Donald Trump is countering criticism of the Justice Department’s failure to release much-hyped records around the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, trying to place blame on his presidential predecessors.
On Tuesday, he accused former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as well as former FBI director James Comey, of making up such documents.
“I would say that, you know, these files were made up by Comey, they were made up by Obama, they were made up by the Biden … ,” Trump told members of the press at the White House before departing for an event in Pennsylvania.
Political commentator Rogan O’Handley (C), US influencer Jessica Reed Kraus (L) and Chaya Raichik (R) carry binders reading “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” after a meeting at the White House in February. (Picture: Saul Loeb/AFP)The president on Wednesday posted on Truth Social blaming Democrats in general for a “new SCAM” that “we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”
Epstein was arrested in 2019 and found dead in his cell at a federal jail in New York City about a month later. Investigators concluded that he killed himself.
Trump presented no evidence in claiming that Democrats and Comey tampered with documents related to Epstein’s case.
Comey was fired in 2017, two years before Epstein’s arrest, and has not returned to the government since. Obama was long gone from the White House by the time of Epstein’s death.
During Biden’s presidency, the US Justice Department put on trial Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and secured a conviction against her, but there is zero indication that he or anyone from the White House had anything at any point to do with that case.
The Epstein case is back in the spotlight again after it appeared to ignite something of a civil war among Trump’s supporters.
Trump suggested last year that he was considering releasing information about the Epstein case if he won a second term.
In February, the Justice Department released some government documents regarding the case, but there were no new revelations.
Then, earlier this month, it acknowledged that a months-long review of additional evidence in the government’s possession had not revealed a list of clients and said no more files related to the case, other than a video meant to prove that Epstein killed himself, would be made public.
Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared to intimate in a Fox News interview in February that a client list was “sitting on my desk” to be reviewed for release.
She walked that back last week, saying she was referring to the Epstein case file generally, as opposed to an actual client list.
The backlash against the Justice Department’s actions come because Trump, members of his administration and conservative influencers have spread unsubstantiated claims surrounding Epstein for years.
Conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death are popular among right-wing Americans, playing on Trump’s repeated promises to reveal and dismantle the “deep state”, a supposed secret network of powerful people manipulating government decisions behind the scenes.
With AP
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