The Democrats just made sure Trump's worst scandal would follow him after the midterms and the Epstein scandal wouldn't go away. If anything, Democrats have only made it clear that they intend to make it a regular fixture in Trump's life after the midterms. House Judiciary Committee Democrats have just dropped an additional 50-page staff report accusing the president of being "an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of young women in the mid-1990s" and called for an independent special counsel to investigate him - along with Attorney General Todd Blanche, who the report accuses of potentially protecting Trump. The timing was deliberate: eight days before Election Day, when Democrats had already spent more than $35 million on Epstein-related ads. The reporting material is thinner than its title suggests. It contains little new evidence and repeats some long and baseless claims. Her most explosive claim — that Blanche kept Ghislaine Maxwell away from the victim identified as "Jane," who told the FBI that Epstein introduced her to Trump at Mar-a-Lago when she was 14 — rests on committee staff conversations and a transcript in which Blanche said, "Let's not talk about individuals." It might be crappy in the court of public opinion. This is not a legal finding. The White House dismissed the whole thing as "a desperate attempt by crazy Democrats." But the point was never the evidence. This report is a promise: the investigation continues, the subpoenas keep coming, and the Epstein case remains open regardless of who controls Congress after November. Trump has spent years trying to make the issue go away — resisting the release of documents, signing a transparency law only under pressure, and watching his Justice Department get accused of handling the worst.

The Democrats just made sure Trump's worst scandal would follow him after the midterms and the Epstein scandal wouldn't go away. If anything, Democrats have only made it clear that they intend to make it a regular fixture in Trump's life after the midterms. House Judiciary Committee Democrats have just dropped an additional 50-page staff report accusing the president of being "an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of young women in the mid-1990s" and called for an independent special counsel to investigate him - along with Attorney General Todd Blanche, who the report accuses of potentially protecting Trump. The timing was deliberate: eight days before Election Day, when Democrats had already spent more than $35 million on Epstein-related ads. The reporting material is thinner than its title suggests. It contains little new evidence and repeats some long and baseless claims. Her most explosive claim — that Blanche kept Ghislaine Maxwell away from the victim identified as "Jane," who told the FBI that Epstein introduced her to Trump at Mar-a-Lago when she was 14 — rests on committee staff conversations and a transcript in which Blanche said, "Let's not talk about individuals." It might be crappy in the court of public opinion. This is not a legal finding. The White House dismissed the whole thing as "a desperate attempt by crazy Democrats." But the point was never the evidence. This report is a promise: the investigation continues, the subpoenas keep coming, and the Epstein case remains open regardless of who controls Congress after November. Trump has spent years trying to make the issue go away — resisting the release of documents, signing a transparency law only under pressure, and watching his Justice Department get accused of handling the worst.