The Epstein Files are shaping up to be the most politically defective hand grenade of the decade — a weapon that blows up in the face of anyone foolish enough to pull the pin. Every politician who’s tried to weaponize it has ended up covered in shrapnel. And yes, the Trump administration learned that lesson the hard way, too.
This isn’t a scandal anyone controls; it’s a boomerang. And sooner or later, it comes back to whoever throws it.Now it’s the Democrats’ turn to grab the Epstein grenade — and they’re about to find out exactly why you should never demand something you’re not prepared to live with. After years of shouting for every scrap of Epstein-related material to be released, they’re about to learn the classic lesson: be careful what you wish for.Because guess what? Democrats didn’t suddenly cut off contact with Epstein after his 2007 sex-crimes plea deal. Far from it. The paper trail shows they kept engaging with him for years. One email even links a Democrat fundraising group’s efforts on behalf of Hakeem Jeffries directly to Epstein — in 2013:
That little bombshell has also dragged back into the spotlight a revelation from nearly two years ago involving the Pritzker dynasty. One of the victims in the Epstein investigation identified a cousin of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker — a detail the media politely stuffed under the rug at the time:
And it gets even worse for the Pritzker orbit. Tom Pritzker’s contact with Epstein didn’t just linger after the scandal — it continued all the way through at least 2016. One email chain shows JB’s cousin casually talking shop with Epstein about James Comey, Bill Clinton, and even disgraced fugitive financier Marc Rich:
So let’s review. The Pritzker family — the financial lifeblood of Democrat politics and the ruling dynasty in Illinois — maintained cozy contact with a convicted sex trafficker for years after his 2007 plea deal. Not whispers, not speculation — documented communication.
Democrat fundraising operatives even courted Epstein to help boost their candidates, including the man who now leads the House Democrat caucus and never misses a chance to lecture America about the “moral stain” of Epstein. The hypocrisy is almost too on-the-nose to parody.
This is exactly the kind of smug projection that keeps leaving Democrats squarely in the blast radius of the Epstein grenade. They threw it, they demanded it, they screamed for full exposure — and now the shrapnel is landing in their own backyard.
Let me make this prediction: Once the full trove comes out, we’re going to see plenty of embarrassing material — not just about donors and operatives, but about the political hangers-on who cozied up to Epstein on both sides of the aisle. That’s just the reality of how political ecosystems work. And remember: none of this stopped until Donald Trump’s first-term DOJ resurrected the case and finally brought Epstein — and later Ghislaine Maxwell — to justice. Democrats conveniently forget that part.
My bet? The embarrassment will land much harder on Democrats, simply because Epstein’s Rolodex was stacked with big-name left-leaning financiers, foundations, and social-circle elites. But I won’t be shocked if a few GOP stragglers show up too. Power attracts parasites.
What I don’t expect is a direct link to anyone with serious political clout today — because if that kind of smoking gun existed, it would’ve leaked years ago. The political appetite for taking Trump down has been bottomless; if there were anything truly damning, we’d all have known long before now.
The coming revelations will be messy, embarrassing, and politically inconvenient… but they won’t rewrite history.
President Donald Trump announced that the Biden administration’s use of the autopen is under investigation.
During a meeting at the White House, a reporter asked Trump about Venezuela and the threat of terrorism posed by President Nicolás Maduro. Trump spoke about his administration’s efforts to combat the threat, which led to him slamming President Joe Biden’s incompetence.
“You talk about Argentina being important in Latin America. What is your plan for Venezuela? What is the new terrorism, the narco-terrorism against President Maduro? What is your plan about it?” a reporter asked Trump.
“Venezuela has done a couple of things very badly. Number one, we get drugs and all of that. But we get something, in a way, worse. Because they’re a big purveyor of drugs. But we have worse. What they do very well is they send their criminals into the United States. And they send Tren de Aragua, that you know very well. You’re from Venezuela, I assume. And they send them in by the thousands, literally. And these are the worst of all. They empty their prisons into the United States. They empty their mental institutions into the United States,” Trump said.
“And because we had a president who’s low IQ, he didn’t realize what was going on. And the people that are high IQ that surround him, but they happen to be lunatics, radical left, they’re highly intelligent, radical left lunatics. So, in a way, that’s worse than having a guy like Biden,” Trump added.
“But they ran the show. You heard about the Autopen. The person that really operated the Autopen. But it was really the people that told the person that operated the Autopen what to do. Those are the people that really were president. So, we’re not going to stand for it in this country,” the president argued.
“And, by the way, that Autopen thing is under serious investigation. I don’t think you care because you’re from Washington. You couldn’t care less about that,” Trump continued.
Trump concluded, “But I just want to say, because I do The Weave, you know. The Weave covers a lot of different subjects. But the people that are involved in that Autopen scam, because he barely signed anything. I mean, this guy, I don’t know how he can be president. He barely signed it. But the only thing we can find for sure is that he signed Hunter’s Biden. His pardon. Hunter’s Biden. I like that. That’s a good combination.”Internal White House emails reveal concern among aides and Justice Department officials about former President Joe Biden’s sweeping clemency grants in his final days in office, including uncertainty over whether Biden personally reviewed or approved the specific documents authorizing thousands of pardons and commutations.
The messages show that Biden orally approved a plan on Jan. 11, 2025, to commute sentences for inmates serving time on crack cocaine charges. But three warrant documents listing roughly 2,500 recipients were not signed — by autopen — until the morning of Jan. 17, just three days before he left office.
On the evening of Jan. 16, then-White House Staff Secretary Stef Feldman told colleagues she needed confirmation that Biden had consented before she would authorize his autopen signature.
“I’m going to need email … confirming P[resident] signs off on the specific documents when they are ready,” Feldman wrote at 9:16 p.m.
Deputy White House counsel Tyeesha Dixon forwarded Feldman’s message to Michael Posada, chief of staff to the counsel’s office.
“Michael, thoughts on how to handle this? He doesn’t review the warrants,” she wrote.
Posada responded: “We will just need something … making clear that the documents accurately reflect his decision.”
The mass clemency was announced hours later, at 4:59 a.m. on Jan. 17.
It remains unclear whether Biden personally reviewed the final warrant documents before autopen signatures were affixed.
In public comments to the New York Times in July, Biden acknowledged the use of autopen, saying it was necessary “because there were a lot of them.”
Legal experts note that the autopen carries full legal effect, but the warrants must reflect the president’s actual decisions. Emails show aides attempted to create a record verifying his intent.