The Cover Up!
This festering open wound will finally end our Trump nightmare Thom Hartmann August 7, 2025 5:30AM ET There’s a tape. Not a metaphor, not a rumor, not some fuzzy third-hand whisper passed from burner phone to basement podcast. A real audio recording. Two full days of Ghislaine Maxwell, the trafficker-in-chief of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage empire, speaking directly to Deputy Attorney General and Trump former criminal lawyer Todd Blanche. The Justice Department has it. Transcribed, digitized, real. Senior officials have confirmed it exists. And they’re sitting on it. Why? The answer, as always, is simple: because the truth is radioactive and most suspect that there’s no way she told the truth. And this time, it may not be the crime that blows the doors off. It’ll be the coverup. For decades, we’ve watched this script play out in American politics. Watergate wasn’t about a second-rate burglary, it was about the tapes. Nixon wasn’t brought down by what his men did, but by what he trie...