by Amal Zadok
During Nixon’s time, the Watergate scandal dominated headlines. Now, we have “Trumpstein ™️”— a term coined for posterity here in our team.
Trumpstein™️ refers to the cover-up and manipulation of all documentation in the Victims vs. Jeffrey Epstein case. These documents are particularly relevant to the Israeli operation known as “Honeytrap,” as described by Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer. Ben-Menashe claims Epstein’s activities functioned as a classic intelligence honeytrap aimed at compromising and blackmailing influential global figures to serve Israeli interests.
Trumpstein™️ has become the symbol of the ultimate American betrayal—not just a betrayal of justice, but a raw, sneering insult to the very people who believed in the promise of democracy, in the hope that power would finally be held accountable. Nowhere is this clearer than in the orchestrated farce surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein document release. The American people and especially the MAGA base—once galvanized by the hope that Trump would “drain the swamp”—have been treated with a level of contempt that is breathtaking in its audacity.
From the outset, political elites crafted the “Epstein Files Transparency Act” as a spectacle designed to diffuse populist anger. With banners waving and grand speeches, Congress and the White House said all the right things: full transparency, no more elites above the law, justice owed to victims and citizens alike. But it was all a cruel joke. The “release” was nothing more than a pile of sanitized, unclassified paperwork—the material that could never endanger those at the top. The true records, the damning documentation, remain buried under layers of official secrecy, locked away with the label “classified.”
Not one that would implicate any of the perpetrators of these crimes.
Those remain “classified.”
The insult to the MAGA base could not be more direct. These are the people who filled stadiums, who believed in the America First revolution, who took the chants of “lock her up” and “drain the swamp” as solemn oaths. The expectation was clear: no more backroom deals, no more protection for the powerful. Instead, what they received was an insult delivered in legalese and procedural footnotes—a release bill that quite literally told them, to their faces, that they were not worthy of the truth. Every reference to “unclassified” records is a slap to the face. It mocks their intelligence and their faith. It proclaims: “You may have voted, you may have rallied, but you will get only what we deem harmless.”
The MAGA movement was not just about Trump; it was about a broken promise to America’s working and middle class. It was about the desire to smash the elite immunity that allows billionaire pedophiles, princes, tech magnates, and politicians to operate above the law. But with Trump now capitulating to political convenience, urging his loyalists to “move on” from Epstein, the mask is off. His surrogates and former defenders (even fierce MAGA loyalists in Congress) now openly rage against the betrayal. The House’s tepid document dump, cheered as “historic” by party functionaries, is exposed as hollow—just more drivel for a public grown weary of being lied to.
Worse still is the way the establishment frames this capitulation as an act of statesmanship. “Releasing all unclassified documents,” they say, as if the difference is lost on us. They think the American people are fools. Arrogant criminals running circles around the Constitution, parading as servants of justice. Patriots are told to go home, trust the process, and take what little is offered—while the architects of exploitation toast their immunity.
What’s especially obscene is the bipartisan nature of this atrocity. The MAGA core is joined in outrage by ordinary citizens across the spectrum who likewise see how the powerful circle wagons to protect their own. Clinton’s name, Trump’s name, titans of Wall Street, Silicon Valley idols, foreign royalty—no one who matters will be touched. The papers released are window-dressing, the real arrangements kept for future leverage or protection, deep in some classified vault.
Trumpstein™️ is the perfect name for a phenomenon born of this age, a monstrous hybrid where populist rhetoric is weaponized to pacify anger while the corrupt machinery of power continues uninterrupted behind a bloodless bureaucracy. The American people, especially the faithful rank and file of MAGA, are witnessing the collapse of their last illusions. The promise to drain the swamp was always conditional; it would be honored only so long as it didn’t threaten those with real power. As soon as transparency posed a risk to the establishment, the movement’s leaders showed where their loyalty truly lies.
This is not just a failure. It is a calculated betrayal—a message to the American people that they will never, ever be allowed to see the true face of power. To the MAGA base: Trumpstein™️ is your reward for loyalty—a cynical wink, a pat on the head, and a flood of redacted nonsense. This was never about justice. It was always about control.
The American people deserve anger, not resignation. That’s the only response worthy of the contempt now being shown to them from both sides of the political aisle. Trumpstein™️ is more than an atrocity. It is the clearest statement yet: in the great American pageant, you are nothing but an audience to be fooled—never partners in truth or justice.
References:
1. BBC News (2025, Nov. 19): Congress approves bill to release Epstein files that will go public.
2. H.R.4405 – 119th Congress (2025-2026): Epstein Files Transparency Act (2025, July 14). US House of Representatives.
3. ABC News Australia (2025, Nov. 18): Now that US Congress has voted to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, what happens next?
4. The Nightly (2025, Feb. 27): Twist after much-hyped Epstein classified document dump.
5. ABC News (2025, Nov. 17): Epstein files bill passes resoundingly in House with only 1 no vote.
6. Times of India (2025, Feb. 27): Justice department releases Jeffrey Epstein files, but critics say they reveal little.
7. House Oversight Committee (2025, Sept. 1): Oversight Committee Releases Epstein Records Provided by DOJ.
8. Vox (2025, Jul. 16): Why Trump betrayed his base on Jeffrey Epstein.
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