Trump DOJ Walks Back Its Epstein Blather

I’d always commend Jim’s Jolt, but Monday’s is on a topic more important to me than usual, so I heartily invite everyone’s attention to it. It’s about how top-echelon Trump Justice Department officials are now forced to walk back all their hyperventilating about Jeffrey Epstein because they couldn’t back it up with evidence; yet, because they played the politicized conspiracy-theory game, they’re having trouble getting their own political base to believe their revised conclusion that there’s no there there.

This sort of thing doesn’t happen when the Justice Department and the FBI follow their own well-founded rules.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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I’d always commend Jim’s Jolt, but Monday’s is on a topic more important to me than usual, so I heartily invite everyone’s attention to it. It’s about how top-echelon Trump Justice Department officials are now forced to walk back all their hyperventilating about Jeffrey Epstein because they couldn’t back it up with evidence; yet, because they played the politicized conspiracy-theory game, they’re having trouble getting their own political base to believe their revised conclusion that there’s no there there.

This sort of thing doesn’t happen when the Justice Department and the FBI follow their own well-founded rules.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.