It’s just so weird how Republicans just can’t stop reliving and relitigating 2020. When they’re not crying about election fraud without any proof (darn those unhackable mailed-in paper ballots!) or denying that January 6th was an insurrection, they’re whining about *checks notes* not enough people dying from the Coronavirus, as a desperate attempt to distract from their participation in the biggest political coverup in American history. Republicans know that Trump’s manufactured war with Iran won’t stop us from talking about the Epstein Files, and it certainly won’t reverse President Joe Biden’s legitimate victory in 2020, no matter who won’t say so during their Senate confirmation hearings. Republicans also know the Epstein Files will never go away, especially not when Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act and has been ordered to either unredact more of the files or explain why they must stay blacked out, all thanks to a real lawyer who hasn’t sold herself to Trump. Katie Phang brought a lawsuit against Blanche, who is legally obligated to “appear with specific unredacted Epstein files, emails, and documents no later than 3 p.m. EST on Thursday, July 30th,” as she told independent political content creator Aaron Parnas. “But most importantly, Blanche must come and show his work, meaning he has to bring documentation that supports his representations that the redactions that have occurred were done so to protect victims, which we know is really the only permissible exemption that's allowed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act." We know Todd Blanche’s real answer is always, “Because Daddy Trump did a bad bad thing and I’m protecting him because I love him more than America,” but he won’t say that, and neither will the rest of Trump’s compromised KKKlown KKKabinet. I’m not entirely sure what happens to the Acting Attorney General of the United States if he violates a federal judge’s order, but anyone else would be arrested on the spot. Blanche should already be in prison with the rest of the Republican Party (minus Thomas Massie) but, for now, they still have the Congressional majority and can waste time and taxpayer money on political theater.That’s why Republicans scraped the bottom of their very empty arsenal on Wednesday by restaging an old chestnut, “Let’s Scapegoat Dr. Fauci!” If anyone in the first failed Trump administration had had the sense of a goat, they would’ve realized that COVID-19 was the political opportunity of a lifetime. Had Trump spoken as frankly to the public as he did with Bob Woodward in February 2020, he would’ve won in November by a landslide after saving the lives of millions of registered voters. Instead, both he and Woodward remained silent, each for their own reasons that resulted in earning millions while Americans were dying by the thousands. As a result, the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci became Trump’s favorite scapegoat six years ago when the good doctor — who was first appointed as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) by President Ronald Reagan (A REPUBLICAN, y’all) in 1984 — simply told Americans how to protect themselves from COVID-19. Like, how dare he do his job, right? But since Dr. Fauci said things that were in direct opposition to what Trump was telling the public, MAGA decided he was the Devil. The anti-vaxxers ramped up their propaganda exponentially, sharing home remedies that killed them rather than saving them. Anyway, Trump’s egregious mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak clearly still embarrasses him more than having to pay E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million a couple of weeks ago or his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, as evidenced by his casual shrug at the White House Correspondents Dinner as journalists accepted awards for reporting on the Epstein Files. And so the Whitest KKKids U Never Wanted to Know put on a show for Trump to keep the media from remembering that his name is mentioned in the Epstein Files nearly as much as Jeffrey Epstein’s.I really hate summer reruns, don’t you? With a performance straight out of the worst dinner theater on the Florida panhandle, lead Bad Actor, Russian asset Sen. Rand Paul kicked off the fascist farce with a monologue full of the most obvious projection language and double talk ever to be entered into the historic record.The former self-credentialed ophthalmologist had Dr. Fauci’s lawyer removed from the hearing, even though the lawyer had every right to be there with his client.Dr. Fauci and his family were targeted and threatened by MAGA so badly that President Biden pardoned him as one of his last acts in office to protect him from what Republicans are trying to do right now. In one of the more obtuse moments of the hearing, Not-A-Real-Doctor Rand Paul told Dr. Fauci that a pardon “doesn’t rewrite history… It is the refusal to admit error that destroys trust.