Democrats who spent years smearing President Trump with guilt by association over Jeffrey Epstein are suddenly quiet as newly unsealed Justice Department files paint a different picture. The documents include an FBI interview summary that, according to reporting, shows Mr. Trump contacted Palm Beach law enforcement in 2006 to alert them to Epstein’s conduct — a fact the mainstream left has been desperate to ignore.
The release of millions of pages from the Epstein files has forced inconvenient truths into the light, including a 2019 FBI 302 summarizing an interview with the Palm Beach police chief from the time of the original investigation. That 302, now public, reportedly records that the then-businessman expressed relief that investigators were finally acting and urged them to focus on Ghislaine Maxwell. The timing and content of that call directly contradict the caricature Democrats built of Mr. Trump as Epstein’s protector.
According to the interview summary, Mr. Trump told the police chief, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him — everyone has known he’s been doing this,” and described Maxwell as Epstein’s “operative,” calling her “evil” and advising authorities to zero in on her. Those are not anonymous innuendoes; they are contemporaneous investigative notes now available to the public and reported by multiple outlets. For Americans tired of double standards, this is a pivotal detail that changes the narrative.
The same memo also records that Mr. Trump said he had “thrown Epstein out” of Mar-a-Lago and that he once “got the hell out of there” when Epstein was around teenagers — claims that, if true, show he was repelled by Epstein’s behavior decades ago. Conservatives have long stood by the position that guilt requires evidence, not political hysteria; these documents reinforce that principle and expose how the left weaponized innuendo. The unsealed files do not convict anyone anew, but they do undercut the Democrats’ simplistic smear campaigns.
Skeptics will rush to demand phone logs or absolute proof, and the DOJ itself has been careful about what it will and will not confirm publicly, which only raises more questions about who benefits from selective leaks and redactions. That caution does not change the fact that the material in the files corroborates the former Palm Beach chief’s account, and it obliges journalists and lawmakers to stop treating every allegation against conservatives as gospel while giving powerful left-leaning figures a pass. Americans deserve equal treatment under the law, not partisan cover-ups.
Meanwhile, the real villains in this saga — traffickers and enablers like Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been convicted and is serving a lengthy sentence — must remain the focus of justice, not political theater. Conservatives should applaud any evidence that helps investigators hold abusers and their facilitators accountable, while calling out the opportunistic hysteria used to tar political opponents. If the left thought it had a slam-dunk scandal, they now face a choice: reckon honestly with the documents or double down on the same dishonest playbook.
Patriotic Americans know the difference between a principled fight for accountability and a partisan witch hunt, and this episode should remind every voter to demand transparency, not theater. Let the files be examined fully, let victims get their day in court, and let political actors stop using human suffering as ammunition for election-season smears. The truth matters, and today it is making the Democrats speechless.

