There Was a Crooked Man...

The symptoms of a larger problem began to appear in the White House shortly after the first January snowfall. The blizzard was accompanied by swirling scandals and dubious denials. The president's attempts to avoid involvement in the L'affaire Epstein were supported by the MAGA distraction machine. But no amount of diversion would make the president's impropriety vanish. Trump's assertions, mirrored by Queen Gertrude's protestations in Shakespeare's Hamlet, revealed a basic truth: "The Donald doth protest too much, methinks." Someone who denies something too fervently may actually be hiding the truth.