US President Donald Trump sharply criticized his own supporters and “stupid” Republicans on Wednesday to question his administration to the case of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
As AFP reported, Trump is currently facing the most serious split in the ranks of its supporters since its return to power in January 2025. The cause is the claim that his administration conceals the details of Epstein’s crimes to protect rich and influential celebrities.
Epstein in 2019 – during Trump’s first term – committed suicide in a New York prison after he was accused of trafficking in human beings for sexual abuse of his friends and acquaintances.
Their conspiracy theories are false
Trump’s far right claims that there is a secret list of Epstein’s influential clients and that the deceased financier was actually murdered in his cell as a framework of trying to conceal some facts.
Supporters expected Trump after returning to the White House in January this year to answer their questions about this case. They are now annoyed because Trump’s administration claims that conspiracy theories about the Epstein case are false.
AFP recalled that the US Department of Justice and the US Federal Investigation Office (FBI) reported in the report published in early July that there was no evidence that Epstein had a “client list” or blackmailed some of the celebrities.
They also refused the claim that Epstein was murdered, confirming that he was committing suicide. They also declared that no further information will be published on the investigation.
He denies the visit to the island
Trump on Wednesday during a visit to the Bahrain Crown Prince in the White House faced repeated issues of journalists on this topic, blaming for conspiracy theories to his opponents working for Democrats. At the same time, he criticized the media that he was not asking him about the economic and foreign policy achievements of his administration, but “they talk about a guy who obviously had very serious problems and died three or four years ago”.
Trump is one of the many of the currently famous people who were once Epstein’s friends. However, he denies that he would visit his notorious headquarters in the American Virgin Islands.
Before his election as the US President Trump, he said he would “had no problem” with the publication of the Epstein case. This is one of the reasons why the attempts of his administration to sweep this matter under the carpet have caused displeasure among its supporters.
It’s not about Epstein
In addition, this case also caused a split in the administration itself, between the Prosecutor General Pam Bondi and the deputy FBI director Dan Bongin, who allegedly considers resignation. Trump reiterated on Wednesday that Bondi could publish “anything that is trustworthy in the writings”.
The Republican Senator Ted Cruz also speaks for the publication of the files on this case. Retired General Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor during his first term of office and frequent disseminator of conspiracy theories, warned that this case “is not about Epstein or left.
Trump started his day on Wednesday by writing in Truth on the Truth network that his “former supporters have fallen on these” bullshites “and described them as” weaknesses “. Later he took his own side to the fly when he said that the Epstein case was a great scam that “committed the Democrats” and “some stupid and unreasonable Republicans” flew.
