*No one could have been more elated than Trump at the release of millions more pages of documents by the Justice Department on documented pedophile, sex trafficker, business-dealing con artist Jeffrey Epstein. The newly released mound of documents seems to confirm what Trump has long and loudly shouted.
That’s what he did not know about any of Epstein’s voluminous criminal acts. And that he had at best a passing acquaintance with him decades back.
The name of the game with Epstein, though, has always been Trump. Legions of Trump loathers, many top Democrats, much of the media, and a big swatch of the public have been in a non-stop, desperate hunt for a scintilla of a smoking gun finger-pointing at Trump for some damning, maybe even criminal wrongdoing. So far, there is nothing remotely close to the cherished, much-sought-after smoking gun to nail Trump. And there probably won’t be. Millions of publicly disclosed documents show nothing to indicate that Trump had any part in Epstein’s criminal activities.
Trump, in what is an extreme rarity for him, told the truth when he said he had no dealings with the guy in years. The record showed that most of the Trump-Epstein cavorting was in the 1990s. That was long before Trump dreamed that he would or could ever land in the White House.
Trump with Israeli intelligence asset, Jeffrey Epstein. pic.twitter.com/sz6z1WCgh7
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) October 13, 2025
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Still, Epstein is a priceless chance for Democrats who have been desperately searching for something, anything to smear Trump with and allow them to even the political playing field with the crucial midterms around the corner. It’s a chance for the millions of Trump loathers to finally rock Trump back on his heels, watch him squirm, and sweat over an issue that he, for once, can’t sleaze his way out of. It’s a chance for the many inveterate conspiracy theorists, a big share of whom are Trump’s MAGA backers, to have a field day concocting yet another conspiracy theory about assassins, cover-ups, and deep state shenanigans.
But the brutal reality for now anyway is that Epstein remains nothing more than a long-dead convicted felon that Trump some years back had a partying, and lecherous good time with, and maybe attempted a few dubious money grab business deals with. In that sense, the Epstein-Trump connection is much ado about nothing—for now.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His forthcoming book The Epstein Distraction (Middle Passage Press and Amazon) He is the host of the weekly The Hutchinson Report Facebook Livestream His political affairs commentaries can be found weekly on thehutchinsonreport.net.
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