"On Trump’s handling of immigration issues, just 38% of voters approve, while 59% disapprove."

"On Trump’s handling of the economy, just 39% of voters approve, while 56% disapprove.

"We hear the word 'because' or 'absolved' in passing on TV or the radio while we’re busy doing something else. We see a quote on social media and keep scrolling mindlessly."

"But amid all his public claims, Trump relies on the fact that many of us aren’t paying close attention. Like the harried people waiting to use a copier, most of us don’t engage our reasoning skills to pick apart the president’s latest comments.

"and even claiming that a bawdy birthday letter with a drawing of a naked female figure that Trump reportedly wrote to Epstein was 'a fake thing.' (Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for reporting on the alleged letter.)

"As I noted before, he’s contradicted himself, arguing that the Epstein documents are 'pretty boring stuff,' trying to pin them on his political opponents ...

" ... In response to all this, Trump’s rhetoric has shifted wildly.

"as part of a controversial 2008 plea deal by Alexander Acosta, who would later become a Trump Cabinet official. (The documents released so far do not contain any direct communication between Epstein and Trump, although they do include Epstein and a number of Trump associates.)"

"But they indicate a yearslong and wide-ranging relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a financier who was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute ...

"To be fair, the documents do not indict Trump either.

"Previous releases included a separate 130 files with Trump-related references, the Times found.

"According to a New York Times review of the millions of documents using a proprietary search tool, more than 5,300 files contain more than 38,000 references to 'Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and other related words and phrases.'

"Reader, he was not absolved.

"'I was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me, it’s the opposite of what people were hoping, you know, the radical left,' he said.

"On Saturday, Trump was asked about the latest release of files.

"If he followed the playbook of his responses to the investigation into Russian election interference, I wrote, 'the next argument is clear: pretend he was exonerated.'" www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

His defense is that individuals should follow God's law, but God wants governments to be lawless?