Poll Shows Widespread Disapproval and Suspicion of Trump’s Handling of Epstein Files

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/poll-disapproval-trump-handling-epstein-files-1235399381/

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  1. Because he’s not only in the files, he was involved in ALL OF IT!

    Release the files!

  2. ***Exclusive from Rolling Stone’s Peter Wade:***

    Americans are overwhelmingly skeptical of Donald Trump‘s handling of information related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. In a new UMass Amherst national poll, 70 percent of respondents said Trump is not handling the Epstein case well, while only 18 percent said he is.

    Among respondents who were aware of Epstein, the deceased billionaire and convicted sex offender, 63 percent agreed that the Trump administration “is hiding important information” about the case. Of those who said the administration is hiding information, a staggering 81 percent blamed Trump for it.

    Read more: [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/poll-disapproval-trump-handling-epstein-files-1235399381/](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/poll-disapproval-trump-handling-epstein-files-1235399381/)

  3. The admin. is hatching a plan to probably make incremental releases on the one hand, cast blame on Dems too, and distract distract as public and media memory hopefully fades.

  4. >Despite the administration’s claims that no list of Epstein clients exists, 70 percent of poll respondents said they believe there is such a list. Attorney General Pam Bondi [released a memo](https://archive.ph/o/bEczW/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/doj-epstein-memo-tearing-trump-administration-apart-1235383924/) last month announcing that following an “exhaustive review,” DOJ officials decided there was not evidence of an “incriminating ‘client list.’” That’s despite Bondi herself saying in February that the list was “[sitting on my desk](https://archive.ph/o/bEczW/https://www.thedailybeast.com/pam-bondi-jeffrey-epsteins-client-list-is-sitting-on-my-desk/) right now to review” when asked about it on Fox News.

    >Trump, growing frustrated with his supporters criticizing him over Epstein, lashed out in a [post](https://archive.ph/o/bEczW/https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114863203348237352) on Truth Social last month: “[Democrats’] new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker… Let those weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work,” he wrote. “Don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore.”

    >Tatishe Nteta, director of the UMass Poll, tells *Rolling Stone*, “What was once a discussion held on the fringes of American politics has in recent weeks become center stage, with stories concerning Epstein garnering immense coverage in newspapers and cable news programs. Americans have been paying attention as a whopping 96 percent of Americans have read, seen, or heard something about Jeffrey Epstein.”

    Ninety-six percent of America has seen or heard about Jeffrey Epstein. Keep him in the news, keep this on the front page. Trump is desperate and weak and every time he speaks about it, every time he has a meltdown, he just looks guiltier

  6. Most smart people who are trying to scam the public know when they’ve been caught.

    I do not expect this level of self awareness in this.

    Kicking and screaming will ensue. Who knows the bonkers levels of desperation we’re about to witness? It’s… gonna be something.

  7. And yet the republicans chances of maintaining the house in 2026 will grow because slimy opportunist snake oil salesmen have leached into the cracks of our government and compromised our system because they must have complete control and dominance over the people.

    Very disheartening to see that apparently everyone will play along or at the very least turn a blind eye while we dismantle 250 years of work.

  9. I don’t need a poll to know he is committing a cover up. Anyone who says otherwise is either in it, willfully blind or practicing Infidelity of the Mind.

  10. 18% of people polled say he is handling Epstein files just fine. We need to take a closer look at this 18% of people & ask them why they would think covering up a pedophile ring by the president of the United States is ok to do.

  11. People only feel like that because it’s suspicious as fuck and they disapprove of raping children.

  12. ACLU or someone needs to get an order for preservation of evidence. Otherwise, we all know documentation will disappear.

  13. If a conservative asks you “where’s the evidence that Trump is a PDF”…..simply asks them this question:

    “Is Trump a Felon, yes or no?”

    99.999% of the time they won’t answer “yes”. Which shows that they’re are not looking for any type of “evidence” with regards to anything they dislike. They’re purely interested in lying to themselves in order to continue to worship Daddy Small Mitts.

  14. I must meet and study the 2% who think trump is nailing this AND **do not** blame Democrats.

  15. Ok so when is something going to come of this? How do we get them to actually release the info? Just counting on whistleblowers and leakers?

  17. The stories coming out tend to say he’s in the files and having them redacted. They released an incomplete video of the security footage, said it’s normal to be missing nearly 3 minutes, then said they had the complete video. Then in an interview, he said he didn’t kill Epstein, but a lot of people wanted him dead. So saying people are “disproving” of how it’s being handled is quite the understatement.

  18. MAGAs disapprove because they want to see the files… But they don’t believe Trump is a pedo. They reject all the evidence and don’t think rationally about Trump.

    This is why it won’t move the needle. They’re happy enough with all the other damage Trump is doing to the country that they can get over not seeing the files.

  20. He’s also a fucking the economy and lying about it.

  21. Let me guess, 37% approve while the rest us just watch in disbelief. 🫢

  24. The fact that this is still being talked about like “could it possibly be that he is involved/guilty???” is a fucking disgrace. As if there is any doubt, and his behaviour makes it super obvious

  25. The Trump Files, let’s be real here. Epstein was a patsy.

  27. Good thing they are gerrymandering all over the country so they wont lose in the midterms and face consequences. Right?

  28. It sure went from “the files are on my desk” to “there are no files” to “1,000 FBI agents scrubbed the files that don’t exist,” all within a couple of months.

    The shit is so obviously sus it’s insulting that they expect anyone to believe it.

  29. First he said that he would release the files, and punish everyone involved. It was literally a campaign promise he publicly made. Then he claimed they don’t exist, then he said they do exist, but it’s a Democrat hoax. Even if you purposely try to ignore all the bullshit, the festering stink is unavoidable.

  30. He’s the shallowest chief executive America has ever had, by a wide margin. If he thought this would damage to Dems or people who are not in favor with him, it’d be on the front pages already. He’s holding back ONLY because he is implicated.

  31. Ultimately we are just the echo chamber. Unless his core voters turn on him none of this matters.

  32. I’m someone who doesn’t think there’s even going to be much new information in whatever files the DOJ has built on Epstein, and I’m still laughing at how poorly he’s handled it.

    Part of it is just his nature – he’s a narcissist for whom the very concept of “objective reality” is meaningless and thus how he handles everything is to say whatever thing is most convenient for him to say at that moment – and part of it is that he knows full well that he has a long and storied friendship with Epstein that goes well above and beyond the usual associates that a socialite like Epstein would have had who would have been plausibly ignorant of what he was up to.

    The amount of publicly-available information about Epstein’s operations is considerable, and the highlight of it is in the victim interviews and testimony. His MO remained remarkably consistent: he would pay them a couple hundred bucks to show up at his mansion and “give him a massage” that would quickly turn sexual. The victim’s stories are overwhelmingly incompatible with his operation being one where the primary purpose was to hand them off to other “clients”, thus the idea of some super-incriminating “client list” being kept secret by the DOJ is basically a fantasy.

    But Trump’s own history, his long (long long) list of allegations of sexual impropriety in general, the ways he has talked about children (including *his own children*) in the past, and his behavior with regards to this case makes it pretty clear that he and Epstein had a similar disregard for the age of consent. Rich and powerful men have a long and storied history of treating it the way that most people treat the speed limit.

  33. America knowingly chose a child rapist for president.

    These latecomers can “disapprove” all they want. I will never forgive my country.

  34. Nothing is going to happen unless the American people decide they can live without a pedophile child sex trafficker as their president and remove him.

  35. it seems to me that trump trafficked his young teenage employees to epstein and his partner giselle .. whether trump took a blind eye to it is typical .. he knew it was happening and did nothing .. there’s no doubts about that

  36. Why are they suspicious of his involvement with Epstein’s empire but NOT everything else, like DOGE, DOJ, ICE quotas, science kicking, etc? Orangie screws up EVERYTHING he touches: he has the Sadim Touch, Midas in reverse.

  37. “I’m not happy about his handling of the Epstein files. I mean I support the guy all the way. Everything has been great…except this thing with files.”
    -MAGA

  38. Known Pedo with power is covering his track and Republicans, MAGA are complicit.

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