‘Total Dud!’ CNN’s Harry Enten Reveals ‘Nothingburger’ Epstein Story Didn’t Hurt Trump at All

CNN’s Harry Enten revealed that the furor around President Donald Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and relationship with the late sex criminal turned out to be a “total dud” on air Monday morning.

“This is, from at least a political point of view, quickly turning into a dud of a story,” Enten told Kate Bolduan on Monday.

“Take a look here, Google searches for Epstein down 89% versus just three weeks ago, falling through the floor! 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. But at this particular point, the American people’s interest in this story, it’s quickly becoming something of a nothingburger,” he continued.

Bolduan followed up by asking if there was any evidence that the story adversely impacted Trump in the polls.

“No, not really. I mean, take a look here. Let’s take a look at the overall numbers. Trump’s approval rating in July of 2025, it was 45%. It’s still well within that margin of error here at 44%. And you compare that to where he was in his first term at this point, he was at 37%. 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,” answered Enten. “And more than that, among Republicans, his approval rating is near a record high, hovering right at about that 90% mark. So no, he hasn’t lost any of that base. And when it comes to that center of the electorate, he’s basically holding on there. And his overall approval rating, 44%, is pretty gosh darn good for him, considering where he was at this point in term number one.”

Watch above via CNN.