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   For weeks, Democrats and their media allies have been flogging the   
   Epstein-Trump narrative like it was the silver bullet that could finally   
   dent President Trump’s popularity. But according to CNN’s own numbers   
   guru, Harry Enten, the story has already imploded — and voters couldn’t   
   care less.   
      
   On CNN’s News Central Monday, anchor Kate Bolduan noted that “new numbers   
   this morning showing something of a shift in how Americans are feeling   
   about this.”   
      
   Enten didn’t hold back.   
      
   “Yes, I would say that this is, from at least a political point of view,   
   quickly turning into a dud of a story,” he said.   
      
   Bolduan was surprised, calling it “wild” that such a hyped storyline had   
   collapsed so quickly.   
      
   Enten pointed to the cold, hard data.   
      
   “Google searches for Epstein down 89% versus just three weeks ago. Falling   
   through the floor. It is no longer the top term searched alongside Donald   
   Trump’s name. That’s been trading off between tariffs and Vladimir Putin,   
   with, obviously, the meeting coming up later this week.”   
      
   “At this particular point,” Enten added, “the American people’s interest   
   in this story, it’s quickly becoming something of a nothingburger.”   
      
   In other words, the breathless coverage, the Capitol Hill grandstanding,   
   and the left’s fever dreams of a political hit job have fizzled into   
   nothing.   
      
   Bolduan asked the obvious follow-up: Had it hurt Trump’s numbers at all?   
   Enten’s answer was devastating for Democrats: “No, not really.”   
      
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   “Trump’s approval rating, in July of 2025, it was 45%. It’s still well   
   within that margin of error here at 44%. And you compare that to where he   
   was in his first term at this point, he was at 37%. So, he’s seven points   
   higher… significantly higher in terms of his overall approval rating than   
   he was at this point in his first term.”   
      
   Even more troubling for the left, Enten noted that “among Republicans, his   
   approval rating is near a record high, hovering right at about that 90%   
   mark. So, no, he hasn’t lost any of that base… and his overall approval   
   rating, 44%, is pretty gosh darn good for him.”   
      
   As for why the story went nowhere? Enten said the polling explains it. He   
   displayed a graphic showing how many surveyed people agreed with the   
   statement, “Nation’s Top Issue Is the Epstein Case." Pointing to the data,   
   he noted, "This is the number of respondents… zero [Democratic]   
   respondents said that the Epstein case was the top issue. How about among   
   independents? Zero independents. And among Republicans, and therefore   
   overall, just a single one.”   
      
   “Even amongst those who had high interest in this story,” Enten said, “it   
   wasn’t something that they thought was all that important… the interest in   
   this story has fallen off the table.”   
      
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   For years, Democrats have tried to twist the Epstein saga into a Trump   
   scandal, clinging to the hope that it could finally damage him. In recent   
   weeks, they convinced themselves they’d found a powerful political weapon.   
   But the truth is, there was never any substance; Trump’s hands were clean.   
   They knew it. The public knew it. And now, the country has moved on.   
      
   But Enten credited Trump for knowing better than to take the bait. “Donald   
   Trump has some of the best political instincts of any politician I’ve seen   
   on this particular issue… he has been saying, ‘You know what, this is not   
   an issue.’ And it turns out that a lot of the American public actually   
   seem to agree with him.”   
      
   So after all the hype, the left is left with egg on its face — a political   
   nothingburger, served ice-cold, courtesy of CNN’s own data desk.   
      
   The left’s desperate Epstein-Trump hit job is a total bust, exposed by   
   CNN’s own numbers!   
      
   https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/12/cnn-the-lefts-biggest-anti-   
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