After bringing on war hawk John Bolton to share his opinions, Anderson Cooper brought on Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman, who accused Donald Trump’s legal team of orchestrating what he called a “bogus charade.” Goldman said Trump’s former attorney and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — “the guy [who] runs [a] 115,000 employee department” — “spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell without the prosecutors who charged and tried the case,” declaring, “So he has no idea what the evidence is. He can’t measure whether it’s credible or not. This is all a charade. It is a complete bogus charade designed to cover up for Donald Trump. Cover up for what? We don’t know. That’s in the Epstein files.”
Cover up for what we don’t know is in the Epstein files? If you openly admit you don’t know what’s in the files, you’re not exposing a cover-up — you’re making one up.
Goldman then alleged “there is a wink and a nod and that all parties understand what the goal is here. And the goal is to distract from the Epstein files to create a shiny new object who has nothing to lose other than a pardon and clemency.”
It sounded like Goldman was recycling two talking points at once — “distracting from the Epstein files” and “creating a shiny new object” — but if Maxwell is the “object,” she’s literally part of the Epstein case.
I can’t believe this passes for news.