The Dog That Didn’t Bark and the Bombshell That Didn’t Explode | The American Spectator

I know better, so I’m not going to say that the Democrat Party has reached Peak Petulance this week in the aftermath of their collapse and the loss of the government shutdown they’ve been blaming on the Republicans.

I wouldn’t be unjustified in saying it, mind you, because what the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released Wednesday in a breathless communique claiming they had Jeffrey Epstein dirt on Donald Trump is about as weak a sauce as one could imagine in a political setting.

But I’m not going to say it. Because I know that there is no bottom with these people. It’s sure to get worse. They’re sure to become much more petulant, far more hysterical, and certainly more vindictive as their own credibility continues to wane.

Remember, dear conservative reader of The American Spectator, that while you might have a healthy contempt for the bums representing you on Capitol Hill and in the White House and you may be weary of the constant underperformance and subtle betrayals to which you’ve been subjected over the years, these are nothing compared to the false promises and naked contempt that Democrat politicians have inflicted on their voters.

And if you doubt me on this, simply take a drive through the nearest big blue city and view the misery their politicians have dropped on their voters through decades of corruption, oppression, and neglect. Then have a look at the posh digs those politicians have secured for themselves through insider trading, sweetheart deals, and other species of graft.

Viewed in that light, the TV appearances and posturing speeches on the floor of the House and Senate and in other fora make for a quite profound revulsion. And you didn’t even vote for these cretins. Imagine the rotten feeling having pulled the lever for them would give you.

So when the Dems spent six weeks telling their voters it was a Republican shutdown, because the GOP wouldn’t bend to their demand for subsidies to “address the skyrocketing cost of health care” — AND WHY IS THE COST OF HEALTHCARE SKYROCKETING? — only to summarily collapse at the idea they might be blamed for a bottleneck in air travel and their downscale voters coming up short at the supermarket for lack of lucre loaded into their EBT cards, you knew they’d need to change the subject from those voters noticing they’d been scammed.

Out with the old scam. In with the new scam!

🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.

Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES. pic.twitter.com/A5XgOHj2Jq

— Oversight Dems (@OversightDems) November 12, 2025

Greg Price noted the deficit of “there” there…

Democrats intentionally redacted the name of the “victim” in the Epstein emails they released.

The unreacted version shows that it was Virginia Guiffre.

Guiffre had testified multiple times that President Trump did nothing and that she never even saw him at Epstein’s house. https://t.co/0KhX8ujPoJ pic.twitter.com/IaJkckvc1p

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 12, 2025

That seems problematic, does it not? Virginia Giuffre doesn’t have anything more to contribute to the discussion, seeing as though she said multiple times before her death that President Trump didn’t do anything untoward in her presence.

And she appears to be the star witness in these disclosures, the one Epstein claims was with Trump for “hours.”

Maybe Giuffre was lying and Trump did misbehave toward her. Except if that was true and she bore him a grudge, why wouldn’t she have unloaded on him when the opportunity to destroy him politically was so ripe? She surely would have been greatly rewarded for doing so.

And she surely would have let Epstein know about Trump’s bad behavior. After all, that was Virginia Giuffre’s job when in Epstein’s employ, no? She was the honey in the honey trap.

Not to mention the fact that Epstein’s houses were dotted with surveillance cameras so that he could get the goods on his “clients” and offer them the customary Faustian bargain in which he specialized.

And yet Epstein gripes in these messages the Democrats released, under the title of “BOMBSHELL,” that Trump is “the dog that didn’t bark.”

Maybe they just don’t understand what that expression means. The most reasonable interpretation of it is that the dog is supposed to bark and it’s very strange and frustrating that he remains silent.

And also, that a dog that doesn’t bark is a dangerous thing.

Epstein saying it about Trump exonerates Trump. It doesn’t damn him. If he had the goods on Trump, he probably wouldn’t have expired in that prison cell in New York.

But now that the Dems have released this, which one assumes is the worst they have — if they had more, you’d have expected it to come out when it could have stopped him from getting elected last year — it’s probably time for a much fuller release of the Epstein files.

Or maybe a more selective release. To match what just popped, that is.

After all, Jeffrey Epstein was clearly a Democrat — he was a Democrat campaign donor, you know — and his friends were mostly Democrats.

Maybe we should find out more about those guys.

And then, when the Epstein files suddenly aren’t all that interesting a topic for the Dems and their flying monkeys in the legacy propaganda press anymore, we can start addressing some of the problems they’ve created.

Like, for example, the skyrocketing cost of healthcare that their Obamacare time-bomb scam has inflicted on the American people.

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