Bret Baier Warns Trump The Epstein Story ‘Doesn’t Go Away’
Fox News anchor Bret Baier acknowledged the growing public frustration over President Donald Trump’s push to move past Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case.
Baier kicked off “Special Report” by crediting Trump for successes on border security and trade negotiations but said the Epstein case has continued to dominate political discussions.
“I mean, the story doesn’t go away here,” Baier said, leading into a news story on the latest Epstein updates.
“President Trump says his attorney general should release whatever documents she thinks are credible concerning the late businessman and convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein,” Baier reported at the top of his show.
“It’s his latest comment in the ongoing controversy that has split many of the president’s supporters,” he went on, noting further that there is a base of Trump supporters who are still not satisfied to let this story simply go away.
Baier then brought in correspondent David Spunt, adding, “This story does not go away here.”
The Justice Department, meanwhile, has notified a federal court that it is conducting an ongoing review of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of a Freedom of Information Act case filed by Judicial Watch.
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However, that may not be totally true.
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten revealed in a new segment that the “Epstein issue” is “quickly becoming something of a nothingburger.”
“I would say that this is, from at least a political point of view, quickly turning into a dud of a story,” Enten said on CNN News Central, causing anchor Kate Bolduan to remark how “wild” it was that interest had fallen off.
“Take a look here. Google searches for Epstein down 89 percent versus just three weeks ago. Falling through the floor,” an animated Ented exclaimed. “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.”
He added: “But at this particular point, the American people‘s interest in this story – it‘s quickly becoming something of a nothingburger!”
“Trump‘s approval rating in July of 2025, it was 45 percent. It‘s still well within that margin of error here at 44 percent,” Enten stated, referencing his own aggregate of pollsters.
“And you compare that to where he was in his first term at this point. He was at 37 percent. So he‘s seven points higher. Very much in a different political universe now, significantly higher in terms of his overall approval rating than he was at this point in his first term,” Enten added.
Enten said that Trump’s favor rating among Republican voters remained at 90 percent, and that despite the initial MAGA furor over the Epstein case, the president “hasn’t lost any of that base.”
According to CNN’s analytics analyst, Trump’s poll ratings seem to be improving, at least compared to his first term.
“And when it comes to that center of the electorate, he‘s basically holding on there. And his overall approval rating of 44 percent is pretty gosh darn good for him, considering where he was at this point in term number one,” Enten asserted. (CNN’s “poll of polls,” meanwhile, has Trump at 42 percent.)
Enten then observed that when asked to name the nation’s top issue, only a single respondent said it was the Epstein case, suggesting that it was further proof that the story itself had petered out.
“So yes, there used to be a lot of interest in this story,” he said. “But the bottom line is that even amongst those who had a high interest in this story, it wasn‘t something that they thought was all that important. And as I said at the beginning, the interest in this story has fallen off the table.”
