Continue to dig, Donald. You keep the Epstein scandal alive.

Donald Trump is a rapist tried, accused of sexual abuse or assault by dozens of women. In addition, it seems to be in a severe cognitive decline. This combination of factors almost guarantees that the history of his ties with the sex offender condemned Jeffrey Epstein, charged with sexual trafficking before his death, will continue to move.

Trump gave a long, sometimes inconsistent press conference alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday. They gathered ostensibly to discuss the prices, but the questions turned to Epstein. Instead of slap or ignore them, as he sometimes does, Trump replied. Finally. And very strangely.

Trump argued that he had a collapse with Epstein years ago. In 2004, they competed for the same clairical property of Palm Beach, and Trump outbid his friend and obtained it. (In some accounts, Epstein was the one who broke friendship.)

It seems plausible, for two rich Scummy.

Some of Trump communications say that Trump expelled Epstein from Mar-A-Lago “to be a flipper”, in the words of the henchman Stephen Cheung.

But at the press conference on Monday, Trump gave a different explanation. And frightening santage.

“For years, I would not speak to Jeffrey Epstein, because he did something that was inappropriate … He stole people who worked for me. [Mar-a-Lago]. I’m happy to have done it.

My first reaction was that “inappropriate” seems to be a weak beer to describe Epstein’s imprisonment in 2008 to “ask and get a minor for prostitution”. But no, Trump was not talking about it. He said: “[Epstein] stolen people who have worked for me. I then recalled that the sexual trafficker condemned Ghislaine Maxwell in fact hired Virginia Giuffre, 16, the daughter of a maintenance manager in Mar-A-Lago, far from a job as a spa.

Remember that Maxwell called the women who worked for his “slaves”. Trump also seemed to have an interest in ownership of the workers of Mar-A-Lago; They were not free to continue other jobs – they were “stolen” goods, similar to “slaves” if you want. But Trump’s uncomposed error will further encourage journalists. (I am not an expert on the hundreds of girls victims of Epstein and Maxwell over the years, but it is not impossible that another has also been discovered by working in Mar-A-Lago.) Trump also, oddly, that he had never “had the privilege” of the visit of the private island of the Caribbes of Epstein, where a large part of the sex traffic has been asserted. What a privilege!

Decades after trying for the first time to whistle on Epstein and Maxwell (and Prince Andrew, who, according to her, forced her to have sex several times), Virginia Giuffre would have committed suicide in April of this year (although her parents questioned her cause of death). His death is an important reminder that none of women who have raised allegations against the pair of traffic has been judicial.

Trump kept another aspect of history alive on Monday, when he again denied having contributed to a “controversial drawing” of a woman, with allusions to his many common and “secret” points of Epstein, to a book for the 50th anniversary of Epstein. But it allowed that such a book exists. “They say there were a lot of letters made by many people,” he told journalists. “Many who succeeds.” He cannot resist associating himself with the “successful people who have contributed to the Epstein book, if such a book existed – this is the case, and I predict that we will see it. What’s wrong with him?

And in the wake of the vice-prosecutor general (and the former lawyer for the personal defense of Trump), Todd Blanche, spending almost two days to chat with Maxwell, currently serving 20 years in prison for his crimes), Trump did not insist: “Well, I did not allow myself to give him no forgiveness, but nobody approached me.” Right now, anyway.

Dangerously, it is a place where Trump’s lapdogs seem a little worried about the way this story will take place. On Sunday, the president of the GOP in the room, Mike Johnson, one of Trump’s most reliable toadies, unloaded the morality and the policy of forgiveness Maxwell. It is worth reading in full:

If you ask for my opinion, I think 20 years old was a bite of bread. I think it should at least have a perpetuity sentence. Think of all these unspeakable crimes. And as you noted earlier, probably a thousand victims. It is difficult to say how bad it was and that it is the orchestra and was a large part of it. At least under the criminal sanction, I think it is an unforgivable thing. Again, not my decision, but I have a big break on this subject like any reasonable person.

Yes, I see that Johnson holds the woman in the scandal as “orchestrator”, when evidence of this effect is suspect. Is it more to blame than Epstein? But the rest of his statement is perfect.

This is proof of the depraved state of mind of the elites, whether it is to treat workers or minor girls, as well as a property. (From which the devotee Christian Johnson almost always diverts morale.) It also seems that Trump’s continuous cognitive decline makes him difficult for him, personally, to answer or effectively dodge questions. He doesn’t want to talk about Epstein, but can’t stop talking about Epstein either. This story remains with us.