# The Epstein files obsession also enabled the midterm election debacle

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1 outlet covering · First listed: Washington Examiner, Nov 11, 2026, 5:00 AM · Read it: <https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4798654/epstein-files-obsession-enabled-midterm-election-debacle/>

Buried in the coverage of Judge Darrin Gayles’s dismissal of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal was one factoid emblematic of the country’s obsession with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Trump sued the outlet when it broke a front-page story about an album celebrating Epstein’s 50th birthday that apparently

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- Nov 11, 2026, 5:00 AM: [The Epstein files obsession also enabled the midterm election debacle](<https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4798654/epstein-files-obsession-enabled-midterm-election-debacle/>) — Washington Examiner (Magazine, United States)
  Buried in the coverage of Judge Darrin Gayles’s dismissal of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal was one factoid emblematic of the country’s obsession with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Trump sued the outlet when it broke a front-page story about an album celebrating Epstein’s 50th birthday that apparently