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The Epstein Files: Trump’s Deep State Circus Has Become His Benghazi [1]

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Date: 2025-07-10

In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s emails and the word “Benghazi” were used like blunt instruments — repeated ad nauseam until they drowned out reason. By 2020, the same machine turned the “Hunter Biden laptop” into a 24/7 obsession.

It didn’t matter whether the narratives were overblown, false, or even coherent. What mattered was repetition. Relentless repetition. That’s the conservative playbook: create a monster, assign blame, and never let go.

Now it’s time for Democrats to use that same playbook.

Because when it comes to Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and Kash Patel — and their brazen bait-and-switch around the Jeffrey Epstein case — we’re looking at hypocrisy so thick you need a shovel.

A Timeline of Manipulation

In the lead-up to the 2024 election, Trump’s MAGA surrogates loudly promised to “expose the truth” about Epstein. They leaned hard into the deep-state conspiracy narrative — alleging that the FBI, DOJ, and shadowy elites were covering up Epstein’s “client list.” They said Trump would declassify the files. Kash Patel told MAGA influencers he was going to name names. Pam Bondi told Fox viewers the files were “ready to be released.”

MAGA world rejoiced. Finally, they thought, someone was going to blow the lid off Epstein's ties to the global elite and the liberal deep state — and maybe finally “own the libs” for real.

Then Trump won. And the noise stopped.

Bondi hosted a much-hyped “Phase 1 Epstein File Release” at the White House — complete with prop binders distributed to right-wing influencers like Dan Bongino and Jack Posobiec. It was marketed as the bombshell moment.

Instead, it was a PR stunt filled with already-public court documents, incomplete flight logs, and heavily redacted materials — no client list, no new revelations, no bombshells. Nothing but smoke and mirrors.

The MAGA base was livid. They were promised a reckoning and handed a prop.

Trump’s response? He shrugged it off and called the Epstein case “old news.” Bondi vanished from interviews. Patel went silent.

This Is the Playbook — Use It

This is the moment Democrats must seize. Republicans have turned rumor into religion for years. Now, the tables have turned.

The hypocrisy is so blatant, it practically writes the attack lines itself:

They promised truth. They delivered nothing.

They said they’d expose the elite. Now they’re protecting them.

They claimed Biden was hiding files — now they’re doing exactly that.

Trump, Bondi, and Patel manufactured outrage about Epstein, rode it into power, and then buried the story once they had control. It’s the ultimate bait-and-switch — and it should be thrown in their faces daily.

Make It Their Benghazi

Democrats — in Congress, in the media, in local races — need to adopt the same scorched-earth tactics the GOP used for years.

Make this the new Benghazi. The new Hunter Biden laptop. The story that won’t die.

Start every press conference with it. Demand hearings. Ask what’s in the redacted files. Ask why the DOJ declared the case closed. Ask why Trump called it “old news” when just months ago, he swore it was a top priority.

Force Trump world to answer their base’s own demands. Because MAGA is already furious — and rightly so.

This isn't about spinning conspiracies. It's about holding Republicans accountable for their own lies.

Call It What It Is: A Cover-Up

Let’s stop sugarcoating it. Trump, Bondi, and Patel used the Epstein story to whip up outrage, discredit the FBI, and paint Democrats as pedophile enablers. Now, they’re the ones stonewalling. Now, they are the “deep state.”

Elon Musk even hinted Trump is on “the list” — a claim later retracted but not forgotten.

If the roles were reversed, there would already be a dozen Fox News specials, a dozen congressional subpoenas, and a nonstop stream of right-wing talking heads accusing Biden of covering up child abuse.

Time to Flip the Script

This is political malpractice if Democrats let this moment pass. You don’t get a scandal gift-wrapped by your opponent’s own incompetence and then throw it away.

Here’s what needs to happen:

House and Senate Democrats should demand an independent review of the Epstein files and press the DOJ to explain why so much remains classified or redacted.

Public hearings should be called on the failed promises made by Bondi, Patel, and Trump.

Media surrogates need to keep the story alive on liberal and right wing talk shows, in op-eds, on TikTok, and in every interview.

Force them to explain the binders. Force them to answer for the redactions. And never let them forget who promised transparency and delivered betrayal.

Final Thought

The right used lies to invent scandals. We don’t need to lie — the facts are damning enough.

Let’s use their tactics against them.

Make Epstein their Benghazi. Make Trump answer for his silence. And remind every voter in America: they lied to their base to get power — and now they’re lying to cover their tracks.

Don’t let them off the hook. Not this time.

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