Donnie’s In Love

It was late at night and I was at home watching a movie, when the text came in.

Back to the Future, if you must know--which definitely doesn’t stand the test of time. A different subject for another time.

The text came from my dear friend, Adolfo, and it said…

“Trump blew Bubba. Lmfao. Did you see that one cumming?! Lol.”

And that’s how I learned that in the treasure trove of thousands and thousands of Epstein text and emails released by congress was this beaut sent in 2018 from Mark to Jeffrey.

Mark being the younger brother of Jeffrey who was still connected enough to be in contact with Steve Bannon, the brains behind MAGA. Pause to think about that…

Again, this text was in 2018, long after Epstein had been exposed in a Miami Herald investigation by Julie K. Brown as a scummy trafficker of underage girls.

And somehow MAGA persists in believing that the only scumbuckets in Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle were Democrats. As opposed to Bannon and Boss Donnie.

Anyway, Mark wrote to Jeff…

“What is your boy Donald up to now?

And Jeffrey wrote to Mark…

“All good” in fact, he was with Steve Bannon.

To which Mark replied…

“Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?“

To which Jeffrey responded…

“And I thought I had tsuris.”

Yiddish for trouble.

Culminating in this crack from Mark…

“You and your boy Donnie can make a remake of Get Hard.”

Which is a totally forgettable movie in which Kevin Hart’s character prepares Will Farrell’s character for a stint in prison where he’ll have to, among other things, deal with inmates who want to rape him.

A movie that didn’t stand the test of time one minute after it was released. Anyhow…

The Epstein brothers' exchange went viral and the internet was rife with speculation that Bubba had to be Bill Clinton.

Bubba being his nickname for just about everyone except geezers like me who still think of him as Slick Willie--cause he conned Democrats into buying what he was selling. Don’t blame me–I voted for Jerry Brown.

After I laughed over some of the many memes, I had to confront the issue of why I'd been so ignorant of a story that everyone else in America seemed to know about. And the reason–drumroll, please–is…

Cause I’m an ancient Boomer who still relies on the New York Times, Washington Post and other mainstream outlets for my news.

And by the time Adolfo texted me, they’d still not reported on Bubbagate–no matter how many millions had commented on it.

I don't know how the editors at Mainstream America talked themselves into not covering the email-exchange everyone was talking about. Consider that a topic for a journalism-school seminar on the death of the mainstream media.

In the aftermath, Mark Epstein issued a clarification along the lines of…

The Bubba in question is not Bill Clinton.

Well, glad we got that settled.

As far as I can tell, the New York Times didn’t report on Mark Epstein’s clarification–as you can’t “clarify” a story you were too chicken to write about in the first place.