For years, Democrats treated the Epstein files like a loaded gun pointed at Donald Trump. They pushed for their release, demanded transparency, and waited for the kill shot that would finally prove what they’d 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. You know the drill. Photos of the two men at parties in the 1990s. A quote from Trump calling Epstein a “terrific guy.”
The implication was always clear: Trump must have known. Trump must have participated. Trump must be guilty of something. The media spent years 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’ll admit, even I was curious what they’d uncover. What they found instead was something that dismantles their entire narrative.
What the FBI Document Actually Shows
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 with former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter:
“Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump told the chief. Trump said Maxwell was Epstein’s operative, “she is evil and to focus on her.”
Trump told Reiter that he was around Epstein once when teenagers were present and “got the hell out of there,” and that he threw Epstein out of his club.
Nearly twenty years ago—long before Epstein became a household name, long before the media began weaponizing the connection—Donald Trump was calling police to encourage the investigation. He identified Ghislaine Maxwell as “evil.” He banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. This wasn’t a man covering his tracks. This 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.
The Blindness of TDS
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?
And 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, and Trump Derangement Syndrome doesn’t allow for that. Why investigate the truth when you can keep chasing a man you 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.
Key Takeaways
- Newly released FBI documents show Trump allegedly called police about Epstein in 2006—long before the media firestorm.
- Trump reportedly identified Ghislaine Maxwell as “evil” and banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago nearly two decades ago.
- Democrats pursued these files hoping to damage the president; the evidence appears to exonerate him instead.
- The same media obsessing over Trump continues to ignore other powerful names in the Epstein documents.
