The Democrats Need to Start Panicking About the Epstein Fileshttps://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/22/the-democrats-need-to-start-panicking-about-the-epstein-files-n4947385It looks like Democrats realize that the unfolding Epstein files saga is fast becoming a political nightmare — for them. For months now, they’ve been trying to turn the Epstein files into a political cudgel against Trump, but each release has been more problematic for the Democrat Party—the latest release being no exception. Newly released photos show former President Bill Clinton not only chummy with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, but also lounging in a hot tub and swimming in a pool with apparent victims.
To say it wasn’t a good look for the party is an understatement, and I think the party is panicking. Sen. Tim Kaine voiced that panic on Meet the Press on Sunday. When the conversation turned to the recently released batch of Epstein materials, Kaine, who was Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2016, didn’t hold back.
Obviously, Kaine spent the first half of the interview blaming Donald Trump for not releasing enough documents when he had the chance. He recounted Trump’s “much-touted event” with Pam Bondi at the White House earlier this year, where he promised transparency on the Epstein materials. But Kaine fumed over how the Justice Department only released a “fraction of what’s available” and even “pulled material back” after publishing it, which has become the left’s newest favorite conspiracy theory, and which has already been addressed by the Trump administration.
But then Kristen Welker turned up the pressure with the one question I’m sure Democrats were hoping she wouldn’t ask.
“Former President Bill Clinton is featured prominently in the first batch,” she said, before noting that “simply being in the Epstein Files doesn’t imply any criminal wrongdoing.” Still, she asked the obvious: Shouldn’t Clinton explain himself?
The release of the Epstein files poses at least three big problems for the Dems:
1. The files have been released; partisan cudgel lost;
2. The large number of redactions and partially-obscured demonstrate why the release was delayed; the continual cycling of pulling back photos to protect victims and innocents by partially obscuring photos and then re-releasing them will be an ongoing reminder of why the release was delayed and the difficulty of vetting documents and photos to protect victims and innocents (see the news story in this thread's OP);
3. Among the noteworthies exposed as having ongoing personal and business relationships with Epstein after his pandering of under-age girls became known publicly are Dems and Progs that Dem leaders do not want to hypo-vehiculate (as should happen, regardless of party!).
