Ramble On: Shouting From the Rooftops (video) Morning thoughts on Trump's increasingly more obvious, and more desperate, attempts to distract from the Epstein files. He's guilty af, guys. Greg Olear Aug 8 Good morning! Here is today’s ramble: Every piece at PREVAIL is free to read and always will be. No paywalls, ever. Your generous support keeps it that way. Thank you! And here is a transcript, edited for clarity: Good morning. As you’re watching this, it is Friday morning, August 8th. I am talking to you on Thursday afternoon, August 7th. It’s 4:30 p.m. So whatever craziness happens after 4:30 p.m.—between now and tomorrow morning while you’re watching this—I claim no responsibility for. This week has been, basically, as I see it—every week is worse than the last. I mean, this has been the case for the last six, seven months, however long he’s been here. But this week in particular, I feel like Trump is desperate to get the attention off the Epstein files. Trump doesn’t want people to know, and have confirmed, that the accusers, multiple, who have accused him of participating with Epstein in these horrific crimes are correct. I believe that in those files, there’s going to be confirmation of a lot of very awful things, which is why he doesn’t want us to see all the files. Why he had Kash Patel—someone who he gave stock in his company before he appointed him as FBI Director, thereby kind of “pre-bribing” him, or so it appears—deploy 1,000 FBI agents to go through the Epstein files and flag mention of his name. You don’t need a thousand guys to go through the files to flag mention of my name. You only do that if your name is in there a lot. So his name is clearly all over the Epstein files. Trump was friends with this guy for, like, 15 years—close friends. He and his wife, both Melania also and him, hung out with Ghislaine and Jeffrey all the time. They were neighbors in Palm Beach, were neighbors in New York. They socialized a lot. The Mysteries of Melania Trump: What Does the First Lady Know? Greg Olear · Aug 5 Read full story And now Ghislaine Maxwell, the most notorious living sex trafficker currently on the face of the earth, has been moved to a minimum security prison in Texas—minimum security because, I guess, it’s better for her, but it’s also probably easier to escape from—and also presumably easier for someone to, I don’t know, smuggle somebody in there if she were to be Epsteined, let’s say. All of these outcomes are in play now, but there she is. They had to, as my friend Allison Gill first reported, they had to waive a requirement that prohibits sex offenders like this from being in these minimum security prisons. And yet, whoop, there Ghislaine is. The Breakdown EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas About an hour ago, CNN and NBC reported that Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum security camp in Texas… Read more 7 days ago · 1135 likes · 137 comments · Allison Gill Then the DOJ—Todd Blanche, the deputy director, whatever he is, at the Justice Department—is meeting with Ghislaine. Why? You know, there’s no reason for him to meet with her other than they want her to absolve Trump of crimes. Which, now it comes out in the news that, yeah, Ghislaine mentioned to Todd Blanche that she didn’t find any evidence of “wrongdoing” with regards Trump and the girls—you know, the kids that she and Jeffrey were raping and trafficking. No evidence of wrongdoing with Trump. But like, Ghislaine Maxwell thinks that raping and sex trafficking is fine. There’s nothing wrong with that, in her eyes. So what’s wrongdoing to Ghislaine Maxwell? What kind of word is that? It’s ridiculous. So even the MAGA people, even the Trump people know that this is crazy because JD Vance convened a meeting, a super-top-secret meeting that of course we all know about at the vice presidential estate there near the Observatory. And at that meeting were Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff; Kash Patel, of course, director of the FBI; Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and Blanche. They’re all there and they’re trying to basically figure out how to spin this thing. Because the best-case scenario here is that Trump was just really good friends with the two most notorious child sex traffickers of all time and allowed them, for years, to use Mar-a-Lago as a place to groom and “recruit” these girls, these kids that they were going to sex-traffic and rape. Let me say that again. The best-case scenario for Trump is that he was merely somebody who provided the facility (Mar-a-Lago) at which Ghislaine and Jeffrey, his two really close friends, could source—or “steal,” to use Trump’s word—kids that they would sex-traffic and rape. That’s the best-case scenario for Trump. And we all know that what he did is worse than that, okay? We know this because the victims said so. Anyway, we’re not just making it up. The victims said so. Now, who is going to believe anything Ghislaine Maxwell says? I mean, really, who’s gonna believe her? Not only is she a horrible, sex-trafficking, monstrous, rapist, awful person, I mean, really one of the worst people that ever drew breath on this earth, she also perjured herself constantly. Constantly! She lies all the time. Of course she’s going to say that Trump did no “wrongdoing.” She’s never going admit that he did what he did. She wants her pardon. And everybody knows this, so presumably that’s why these clowns are at JD Vance’s place—presumably not sitting on the couches—trying to figure out “What can we say? How can we spin this?” And meantime? They’re just there throwing spaghetti at the wall. You had Trump going up on the roof of the White House, which, you know, when I saw that—I had COVID this week, so I was a little brain foggy—I saw that and I thought, “That can’t be real. That’s gotta be an AI thing. Trump isn’t up on the roof!” But no, it was real. Trump was up on the roof. I guess he was surveying the grounds for this ridiculous ballroom that he wants to build. Which is another distraction, by the way. It’s a boondoggle, but it’s also a distraction from Epstein. So there he is, up on the roof talking to the reporters. Ridiculous—but we’re still talking about Epstein, buddy. Then Sean Duffy, his transportation secretary, who’s also for some reason the head of NASA—this guy from The Real World. You know, I remember a time when working at NASA meant you have to some brains in your head. Not with this guy. Duffy announces plans that we’re going to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Even though, like, don’t you need water to have a nuclear reactor? Like, I’m not a scientist, but I’m pretty sure that that’s kind of the thing that you need to cool down the temperature of, you know, the reactor part. And last time I checked, there’s no water on the moon. So I think that’s going to be a problem. But also, why are they telling us that? Why are we doing this, while you’re cutting benefits for literally everyone else, other than like Elon Musk and Zuckerberg and these AI assholes? Gee, I wonder. Obviously the tariffs went into effect today. In fact, the 7th of August, as I’m saying this, tariffs went into effect. The New York Times is trying to map them out. They make no goddamn sense, these tariffs. There’s no even point in trying because they change constantly. Trump sent his ridiculous bootlicking real estate buddy Witkoff to the Kremlin to once again pucker up and plant a great big kiss on Putin’s ass, which he’s pleased to call “negotiate.” I’m sure nothing’s going to come out of that. And then, most importantly, he had to weigh in on the great national nightmare, which is that Sydney Sweeney was in a jeans ad and said that her jeans were good. Which strikes me as not actually all that controversial. Like, the whole thing is stupid, even by Trump standards. The MAGA influencers are the only people that cared about this. American Eagle jeans, by the way, are made in China. And, you know, the stock price jumped right after Trump tweeted it. So maybe we should investigate people who might’ve had advanced knowledge of that? But we won’t do that because…I forget who’s in charge of the SEC—which almost-dead wrestler is in charge of the SEC. Honestly, I can’t remember. So Trump’s trying to do all these crazy things, which in a vacuum, each one of them is more preposterous than the last. Because like, what are you doing? You’re up on the roof! You’re saying you’re going to have another census! You’re going to have the federal government in D.C.! You’re going to send the FBI to go bring people who don’t want to be Texas to Texas even though that’s very, very, very illegal. And all of this ICE stuff, which is really terrifying. We’ll talk about this on The Five 8 tonight, but, you have a situation now with the tariffs and the inflation and everything else where the economy is going to collapse. There’s going to be a recession and the employment rate is going to go up. Inflation is going to go up. So we’re going to have stagflation. And then the only people that will be hiring are ICE. People are going to have to take these damn jobs to be able to feed their families. That, what I just described, is like the backdrop to some sort of horrible sci-fi movie, in which they’d put like some like sort of weird, pretty actress to be in charge of it, you know, just to put her on the poster. That’s what they’re doing with  DOG KILLER Kristi Noem. The whole thing is preposterous. We are living in a preposterous time. It’s a sad time and it’s a serious time and it’s a scary time and it’s an infuriating time and it’s a depressing time. But it’s also just preposterous. And I’d like to think—I would really like to think—first of all, that nobody, even in MAGA, even on Fox News, even at Newsmax, is going to buy this Ghislaine Maxwell stuff. You know, I mean, come on. I’m pretty good with analogies. I can’t come up with an analogy that works for how ridiculously dumb this is. There’s nothing about it that would be convincing at all. It would be like the cigarette butt coming to life in the ashtray and swearing that my son hadn’t smoked any cigarettes. It’s that level of dumb. Nobody’s gonna believe this. Any MAGA people that believe it are just beyond all hope. But then what? What are we going to do? Are we going to impeach the pedophile? Because we’re going to have to impeach the pedophile. And I don’t know if the Republicans are going to let it let that happen. And if not, we’re just going to have to sit here and be stuck with a child rapist in the White House—making decisions about families, about vaccines, about things that impact children, education. About abortion rights and women’s healthcare. Like I said, it’s a scary time. It’s an infuriating time. It’s a depressing time, but it’s also a preposterous time. And I’d like to think…I’m not going to predict anything because I really thought Trump would be gone way before now. I thought he would be out in the first term. I never thought that we would still be going on with this, but you know, I’m optimistic that way. I mean, if the Ghislaine Maxwell / Jeffrey Epstein thing doesn’t take him down, I think the only thing that can take him down is, you know, some sort of blockage in the carotid artery. Anyway, it’s not great. But I do feel like this Epstein story has now been going for a while. It’s been a good, what, three weeks since this has been happening, and it’s not letting up. People are not forgetting about it, even on the right. So that’s a flicker of hope. And I’d like to think that when people really grasp what’s happening and really understand who this guy really is and who he’s working for—when they can get it through their thick skulls and get rid of all the Fox News lip-sticking of the pig and see him for who he really is, he’ll be done—and we shall prevail. TONIGHT We have a great guest lined up for tonight’s show. Please tune in at 8pm ET. And if you’re not inclined to do so, please click the link and subscribe to the Five 8 channel. 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