"Trump, like Clinton, has not been implicated of wrongdoing, and the president has said he had a falling out with Epstein years ago."
And with that brief observation by Politico on Friday by Hailey Fuchs in "DOJ announces full release of Epstein files," all their absurdly frenetic efforts last year to somehow implicate President Donald Trump via the Jeffrey Epstein files look like they came up empty.
Millions of the Epstein files were released and as Politico sadly conceded, Trump was not implicated of wrongdoing (although for Clinton that might not be the case due to the Clintons refusing to testify on this matter to Congress).
The best they could do is line up Democrats to keep complaining: "To be sure, Democrats were, in fact, not laudatory of the Friday release. Many of them have believed from the start the administration resisted releasing the Epstein files for months in an effort to shield Trump — who had a longstanding relationship with Epstein for many years — from scrutiny." Politico obsessed like the network newscasts, which spent over 1,000 minutes on this story in the second half of 2025.
To get a sense of what a sad letdown this must be for Team Politico, one has to keep in mind that last summer, they were in the midst of an Epstein-files frenzy to the extent that we noted last July: "Politico Goes Full Frenzy with SIX Epstein Stories in 24 Hour Period."
Their desperation to take down Trump became so absurd they even covered a South Park cartoon on this subject, "South Park skewers Trump over Epstein files, depicts him in bed with Satan."
Even with stories that had absolutely nothing to do with Epstein, Politico stretched to invoke him with such laughable stories as "Deflecting Epstein questions, Trump urges DOJ to 'go after' Obama."
So has Politico finally experienced a much needed reality check on the Epstein files? Probably not, because in their current Epstein files story they very noticeably avoid any mention of the revelation on the incredibly bizarre big elephant in the room which many other periodicals including even the staid Financial Times felt obligated to cover, "Jeffrey Epstein emails claim Bill Gates hid STD from wife after sex with ‘Russian girls’."
Perhaps Politico was too squeamish to report on that allegation but somehow they felt it was okay to report on the utterly fictitious cartoon of "'South Park' skewers Trump over Epstein files, depicts him in bed with Satan"?
