Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Epstein Letter Isn’t the Scandal You Think It Is

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

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While critics accuse the Trump administration of withholding damning information, Victor Davis Hanson argues the truth of the controversy is much more complicated—and a lot less interesting—than you’d think. Why didn’t Democrats ever release the names? And how much truth is there to the recent Wall Street Journal article that reported Trump wrote a letter Epstein filled with strange language and suggestive imagery? Victor Davis Hanson answers these questions on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ I think Donald Trump is going to release all the information that the government has. There'll probably be 150 or 200 names. And we'll let the internet mob or individuals or Freedom of Information requests or lower court judges, they will adjudicate it and we will find out the particular statuses. The vast majority of people will be very innocent, that they didn't do anything wrong. But there will be some people that will have a cast, a shadow of doubt. And we'll have to find out. “ I think The Wall Street Journal will have to make a correction, unless they want to take Donald Trump to court and Donald Trump wants to see—he's filed suit against them. And there'll be a lot of discovery and who knows what will happen. But for right now, I think he's salvaged this problem and aborted a controversy by just saying, ‘Get this stuff out there and let the people decide.’” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest 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 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com (0:00) Introduction (0:54) Trump Administration's Handling of Epstein Files (2:29) The List of Names and Their Implications (4:41) Trump's Letter to Epstein (6:33) The Wall Street Journal Allegations (8:05) The Future of the Epstein Files Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:09.7	Heads of state, that new action comedy with Idris Elber as the Prime Minister,
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0:22.5	For only 899 a month, join now. Content includes limited ads, subscription or to renews. For more
0:27.7	information, go to amazon.com.ukuk. U.K. slash prime. What's the status of the so-called
0:31.8	Epstein files? Recently, Donald Trump, his administration, Pambani, did not release the full quote-unquote list
0:39.0	as had been promised. That sort of embarrassed Cash Patel and Dan Bongino, who said that they had
0:44.5	had FBI material that would be released. And now, apparently, they're going to release names.
0:49.2	But here's the thing. The Democrats did not release any of this information. Donald Trump
0:53.2	initially didn't. Then he, under pressure, says he will.
0:56.0	There's another subtext to this, and that is, we were told by the Wall Street Journal,
0:59.8	Donald Trump wrote a letter to Jeffrey Epstein to congratulate him on his birthday,
1:04.8	and that has set the world on fire.
1:06.7	But let's just say that everything the Wall Street Journal alleges is true.
1:10.7	It's not a scandal for a variety of reasons.
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