When all else fails, distract everyone with a shiny object. That’s the obvious takeaway from the latest “news” about Jeffrey Epstein.
On Wednesday morning, Democrats were reeling from their embarrassing defeat in the Schumer Shutdown fiasco. Democrats repeatedly voted against opening the government, and when a few of them finally caved, most of the party was livid. Even the Leftmedia had turned, admitting what we all knew the whole time: Democrats shut down the government for a record 43 days, leading to, among other signs of the apocalypse, chaos at airports with unpaid air traffic controllers and thousands of canceled flights, as well as starving massive masses of people threatening to loot stores because they couldn’t buy groceries Coke and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups without food stamps.
What’s a party of political performance artists to do?
Release three of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails to make Donald Trump look bad.
“In one email from 2019,” reports NewsNation, “Epstein appeared to write to journalist Michael Wolff, ‘Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine [Maxwell] to stop.’”
In another email to Maxwell, Epstein’s girlfriend, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for sex trafficking, Epstein said, “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him,, he has never once mentioned. police chief etc. i’m 75% there.”
NewsNation sets up the third: “In another email from 2015, Epstein asked Wolff what he should do if the media asks then-candidate Trump about their friendship. Wolff replied that Epstein should let Trump ‘hang himself.’”
That’s it. That’s all Democrats have.
Hilariously, Republicans were ready for them. Democrats released three cherry-picked emails, so Republicans released twenty thousand emails. Angry Democrats, without an ounce of self-awareness, called that a distraction.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was also ready for it. “The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,” Leavitt asserted. “The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.”
Leavitt added some key history, too. “The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,” she explained. “These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again.”
Indeed, the main takeaway from the Democrats’ release — other than their desperate attempt at distraction — is that there’s no evidence Trump did anything wrong related to Epstein. In fact, in the exchange between Epstein and Wolff, the latter was specifically digging for any incriminating dirt. He came up empty.
Trump ain’t exactly clean as a whistle when it comes to his history with women, but if he were guilty of sex with underage girls, Epstein-related or not, we’d know about it by now. Democrats have been trying to personally destroy him for over a decade. To use a vivid metaphor, they’ve fired every round they have.
Of course, the entire MAGA Right is built on distrust of the federal government and all things Swamp, so there’s a sizable element of Trump’s own supporters who still believe there’s a cover-up of Epstein’s relationships. The infamous “list” has yet to be made public. The Trump Justice Department’s releases have been duds, only elevating suspicion.
The saga will no doubt continue to attract public attention, and politicians on both sides are exploiting that to keep their audiences tuned in. Real crimes were committed, and powerful people connected with Epstein have a lot to answer for — Prince Andrew is likely one of many. The House is poised to pass a discharge petition to release all the files the Justice Department has on Epstein. As always, stay tuned.
