How Trump Fumbled the Jeffrey Epstein Problem

Since 2016, when he has descended a Gold Escalator and took his first steps in the American political arena, Donald Trump had a problem: for the A better part of a decadeHe appreciated a close (and quite public) friendship with a man who was then going to be known as one of the most notorious sexual predators in modern American history. This man, of course, was Jeffrey Epstein. Supposed Bellionaire, Epstein would befriend many rich and powerful individuals before dying in a prison cell in 2019. Among his associations, however, few have benefited more and more or were more publicly speculated than that which he shared with the current American president.

We can now say that Trump has definitely escaped this problem. His second mandate at the White House was a unique opportunity to use power gears to manage his association with the dead pedophile. Instead, he has struck the opportunity, preying a weakness of his style of leadership that has long been obvious: to speak too much and do too little.

During the campaign, Trump told voters that he would bring new transparency to Epstein’s question. However, his administration has not done little since he took office, except to disclose a dumping ground of old documents in a very deceased event It was quickly rejected as a “advertising stroke”. The administration may have underestimated the extent to which Maga really cares about this issue, and seems to have thought that the misleading would be satisfied with the limited media buffoonery that he could provide. They were not. Indeed, voters have become more and more exasperated in recent months, as the government has strangely blocked the publication of additional information.

This week, Trump’s former friend, Elon Musk, brought the problem To national attention when he accused the government of not publishing more information on Epstein due to Trump’s ties with the dead pedophile. In the midst of a very public break between the CEO of Tesla and the president, Musk tweeted: “Time to drop the very large bomb: @REALDONALDTRUMP is in Epstein files. This is the real reason why they were not made public. Have a good day, DJT! ” Musk Written on x.

Musk’s jab was a juvenile attack, but it nevertheless puts the president in a precarious position. Because he ignored his voters’ calls to transparency around Epstein, Trump has now allowed the problem to fall into the hands of his enemies. Following Viral Note of musk On Thursday, democratic legislators seized the issue as a means of digging the knife more. Several democrats sent a letter To the prosecutor general of Trump, Pam Bondi, asking him to immediately examine Musk’s claims.

“We write with a deep alarm in allegations according to which the files relating to the sexual offender condemned Jeffrey Epstein have not been declassified and released to the American public because they personally imply President Trump”, reads the letter, signed by the representative Robert Garcia, and the representative Stephen F. Lynch. “We ask you to clarify immediately if this allegation is true and respond to this letter with the information and documentation requested.” Garcia and Lynch are both committees devoted to transparency and surveillance of the government.

Break! Joe Rogan, director of the FBI, asked by Joe Rogan if Elon had access to Epstein files in reference to the quarrel of Trump / Musk online.

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– Alex Jones (@realaxjones) June 6, 2025

At the same time, another Democratic legislator, the representative Dan Goldberg, New York, sent a letter to Bondiin which he harangued it for delaying the release of the files. “I write to express my serious concern about what seems to be a concerted effort to delay and even prevent the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s files in their entirety – potentially to the United States in the United States, Donald J. Trump,” wrote Goldberg.

If the Democrats were really able to dig into Epstein’s issue, it could be disastrous for the Trump administration. Having clearly disappointed Trump’s own basis by his inability to answer satisfactory their questions about the pedophile, it is not out of the question that they could turn to anyone who seems interested to highlight the case.

It could end up being really bad for the Trump camp, because the links between some of its members and Epstein have always been problematic. Trump’s long -standing ally, Steve Bannon, was accused to be “friends” with Epstein. This week, the New York Times reported that Epstein had invested $ 40 million in a company co -founded by Peter Thiel, one of Trump’s first donors. Thiel, including the secret company Palantir took a central role In the new Trump administration, too met the pedophile several times in 2014. Even Musk, himself, was assigned to appear In a judicial case involving Epstein.

Epstein is the problem that will not disappear. It is also an abstract problem and sufficiently intangible to seem little to a politician assailed by more immediate and pressing concerns. But Epstein has never been a little problem. As a loss for darkness and corruption endemic to the current political order, he is looming in the national conscience – a ghost which smiles his intention to haunt all the rich men were never stupid enough to take a call or a lunch with him or, in the case of Trump, to party with weakly lit night boxes.