The One Scandal Trump Can't Outlast

For years now, I’ve said the same thing about the Epstein files, and every time I say it, people react like I’m clinging to an old scandal that the world has already processed and moved past.

The assumption seems to be that scandals have expiration dates — that public memory functions like a streaming queue where yesterday’s outrage quietly disappears once a new episode drops.

But the Epstein files have never behaved that way. They don’t fade. They don’t resolve. They sit there — partially revealed, partially hidden — gaining weight every time another court filing surfaces or another government official insists there is nothing more to see. Most political controversies decay because attention moves on. The Epstein files grow stronger precisely because closure never arrives.

And I’ll be honest: even I initially questioned why parts of MAGA were suddenly acting like these documents were the Rosetta Stone of political revenge, especially after Trump brushed them off like they were nothing. But I keep getting the same reaction — not MAGA readers treating this like a scavenger hunt — it’s people genuinely surprised that out of all the things Trump has done, this is the scandal that finally seems to stick. They’ve watched him skate past criminal convictions like they were parking tickets. They watched him get found civilly liable for sexual abuse and still posture like the victim. They watched him brag about assault on tape and turn it into a personality trait. So the disbelief is almost existential: how is it that this — the Epstein files, redacted and litigated and constantly resurfacing — became the one blemish he can’t bully, meme, or “witch hunt” his way out of?

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