Politico Finally Gives Up on Attempting Epstein-Trump Connection

Newsbusters ^ | January 31, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

"Trump, like Clinton, has not been implicated of wrongdoing, and the president has said he had a falling out with Epstein years ago."

And with that brief observation by Politico on Friday by Hailey Fuchs in "DOJ announces full release of Epstein files," all their absurdly frenetic efforts last year to somehow implicate President Donald Trump via the Jeffrey Epstein files look like they came up empty.

Millions of the Epstein files were released and as Politico sadly conceded, Trump was not implicated of wrongdoing (although for Clinton that might not be the case due to the Clintons refusing to testify on this matter to Congress).

The best they could do is line up Democrats to keep complaining: "To be sure, Democrats were, in fact, not laudatory of the Friday release. Many of them have believed from the start the administration resisted releasing the Epstein files for months in an effort to shield Trump — who had a longstanding relationship with Epstein for many years — from scrutiny." Politico obsessed like the network newscasts, which spent over 1,000 minutes on this story in the second half of 2025.

To get a sense of what a sad letdown this must be for Team Politico, one has to keep in mind that last summer, they were in the midst of an Epstein-files frenzy to the extent that we noted last July: "Politico Goes Full Frenzy with SIX Epstein Stories in 24 Hour Period."

[No name given]

Slick Willy.

[rdcbn1]

Has anyone noticed that President Trumps “delay” in releasing the Epstein files has accomplished two major achievements

It's focused zealous media attention on the issue and it's put the roll out of the Epstein files perfectly timed to impact the 2026 election cycle.

Just sayin'

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Well, she wore the pants, in the family. He obviously didn’t! ;-)

[yesthatjallen]

ABC Nightly did a tease about Trump’s name in the files. When they came back with the story they said Trump’s name appears in newspaper articles.

[Organic Panic]

Trump I probably the most investigated man ever. It’s not like he was just some puppet that showed up. He’s been in real estate, TV, movies, an author, and now president. If there was dirt, someone would have found it.

[StAnDeliver]

"Haven’t heard too much from Marjoie Taylor Green since 1/5. Did she miscalculate she’d make a lot of money when the full corpus came out, or was the vested pension enough for her to cap her insider profits?"

Writing another book, apparently. Crayons not included.

[sopo]

She can write “the End” today.