President Donald Trump spent the weekend making an attempt to get his most ardent supporters to cease complaining about how his administration has dealt with its probe of convicted intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, but it surely doesn’t appear to be working.
In a virtually 400-word rant on his Fact Social platform, Trump complained that his “‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals’” have been going after Lawyer Common Pam Bondi on the problem. As a substitute, he falsely claimed that recordsdata associated to Epstein’s crimes have been “written by” former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and “and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration.”
“They created the Epstein Files,” he stated, including, “The Left is imploding! Kash Patel, and the FBI, must be focused on investigating Voter Fraud, Political Corruption, ActBlue, The Rigged and Stolen Election of 2020, and arresting Thugs and Criminals, instead of spending month after month looking at nothing but the same old, Radical Left inspired Documents on Jeffrey Epstein.”
Trump then advocated for a number of debunked conspiracies, together with the fantasy that he didn’t lose the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden.
This photograph offered by the New York State Intercourse Offender Registry reveals Jeffrey Epstein in March 2017.
Trump implored his followers to “not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.”
The Trump administration is underneath fireplace after the Division of Justice stated there was no “client list” for Epstein, who died in jail in 2019.
For years, Trump supporters have promoted the existence of a purported record, floating conspiracies and fantasies that outstanding figures—notably on the left and within the Democratic Get together—have been implicated in sexual crimes.
Now that the story has apparently imploded, the MAGA world is up in arms. Trump’s name for individuals to calm down led to a storm of adverse responses on Fact Social, often a secure area for Trump and his apologists.
As one supporter wrote, “We want the ELITE PEDOS exposed! You promised us that. Pam promised us that. Kash promised us that. Now it’s OUR fault bc we want that promise fulfilled and call Pam out every time she lies? What else has she lied to us about?”
The fallout has been intense, particularly provided that Bondi initially claimed her workplace had secured data on Epstein and even distributed doc binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” to right-wing influencers. Many of the data contained in these binders was already public, nonetheless.
On Friday, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, a former right-wing podcaster and long-time conspiracy theorist, took the time without work of labor, and stories have indicated that it was in protest of the DOJ’s dealing with of the Epstein concern.
Proper-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, proven in June 2024.
Trump does have some defenders who’re shopping for his spin: Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as an example.
“President Trump now claims the Epstein list is real, but the Democrats have doctored it. This is the mother of all scandals,” Jones wrote on X.
For context, Jones is on the hook for hundreds of thousands after claiming that the Sandy Hook mass taking pictures was faked, a false conspiracy that led to the harassment of bereaving households. Jones has additionally claimed that the 9/11 assaults have been an inside job, and that the Obama administration used a “weather weapon.”
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California took a jab on the administration, writing on X on Saturday, “Why are the Epstein files still hidden? Who are the rich & powerful being protected?”
Khanna stated he intends to pressure a Home vote demanding a “FULL” launch of the Epstein recordsdata.
Republicans have embraced conspiracy tradition for many years, and in selecting Trump as their chief, they’ve put a conspiracy theorist in an important management place within the nation—and world. Now their help of unsubstantiated nonsense is coming again to chunk them.
