This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

And just when it starts to get extreme, it gets crazier still. Last month, Mr. Trump called the Epstein investigation a hoax. But what doesn’t Mr. Trump call a hoax? But yesterday, Mrs. Trump,  a former five-time Trump employee of the month. Called for a congressional investigation under oath for the Epstein victims.

What gives here? Malaria gives support to the women who accuse her husband of committing serious heinous felonies? That’s so strange. Beyond bizarre, actually. Mrs. Trump wasn’t subpoenaed, but from what Malaria said yesterday makes it nearly certain she will be subpoenaed sometime in the future. Malaria explained that these women need to be believed and the crimes against them need to be investigated. It makes no sense at all. Why now? Are we seeing something from behind the scenes playing out publicly?

Then Malaria explained all the rumors and stories about her were false. She was never good friends with Ghislaine Maxwell, no matter what her emails say. Malaria just happened to run in the same social circles in New York and Palm Beach. As Mrs. Astor would say, “always the same four hundred.” It was just a coincidence Jeff, Ghislaine, and Malaria got thrown together in a small town like New York. Forced to hang around with criminals.

Malaria took the opportunity to deny the rumors about herself. She said she didn’t meet Donald Trump on Jeffery Epstein’s airplane. Malaria wasn’t Jeff’s ex-girlfriend. Jeff didn’t hand Malaria off to Trump like an old football. Donald and Malaria met at parties from mutual friends in common. Just an innocent porn actress from Slovenia caught in the jungles of New York. Just a poor immigrant girl seeking the American dream.

From porn actress to first lady and now a movie star! Mrs. Trump appeared to be unhappy about her revelations. But Mrs. Trump always seems pained, even when smiling. Mr.Trump does everything he can do to quiet the Epstein story, and then his wife goes on TV to bring it back up? What am I missing here? Did someone miss a hush-money payment? Why is she talking when not being required or compelled to talk?

This is Trump world. Generally, everything they say is either a lie or the opposite of the truth. So when Malaria says she didn’t meet Trump on Jeffries’ plane, she did! And was she one of Jeff’s castoffs? Yes, she probably was. There was no need for further denial until the denial becomes a silent admission. Why is Malaria suddenly so sympathetic towards Epstein’s victims? (Jeopardy theme) She’s never taken notice before? Does she share some scarring from a similar experience herself?

Perhaps it would have been wiser for her husband if she’d said less. Better still, if she said nothing at all. Malaria is directly working against her husband’s interest. If the First Lady ever spills the beans, Zowie! Sounds like a good way to end up buried on a golf course. A wife can’t be compelled to testify against her husband, but she can, however, freely volunteer testimony.

In a world of the bizarre this event exceeded all expectations. There are no parallels in First Lady history. “I not skank. I not hoe! We met at party!” Why, oh why, would you volunteer this information? If it’s the truth, nobody cares. But to deny it is to dignify it. Just ignore it. She’s heard worse than that said about herself. Why dignify the remarks? Why wade into the water if you’re not involved? Think about it. Malaria says enough to spark curiosity. When the congressional hearings begin after the midterms Malaria’s name is going to be at the top of the list. And she did it to herself, or she did it to Donald. Malaria has opened a whole new front in the Epstein campaign. The wife of a president is advocating for the victims of the president. Single-handedly shepherding the advance.

Is Malaria planning her exit strategy? The poor Slovenian girl taken in by the New York real estate sharpie. “It has recently come to my attention…” AKA, I’m not with them! I wouldn’t be surprised if she wasn’t already feeling out book deals. “I Married Donald Trump and I didn’t know.”

But if Malaria rats Trump out and divorces him. What would be left of her social life? Malaria would be X’d out of the social register. She would become Mrs. Damaged Goods or Mrs. Awkward Situation. No longer invited to parties. No longer a queen of the social jet set but the flotsam and jetsam of jaded parochialism and vindictive womanhood. Mrs. Used to be.

I am at a loss to understand it. Like almost everything that goes on in Trump world, I don’t understand it.

“When Satan’s not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn’t even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?”  ― Günter Grass