The left is pushing another desperate anti-Trump hoax – a false Epstein smear campaign

The party that cries wolf is at it again.

Democrats are back in Congress after their shutdown to launch another anti-Trump hoax.

This time, it’s not a fictional “pee tape” but the old Epstein horse they keep flogging.

On Wednesday, House Oversight Committee Democrats selectively released three emails among 23,000 handed over by the estate of the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to try to implicate Donald Trump, yet again, in Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls.

Of course, the Oversight Dems, who include such adornments to Congress as Jasmine Crockett, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, left out crucial information that exonerated the president, instead claiming the emails “raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.”

But they do no such thing.

Cleared Don already

In the first email, Epstein writes to his now-jailed pimp Ghislaine Maxwell on April 2, 2011: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump. [Redacted name of victim] spent hours at my house with him , he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”

The Epstein victim whose name the Democrats gratuitously left out was Virginia Giuffre.

But we have already heard from her repeatedly, both under oath and in her posthumously released memoir, and she consistently states that Donald Trump was not involved in her abuse by Epstein, Maxwell, the British royal formerly known as Prince Andrew and others.

Giuffre never wavered in her statements that she knew nothing to implicate Trump in Epstein’s sordid crimes with girls mainly aged 14 to 17.

She committed suicide earlier this year, and now the Democrats are cynically using her tragedy as a weapon against Trump who she has explicitly absolved, over and over.

In a 2016 deposition, Giuffre said Trump “didn’t partake in any sex with us [and] never flirted with me.”

In her memoir “Nobody’s Girl,” she said Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing and “couldn’t have been friendlier” when she worked at his Palm Beach, Fla., resort Mar-a-Lago as a teenager before Maxwell recruited her.

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Trump soon kicked Epstein out of the club for being a “creep” and poaching his staff.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Wednesday: “President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre.”

So, that’s Giuffre.

No smoking gun.

And when Epstein wrote to Maxwell saying: “that dog that hasn’t barked is trump,” it’s likely that he is indeed pointing the finger of suspicion at Trump — but for reporting him to the cops.

At the time, Epstein was under pressure with multiple civil suits against him.

In March 2011, two of his victims filed a lawsuit in Florida, accusing federal prosecutors of violating the Crime Victims’ Rights Act by failing to notify victims of a secret plea deal they struck with Epstein in Florida in 2008.

The sweetheart plea deal meant Epstein served just 13 months in Palm Beach County jail but the new lawsuit threatened to reopen federal criminal proceedings.

Epstein’s legal woes had started seven years earlier and he had cause to suspect Trump was to blame.

He and Trump had a bitter falling out in November 2004 when they both wanted to buy the same Palm Beach mansion, according to The Washington Post.

After a furious bidding war, Trump won, and a furious Epstein vowed his revenge.

Just two weeks after the auction, Palm Beach police received the initial tip that led to their investigation into Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors.

Speculation has swirled ever since that it was Trump who tipped off the cops.

‘A fake narrative’

Chairman James Comer and his fellow Republicans on the Oversight Committee released all documents provided by the Epstein estate Wednesday afternoon, saying: “Democrats are trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump.”

What else is new?

That’s all the Democrats have.

They spent four years wrecking the country with reckless spending that caused inflation, DEI undermining every endeavor and millions of illegal aliens invading the country.

That’s just for starters.

The only thing Democrats excelled at was the destruction wrought by Joe Biden’s presidency.

But it’s not enough for them.

Instead of taking the hint from Trump’s election victory last year, they’re determined to sabotage his second term like they did his first.

The problem for the Dems is that they are the Boy who Cried Wolf.

The Trump-deranged still lap up their lies but everyone else has their number.

Even if they did uncover a real scandal, nobody would believe them, except for those pockets of the country still watching MSNBC and retweeting The Lincoln Project.

They have nothing positive for America, just division and lies.

Of course, that doesn’t stop their media handmaidens dutifully trumpeting the new smear.

Drudge Report summed up the headlines Wednesday: “EPSTEIN EMAILS: TRUMP KNEW ABOUT THE GIRLS. ‘SPENT HOURS WITH VICTIM’ DON BLACKMAILED? IMPEACHMENT ODDS REACH 50%.”

The “fake news media” never learn the lesson.

Just as they did with Russiagate and all the other smears against Trump, they unquestioningly regurgitate the Democrats’ made-up narrative.

As disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan told colleagues when he forced the discredited Steele Dossier “pee tape” into the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment to frame Trump as a Russian agent: “Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?”

Except none of it is true.

‘He asked us to stop’

As for the claim that Trump knew about Epstein’s behavior, that line comes from an email from January 2019 from Epstein to the despicable author of fake news Michael Wolff, who was fishing for dirt on the then-presidential candidate.

Epstein wrote of Trump: “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

This is consistent with what we already know: Trump was angry that Epstein and Maxwell were poaching girls from Mar-a-Lago and being creepy.

There’s a third email the Dems released, from Wolff to Epstein on Dec. 15, 2015: “I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you . . .

“I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.”

That looks very much like Wolff trying to manipulate his pedophile friend Epstein into blackmailing Trump if Trump denied he had been to his house or on his plane.

As it happened, CNN never asked the question.

Wolff’s credibility has crashed, along with his book sales, as his lies have been exposed.

His last book “All or Nothing,” published nine months ago, has sold a paltry 12,921 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan.

The same fate of irrelevance and public scorn awaits his fellow Trump-deranged Democrats and purveyors of fake news.