{"id":344335,"date":"2026-03-12T19:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/whoopi-said-the-epstein-files-vanished-when-the-war-started-then-the-google-trends-data-got-awkward"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:43:15","slug":"whoopi-said-the-epstein-files-vanished-when-the-war-started-then-the-google-trends-data-got-awkward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/whoopi-said-the-epstein-files-vanished-when-the-war-started-then-the-google-trends-data-got-awkward","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Stated the Epstein Recordsdata Vanished When the Battle Began. Then the Google Developments Information Received Awkward"},"content":{"rendered":"

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She asked why nobody was talking about the Epstein files anymore. A former Israeli diplomat, a Republican congressman, and 52 percent of likely voters in one recent poll apparently had the same question.<\/em><\/p>\n

Whoopi Goldberg went on live television Tuesday and said what plenty of Americans have clearly been asking. She asked why nobody was talking about the Epstein files anymore. She asked why Savannah Guthrie\u2019s missing mother had fallen off the front page. Then she connected the dots. \u201cThis is meant to get us so worked up<\/a> that we are unable to see anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunny Hostin summed it up in five words: \u201cVery wag the dog feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: Whoopi Goldberg just created a conspiracy on The View that suggests President Trump started conflict with Iran war \u201cto distract\u201d from Nancy Guthrie\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n

Whoopi: \u201cWhy haven\u2019t we been talking about Savanah Guthrie,<\/p>\n

This is mean to get us so worked up\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/t0sWBHBh81<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The right-wing media machine cranked up immediately. Crazy Whoopi. Unhinged Whoopi. Conspiracy theorist Whoopi. The usual.<\/p>\n

Then Al Jazeera spoke to Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a former Israeli diplomat and analyst at Atlas Global Strategies, who pointed to a plunge in Google search interest in the Epstein files<\/a> after the Iran war began. Not a little. A lot.<\/p>\n

What Was Actually Happening Before the War<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Rewind six weeks. On Jan. 30, the Justice Department said it had published nearly 3.5 million pages<\/a> in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Trump signed on Nov. 19. What followed was not abstract. Goldman Sachs chief legal officer Kathy Ruemmler resigned. Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp resigned. Larry Summers said he would leave Harvard at the end of the school year. Peter Attia stepped down as a CBS News contributor. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson were arrested in Britain-linked investigations tied to the widening Epstein fallout.<\/p>\n

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The Justice Department said on Jan. 30 that it had published nearly 3.5 million pages under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Credit: U.S. Department of Justice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On March 6, as Operation Epic Fury dominated coverage, the DOJ released additional Epstein records it said had been incorrectly coded as duplicates<\/a>. Those records included FBI interview notes with a woman who accused Trump of assault when she was a minor after being introduced to him by Epstein. The allegations remain uncorroborated, and the White House called them baseless.<\/p>\n

By the time most people looked up from the Iran coverage, the new file drop had barely registered.<\/p>\n

The Receipts Whoopi Didn\u2019t Have on Air<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ben-Ephraim told Al Jazeera that search interest in the Epstein files had plummeted since the war began, and that the conflict was, at least temporarily, succeeding in taking up Congress\u2019s time and the media\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

A Newsweek report on a poll of 1,272 likely voters, conducted March 6 to 8, found 52 percent believed<\/a> Trump was at least partly motivated to take military action against Iran to distract from the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

That is not some fringe internet fever dream. It is the majority view among the likely voters in that poll.<\/p>\n

And the bipartisan company Whoopi is keeping on this is worth noting. Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, who led the effort to force a House vote on releasing the files, said, \u201cBombing a country on the other side of the globe won\u2019t make the Epstein files go away.\u201d Marjorie Taylor Greene has also broken with Trump and Republicans over how the Epstein files were handled, which makes the backlash to Whoopi look even more selective.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Thomas Massie has been one of the loudest Republican voices arguing that the Iran war did not make the Epstein story disappear. Credit: @RepThomasMassie\/X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Part That\u2019s Actually Crazy<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Here is what\u2019s genuinely strange about the pile-on Whoopi is getting.<\/p>\n

She did not claim Trump personally engineered a war in a secret room to bury a news cycle. She said, on a daytime talk show, that a major war can bury other major stories, and asked whether that was convenient. That is not a conspiracy theory. That is a media observation.<\/p>\n

The search collapse, the poll numbers, the timing of the March 6 release, and Massie\u2019s own statement do not prove motive. They do show that Whoopi was voicing a suspicion shared well beyond daytime TV. Her instinct was not invented out of thin air. It was politically inconvenient.<\/p>\n

Getting loudly mocked for raising a question that a majority of likely voters in one recent poll are also raising is a strange kind of punishment.<\/p>\n

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Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida, November 1992. Credit: NBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What Got Buried<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Epstein files are still there. NPR reported that even after the March 6 release, 37 pages of related records still appeared to be missing from the public database. The interview summaries are now public. The high-profile resignations happened. None of that went anywhere.<\/p>\n

It just stopped trending.<\/p>\n

If Whoopi is crazy for noticing that, what does it mean that a former Israeli diplomat, a Republican congressman, and a majority of likely voters in one recent poll noticed it too?<\/p>\n

And who, exactly, benefits from the conversation being about whether Whoopi is losing her mind, instead of what is still in those files?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n