Chris Murphy Tells The Blunt Truth About Trump's Epstein Cover-Up

Sen. Chris Murphy called Trump's Epstein cover-up the worst corruption scandal in American history, and he is not wrong.

When a president is so consistently corrupt, there is a risk that the corruption becomes normalized and people become desensitized to it.

Desensitization has always been the risk that came with Donald Trump’s constant corruption.

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Trump lost the 2020 election and got away with an attempt to overthrow that election by being sent back to the White House four years later. The president might have felt untouchable.

After getting away with a crime against the entire system of governance, Trump felt untouchable. The conservative Supreme Court majority gave him immunity for official acts, and then he started acting untouchable.

Since Trump returned to the White House, he has accepted a luxury jet from Qatar, been using the White House to enrich himself and his family through various crypto schemes, been shaking down media companies with bogus defamation lawsuits, and faced allegations of pay-to-play that include the presidential pardon system.

The list above doesn’t include what has been happening at the Department of Justice.

For any other president, any of Trump’s acts would have been a massive corruption scandal. For Donald Trump, it is just how he does business in the White House.

Out of all of the possibilities that could have caused Trump’s return to the White House to implode, the one nobody was expecting was Jeffrey Epstein.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) spoke about Trump’s Epstein cover-up on ABC’s This Week.

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