President asserts “hoax” over unreleased files, citing political motivations of previous administration.
President Donald Trump stated on Monday that any truly incriminating evidence against him within the files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein would have already been made public by the previous administration of Joe Biden. Speaking to a reporter during his visit to Turnberry, Scotland, President Trump vehemently dismissed concerns about his name appearing in the Epstein files, labeling the former administration’s handling of the documents a “hoax.”
The President suggested that if any damaging information existed, it would have been strategically deployed to benefit Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election.
“Those files were run by the worst scum on Earth,” Trump declared, listing former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Merrick Garland, alongside Biden and “all of the people who actually ran the government, including the autopen.”
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He continued, “Those files were run for four years by those people. If they had anything, I assume they would’ve released it. The whole thing is a hoax. They ran the files, I was running against somebody who ran the files. If they had something, they would’ve released them…Those files were run by these people; they were run by my enemy. If there was anything in there, they would’ve used them for the election.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has faced considerable public pressure to release all of the Epstein-related files, particularly after the agency, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), concluded in a July 6 report that Epstein committed suicide in August 2019 and did not possess a “client list.”
President Trump has come to the defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi amid widespread criticism over her handling of the files, especially after her February Fox News interview in which she alluded to having the client list on her desk.
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In a Truth Social post dated July 17, the President stated he had asked Bondi to release “all pertinent grand jury testimony” pending court approval.
Trump has previously acknowledged a friendship with Epstein, though he maintains their contact ceased after a “falling out” over a Palm Beach property in 2004, as reported by The New York Times. Two years later, Epstein was arrested for the first time and charged with felony solicitation of prostitution.
Adding to the controversy, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported in a July 17 story that Trump allegedly wrote a suggestive letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003, which purportedly included a drawing of a “naked woman.”
The President has denied this accusation and has since sued The WSJ, Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones & Company Inc., News Corporation, and the two WSJ reporters who authored the piece over the allegation.
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