It’s an open secret that the Trump administration’s recent escalation in the pace of its fascist agenda is in part an attempt to distract from the Epstein files and Donald Trump’s many connections to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking empire. While the attempt tracks as transparent, even pathetic to most people, sadly, for at least one mentally exhausted man, it’s working.
Glenn Torrence is a 59-year-old semi-retired electrical engineer from Burlington, Vermont, and for the last few days, he has found himself so distracted from the Epstein case that he’s having difficulty even recalling the face of Ghislaine Maxwell, a woman who once held such importance in his mind.
“Every day I lose more and more, it’s all just bits and pieces now.” As the visibly haunted Torrence says this, he stares transfixed into the last but off coffee at the bottom of his mug, as if the thing he’s trying so desperately to recall was down there somewhere, waiting to be found. “I remember a man, a bad man, with an airplane. There was an island and massages, Chris Tucker was there for some reason, and a woman… the woman… those predatory eyes, that entitled smirk, her… red hair? No. Black. Her hair was black! Dammit, Glenn! You’ve got to remember!”
We followed Torrence as he wandered his home and its grounds, the tepid, half-present shuffle of a man desperately trying to untangle the knot in his mind.
“Between the Venezuela thing and the ICE murder and Greenland, Christ, now Iran, I just feel like I’m starting to lose the thread on something really important. They kept her somewhere, the woman, they kept her, like a prisoner? And people were upset, yes! Upset because she was being treated so… well? That can’t be right. Why would someone in prison be treated too well? God, it’s like, I remember Woody Allen was involved, and I remember that was super not surprising, but I can no longer remember the color of her eyes, what her laugh sounded like, the shape of her face.”
Torrence brought us to his painting studio, where he hoped a flow state might enable him to recreate Ghislaine’s likeness, but after an agonizing two hours and a canvas that bore no likeness to anyone, the crestfallen man dropped his brushes and began to weep.
“It’s starting to feel hopeless, like I’ll never get it back. All I can remember for sure is that the current President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, a convicted rapist, is a pedophile who needs to be removed from office as soon as humanly possible and by any means necessary.”
