The party of 'family values' just covered up unspeakable crimes

If this week has proven anything, it’s that the entire Republican Party (minus Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky) is guilty of treason and manufacturing a war with Iran to deflect from being accessories to the sexual assault of women and children.

Several new bombshell releases from the Epstein Files brought even more allegations about President Donald Trump, including testimony from a woman who said that as a young victim, she fought back by biting him on the penis.

Another Epstein document details “underage sex parties” allegedly hosted at Trump's golf course. Trump vehemently denies wrongdoing, of course, but it’s still weird that a lot of his clown cabinet talk about the “Sinaloa Cartel” when it comes to the immigration discussion, and how ICE is only going after “the most violent criminals” — when NO, they aren’t, said everyone who’s seen the footage of the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good — when they could just read the Epstein Files.

THIS is what Republicans are refusing to address:

And all of this is apparently fine with Trump’s Republican enablers, who are ritualistically shredding our democracy because — checks notes — WE DO NOT KNOW WHY, actually.

The reason you missed this, Dear Reader, is that a manufactured Distracto-War is happening in Iran, and possibly another one is about to pop off in Ecuador. Also, Trump finally fired puppy killer Kristi Noem for lying about her $220 million cosplaying ad campaign and replaced her as Secretary of Homeland Security with someone even less qualified: Markwayne Mullin, the junior senator from Oklahoma.

I wonder if Mullin will be obligated to offer Corey Lewandowski free rides on that tricked-out DHS jet now Kristi’s been grounded as a “Special Envoy,” which also sounds like a gross thing to make her husband super-embarrassed.

If you’re not familiar with Mullin, he’s a former pro Mixed Martial Arts fighter who Democrats nonetheless allege wasn’t so brave on January 6th, and who needs to stand on a box to feel like a Big Boy whenever he finds himself next to an actual grown-up.

None of this has to be happening. But both Senate and House Republicans used their razor-thin majorities to VETO bipartisan war powers resolutions and the public release of sexual misconduct reports involving members of Congress.

So, to reiterate, the Republican Party, which calls itself the party of “Family Values,” which claims to be “Pro-Life” in the pursuit of “protecting children,” and which wants America to be a “Christian Nation,” is helping cover up unspeakable crimes against women and children by bombing children in Iran. Trump doesn’t care about those deaths, the deaths of our servicepeople, or the impending deaths of Americans ON AMERICAN SOIL if Iran retaliates here.

GOP: Works for us, Boss!

I’m old enough to remember when the Republican Party behaved mostly like human beings who understood the assignment. They had informed and intelligent political discourse with their Democratic colleagues, without devolving into grade-school bullying, insults thrown in public.

I contend that without social media, Trump would still be pulling focus on the New York social scene by acting like the chauvinist and womanizer he’s always been, the highlights of his life beginning and ending with giant headlines in the New York Post.

Remember when Republicans spoke truthfully about Trump? I do! It’s on video and everything!

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They KNEW what he was. And, Dear Reader, I posit that every one of them still knows what he is.

Remember when the Russians hacked the DNC and RNC servers but only released what they found about the Democrats and held onto kompromat on the GOP? Guess who got his tiny hands on all that blackmail? Why, Putin’s Puppet, that’s who! One by one, Republicans running for president in 2016 started dropping out of the race, even those still polling pretty well against Trump.

You know the timeline. Trump should’ve been held accountable by the media, but they let him bully them instead. The RNC should’ve yanked him from the campaign when he mocked a disabled reporter. He should’ve been stopped after the Access Hollywood tape, but James Comey agreed with Susan Sarandon that Trump would just be more interesting and released Hillary’s emails. Trump should’ve been stopped a million other times and he still hasn’t been stopped, and look where we are now.

His tariffs have tanked the American economy. The February jobs report showed a dramatic drop in new jobs created and boosted the unemployment rate to nearly 4.5 percent.

It’s fine, we don’t need a functioning society if you can “own the libs,” right?

Every decision Trump makes comes with a body count. All Americans should be asking why the Republicans refuse to stand up to him, because their fealty is glaringly obvious. Is the kompromat on them as bad as what’s been found about Trump in the Epstein Files?

There’s nothing you could do to make me turn against my country, no amount of blackmail or bribery. But then again, I didn’t participate in the world’s biggest and most abhorrent cover-up. I never met Jeffrey Epstein, and I don’t hang out with anyone who knew him.

However, I AM a taxpaying American citizen, as well as a member of the indie media, so please join me in demanding all Republicans be forced to say under Congressional oath whether they’re loyal to Trump or to America, because it’s painfully and abundantly clear that it’s impossible to be both.

Trump has never been a “take one for the team” guy. He’s a “make the team take one for ME” guy.

It’s time for that to STOP.

• Tara Dublin is a political writer/commentator based in Portland, OR, who has been blocked by Donald Trump on Twitter since August 2015 and can occasionally be heard as a fill-in host on SiriusXM Progress. She is also the author of The Sound of Settling, a rock ‘n’ roll love story available at taradublinrocks.com