Fox News anchor Bret Baier opened Monday’s Special Report by acknowledging that while President Donald J. Trump continues to notch major policy victories — particularly on border security and trade — the Jeffrey Epstein case remains a point of contention for a segment of the conservative base.

“I mean, the story doesn’t go away here,” Baier remarked, leading into a report on the latest developments tied to the disgraced financier’s sex trafficking scandal.

According to Baier, the President has made it clear that his administration is not hiding information. “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 told viewers.

The Justice Department recently informed a federal court that it is reviewing records tied to Epstein as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch.

Still, establishment media voices are downplaying the matter. CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten went so far as to declare the controversy “quickly becoming something of a nothingburger.”

From a political standpoint, Enten said the story’s relevance is fading fast. “Take a look here. Google searches for Epstein down 89 percent versus just three weeks ago. Falling through the floor,” he noted, explaining that the Epstein-Trump link is no longer dominating online search traffic. Instead, the top search topics tied to the President are his upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin and his aggressive tariff negotiations.

Enten also pointed out that the Epstein case appears to have had no measurable impact on Trump’s political standing. “Trump’s approval rating in July of 2025, it was 45 percent… still well within that margin of error here at 44 percent,” Enten said, adding that this is seven points higher than at the same point in his first term.

Among Republicans, Trump’s support remains rock-solid at 90 percent, with no signs of erosion even after weeks of media chatter about Epstein.

Enten noted that when Americans were asked to identify the country’s most important issue, just one respondent named Epstein — further proof, he argued, that the story has lost traction.

“So yes, there used to be a lot of interest in this story,” Enten concluded. “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… the interest in this story has fallen off the table.”