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

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

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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 political donations went to Democrats, why the Biden DOJ sat on the trove for years, and how the rush to implicate Trump may have backfired spectacularly—on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” “There is even a fourth- or fifth-dimensional chess explanation. And I'll throw it out there. In other words, Donald Trump knew that he was not in those files. But he had heard…that 90% of the references of fundraising and money and associates, to the degree they were political, involved Democrats. He also knew that, unlike himself, who had ostracized Jeffrey Epstein before he was convicted of trafficking and sexual crimes—that is, before he was a de facto pedophile—he had distanced himself and others had not. “The Democrats would overreach and say, ‘Get it out. Get it out. Get it out.’ And he thought: Ah, they didn't get it out because they are incriminated. And now they've leaked all they can about me. And unlike me, a lot of these people were involved after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of a sexual crime. And I'm just gonna let them demand and clamor, until an opportune moment, I will release it.” (0:00) Introduction (1:02) The Epstein Files Explained (3:09) Trump and the Epstein Files (4:34) Speculations and Theories (7:58) Democratic Involvement (9:31) Conclusion 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enabling notifications: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1⁠ 👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s website: ⁠https://victorhanson.com⁠ 👉The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: ⁠https://secured.dailysignal.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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