{"id":2466263,"date":"2025-07-24T14:27:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wsjs-epstein-reports-are-kind-of-proving-trumps-point\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:29:08","slug":"wsjs-epstein-reports-are-kind-of-proving-trumps-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wsjs-epstein-reports-are-kind-of-proving-trumps-point\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ&#8217;s Epstein Reports Are Kind Of Proving Trump&#8217;s Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwsjs-epstein-reports-are-kind-of-proving-trumps-point%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2466263&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article criticizes recent reports by The Wall Street journal suggesting that former President Donald Trump tried to conceal the extent of his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-thanks-to-unity\/\" title=\"No thanks to unity\">author expresses skepticism<\/a> about these claims, noting that Trump&#8217;s name appearing in the so-called &#8220;Epstein files&#8221; is not surprising nor evidence of wrongdoing, as even the Journal acknowledges. the piece argues that these reports are part of a pattern reminiscent of the Russiagate investigations-media-driven efforts to keep suggesting guilt without definitive proof. The author dismisses the importance of alleged letters or drawings linked to Trump adn Epstein, emphasizing a lack of concrete evidence. Ultimately, the article warns readers against being drawn into repetitive, unsubstantiated scandals intended to damage Trump&#8217;s reputation and legacy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitehouse\/54664277132\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Torok\/White House\/Flickr<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/the-wall-street-journals-epstein-reports-are-kind-of-proving-trumps-point\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=The%20Wall%20Street%20Journal%E2%80%99s%20Epstein%20Reports%20Are%20Kind%20Of%20Proving%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Point&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/the-wall-street-journals-epstein-reports-are-kind-of-proving-trumps-point\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=The%20Wall%20Street%20Journal%E2%80%99s%20Epstein%20Reports%20Are%20Kind%20Of%20Proving%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Point&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/the-wall-street-journals-epstein-reports-are-kind-of-proving-trumps-point\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/the-wall-street-journals-epstein-reports-are-kind-of-proving-trumps-point\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=The%20Wall%20Street%20Journal%E2%80%99s%20Epstein%20Reports%20Are%20Kind%20Of%20Proving%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Point&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/the-wall-street-journals-epstein-reports-are-kind-of-proving-trumps-point\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know about you, but I&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >child sex trafficking operation<\/a>. No thanks!<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038?mod=hp_lead_pos1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wednesday<\/a> ran another story in a week&rsquo;s time purporting to uncover President Trump&rsquo;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 &ldquo;Epstein files,&rdquo; and that the information was relayed to him before his administration announced there would be no more public disclosures on the case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2055958429\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a lot of people have already acknowledged, Trump&rsquo;s name turning up in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-lee-condemns-nc-lawmakers-no-kings-video-featuring-beheaded-trump-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Mike Lee condemns NC lawmaker\u2019s \u2018No Kings\u2019 video featuring beheaded Trump ... Washington Examiner\">file isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t some shock development given that the public already knew that the two men knew each other personally. And as the Journal itself said, &ldquo;Being mentioned in the records isn&rsquo;t a sign of wrongdoing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But of course, the point here isn&rsquo;t to definitively determine whether the president is guilty of wrongdoing. It&rsquo;s to continue <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/after-spreading-russia-hoax-lies-media-lie-again-to-bury-evidence-they-lied\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feeding a narrative<\/a> that he might have and to imply that by declining to endlessly indulge each new accusation related to Epstein, he&rsquo;s creating more suspicion and thus inviting more scrutiny. Agitate, rinse, and repeat. That&rsquo;s what happened with Russiagate, and that&rsquo;s why Trump now, as he did back then, is calling the story a hoax.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been here before, and I&rsquo;m not interested. When the Journal has a documented confession or smoking gun photograph proving that Trump partook in Epstein&rsquo;s misdeeds, or even that he&rsquo;s trying to hide them for any reason at all, feel free to let me know. But I&rsquo;m not going to spend years like we did on Russiagate, allowing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-carlson-mainstream-media-final-hope-for-keeping-its-scam-alive-is-censorship\/\" title=\"FNC&#039;s Carlson: Mainstream Media &#039;Final Hope&#039; for Keeping Its &#039;Scam&#039; Alive Is Censorship\">dying media<\/a> to trickle out little suggestions fed to them by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/the-intelligence-community-needs-to-be-dismantled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unnamed bureaucrats<\/a> that something is afoul, while proving nothing. Nobody should tolerate it.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the Journal&rsquo;s report that Trump&rsquo;s &mdash; <em>gasp!<\/em> &mdash;&nbsp;name is in the &ldquo;files,&rdquo; the paper also claims to have seen <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/18\/the-leather-bound-epstein-book-reeks-of-being-a-fake-plant-to-implicate-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some typewritten letter<\/a> and doodle-like drawing from Trump to Epstein for the now-dead man&rsquo;s 50th birthday in 2003. Trump denies that he&rsquo;s the author, and there&rsquo;s no proof that he is. Next!<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the problem though. There will be a next &ldquo;exclusive,&rdquo; and then another and another, each one intended to chip away at Trump&rsquo;s support and thus his political agenda and ultimately his legacy. You can follow along or skip to the end, at which point you&rsquo;re likely to see you&rsquo;ve been had again.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span 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