How Trump the Jeffrey Epstein problem fumbled

Since 2016, when he drove down a golden escalator and took his first steps into the US political arena, Donald Trump had a problem: for that better part of a decadeHe enjoyed a close (and rather public) friendship with a man who was later known as one of the most notorious sexual predators in modern American history. This man was of course Jeffrey Epstein. As a supposed billionaire, Epstein, would be friends with many wealthy and powerful people before he died in a prison cell in 2019. However, only a few larger or publicly speculated on his associations than the one he shared with the current US president.

It can now be said that Trump has definitely fiddled with this problem. His second term in the White House was a unique opportunity to use the corridors of power to eliminate his cooperation with the dead pedophile. Instead, he botched the opportunity and made a weakness of his leadership style victim, which has long been obvious: too much to talk and do too little.

During the campaign, Trump signaled the voters that he would bring the Epstein topic to newly discovered transparency. However, his administration has done little since he started his office, except that a garbage copy of old documents was disclosed in a much -painted event This was quickly released as a “advertising team”. The administration may have underestimated to what extent Maga actually takes care of this topic, and seems to have thought that Trumpers would be satisfied with the limited media points that could offer. They weren’t. In fact, voters have become increasingly outraged in recent months because the government has strangely designed the publication of further information.

This week, Trump’s former buddy Elon Muschus, brought the problem back National attention when he accused the government of no longer releasing information about Epstein because of Trump’s connections to the dead pedophile. In the middle of a very public separation between the CEO of Tesla and the President Twittered Musk: “Time to drop really big bomb: @Raldonaldtrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason why they were not published. Have a nice day, DJT!” musk wrote on x.

Musk’s shock was a youthful attack, but he still puts the president into a precarious position. Because he ignored the demands of his voters after transparency about Epstein, Trump has now got the problem into the hands of his enemies. Follow Musk viral remark On Thursday, democratic legislators confiscated the topic to further dig the knife. Several democrats sent a letter She asked for Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi to immediately examine her with Musk’s claims.

“We write with a profound alarm about allegations that files that refer to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were not released and approved to the American public because they personally integrate President Trump,” said Robert Garcia and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch. “We immediately ask you to clarify whether this claim is true and answers to this letter with the requested information and documentation.” Both Garcia and Lynch are in committees that devote themselves to government transparency and supervision.

Break! The FBI director Kash Patel asked Joe Rogan whether Elon had access to the Epstein files regarding Trump / Musk Online -Fehde.

Kash will not comment on “I know my trail and that’s not” pic.twitter.com/pxnvlvvpl

– Alex Jones (@realalexjones) June 6, 2025

At the same time another democratic legislator, Rep. Dan Goldberg, from New York, sent a letter to Bondiin which he delayed them for delaying the publication of the files. “I am writing to express my serious concern about a concerted effort to delay and even prevent the publication of the Jeffrey Epstein files as a whole – possibly at the instruction of the sitting president of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” wrote Goldberg.

If the Democrats really dug into the Epstein topic, it could prove to be catastrophic for the Trump government. After he has clearly disappointed Trump’s own basis because he is unable to answer her questions about pedophile satisfied, it is not from the question that you could turn to everyone else who seems to be interested in further illuminating the case.

This could be really bad for the Trump camp, since the connections between some of its members and Epstein have always been problematic. Trump’s long -time ally, Steve Bannon, was accused To be “friends” with Epstein. This week, the New York Times reported that Epstein invested $ 40 million in one of the earliest supporters of Trump, founded by Peter Thiel. Thiel, whose secret firm Palantir has played a central role In the new Trump government too met with the pedophile several times in 2014. Even Muschus, itself, was charged In a legal proceedings with Epstein.

Epstein is the problem that does not disappear. He is also a problem that is abstract and immaterial enough to be small for a politician who is smaller of more immediate and urgent concerns. But Epstein has never been a little problem. As an avatar for darkness and corruption, which is endemic in the current political order, he protrudes about national awareness – a grin that aims to pursue all the wealthy men who have ever been stupid enough to take a call or lunch with him or to celebrate in Trump’s case with slightly illuminated night clubs.