Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump urged his political base on Saturday to stop attacking his administration over files related to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a case that has become an obsession for conspiracy theorists.
Trump’s Department of Justice and the FBI said in a memo made public last week there was no evidence that the disgraced financier kept a “client list” or was blackmailing powerful figures.
They also dismissed the claim that Epstein was murdered in jail, confirming his death by suicide at a New York prison in 2019, and said they would not be releasing any more information on the probe.
The move was met with incredulity by some on the US far-right – many of whom have backed Trump for years – and strident criticism of Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel.
“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB!” Trump said Saturday in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform.
“We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,” he added, referring to his “Make America Great Again” movement.
Many among the MAGA faithful have long contended that so-called “Deep State” actors were hiding information on Epstein’s elite associates.
“Next the DOJ will say ‘Actually, Jeffrey Epstein never even existed,’” furious pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Alex Jones tweeted after last week’s move. “This is over the top sickening.”
Far-right influencer Laura Loomer called for Trump to fire Bondi over the issue, labeling her “an embarrassment.”
But on Saturday, Trump came to the defense of his attorney general, suggesting that the so-called “Epstein Files” were a hoax perpetrated by the Democratic Party for political gain, without specifying what benefits they hoped to attain.
On Saturday, Trump struck an exasperated tone in his admonishment of his supporters.
“For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again,” he said. “Let’s…not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.”
The US president called for Patel and Bondi to instead focus on what he terms “The Rigged and Stolen Election of 2020,” which Trump lost to Joe Biden.
The Republican has repeatedly perpetuated unfounded conspiracy theories about his loss being due to fraud.
He called for the FBI to be allowed to focus on that investigation “instead of spending month after month looking at nothing but the same old, Radical Left inspired Documents on Jeffrey Epstein. LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT!”
Trump, who appears in at least one decades-old video alongside Epstein at a party, has denied allegations that he was named in the files or had any direct connection to the financier.
“The conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been,” said FBI Director Patel on Saturday, hours before Trump’s social media post.
Not everyone, however, seemed to be on the same page.
US media reported that Dan Bongino – an influential right-wing podcast host whom Trump appointed FBI deputy director – had threatened to resign over the administration’s handling of the issue.
In before he starts arguing pedophilia is not that bad and it was consensual.
See the thing is, all those regulations about conflict of interest were in place for a reason. If there’s no way you could have interfered with an investigation, nobody will claim you did for long.
But because of how Trump has restructured government, there is absolutely no way to clear up the Epstein investigation. Too much could have been tampered with, with no way to prove it wasn’t. And the video of Trump and Epstein was public knowledge before he gained power, so that’s going to be virtually impossible to gaslight.
That’s because he’s in the files, neck deep in it. Elon Musk was right about that, at least.
As far as I know, he’s the only rumored one who:
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Has been convicted of sexual assault.
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Admitted to sexually assaulting his wife, resulting in a centuries old loophole being closed in one of the world’s largest cities.
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Bought an under 18 beauty pageant and then bragged about how he could go into the changing rooms to gawk at nude children even though they desperately tried to cover
It’s insane most people don’t see it.
I was going to add in “bragged about just grabbing random women ‘by the pussy’ on tape” but then I went to look something else up, so I’ll just add to your list:
- Has an entire 16,000+ (*) word Wikipedia page dedicated to their sexual assault allegations.
* For those of you who don’t remember from school, one double-spaced page contains about 250 words. So this is roughly a 64 page paper on his sexual assaults.
So this is roughly a 64 page paper on his sexual assaults.
Which is why we got a cap the list somewhere lol.
But just pointing out that even if his supporters downplay the recent lawsuit, he flat out admitted to violently raping his wife, and spent millions to serve on children and enjoyed that it made them uncomfortable.
trump raping kids is the least surprising thing that could ever be revealed, and that’s not even getting into an innumerable other reasons.
Remember who needs to hear the message, and how much they’re able to hold in their head at once to connect to other things.
Short and sweet, and all the better if it rhymes.
I miss PoppingKream too, but the people who need convinced tap out at 3 simple facts at once.
Or talked about what a terrific guy Epstein is, and that “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” which I can’t see as anything but an admission that both like them young. Or wished the woman who trafficked for him, in some cases from Donald’s shithole club, well. Or said he was “less so” likely to release these files than the MLK or JFK ones because “you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there”. Or the fact that he was the person ultimately in charge of the prison where he died, however the death happened, as federal prisons are under the Executive, and he was unfortunately President at the time.
- Found liable for sexual assault. It was a civil case.
Edit: Rather, found liable for defamation, and during tthat case, the finding of fact was that he had committed sexual assault.
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Not gonna happen until the entire investigation end to end is released. We know Drump is gonna be in it more than litter in a ditch on the side of a highway.
He’s calling on MAGA to do it. And… they will. Most of them like to boink kids anyway, we shouldn’t be surprised.
