Scott Jennings pushed back hard against what he called a predictable political playbook: Democrats seizing on leaked Epstein material the same way they did with the Steele dossier, flinging names and innuendo to shape headlines. He argued the documents should be processed and released according to law, not weaponized for cable TV drama. Jennings warned that selective name-dropping risks misleading the public and revives the same tactics that failed in 2016.
Jennings told a panel that the files need to be handled through the proper legal channels and not become a smear factory aimed at President Trump. “You have Democrat after Democrat after Democrat, even Hillary Clinton just a little while ago, all too happy to go on television and cast aspersions on his [Trump’s] character, using this idea that while his name appears in the files, they’re trying to mislead the American people,” Jennings said. “It’s the Steele dossier all over again. That’s all this is. Let’s throw out something and hope it sticks, even though there’s no evidence whatsoever.”
He urged patience with the release process, noting investigators are still gathering documents and sorting out duplicates and irrelevant material from across the country. “If the files can be released, and they should be released according to the law that Congress passed, they should do that. Now, I know they have a process for going through these documents, and it’s weeding out things that are duplicative or not germane. And, as was explained yesterday, here, there are files all over the country, apparently, and they’re still collecting them. So I get the process may be a little more onerous than perhaps many people know regarding Trump,” Jennings said.
Jennings also stressed that the one verifiable, straightforward fact in the matter is Trump’s own effort to alert authorities about Epstein’s conduct, a detail that tends to get lost amid the headlines. “If they end up asking him [Trump] questions, I assume he’s going to end up testifying somewhat about the whistleblower status that he has in these files. The only real true thing that we know is that he called up the police in Florida and said, ‘You need to look at this. You need to look at this guy. You need to look at Ghislaine Maxwell.’ He was telling them, he was warning them, about what Jeffrey Epstein was doing.”
There is a pattern worth noting: Democrats pushed the Steele dossier in 2016, which was produced by a former British intelligence officer and funded by the Clinton campaign and the DNC. That dossier contained unverified claims that nevertheless found their way into investigative steps taken by government agencies, and the episode left a raw lesson about relying on politically sourced material. Jennings and others argue this new flurry of leaked records should not be treated as a second chance to recycle the same approach.
On the ground, records show Trump contacted the Palm Beach Police Department in 2006 to report concerns about Epstein and urged officials to look into his conduct, a fact that complicates the simplistic narrative of guilt by association. Later accounts say Trump barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after allegations surfaced that Epstein pursued people connected to the club. Those actions, supporters say, muddy the effort to portray Trump as someone who protected Epstein or looked the other way.
Republicans watching this develop see a familiar strategy: drop a tantalizing claim, let cable and social media amplify it, and hope public memory fills in the gaps with assumptions. That’s why many insist on strict adherence to the law Congress passed for releasing documents and on letting investigators, not pundits, control the timeline. Transparency matters, but so does resisting the urge to treat leaks as finished truth.
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