Trump blamed Democrats for the renewed focus on his ties to Epstein and warned Republicans that they should focus on reopening the federal government.
“The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post this afternoon.
“Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap,” the president continued, arguing that Democrats cost the U.S. $1.5 trillion as a result of the government shutdown.
“There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!” he wrote.
In addition to documents Democrats on the House Oversight Committee flagged today that spotlight Trump’s previous relationship with Epstein, Republicans on the committee also released 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate.