The ‘Epstein Files’ Are Going to Be Released…What’s Next?

By Derek Hunter

When a movie is hyped beyond belief, I lose interest long before it gets released. Not because the story or the actors are boring to me, but because there is no way it could ever live up to the buzz. Movie studios do this all the time, screwing themselves out of profit they otherwise would have had a pretty good chance of realizing, but politicians do it all the time, too. That’s what is happening with “The Epstein Files!”

Personally, I’m sick of the story. Jeffrey Epstein is in hell and the world is better off for it. If victims “need closure,” they can give it to themselves by talking to any one of a hundred media outlets who’d happily have them on.

If, however, they want privacy – if there are victims who’ve remained anonymous – Democrats and Republicans don’t care and ordered the Department of Justice to release everything, including their names.

Congress was in such a hurry to “do something,” they ordered everything released, without regard to the privacy of the innocent victims or ongoing investigations. Yes, they’re that stupid.

Now the Attorney General sounds more like someone trying to slow-walk what she didn’t want to release in the first place. The law doesn’t allow room for that. These idiots on the Hill wrote this, comply and let the chips fall where they may.
What comes next? Nothing.

These documents are not new; nothing in them is. Both Democrats and Republicans have had them at various times over the last 10+ years and nothing has come of it. No new prosecutions, no new leaks of anything truly damaging to anyone. Not all wells produce oil, no matter how desperately you drill them.

What comes next is that this story fades away until the next time it’s useful to someone, right or left. We’ll never get an explanation of why Bill Clinton was flying around with a sex offender, and we’ll never know why the face of ABC News and former Clinton administration staffer George Stephanopoulos went to a private “welcome home” dinner for a sex offender.

We won’t get much of anything for very simple reasons: Everyone has too much invested in the lie for the truth to matter. Officials at the DoJ and FBI amassed large audiences, insisting to them that they knew the truth, had “sources” that gave them information on all manner of “creeps” that would blow the roof off the establishment. Well, they’re now in a position to put their sources' information to work and…they aren’t. Weird, right?

Their choice is either to admit they were lying before and risk alienating whatever percentage of their audience that would matter to them, which probably won’t be that large, or quickly move on. Which do you think they’ll take?

As for Democrats, they never cared either. The concept was a means to an end for them, too, just a different end. They all care so deeply about victims that they didn’t make any provisions to protect those victims who simply do not want to have their names associated with this monster. Some people need to talk about what happened to them to anyone who will listen, while others simply want to get on with their lives. There is no right way to deal with it and no politician has any business trying to impose one on them.

But imposing their will on people is what politicians do; they are the Epsteins of everything. 

So, what comes next, after everyone in DC loses interest in this story because there is no “there” there?

Congress has until the end of January to get funding in place for next year. Have any faith they’ll do it? What else? Health care is a mess and there are no pending proposals to deal with it, from either side (expect the complete takeover of it by the radical left, which isn’t going anywhere (yet).

What are the big issues Congress is pushing? What is the Trump administration’s priority?

I don’t know, they aren’t pushing anything.

There’s an election in just under a year; if Republicans don’t pull their heads out of their seats and realistically address prices, they’ll lose next year. Then it will be nothing but investigations, subpoenas and impeachment. If the President wants to get anything done that will last, it needs to be done legislatively and not through executive orders. I see no real push for anything.

And Democrats have no agenda at all, or at least no agenda they are willing to admit to or run on.

The whole thing is a mess. But at least the “Epstein Files” will be released in 30 days…until someone sues or challenges it, then the reset button gets hit and the whole thing starts over again.

These people are idiots. But we’re the ones who elect them, so what does that say about us?

Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter