Your task will not be an easy one.

Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle-hearted.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.

There is the United States of America.

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Hey, everybody.

Chuck Wilson, your host is always here on The Elephant in the Room.

The Elephant in the Room this week is distractions.

There's a great article in Politico this week.

I recommend you go take a look at.

It is called The 47 Things Donald Trump Would Rather Talk About than Jeffrey Epstein.

I don't care how many there are.

You put 100. You put a thousand. You could put a million on there. America has started to make up its mind about where Trump is on Jeffrey Epstein. You're going to see them throw out stuff every single day. The tariffs, the ballroom at the White House, all the garbage, all the swill, all the slop. We're going to toss out everything under the sun. You're going to keep up with this ridiculous Obama-Trusher trope. It's not working. It's not working in part because

of all of you. You decided as a country. Americans decided as a people. This story in which we

find ourselves trapped with Donald Trump about his life, his role, his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and Galane Maxwell, and the concomitant scandal of them trying to cover up in the White House and the Justice Department. You decided it mattered. And as Americans, you haven't let it go. And you know, Trump has always had a superpower of distraction. He's always been able to change the subject. He's always been able to bullshit his way out of problems. He's always been able to trick people into believing that the last outrage should be

forgotten so you can talk about the next outrage. It has been an extraordinarily effective strategy for him for

an entire decade, but it is not working. The elephant in the room today is that that tactic has started to

fall apart. I have a

suspicion, and I think this could be a good thing for the country. My suspicion is that while that

strategy has fallen apart for his Epstein-related defense, I also think it's good for the country

that we may be growing up a little bit. We may be understanding a little bit now that chasing the next

dragon, chasing the next rabbit is not always the strategy for a responsible citizenship.

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