

Yesterday morning, I mentioned the Democrats’ Trump-Epstein hoax, and what do you know? It flared up again, uglier than stink on a monkey, only to be squashed by the banana tree of reality. (
I know. Sorry.) That was just the sideshow. The bigger news was that Representative Thomas Massie’s long-pending Epstein petition gained the final vote it needed. CNN reported the result in a story headlined, “
Johnson says House will vote next week on push to compel DOJ to release all of its Epstein files.”
Brave Thomas Massie will finally get his vote! On the record. And I’ll bet it passes
overwhelmingly. In fact,
key Trump allies and MAGA stalwarts have already signed Massie’s petition, including Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), and Lauren Boebert (R-Co.).
But let’s reel in our enthusiastic expectations. First of all, James Comer and the House Oversight Committee have already subpoenaed the DOJ’s Epstein file. So that is already ongoing. In fact, yesterday, Oversight released 20,000 new pages of documents obtained from the late sex offender’s estate. I think they’re closing in on having released 100,000 pages in total.
Second, the history of Congress “compelling” the DOJ to disclose stuff is, well,
inconclusive. In 2011, Congress tried to compel the DOJ to turn over “Fast and Furious” files. The DOJ resisted, citing privilege and separation of powers. In 2019, Congress tried to compel the DOJ to turn over “Russiagate” documents related to the Mueller investigation. Same thing happened.
So … while Congress can
vote for the DOJ to release stuff, it can’t really
make the DOJ do anything. If they do, there will be a lot of political pressure, but don’t expect bankers’ boxes to start rolling up to the curb or anything.
Still. There’s a whiff of something
different in the air this time. CNN’s article expressed surprise at Johnson’s agreement to hold the vote next week. He could have waited till next year, or at least for seven full days, depending on whose rule interpretation you prefer. But Speaker Johnson said
let’s just get on with it: “It’s a totally pointless exercise. We might as well just do it. I mean, they have 218 signatures, that’s fine, we’ll do it.”
Which brings us to the Democrat’s latest Epstein misfire.

Before she unalived herself this year, Epstein victim Virginia Guiffre was extremely public about her experience. She sued Epstein’s estate, wrote a book, and her deposition transcript has been widely circulated. Virginia’s lawyer once praised Trump as the only involved party who cooperated voluntarily, without even requiring subpoenas.
In her deposition, Virginia repeatedly said Trump
never did anything inappropriate that she knew of. “It’s true that he didn’t partake in any sex with us,” she testified, “and it’s not true that he flirted with me. Donald Trump never flirted with me.”
Critically, Virginia had worked for
both men. She started at Mar-a-Lago, working for Trump. Then Epstein “stole” her, hiring her away from Trump, starting a sordid trend that appears to have eventually led to Trump throwing Epstein out of his club.
Yesterday, Democrats released an email they claimed “proved” Trump was part of Epstein’s intimates group:
Democrats
added the redaction, “VICTIM.” The original email —released unredacted by the GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee— did
not conceal the name of the “VICTIM.” It was “Virginia.”
In other words, Epstein was talking about the girl who
already exculpated the President. The girl who, postmortem, took down Prince Andrew.
The Democrats’ smear attempt spectacularly backfired. When Epstein said, “the dog that hasn’t barked is trump … im 75% there,” he was speculating about being
almost fully convinced Trump was cooperating against him with the Palm Beach County Sheriff. As it turned out, Epstein was right. It
was Trump.
Virginia was the link. Epstein concluded that Trump was capitalizing on his previous relationship with Virginia— from when they knew each other at Mar-a-Lago. Epstein was suspicious because Trump had visited Virginia, but she failed to “mention” it. Epstein appears to have thought Trump was wearing a wire. (And maybe he was.)
Early in the day, running with the Democrats’ redacted version, corporate media tried to launch a political scud missile at Trump, but it prematurely exploded into infertile embarrassment when the House Oversight Committee promptly published the unredacted email, which provided the missing context.

Much more interesting were other newly disclosed emails showing anti-Trump reporters, like Michael Wolff (USA Today, Vanity Fair), coordinating Trump attacks with Epstein. Years
after Epstein’s first conviction.
Or, just before Epstein’s second arrest in 2017, we see New York Times reporter Landon Thomas prompting the pedophile with a heads-up that a new investigation was underway:
In other words, here we have liberal reporters secretly conspiring with a notorious pedophile and sex-trafficker like close comrades. It’s almost like they never met a well-connected pedophile they didn’t instantly fall in love with.

Now let’s stitch yesterday’s Epstein news together and see what sort of mittens it makes.
When the House inevitably votes next week to compel the DOJ to release the full Epstein files, and assuming the DOJ fully or even partly complies (why not?) …
then what?
Democrats are convinced the files are packed with dirt on President Trump. If so, Trump’s resistance to their release will have been the biggest political miscalculation of all time, since it made the interest in the Epstein materials swell to a fever pitch. If the documents were coming out anyway, he
could have released the files on day one, back when Democrats couldn’t care less about Epstein.
Or there isn’t any dirt on Trump … but the files will still be ugly, for a lot of folks other than Trump, including some Republicans. But this way, with Democrats and Republicans voting
together to compel the release of the files, Trump can’t be blamed, and Republicans can’t be blamed.
If some billionaire donor or Republican politician gets exposed for island-hopping, it won’t have been Trump’s fault.
We shall see. I’ll update you after next week’s vote.
Open season in the swamp: DOJ nets top Dem operatives; Arizona’s Katie Hobbs probed for bribery tied to a grim orphanage; Epstein disclosures loom; DNC staff revolt; another Ivy caves and dumps DEI.
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