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Democrats in Congress want to force votes to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files. The party’s candidates are bringing up the Epstein case in campaign speeches. And at least one potential 2028 contender is fundraising off the furor.
President Donald Trump claimed Republicans are being duped by Democrats on the Epstein case while arguing Biden's autopen scandal deserves more attention.
After being asked how he knows the Jeffrey Epstein list is a hoax, President Donald Trump blamed Democrats and said some “foolish Republicans fall into the net.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is shocking some colleagues by fully embracing efforts to exploit divisions between President Trump and his MAGA base over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Prong No. 1 of Trump’s crisis-PR strategy on this front has been to call his voters idiots, as he did Wednesday morning with another very long post about the matter on his Truth Social site, in which he claimed that the Epstein story was a Democratic hoax:
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Trump’s problem is the nothing-to-see-here approach doesn’t work for those who’ve learned from him they must not give up until the government’s secrets are exposed.
Democrats are wisely attacking Trump over his flip-flop on releasing the Epstein files, which has infuriated some of his own base.
Democrats are echoing criticism from the right of how Donald Trump and his administration have handled case files related to Jeffrey Epstein — a change from Trump’s first term.
Trump dismisses the Epstein case as old news: “He’s dead for a long time.” Well, Jeffrey Epstein hasn’t been dead for that long a time. He died less than six years ago, during the first Trump administration, in a federal prison, and not of natural causes. The cause of death was officially determined to be suicide.
Internal polling suggests that there's a window for Democrats to use the controversy over the so-called "Epstein list" — and more than a dozen strategists, elected officials and aides are urging them to take it.