Trump goes off on conspiracy rant when asked if he's in Epstein files, blames Barack Obama and Joe Biden
WASHINGTON, DC: Things got a bit tense outside the White House on Tuesday, July 15, when President Donald Trump was confronted about the elephant in the room: Does his name appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files?
It came after a reporter asked Trump to weigh in on a noticeable rift between two people close to him - his daughter-in-law Lara Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi. Lara had promised “more transparency” on the Epstein investigation, while Bondi has been playing it safe and tight-lipped.
Trump, however, wasn’t throwing his AG under the bus. “The Attorney General has handled that very well. She has really done a very good job,” he said, adding, “I would like to see [transparency] also,” but noted that “credibility is very important.”
Trump asked if he was named in the Epstein files
“Did [Bondi] tell you at all that your name appeared in the [Epstein] files?” one reporter asked him point blank.
“No, no,” Trump replied. “She’s given us just a very quick briefing… I would say that these files were made up by Comey, they were made by Obama, they were made up by the Biden [administration].”
Trump accused two different administrations—Obama’s and Biden’s—including former FBI Director James Comey, of cooking up the Epstein files. He did not provide any evidence.
“We went through years of that with the Russia Russia Russia hoax, with all of the different things that we had to go through. We’ve gone through years of it," the president continued.
Later that day, outside Air Force One, Trump once again downplayed the whole Epstein saga—dismissing it as old news that no one should care about anymore. “He’s [been] dead for a long time, he was never a big factor in terms of life,” Trump said of Epstein, who died in 2019 under murky circumstances inside a Manhattan jail.
“I don’t understand what the interest or what the fascination is — I really don’t,” Trump said. “The credible information has been given.”
He repeated that he thinks the files contain “fake” materials pushed by past administrations and that the Epstein case isn’t worth the attention it’s still getting.
“I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody,” Trump said again. “It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sordid, but it’s boring, and I don’t understand why it keeps going.”
“I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going," he insisted. “But credible information — let them give it. Anything that’s credible, I would say, let them have it.”
Pam Bondi under fire over Epstein files
As Trump danced around the Epstein questions, Attorney General Bondi had her own PR mess brewing. When reporters asked her about Trump’s remarks, she pointed them to a two-page memo she released last Monday. The memo declared that “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted” in the Epstein case.
That set off alarms on both sides of the aisle. Bondi had repeatedly hyped greater transparency. At one point, she even teased that a client list was sitting right on her desk.
Her memo did admit that “Epstein harmed over one thousand victims” through his sex-trafficking operation, which involved underage girls. But it also claimed that the DOJ “did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
It's worth noting that Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t just any predator—he was a billionaire socialite with a phonebook that included the likes of Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, and even Trump, who was once friendly with Epstein before distancing himself, per the New York Post.
Only Epstein and his partner-in-crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, were ever charged. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence.
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