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The new Epstein Files are no smoking gun
Spectator World ^ | 11/12/2025 | Cockburn

Posted on 11/12/2025 7:56:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The House Oversight Committee released some Jeffrey Epstein emails this morning, and, sure enough, Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files. Like a malignant ghost that haunts the President’s dreams, Epstein has risen from the great beyond to point his bony finger at Donald Trump, saying, “it was you all along.” Or has he?

In an April 2, 2011 message to his associate and fixer Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.” Then, the word VICTIM appears in a black box, followed by “he has never once been mentioned. police chief, etc. im 75% there.”

Never mind that the late financier who didn’t kill himself never seemed to use punctuation or capitals in his personal communication. This message does appear to be damning, if kind of vague. “I have been thinking about that…” Maxwell said, but what, exactly, remains unclear.

The VICTIM in the note is Virginia Giuffre, who earlier this year said Trump had committed no improprieties for her. And The White House, naturally, has issued a blanket denial. “The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including {Virginia} Giuffre,” said Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt in a statement to the press. “These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again.”

Also in play now is the Master of Whisperers, the journalist Michael Wolff, who in 2015 warned Epstein, before a Presidential campaign debate that CNN was “planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you — either on air or in scrum afterwards.” “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Epstein responded.

“I think you should let him hang himself,” Wolff said. “If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable P.R. and political currency.”

Like the rest of you, I finds this very juicy. But he also doesn’t necessarily see these emails as some sort of smoking gun that reveals the President to be a malignant pedo.

They’re a trickle, not a torrent, and are really more revealing of the power dynamics behind Trump’s first election than they are of any shenanigans at Mar-a-Lago or on Epstein Island.

As Wolff told Epstein, “of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”

“Political correctness” is now called “woke,” but that’s very prescient. “Democrats continue to carelessly cherry-pick documents to generate click-bait that is not grounded in the facts,” said a Republican on the House Oversight Committee. In last year’s interview with deputy attorney general Todd Blanche, Maxwell said of Trump that she “she never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.” Angel Trump or Devil Trump? Cockburn honestly can’t guess anymore. Only the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein knows for sure.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defamation; denydenydeny; epstein; epsteinsmear; files; itgetsworse; media; more2come; pedophilia; r; releaseitallthen; tdstrollshavethesads; trumpepsteinfiles; whymovemaxwellthen; yestheyare

1 posted on 11/12/2025 7:56:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Just more liberal flatulence.


2 posted on 11/12/2025 7:59:47 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("Democratic Socialism" parasites only work when they can suck off of a Capitalist country. )
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To: SeekAndFind

https://technofog.substack.com/p/epstein-victim-testimony-clears-trump


3 posted on 11/12/2025 8:02:30 PM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

As if they wouldn’t have released them long ago when they were in power if they implicated Trump?


4 posted on 11/12/2025 8:13:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have no answers. Only questions.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This clown who wrote this article should have seen Anna Paulina Lina’s interview on Jessie Waters tonight basically laying waste to this entire hoax the oversight committee got 20,000 emails. The Dems released 3 of them and they redacted Virginia’s name.
There just isn’t anything there. Despite Michael Wolfes best efforts to help Epstein.


5 posted on 11/12/2025 8:18:32 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: SeekAndFind

Squirrel

Duh. Remember the JFK files? Yeah, nor do I.


6 posted on 11/12/2025 8:36:26 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: SeekAndFind

Does anyone really believe that, if there was some dirt on Trump, the Biden administration’s DOJ wouldn’t have released it long ago?


7 posted on 11/12/2025 9:54:34 PM PST by econjack
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To: SeekAndFind

They may not be a smoking gun for Trump, but they could potentially see a lot of US and foreign politicians smoked, as well as many captains of industry and military.


8 posted on 11/13/2025 12:54:12 AM PST by Robert357
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To: SeekAndFind

I think we all agree they would have already been released if Trump was actually guilty of something


9 posted on 11/13/2025 1:28:52 AM PST by mitchjackson1972
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To: SeekAndFind

But (Trump) also doesn’t necessarily see these emails as some sort of smoking gun that reveals the President to be a malignant pedo.
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Then why even dignify Epstein’s self-serving inuendo with a response? Epstein didn’t make veiled inuendo about people he had dirt on, because he didn’t need to.


10 posted on 11/13/2025 4:49:21 AM PST by nagant
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To: SeekAndFind

But the threat served its purpose, didn’t it.

Oh, there are files.

But you can bet your life that the useful files were not the files left for the Trump admin.


11 posted on 11/13/2025 4:52:22 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: SeekAndFind

I listened to about 2 minutes of a YouTube video of Michael Wolff spewIng the most hateful lies about Trump and Melania before I had to turn it off. He is a despicable human being who has a venomous hatred of Trump and Melania.


12 posted on 11/13/2025 6:27:40 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SeekAndFind
Please keep in mind that none of the new Epstein information comes from the Department of Justice.

A group of Democrats on the same Congressional Committee sued the Epstein Estate for the new emails, etc.

Apparently, a federal judge gave them every thing they asked for - 20,000 pages of Epstein emails and all sorts of other documents.

13 posted on 11/13/2025 10:34:23 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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