President Donald Trump slammed his own supporters who are not backing down from demanding answers about Jeffrey Epstein's criminal activity, the UK Daily Mail reported. The president now claims that the late financier's sex trafficking was all a "hoax."
For years, Trump has spoken about Epstein's alleged crimes and made remarks about his manner of death. Epstein reportedly hanged himself with his own bed sheets while in prison in 2019, but many people, including Trump, had questioned the official narrative.
However, Trump seemingly backtracked on all of it when pushed by the public to release the files on Epstein. The president called it the "Epstein hoax" and said that Republicans were "duped" into worrying about it while speaking to reporters on Wednesday.
"I know it’s a hoax," Trump told the press. "It’s started by Democrats. It’s been run by the Democrats for four years," Trump added.
It wasn't enough for Trump to say that the Epstein files don't exist. Trump also played on the sympathies of his supporters by comparing the scandal to the Russia collusion hoax cooked up by the Democrats.
Trump said that those in his own Make America Great Again movement calling for more information on the Epstein case were falling prey to Democrats' tricks. "Some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into that net, so they try and do the Democrats’ work," Trump claimed.
The president also stood behind Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has faced criticism for promising to release the files Trump now claims don't exist. "Whatever is credible, she can release," Trump capitulated.
"If a document is credible, if a document's there that is credible, she can release it," the president reiterated. Trump doubled down on his narrative about Epstein being a Democrat-invented fiction, even though he still supports Bondi.
"All it is the Republicans – certain Republicans – got duped by the Democrats. And they’re following a Democrat playbook," Trump claimed. "Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats' work, don't even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don't want their support anymore!" Trump later posted to his Truth Social on Wednesday.
These comments represent a more forceful and cutting approach than Trump had taken just the day before. "He’s dead for a long time. He was never a big factor in terms of life," Trump told reporters Tuesday, downplaying the significance of the Epstein case.
"I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. It's sordid, but it's boring, and I don't understand why it keeps going," Trump continued.
"I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going. But credible information? Let them give it — anything that's credible, I would say, let them have it," Trump added.
NOW - Trump: "I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going." pic.twitter.com/JL8xMR7VIU
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 15, 2025
It's difficult to see why Trump has taken this stance against his own supporters on this particular issue. Republicans and others concerned about justice have waited a long time for the facts of this case to come out, but the Trump administration has completely abandoned them.
