Democrats’ Latest Epstein Effort About Photo of Trump Fails Again – There Are a Few Big Problems with Their Smear!
The Democrats’ desperate attempt to weaponize the Epstein files against President Trump has backfired spectacularly, and it’s not just because their timing’s off—it’s because their facts are wrong. For years, they ignored the Epstein scandal, but now, with the Justice Department finally releasing documents under Trump’s pressure, they’re scrambling to find dirt on him. The latest? A photo of photos that briefly appeared online, showing a desk with framed pictures, one allegedly of Trump. House Oversight Democrats pounced, tweeting, “NEW: The Department of Justice has removed a photo from its website that showed former President Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.” But journalist Byron York quickly debunked it: it’s a 25-year-old Getty image, widely available for years, nothing new or incriminating.
Via Oversight Dems:
This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release.@AGPamBondi is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public. pic.twitter.com/3wYZAl2dse
— Oversight Dems (@OversightDems) December 20, 2025
The image in question shows a wooden desk cluttered with framed photos and documents, some faces blurred. It’s Epstein’s “famous people I’ve met” collection, including the Pope and Bill Clinton, but the Trump photo? Old news, no scandal.
This appears to be the photo in the photo that includes Trump — from 2000 and public for years. https://t.co/4jjZwr065D pic.twitter.com/04YsUYWAxB
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 21, 2025
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche clarified the pullback wasn’t about Trump at all. “You can see in that photo there’s photographs of women,” he said. “And so we learned after releasing that photograph that there were concerns about those women and the fact that we had put that photo up. So we pulled that photo down. It has nothing to do with President Trump.” He added, “The absurdity of us pulling down a photo, a single photo, because President Trump was in it, is laughable.”
Via Rapid Response:
NBC: Has anything in the Epstein Files been redacted on that basis of ’embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity’?@DAGToddBlanche: “Absolutely, positively not.” pic.twitter.com/DT93hLwUcd
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 21, 2025
Blanche didn’t stop there; he tore into Democrats like Chuck Schumer for their sudden concern. “The Epstein Files existed for years and years and years and you did not hear a peep out of a single Democrat… We’re supposed to believe that lo and behold, all of a sudden, out of the blue, Schumer suddenly cares about the Epstein Files? That’s the hoax.” He’s right: if Biden’s DOJ had anything on Trump, they’d have leaked it ages ago. Instead, we’re getting recycled photos and spin.
The left’s Epstein obsession is a distraction from their own ties—Clinton’s hot tub pics, Plaskett’s communications, the works. Trump’s pushing transparency, but the deep state’s still playing games. Voters, demand the full truth, not Democrat deflection.
Natalie Dagenhardt is an American conservative writer who writes for Right Journalism! Natalie has described herself as a polemicist who likes to “stir up the pot,” and does not “pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do,” drawing criticism from the left, and sometimes from the right. As a passionate journalist, she works relentlessly to uncover the corruption happening in Washington. She is a “constitutional conservative”.
Hysterical dems are simply childish, and it’s non-stop grasping-at-straws.
My GOD, there is a picture of Pope John Paul II. What are the Dems trying to imply about him?