Dems’ Epstein obsession is a scandalmongering charade

We’re glad to see House Republicans set to vote to release the Epstein files — clearing the chamber’s agenda of a ridiculous distraction driven by Democrats’ long, cynical obsession with this red herring.

Even if it becomes law — which requires the Senate to burn time and energy on it — the bill won’t actually force out much new info.

Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) have relentlessly pushed a measure that still allows for Attorney General Pam Bondi to “withhold or redact” material for a range of reasons, including if she determines that it contains “personally identifiable information of victims” that “would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”

And as independent journo Michael Tracey pointed out, that leaves a lot of wiggle room: In June, a Department of Justice memo cited “over one thousand victims” to protect in any release.

The nation won’t see a full release of Epstein docs while those victims still live.

At most, we’ll get a bit more of what was revealed in the 20,000-plus pages released last week: more deets on muckety-muck slimeballs who were chummy with Epstein, like fabulist author Michael Wolff, who was emailing with the chronic sex pest like an old pal while goading him to blackmail Trump in 2015.

You won’t see anything like the groundbreaking deluge of scandalous revelations that Democrats (and Epstein-obsessed GOPers like Massie) have suggested will come out if the bill gets passed.

No, this is simply a bid to disrupt the Republican majority.

In July, when the DOJ announced Epstein did not keep a client list and there was no evidence he “blackmailed prominent individuals,” some factions of MAGA screamed foul.

With no real policies to pitch to voters, Democrats rushed to capitalize, exploiting the media circus to fuel breathless claims about Epstein-Trump dirt.

Epstein, vile as he was, was mainly on the hunt for victims for his own sick pleasure, not procuring teens for the rich and powerful; some fellow pervs (like a certain ex-prince) joined in, but nothing’s come to light to suggest he was running a massive sex-trafficking operation.

Hence the absence of a “client list” or any other smoking-gun document that would expose a global pedophile ring.

Those who believe Team Trump is suppressing the docs to protect the prez forget the feds have had it all for years.

No way the Biden administration would’ve have sat on real dirt even as it pulled out every other stop to try to destroy Trump before the 2024 election.

There’s no there there; get this vote done and let the House get back to the people’s business.