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Democrats are wasting their time by focussing on Jeffrey Epstein

There’s virtually no chance that Trump will ever face a true reckoning for what he may or may not have done in the company of Jeffrey Epstein.

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David Waywell
Jul 30, 2025
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In Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story, Silver Blaze, Sherlock Holmes makes perhaps his most famous deduction. After a champion racehorse is stolen and its trainer murdered, Holmes notes that the watchdog didn’t bark during the night — and that, said Holmes, was proof “the midnight visitor was someone whom the dog knew well.”

Since then, “the dog that didn’t bark” has become a useful way of talking about things that should have happened but didn’t.

Such as this week, when Donald Trump didn’t hit a golf ball.

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