One of the most dishonest Democrat politicians, Jamie Raskin, went on All In with Chris Hayes after Chris Hayes introduced him as “the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee” who “viewed the unredacted Epstein files this week.” Hayes then told viewers Raskin searched Donald Trump’s name and it appeared “more than a million times.” That is not what happened. Raskin didn’t search “Donald Trump” and get a clean count of Trump-only mentions—he ran a broad keyword search using “Trump,” “Donald,” and “Don,” then let the inflated hit count get sold to the public as a Trump-specific finding.
Raskin said:
“Well, first of all, on Trump, I put in Trump, Donald or Don and that came up more than a million times…”
He didn’t say he found a million mentions of “Donald Trump.” He said he typed multiple broad search terms—“Trump,” “Donald,” and especially “Don”—and got a huge hit count. But he still threw out the “more than a million times” line that’s now being repeated as a headline.
But “don” is doing a lot of work here. It’s a tiny, common fragment that can hit countless unrelated results—people named Don, anyone named Donald, plus partial-word matches, duplicates, and OCR errors. Depending on how the search is configured, it can even trigger hits inside words like “done,” “don’t,” “donation,” or “London.” Either way, a search like that is guaranteed to spit out a massive number.
Then the media does what it always does: takes the biggest number, strips away the context, and repeats it as a headline-ready talking point. Once it’s said on TV by a Democrat, it gets recycled everywhere—even though the method he described is not even close to accurate.
This is exactly why what partisan hack Democrat politicians say should not be considered news. But Chris Hayes and MS NOW keep bringing Raskin—and other anti-Trump Democrats—on their shows and treating their claims like news. If a claim can’t be verified, and it’s based on a vague process that inflates results by design, then it isn’t reporting—it’s repeating a political talking point as if it were evidence.
After the “million times” soundbite, Raskin shifted into his cover-up narrative. He claimed millions of documents are missing, said the system is confusing and not designed for real discovery, complained that members only have limited access, and insisted the DOJ is hiding things by calling missing documents “duplicative.” Then he wrapped it all up by telling viewers the whole process looks like a “cover up.”
But the real cover-up is Democrats and the media working overtime to make people think Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were close friends, while ignoring anything that suggests otherwise—and while still refusing to tell the public the truth about Epstein and Democrats.
Trump was “one of the first people to call” authorities about Epstein.
An Epstein employee, Juan Alessi, testified in 2009 that Donald Trump was an occasional visitor who came “only for meals” and always sat in the kitchen with him. He said Trump never got massages or spent the night. But instead of mentioning any of that, Hayes tells his viewers that Raskin searched Donald Trump’s name and it appeared, quote, “more than a million times,” which is extremely misleading.
Chris Hayes is not a reporter. He is a Democrat propagandist.
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