President Donald Trump has shared a bizarre Christmas Day social media post about Jeffrey Epstein, saying that he dropped ties with the late sex offender “long before it became fashionable,” and that the controversy surrounding the release of the so-called Epstein files is a “Radical Left Witch Hunt.”
The Trump administration has been facing ongoing scrutiny, mainly from Democrats but also some Republicans, for its handling of government files related to Epstein as the public pushes for more transparency about the disgraced financiers’ life and crimes. Epstein died by suicide in his jell cell in 2019 as he stood accused of sexually abusing and sex trafficking underage girls.
“Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein…only to ‘drop him like a dog’ when things got too HOT, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him, didn’t know him, said he was a disgusting person, and then blame, of course, President Donald J. Trump, who was actually the only one who did drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday evening.
The president was friendly with Epstein decades ago, calling him a “terrific guy” in a 2002 New York magazine profile. In the midst of the Epstein controversy, The Wall Street Journal reported on a lewd birthday card Trump supposedly gave Epstein in 2003, but the president has denied that he authored such a letter and is suing the outlet and its owners.
President Donald Trump has shared a bizarre Christmas day social media post about Jeffrey Epstein, saying that he dropped ties with the sex offender ‘long before it became fashionable’ (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)But Trump has said their relationship ended before Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution. The White House has said Trump did “nothing wrong” and that the president kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach for being a “creep.”
Trump suggested in Wednesday’s Truth Social post that the people who thought Epstein was “the greatest guy on earth” were Democrats.
“When their names get brought out in the ongoing Radical Left Witch Hunt…and it is revealed that they are Democrats all, there will be a lot of explaining to do…Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” Trump wrote.
When the Justice Department started to release its trove of Epstein documents last Friday — after Congress pushed through legislation to force the Trump administration to reveal all the information it had on the convicted sex offender — photos of former Democratic President Bill Clinton emerged.
The president was friends with Epstein decades ago, calling him a ‘terrific guy’ in a 2002 New York magazine profile (Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)In one photo, Clinton and Epstein were smiling as they stood next to each other wearing silky shirts. In another, Clinton was swimming in a pool with Epstein’s longtime associate and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
Trump and Clinton have not been formally accused of any wrongdoing related to Epstein.
Clinton’s spokesperson, Angel Ureña, said shortly after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019, “President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York.”
Different from his tone in Wednesday’s Truth Social post, when asked about the photos of Clinton in the Epstein files on Monday, Trump seemed to sympathize with him, telling reporters, “I think it’s terrible.”
“I like Bill Clinton…I hate to see photos come out of him, but this is what the Democrats, mostly Democrats and a couple of bad Republicans, are asking for,” Trump said. “There are photos of me too. Everybody was friendly with this guy.”
When the Justice Department started to release its trove of Epstein documents last Friday photos of former Democratic President Bill Clinton emerged (DOJ)Trump showed concern for how the Epstein files could ruin people’s reputations.
“You probably have pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago.”
The president warned again on Wednesday of the consequences the Epstein files, which have not all been released yet, could have on people’s reputations.
“So many of their friends, mostly innocent, will be badly hurt and reputationally tarnished. But sadly, that’s the way it is in the World of Corrupt Democrat Politics!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Reacting to Trump’s Epstein rant, Representative Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, a Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, wrote on X, “The walls are closing in on Donald Trump and his corrupt, criminal regime, and he’s absolutely losing his mind. Merry Christmas!!”
The Justice Department wrote on X Wednesday that it may take “a few more weeks” to release over a million more documents potentially related to Epstein that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI had uncovered.
