Jeffrey Epstein was a Democrat, and his friends and associates were overwhelmingly Democrats. He was prominent in academic circles, and was an insider at both Harvard and MIT. The only politician with whom he is known to have had a relatively significant relationship was Bill Clinton.
Yet, the Democrats, in their ceaseless search for issues to distract from their own performance in office, have tried to link Epstein to President Trump. Last week, the House Oversight Committee cooperated by releasing 20,000 Epstein emails. Democrats greeted the release joyfully, only to find that out of 20,000 there are zero emails from Donald Trump, and zero emails to Donald Trump. Epstein name-dropped Trump, as he did Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, except that in Trump’s case he was mostly expressing antagonism.
And it turns out that in 2019, after Epstein was a convicted sex offender, Epstein texted a Democratic member of Congress in the middle of a hearing, advising her on ways the Democrats could *get* President Trump. Of course it didn’t work, because Epstein knew nothing about Trump that was of use.
The point is that Epstein hated Donald Trump, probably because Trump had told him, years before, never to darken the door of Mar-a-Lago again. So the Democrats’ glee over the 20,000 emails comes down to this: Epstein had no relationship with President Trump, and hated him.
Now President Trump has asked the Department of Justice to investigate Epstein’s relationships with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers–who, like Clinton, visited Epstein’s island–LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and Epstein’s banks. Attorney General Pam Bondi has said that DOJ will do so. The New York Times is outraged, of course:
When a trove of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails were made public this week, Donald J. Trump’s name was all over them.
No, it wasn’t. See above.
But on Friday, when Mr. Trump demanded that the Justice Department investigate a list of powerful men mentioned in the emails, his own name was nowhere to be seen — he had singled out only Democrats.
Haven’t the Democrats singled out only Trump? Of course. They have tried to tar Trump with Jeffrey Epstein, even though Epstein was a Democrat and hated Trump. They do this because they believe their voters are easily fooled–they are right about that–and they think the newspapers and television networks will provide them cover. They are right about that, too. So why shouldn’t Trump direct attention where it belongs, on Epstein’s relationships with Democrats–whom, unlike Trump, he liked?
My only reservation about this is that the whole Epstein saga appears to be grossly overblown. Epstein was a very bad guy, but there is little or no credible evidence, at least that has emerged in multiple investigations and criminal prosecutions, that he was the center of an international pedophile ring. It is QAnon all over again. So I agree with President Trump: Epstein is dead. It is time to put him in the rear-view mirror and get on with more important issues.
