Trump Talks About Anything but Epstein on His Social Media Account

[Uncle Joe]

On Truth Social, the president railed against Democrats and shared a wacky video.

Lawmakers have been pushing for the release of federal files on Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and one-time friend of President Trump who died in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking.Credit...Alex Wroblewski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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If the scattered posts, which continued into Monday, were an attempt to distract from the outcry over his administration’s handling of the files, it did not appear to be working. Lawmakers continued to clamor for the release of more information.

“79% of Americans support releasing the Epstein files, but only 16 members of Congress have sponsored the legislation to do so,” Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, wrote Sunday on X. “After 7 legislative days, I’ll be able to collect signatures to force a vote on my bill to release all the files.”

Mr. Trump was friendly for nearly 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Their relationship is now under scrutiny after the Trump administration reversed its promise to release files tied to the sex trafficking investigation into Mr. Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. Ms. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of conspiring with Mr. Epstein to sexually exploit and abuse underage girls.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/trump-epstein-social-media.html