Why Hasn't Donald Trump Resigned?
State of the Union counter-Jackal
The premise of this Jackal is simple: We are currently watching a worldwide reckoning due to the release of the Epstein Files. Why hasn’t it reached our shores?
I just wanted to go through a list of public officials/figures who have resigned from their positions over their connections to Jeffrey Epstein, or had legal action taken against them:
Miroslav Lajčák – National security advisor from Slovakia has resigned.
Peter Mandelson – U.K. politician who was yeeted from the House of Lords and has now been arrested.
Mona Juul – Norwegian diplomat who resigned.
Jack Lang – Former French culture minister who stepped down from leadership of Arab World Institute.
Mohamed Waheed Hassan – Former Maldives president has resigned.
Peter Attia – American journalist who was forced out of CBS News
Brad Karp – Resigned from Paul, Weiss, a white-shoe law firm.
Kathy Ruemmler – Resigned as Goldman Sachs legal chief.
Thomas Pritzker - Stepped down from Hyatt.
Larry Summers – Former U.S. Treasury Secretary under Obama. Has stepped down from virtually everything following his ties to Epstein.
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem – Resigned as chairman and CEO of DP World.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor - Obviously lost his “prince”title (now I have it) and is under indictment.
That is a big list and there may be more. NPR had a huge story drop today, where they uncovered that DOJ scrubbed around 50 pages from the Epstein Files release that document the FBI’s multiple interviews with a woman who says she was abused by Trump when she was a minor. Here is NPR:
According to the newly released files, the FBI internally circulated Epstein-related allegations that mention Trump in late July and early August 2025. The list, collected from the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center, included numerous salacious allegations. Agents marked most of the accusations as unverifiable or not credible.
But one lead was sent to the FBI’s Washington office with the purpose of setting up an interview with the accuser. The lead was included in an internal PowerPoint slide deck detailing “prominent names“ in the Epstein and Maxwell investigations last fall. […] The FBI interviewed this Trump and Epstein accuser four times. That is according to an FBI “Serial Report” and a list of Non-Testifying Witness Material in the Maxwell case that were also released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Only the first interview, conducted July 24, 2019, is in the public database. That interview does not mention Trump.
Why did DOJ scrub this part of the file, but leave the other parts about Trump in there? After all, if it isn’t true, the Administration could have simply said it was like the other allegations about Trump and Epstein in the files that do not appear to be credible (and there are nutty things called into the FBI tipline all the time).
Instead, this weird, curious little story about a woman being interviewed four times by the FBI is missing from the Epstein Files. Just funny how DOJ was able to pinpoint this little story and miss the other 38,000 mentions of Trump in the files.
I cannot emphasize this enough: Democrats are running with their arguments about Trump and Epstein all wrong. The default position, from jump street, should be that Trump should resign. He should act like every other public or private figure who is connected to Epstein: Resign your post and take your stroll down washout lane.
Donald Trump should resign over his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Anything less is a capitulation.
Enjoy the State of the Union. I’m not watching.