Congressional Democrats’ latest dump of Epstein documents is being packaged as a scandal, but hardworking Americans deserve the straight truth: this is a political ambush timed to do maximum damage. The House Oversight Committee released more than 20,000 pages of material this month, and Democrats immediately cherry-picked inflammatory lines to feed a hungry press corps.
The centerpiece of their accusation is a handful of emails from Jeffrey Epstein between 2011 and 2019 in which he claims President Trump “knew about the girls” and that Mr. Trump “spent hours” with one alleged victim at Epstein’s house. Those lines are being waved around as proof, yet they come from Epstein’s own correspondence and secondhand spin from partisan operatives — hardly the kind of airtight evidence that should topple reputations.
The White House has not cowered from these attacks and rightly called the kerfuffle a hoax, while the president has urged the DOJ to look into why Democrats and the media are resurfacing these selective passages now. If we’re going to play prosecutor, let it be an impartial one — not a partisan circus whose only aim is to distract from the serious business of governing.
Conservatives should be blunt: Jeffrey Epstein was a liar and a manipulator whose notes and boasts were designed to aggrandize himself and hurt others. Epstein even disparaged Trump in correspondence after 2017, calling him “the worst person he’d ever known,” which highlights how unreliable and vindictive these messages can be when used as political ammunition.
If Democrats are so hungry for truth, the same standards must apply to every name in Epstein’s little black book — including high-profile Democrats and elite institutions that have been tied to Epstein in other reporting. The public deserves a full, transparent release of the files and equal scrutiny of everyone mentioned, not a one-sided media lynching aimed at the president.
Republicans in the House are already pushing to force a vote to compel release of the remaining files, and that is the right move — let the light blind every corner, not just the ones convenient for the left. The American people can decide for themselves when the whole record is on the table instead of allowing selective leaks to shape the narrative.
Finally, patriots should reject the reflexive media presumption of guilt-by-mention and demand accountability from those weaponizing private papers for political gain during a government shutdown and in the heat of election-season politics. Stand with due process, insist on transparency, and remember that a sensational headline is not the same as proof.

