Source: The Daily Beast
by Michael Daly
“In an era when one political dumpster fire follows another, President Trump is striving to address a rekindled scandal that initially seemed more of a mattress fire. … The seemingly never ending Epstein saga is threatening to become more like a lithium-ion battery fire. Despite all efforts to extinguish it, a smoldering lithium-ion battery can suddenly result in what is called a thermal runaway, resulting in intense fire that goes on for hours, even days. Think Tesla. ‘You could throw that thing in the Hudson River and it could keep burning,’ a New York firefighter told the Daily Beast. ‘It has to run its course.’ … because Trump built so much of his support with the inflammatory stuff of conspiracy theories, there is a chance his base could witness the equivalent of a thermal runaway.” (08/07/25)