{"id":266526,"date":"2025-07-16T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266526\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:54:10","slug":"donald-trump-says-those-interested-in-jeffrey-epstein-inquiry-are-bad-people-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266526\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says those interested in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry are \u2018bad people\u2019 | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has dismissed a secretive inquiry into the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> as \u201cboring\u201d and of interest only to \u201cbad people\u201d, but said he backed the release of any \u201ccredible\u201d files, as he sought to stamp out a conspiracy-fuelled uproar among his supporters.<\/p>\n

The US president is facing a political crisis within his usually loyal Republican<\/a> Make America Great Again (Maga) base over suspicion that the administration is hiding details of Epstein\u2019s crimes to protect the rich elite he associated with, which included Trump.<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the most dramatic theories circulating among supporters is that Epstein \u2013 who killed himself in 2019<\/a> while in federal custody \u2013 was murdered by powerful figures to cover up their roles in his sex crimes against children.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody,\u201d Trump told reporters on Tuesday night when asked why his supporters are so interested in the case. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty boring stuff. It\u2019s sordid, but it\u2019s boring, and I don\u2019t understand why it keeps going.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going,\u201d he added. \u201cBut credible information, let them give it. Anything that is credible, I would say, let them have it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump doesn’t understand why his supporters are interested in ‘boring’ Epstein case<\/p>\n

During his election campaigns, Trump fuelled multiple conspiracies by his Maga movement, including that the country was controlled by shadowy \u201cdeep state\u201d elites. This has caused deep paranoia among his base, who are now, unusually, questioning their leader over the Epstein controversy.<\/p>\n

Last week, the justice department and the FBI announced that a review of the case <\/a>files had confirmed that Epstein had killed himself, and there was no list of his clients to be made public.<\/p>\n

Conservative allies of the president have focused their anger on the attorney general, Pam Bondi, who was leading the case, as she had previously said Epstein\u2019s client list was \u201csitting on my desk right now to review\u201d.<\/p>\n

Several other high-profile conservatives have called for Trump to make public everything known about Epstein. Even his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, a Fox News host, has been critical, saying: \u201cI do think that there needs to be more transparency on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, called for the Justice Department to make the document public<\/a>, breaking with Trump in a rare moment of friction between the allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very delicate subject, but we should put everything out there and let the people decide it,\u201d Johnson told Benny Johnson, a rightwing podcaster, in an interview released on Tuesday. \u201cI agree with the sentiment that we need to put it out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has dismissed a secretive inquiry into the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as \u201cboring\u201d and of interest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-266526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114862782106417227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}