Democrats have discovered that Jeffrey Epstein existed — and wouldn't you know it, they've decided he's exclusively a Republican problem. According to Newsmax, Democrat candidates across multiple Senate races are now spending millions on television ads trying to tie GOP opponents to the disgraced financier, because apparently the party of Bill Clinton's frequent-flier miles on the Lolita Express thinks they have the moral high ground here.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
In Ohio, former Senator Sherrod Brown has dumped nearly $1.5 million on television ads targeting Republican Senator Jon Husted over connections to retail billionaire Leslie Wexner, who was formerly associated with Epstein. Brown's campaign claims he "donated all available funds" connected to Wexner to an anti-human trafficking charity. How noble. Nothing says sincere concern for trafficking victims like laundering the donations through a charity just in time for campaign season.
But Ohio isn't the only battlefield. Up in Maine, Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner dropped a six-figure ad buy going after Republican Senator Susan Collins with the Epstein brush. Senator Jon Ossoff is running the same playbook in Georgia. Campaigns in Wisconsin, Tennessee, and New Mexico have also aired Epstein-related ads. It's almost like someone at DNC headquarters sent out a memo: "Forget policy. Forget inflation. Just say Epstein."
Rep. Ro Khanna actually said the quiet part out loud: "What they missed is that Epstein goes to the core of what people hate about Washington: a rigged system where the rich and powerful play by different rules." He's right about the rigged system part. He's just conveniently forgetting which party's former president logged 26 flights on Epstein's private jet.
Here's the thing — we all remember the flight logs. We all remember the photos. We all remember which political figures fought hardest to keep those records sealed. And now these same people want to run attack ads?
RNC spokesperson Kiersten Pels nailed it: "The same party now trying to weaponize Epstein to distract from their own failed policies spent years cashing Epstein-linked checks." Boom. That's the whole ballgame right there.
Rep. Thomas Massie, who lost his GOP primary last week, apparently became one of the casualties in this guilt-by-association campaign. So now we're at the point where Democrats are successfully picking off Republicans using a scandal that their own party leaders were neck-deep in. That's not political strategy. That's gaslighting at an industrial scale.
Let's be crystal clear about what's happening here. Democrats looked at the November midterms, looked at their approval numbers, looked at inflation, looked at the border, and said: "Yeah, we've got nothing. Run the Epstein ads." It's the political equivalent of pulling the fire alarm during a test you didn't study for.
The hypocrisy is so thick you could pave a runway with it — which, come to think of it, is exactly what they'd need for all those flights to Little St. James they'd prefer we forget about.