One month ago, Jeffrey Epstein appeared to be the most important electoral player in the United States of America.

Judging by mainstream media coverage , podcast chatter, and the comments of politicians on both the left and the right, you’d have thought nothing was more important than the saga of the deceased sexual predator : CNN mentioned Epstein 2,220 times over the last four weeks; MSNBC, 2,871.

And no wonder: It was a way to smear President Donald Trump, after his administration declined to release (despite his campaign promise to do so) what have come to known as “the Epstein files.”

Trump’s term was finished, his coalition fractured, his agenda terminated, shouted pundits from both extremes, after Trump himself dismissed the frenzy as a “hoax” based on crackpot-gene

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