Dems Get a Swing at the Epstein Files Bat – Strike Out Like a Drunken Squirrel on Ice

If there's one thing I've learned in my years of watching the Democrat circus, it's that their moral outrage is about as genuine as a three-dollar bill from a Newark street vendor. Enter Republican Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-18), who lobbed the softest softball in congressional history to the suddenly pious Dems yapping about transparency on the Jeffrey Epstein files. 

Spoiler: They swung wildly and missed, embedding the bat in their own foreheads.

Why the epic face-plant? 

This entire charade is just another desperate haymaker aimed at their eternal piñata, President Donald Trump. 

Jennifer Van Laar laid out in her RedState dispatch on Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee's Democrat contingent thought they'd finally pinned Trump to the mat with a dump of 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate, the late sex-trafficker's parting gift to the world. They zeroed in on three cherry-picked, context-free emails that, in their fevered imaginations, screamed "gotcha!"

But oh, what a glorious backfire. Turns out, those emails had been thoughtfully redacted to scrub any mention of the "victim" – one Virginia Giuffre, who testified under oath that Trump never laid a finger on her inappropriately and that she'd never even witnessed him hobnobbing with Epstein. Bonus points: One email flat-out quotes Trump telling Ghislaine Maxwell to "stop" whatever shady business they were cooking up with "the girls." If anything, the Dems made Trump look like Mister Clean.

"Democrats and their lackeys in the media are painting these emails as 'bombshell' revelations," Van Laar writes, "but all they reveal is how desperate the Democrats are and again demonstrate how low they'll go."

When Republicans go low, Democrats will go lower, as Michelle Obama might've said.

It took less than a full news cycle for this Democrat dud to fizzle out like a beer-soaked firecracker at a family reunion. I'd laugh till I plotzed if it weren't so pathetically predictable.

Undeterred, or maybe just fed up with the kabuki theater – Burchett decided to call their bluff. Channeling his inner poker shark, he hit the House floor and requested unanimous consent (UC), that nifty procedural fast-pass that could've unleashed every last Epstein file into the sunlight faster than you can say "subpoena."

The Democrats folded quicker than a cheap lawn chair after Eric Swalwell broke wind on it. 

Burchett said he requested the UC in an attempt to "cut out all this nonsense," but the Democrats "blocked it, oddly enough."

"They've had it for four years, and they—obviously if there was something there about Trump they would have released it," Burchett explained. "And now they're all, 'Let's get it out! Let's get it out!'"

"Well, I just made a motion to bring it straight to the dadgum floor and they blocked it," he added. "This is politics.. . .  They ought to be ashamed of themselves, but they're probably not."

Later, chatting with Newsmax, Burchett spilled the beans: The Dems had whispered sweet nothings to the parliamentarian, promising a veto on his UC bid. Dead in the water. "It was blocked. It was not unanimous," he said. "So it's going to go back through the normal process."

Ah, yes, the Democrat Party's patented recipe for "justice": A dash of selective outrage, a heap of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and zero interest in actual accountability. Trump is a bad habit they can't quit.

In a move that had me high-fiving the screen, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04) slapped down the hypocrisy hammer and teed up a vote next week on a bill to finally air out those Epstein files. Because if the grown-ups won't play nice, the adults in the room will drag 'em kicking and screaming into the light.

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Oops! Dershowitz accuser admits she 'may have made a mistake'

You don't blow your nose in Superman's cape and you don't mess around with Alan Dershowitz if you know what's good for you. 

In 2014 Virginia Giuffre claimed that famous law professor Alan Dershowitz had sex with her when she was a minor, a claim that Dershowitz has repeatedly and vehemently denied it ever happened. 

Now Giuffre has said that she "may have made a mistake" in her accusation. 

You may recall Giuffre first accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing her, which has been verified. But she claimed that Epstein had also trafficked her to Dershowitz on "Pedophile Island," which Epstein owned and entertained many famous people such as Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Donald Trump, John Glenn, Itzhak Perlman, and even Kevin Spacey, among others. 

“I have long believed that I was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to Alan Dershowitz,” Giuffre said in a joint statement. “However, I was very young at the time, it was a very stressful and traumatic environment, and Mr. Dershowitz has from the beginning consistently denied these allegations. I now recognize I may have made a mistake in identifying Mr. Dershowitz. This litigation has been very stressful and burdensome for me and my family, and we believe it is time to bring it to an end and move on with our lives.”

In the statement, Dershowitz said, “As I have said from the beginning, I never had sex with Ms. Giuffre.”

“I have nevertheless come to believe that at the time she accused me she believed what she said. Ms. Giuffre is to be commended for her courage in now stating publicly that she may have been mistaken about me,” he added. “She has suffered much at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, and I commend her work combatting the evil of sex trafficking. I also now believe that my allegations that David Boies engaged in an extortion plot and in suborning perjury were mistaken.”

Dershowitz spoke on the Megyn Kelly show and announced the end of the lawsuits, adding that no payments have been issued.

“The matter is over,” he said. “She has now acknowledged that she may have made a mistake in recognizing me or in identifying me, so I’m very gratified, of course.”

Dershowitz was friends with Epstein in the past and defended him after his first arrest and charge of sex trafficking. In 2008, he reportedly assisted in getting Epstein an easy plea deal. This was the reason he had gone to Epstein's island and personally, I believe him.

Giuffre has been part of several legal actions involving Jeffrey Epstein, including Prince Andrew. She accused him of raping her when she was a minor and in February, the lawsuit ended in a cash settlement. The scumcrumpet Duke of York said that he "regrets his association with Epstein and commends the bravery of Ms. Giuffre and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others."

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But mostly he regrets having been caught with his royal pants down.

Giuffre was also involved in legal action against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate and girlfriend, who was recently given a twenty-year prison sentence and is said to have made friends with the jailhouse "muscle."

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