a hazardous duty because the stench arising from the never-washed bodies is so intense that it penetrates the guards’ clothing.