What a low and cynical move by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee \u2014 releasing just enough of a Jeffrey Epstein email early Wednesday to inspire the most hysterical possible Trump-smearing coverage.<\/b>
\nWhat a low and cynical move by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee \u2014 releasing just enough of a Jeffrey Epstein email early Wednesday to inspire the most hysterical possible Trump-smearing coverage.
Even as they knew the full facts told a completely different story.
Of course all manner of \u201cresponsible\u201d media played along: These lapdogs with laptops offered a host of headlines with some variation of \u201cTrump spent hours alone with Epstein victim\u201d \u2014 dirt that in this age of the internet will be the lasting impression many Americans take away, even though it\u2019s centrally false.
Specifically, Dems circulated this carefully redacted email from the vile procurer:
\u201ci want you to realize that that dog that hasn\u2019t barked is trump.[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.\u201d
Looks terrible \u2014 until you learn that [VICTIM] is the late Virginia Giuffre, who had worked for Trump before she fell into Epstein\u2019s clutches, and had publicly said time and again that the future president never misbehaved in the least toward her.
Plus: Since Giuffre is dead, and so can\u2019t possibly be hurt by any revelations, the only reason to block out her name was to conceal the fact that this gun had no smoke.
Fact is, the full record shows plainly that Epstein hated Trump, resentful that The Donald banned him from Mar-a-Lago long before even his first conviction.
Indeed, another email Dems released confirms that: In a 2016 exchange where salacious gossip-fabricating \u201cjournalist\u201d Michael Wolff seems to have been advising Epstein on how to blackmail Trump, the sex criminal admits \u201ctrump said he asked me to resign,\u201d then claims \u201che knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.\u201d
(The Democrats expect people to trust Epstein\u2019s word, since they\u2019ll believe anyone as long he\u2019s smearing Orange Man.)
After Dems\u2019 bomb dropped, the White House rushed to get the full facts out, and the committee Republicans released 20,000 pages of Epstein documents to let the public see a far fuller story and so decide for itself \u2014 but too late to prevent the initial smear from making a vital first impression.
Indeed, it looks like the committee Dems released their carefully-curated smear precisely to minimize the impact of the full record, which includes (for example) emails that make ex-President Bill Clinton look bad.
Dems have done this \u201cboy who cried wolf (ahem, Wolff)\u201d routine so many times with \u201cnew Trump scandals\u201d that no reasonable outlet should run claims like this without extensive checking to get the full, real story \u2014 but the media still went crazy Wednesday morning.
Heck, at this point just seeing that Michael Wolff is involved should make you expect the dirty details to prove baseless.
These people love to wave off New York Post reporting as \u201ctabloid journalism,\u201d but they\u2019re the true gutter-dwellers.<\/p>\n