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Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: Epstein’s Ghost Comes Back to Haunt the Democrats

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Jeffrey Epstein died over six years ago, yet his shadow still looms large. The Left spent years insisting incriminating evidence on President Donald Trump was hiding in the Epstein documents, but now that the files are finally being released, a very different picture is emerging. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the facts—why 90% of Epstein’s […]

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0:00.0

Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted pedophile, died over six years ago, yet his ghost seems to haunt

0:06.3

the political atmosphere. I would say at the outset, 90% of the monies Jeffrey Epstein gave

0:13.0

that had a political affiliation were Democratic and left, not Republican. Get that straight right now.

0:19.9

But here's the problem. Everybody says,

0:21.3

Donald Trump, Donald Trump, we're going to get Donald Trump. He doesn't want to release it. He doesn't

0:24.9

want to release it. Donald Trump then just let this sit like hot water on a kettle. And so then

0:30.5

the Democrats would overreach. And I'm just going to let them demand and clamor until a opportune

0:36.1

moment. Lo and behold, they're starting to release the Epstein files.

0:40.6

Donald Trump put a big noose out there.

0:42.9

The Democrats unwisely put their head in it, screamed and yelled that Donald Trump was guilty,

0:48.3

and then he pulled the lever, so to speak, and they've hung themselves.

1:02.0

Music lever, so to speak, and they've hung themselves. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.

1:06.0

I'm tired of the Epstein files as you are.

1:09.0

Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted pedophile, died over six years ago in

1:15.6

2019, yet his ghost seems to haunt the political atmosphere today. So what are these so-called

1:22.2

Epstein files? Well, there's no Manila envelope that says, or manila folder that says Epstein.

1:28.8

Rather, that term loosely refers to a corpus of hundreds, if not thousands of text messages, emails, phone records between Jeffrey Epstein and hundreds of people.

1:43.1

And because that he was a spider-like person that had a web of

1:48.2

entrapment and gave lavishly, and I would say at the outset, 90% of the monies that Jeffrey

1:57.5

Epstein gave to that had a political affiliation were Democratic and left, not Republican.

2:04.6

Get that straight right now.

2:06.6

So he was everywhere trying to buy influence, and one of the ways he bought influence was apparently in his various domains.

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