The Epstein File is the new ‘Steele Dossier’ hoax: Don’t fall for it

Let’s be frank: President Donald Trump is the most investigated man in history. Every inch of his life, every business deal, every acquaintance and every photograph or stray handshake has been scoured by the most motivated political machine ever assembled. Three presidential campaigns, two impeachments, a special counsel, a weaponized DOJ, an arrest, mugshots, and a legacy media that wakes up every morning wondering how they can “get Trump” before lunch.

So I’ll put this plainly: If Donald J. Trump had ever engaged in illicit behavior with Jeffrey Epstein’s underage victims, we would have seen it splashed across every screen in America years ago.

Not once.
Not twice.
But every time he ran for president.

It would have been their nuclear weapon.

And Joe Biden — a man who has shown he will say or do anything to hold onto power — would not have hesitated for one second. Biden would have sold his own daughter if he could have stopped Trump from win in 2024. After he showered with her, of course. Does anyone truly believe he would have sat silently on Epstein evidence if such evidence existed?

Of course not.
Because it doesn’t.

Which brings us to the latest “Epstein files” drama unfolding in Congress … a very convenient drama, surfacing just as Republicans finally had the votes to reopen the government and deny Democrats yet another manufactured crisis.

Suddenly the same people who covered for Epstein’s powerful friends for decades want to trickle out vague insinuations, anonymous claims, and breathless cable-news “developments” designed for one purpose: smear Trump again.

It’s the same old playbook:
Russia hoax.
Steele Dossier.
Anonymous “whistleblowers.”
Mystery leaks timed to harm one man and one man only.

Remember: A five-minute glance at the Steele Dossier should have told any competent intelligence professional that it was fiction. And what happened when the FBI learned that Christopher Steele was a Democrat-paid opposition researcher? Nothing. They ran with it anyway. Why? Because they weren’t victims of a hoax, so much as they were participants in an operation. A coordinated, willing, enthusiastic part of the smear campaign that crippled American politics for three years.

Now they’re trying again, and they expect the public to fall for it.
The “Epstein File” is simply the new Steele Dossier.

What makes this even more interesting is who doesn’t want full transparency: people like Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who voted not to release the Epstein files. And yes, Alaskans who have been paying attention know she has connections to Ghislaine Maxwell’s circle. Maxwell, now sitting in federal prison, was a fixture at Arctic policy conferences championed by the elite set aligned with Alice Rogoff, the former owner of the Anchorage Daily News. Murkowski was one of the key names in that orbit. Funny how the same people who shrug at those connections suddenly want to float innuendo about Trump.

Here is the truth:
If Donald Trump even peed on a lamp post in 1988, the entire global media would have run emergency specials about it.

They have thrown every accusation imaginable at him — from treason to tax crimes to fabricated dossiers to, now, recycled Epstein innuendo — and they have found nothing that sticks because there is nothing there.

These drip-drip headlines are not revelations.
They are distractions.
They are political smears dressed up as “breaking news.”

If Democrats and their media partners want to talk Epstein, then let’s do it for real. Let’s release every file. Every name. Every flight log. Every photograph. Every connection – all of them.

Stop hiding behind selective leaks.
Stop weaponizing innuendo.
Stop pretending this is about justice.

Release the entire Epstein archive and let the public see who the real criminals are.

Until then, don’t fall for the theater. We’ve seen this show before, and we know exactly how it ends. The target is always the same: the one man they cannot control, cannot silence, and cannot defeat with truth.

So they reach for lies instead.

Suzanne Downing is the editor of The Alaska Story.