This is why Trump officials should not have fanned the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories to begin with. Now they are reaping what they sowed.
In 2007 US attorney in FL Alex Acosta negotiated a plea deal with Epstein that avoided federal charges.
Trump appointed Acosta Labor Secretary in his first term.
Acosta resigned in 2019 after new reporting accused Epstein of abusing about 80 girls and women and showed how Acosta had shut down an FBI investigation into Epstein’s actions.
In 2019, U.S. attorney for the SDNY charged Epstein with sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of underage girls.
In 2019 when the FBI raided Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan they seized piles of evidence, including stacks of compact disks bearing the labels “Young [Name] + [Name],” suggesting he had kept video evidence of men sexually assaulting underage girls.
In 2020, Epstein’s Ghislaine Maxwell was indicted on charges of assisting, facilitating, and contributing to Epstein’s abuse of minor girls.
In 2019, after Epstein’s death in federal custody, which was ruled a suicide, Trump retweeted a claim that Epstein “had information on Bill Clinton & now he’s dead.”
Conservative influencers were given binders during a WH visit in February 2025 purporting to be the “first phrase” of the Epstein files.
AG Bondi said in May that there are “tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children.” She also indicated that Epstein’s client list was sitting on her desk for review. Now, her spokespeople say no such list exists.
Trump and his loyalists pushed the idea that Epstein was trafficking girls to powerful Democratic politicians and Hollywood actors.
Trump fed the idea that if reelected, he would release the information he claimed was being withheld as part of a coverup.
On July 7, the DOJ announced that Epstein did not maintain a client list, that he died by suicide, and that it would not be releasing any more information about the investigation into his activities.
Under pressure the administration released a video from outside Epstein’s prison cell the night he died to show that no one had entered the cell, claiming it was “raw” footage. But reporting shows that two minutes and fifty-three seconds were missing from the “raw” video.
MAGA exploded, and Trump’s attempt to downplay the Epstein files made things worse. Then he turned on his supporters, calling them “stupid” and “foolish” and saying he didn’t want their support while also insisting that Democrats had created the Epstein files.
In a letter to FBI director Patel, Sen. Durbin revealed that his office had received information that AG Bondi pressured the FBI to put 1,000 personnel to work in 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein records.
Durbin said his office had received information they were instructed “to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned.”
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