The Wall Street Journal’s Epstein Reports Are Kind Of Proving Trump’s Point

I don’t know about you, but I’m certainly not going to be taken for another Russiagate ride, particularly now that this new would-be scandal comes with the added bonus of centering on a child sex trafficking operation. No thanks!

The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday ran another story in a week’s time purporting to uncover President Trump’s attempts to conceal the extent of his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. This time the paper reported that Trump was informed by Justice Department officials that his name turns up repeatedly in the “Epstein files,” and that the information was relayed to him before his administration announced there would be no more public disclosures on the case.

As a lot of people have already acknowledged, Trump’s name turning up in the file isn’t some shock development given that the public already knew that the two men knew each other personally. And as the Journal itself said, “Being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing.”

But of course, the point here isn’t to definitively determine whether the president is guilty of wrongdoing. It’s to continue feeding a narrative that he might have and to imply that by declining to endlessly indulge each new accusation related to Epstein, he’s creating more suspicion and thus inviting more scrutiny. Agitate, rinse, and repeat. That’s what happened with Russiagate, and that’s why Trump now, as he did back then, is calling the story a hoax.

I’ve been here before, and I’m not interested. When the Journal has a documented confession or smoking gun photograph proving that Trump partook in Epstein’s misdeeds, or even that he’s trying to hide them for any reason at all, feel free to let me know. But I’m not going to spend years like we did on Russiagate, allowing the dying media